Casual/Tease - The Memorial For Those Who Did Not Fall In War - Opening Weekend

A quiet view from a window onto a flowering boulevard, a ladder leaning within reach, a handmade ceramic vessel: each work in Casual/Tease first appears as a small, innocent fragment of everyday life, caught in a fleeting moment of ease. Linger a little longer, however, and that ease begins to fracture. The window view borrows the gaze of a military drone; the ladder becomes the impossible reach for food amid genocide; the delicate vessel reveals the form of a grenade, handmade in wartime Japan. What first appears casual begins to expose the systems beneath it: histories of conquest absorbed into the ordinary, technologies travelling from battlefield to home, pleasures sustained by economies that arm wars elsewhere, and intimate objects through which violence persists long after it has been consigned to the past. Casual/Tease inhabits this uneasy proximity between the casual and the casualty, resisting the transformation of war’s casualties into yet another casual part of our everyday life.

Save the dates of our opening weekend:

Thursday 10 September 14:00-21:00 Pre-Opening

14:00-18:00 Participatory Live Creations:
Sêva Mêxekrêj by Meltem Yildiz
The Right to Repair by Julieta Aranda

14:00-21:00 Projection: Slow Violence
Short version on loop in the studio throughout opening hours

17:00–18:30 Round Table: Casual / Use
Moderated by Prof. Guido Furci, Head of the Department of Comparative Literature at Sorbonne Nouvelle University
Participants: Jean Pierre Müller · Aimé Mpane · Shareef Sarhan · Laure Tixier · Barbara Polla

*Places for the round table are limited and require advance registration. The rest of the event is open to all, with no registration required.

Friday 11 September 11:00-21:00 Opening

14:00-18:00 Participatory Live Creations:
Sêva Mêxekrêj by Meltem Yildiz
The Right to Repair by Julieta Aranda

18:00-20:00 Mediation by artists

Saturday 12 September: RendezVous: Downtown 11:00-23:00

14:00-18:00 Participatory Live Creations:
Sêva Mêxekrêj by Meltem Yildiz
The Right to Repair by Julieta Aranda

19:00-23:00 dj Set: Muslimgauze: Chasing the Shadows of Bryn Jones
Muslimgauze / Ruq’ah
Bader Shashit and Lennart Thienpont

Sunday 13 September 11:00–18:00

14:00-18:00 Participatory Live Creations:
Sêva Mêxekrêj by Meltem Yildiz
The Right to Repair by Julieta Aranda