COMPOST – The Open Bin

COMPOST – The Open Bin (Composting Knowledge)
Collective-driven, process-based performative exhibitionary project

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Press release (to be expanded!) here (German) and here (English).

This communal exhibitionary project – a sequential and choreographed series of interlocking events on the topic of “Composting Knowledge” – offers an evolving programming at the OnCurating Project Space (Ausstellungsstrasse 16, Zurich) both on-site and online from 10 March to 17 June 2022 with one and more events taking place every week and weekend (Thu 6pm / Fri 8pm / Sat 7pm) for 14 weeks.

Statement
For documenta fifteen (2022), Jakarta-based collective and lead Artistic Directors ruangrupa initiated an international and collaborative network for alternative knowledge production named the “Composting Knowledge” network, (in which institutions and initiatives such as Färgfabriken, GAP Tokyo, ICA Sofia, JJ and Donkey Mill Art Center, Knowbotiqs , Myvillages, YCAR Toronto take part. ruangrupa’s “Composting Knowledge” is an active experiment to imagine alternative terrains for knowledge production and sharing, taking place in collaboration with ruruHaus, the main activity house in Kassel, and a wide range of institutions, initiatives, practices, collectives and individuals around the world. The idea is to envision possible supporting systems for institutions to cooperate and engage in critical ways, by exploring questions and learning  from different perspectives, practices, traditions, and backgrounds – breaking at the same time canonical and privileged knowledge systems.

Following the process-based and communal methodologies proposed by ruangrupa, we will gather our own “Open Bin” and fertilise the soil for composting ideas and proposals at the OnCurating Project Space. Within our “COMPOST – the Open Bin” programme, various activities will come into contact, ideas will be displayed, discussed and digested, a shared process will be activated, and a space of transition will emerge.

As a curatorial group, we understand “Composting” not only as the natural or direct contact transformation process of digestion/fermentation/composting, but also as a cultural and political articulation, as ways of self-sustaining, of reflecting upon epistemologies, and creating new formations of joyful resistance.

The project invites diverse artists and collectives to come together with the aim to explore composting practices (literally and figuratively) and to share moments. Thanks to the modular structure proposed by Zurich-based artist duo Stirnimann-Stojanovic, the various events – social in nature and in all sorts of forms – will consist of screenings, dinners, roundtables, exhibitions, performances, talks, to bebe open and accessible to all in a hybrid format for its whole duration.

With works, workshops, dinners, lectures and performances by A_O_S_A_A, Augmented Materiality Lab (Alvaro Cassinelli, Jayson Haebich, Eugenia S. Kim), Paloma Ayala, Mabe Bethônico, Lara Caluori, Line Chevalley, Leticia Cordero, Centrale Végétale, Club La Fafa, Liz Elton, f.f.f.f.f.fermentation, Anne-Laure Franchette, Matthias Fritsch / Technoviking Archive, Ein Shemer Kibbutz Project, Andre Vladimir Heiz, Anim Jeon, Stefanie Knobel & Samrat Banerjee / Institute for Plant, Animal and Human Migration, Alina Kopytsia, Malte Larsen, Marinka Limat, Hunter Longe, NAF, Ayumi Matsuzaka, Maya Minder (HumusSapiens, Hackteria, BadLab), Mayté Miranda, Jonathan Ospina, Marisa Raygoza, Simon Risi, Andreas Sagiani (Ucok), Salo & Lucianne, Stirnimann-Stojanovic, Teti Group, U5, Paula Vilaplana Miguel, Raffaele Vitto, Claudia Vogel, David Zabel (AfroFutur4000), Adam Zaretsky