Artist In Residence | Desearch Repartment | February 1-7, 2017
Photos courtesy of Breanne Nemez
the greenhouse artlab, in collaboration with other local art spaces, hosted the Desearch Repartment artist collective throughout January and February 2017.
Jan 6 – Feb 18 – YAGA video screening at PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts
February 3 – Desearch Repartment’s YAGA class hosted at MAWA
February 6 – Active Research Lecture Series with Desearch Repartment artist talk at PLATFORM
February 7 – Closed workshop with Dr. Crowe’s “Art and Resistance” Women’s and Gender Studies class at the greenhouse artlab.
Desearch Repartment came out of a political shift in the early 2000s that coincided with the invention of relational aesthetics and the birth of the Internet. When the walls fell on 9/11 identity politics also fell away, opening up a new sense of cultural, political, and social relativity where artistic colonization could flourish. Through the combined genesis of social media and social practices, the commodification of human relations became a stepping stone on which DR built its foundation, laying the groundwork for the Institute for Durational Futures and the ESSENTIALHAPPINESSPOSSIBILITY.
For more information on the Desearch Repartment, visit their website: http://desearchrepartment.com