Alternative for living is a group exhibition dealing with utopia and dystopia.

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As much as the two terms are conceived as contradictory to one another, both share the premise of a totally controlled vision of how reality should be shaped, considering a multitude of functions that together illustrate a firm futuristic vision.

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In the eyes of the visionaries, their view of the future is always a beneficial one, a utopia, but history proves that utopic visions can turn into dystopic realities.

In today’s reality of uncertainty, where the difficulty to foresee the future pushes people to extremities, Edition of X * would like to suggest a path that steps away from the dichotomic division between utopia and dystopia and think of an alternative path for transformation rather than of change.

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As extreme political conditions exceed the normal order of life, they can also turn into a liberating force that gives rise to new territories of self-definition and organization. In this regard, the vulnerability our times carry with them, is not merely a status that needs to be resolved, but rather an active ground for new sensitivities and ethical approaches.

* Edition of X is a connective mechanism by which artists in every discipline and who are devoid of mobility can realize their ideas and projects, as these are being materialized by “ad hoc” collaborators.

 

EOX is a transmission mechanism, in which the artist who is prevented from acting activates from a distance, by sending EOX members literal instructions to be interpreted in a performative manner. During the transmission process, the work of art exchanges writers and media: as it arrives at its final destination, it is the outcome of translation processes and their failure.