Something is Missing Art | Talks | Nabuurs&VanDoorn

Something is Missing Art |Talks | Nabuurs&VanDoorn

The artists duo travelled to Switzerland in order to respond to the world’s largest art fair. In the exhibition we can become witnesses of their experiences. At September 16 at 14H00 the artists will host a reading in which they elaborate on what inspired them to work in public spaces between the different venues of Art[38]Basel.

The parasite is an infectant. Far from actually transforming a system’s nature, its form, elements, relations, and paths, the parasite makes the system change its condition in small steps. It introduces a tilt. It brings the system’s balance or the distribution of energy into fluctuation. It irritates it. It infects it. Parasitism is not merely antagonistic, but its effects are productive, not solely reductive. The figure of the parasite extends to artists a means of surveying, articulating, questioning, and contaminating relations, a tool to determine loopholes, interdependencies, differences, and positions within affective relations. Through this observation and redistribution of component logics and positions within systems, the parasite becomes an expert in its host’s pattern and can then subvert and redirect them.