Atelier Céladon

In 2014, the Artivistic collective started working on the #postlife project, following the dissolution of the group as a non-profit organization as well as the termination of its bank account. #postlife was a way of coping and adjusting. We quickly realized that these events and this decision to separate from an established institutional format were overlapping with a change in the membership of the group. Artivistic had become suddenly an all POC collective, and from that moment it stopped wanting to navigate the scene enthusiastically – working instead on friendship (in the largest possible sense of the word). #postlife was a break, one that speaks of a shared fatigue and continual displacement, but it was also a catalyst that allowed new ways of feeling homed.

This is a performance piece in which the attendance as well as the members of the collective will be invited to converse with the theme of the convergence. We will reflect together on the place of POC perspectives within what is currently understood as art making and the (arbitrary/white) time structures that massage it – like kale. 

Suggested dress code for the attendance: fabulous.

#hotpoc #postlife #friedchicken #futurelives

Artivistic was founded in 2004 as a transdisciplinary event that aimed to bring together artists, academics, and activists, around various questions “beyond critique”. Today, Artivistic is in #postlife. Its members are inventing ways to support each other in becoming and being awesome and dangerous together. As a bunch of precarious workers, artists, critics, thinkers and makers, the collective gathers to cook, eat, drink, discuss, and learn, as well as to conduct other experiments in reconnecting art and life. The members of the collective are currently: Faiz Abhuani, Nazik Dakkach, Sophie Le-Phat Ho, Ronald Rose-Antoinette, Kevin Yuen Kit Lo and Võ Thiên Việt.