Superávit: an Exhibit on the Surplus Vital Energies We Routinely Avoid
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Superávit (surplus energy) is an exhibit to be organized and hosted in Barcelona, in 2009-2010 to feature painting, photography, books, short film, discussions, regarding ways in which the pace of prevailing lifestyles causes breakdown in our sense of cohesion, morally, economically, and in the visionary sense of one’s own purpose. We are at the focal point of a vast combining and stitching-together of resources and approaches, and the nature of life in the human world is, as a result, now constantly redefined.
There is a basic need to expend or dispose of excess energy, what is left over after the vital processes of the body, the mind, the work of survival, have played out. That energy, which can feed our creative or destructive capabilities —our imagination, our pathologies, our sense of urgency or principle or spiritual pursuit— is a burden which we must all learn to live with, to exploit, to approach without fear or remorse.
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Too often, we fall into the traps and perils related to this interplay of forces, without necessarily keeping balance in mind, without moving to take up the strategy of most prolonged harmony. The show will include ecological analysis, information, discussions related to society’s general approach to dealing with what Georges Bataille called “the accursed share”, and artistic expressions of related subjects, problems, crisis situations, personal dramas and quickenings of the spirit.
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