April 23rd
6.30pm. 'The Suspension of Historical Time' Apéro Reading Session
april 23rd
8pm
r'm aharoni
«And who wants Peace», re-enactment of Eric GIll
speech.
april 24th
6.30 pm
Restaging Tania Bruguera’s participatory artwork Tatlin’s Whisper #6, in collaboration with Visible and Musum of Arte Útil , at Grand Place, Brussels
april 24th
from 8.30 pm
Tatlin’s Whisper #6
Restaging Tania Bruguera’s participatory artwork, in collaboration with Visible and Musum of Arte Útil ,Aleppo
april 24th
8.30 pm
back to the order
as re-appropriation
A panel on re-appropriation of the order, the creation of new words and institutions.
With Musum of Arte Útil / Alessandra Saviotti.
The project Black to the Order gave birth the the publication Restorations.
Back to the Order is conceived with Silvia Bottiroli and Livia Andrea Piazza, organised in partnership with Académie Royale des Beaux Arts. The activities in April have been organised in collaboration with Visible and Museo of Arte Util (Tatlin's Whisper #6), and by Rosas and WIELS (André Lepecki). The activities in May are organised by a.pass in collaboration with Aleppo in the frame of the research project Back to the Order.
The activities in september are organised in collaboration with the Brussels Gallery Weekend, at Beursschouwburg and Canal 05.
april 24th
8.30 pm
back to the order
as restoration
Two parallel panels: back to the order as ordinance, public space, the after-revolution and the exception as a norm.
With Anna Rispoli, Lieven de Cauter.
april 24th
7.30 pm
back to the order
as re-appropriation
Two parallel panels: back to the order as re-appropriation of the order, the creation of new words and institutions. With Sonja Lavaert
april 25th
6 pm
AndrE Lepecki
Co-imagining Work/Travail/Arbeid
In Wiels
Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354
1190 Brussels
May 29th
SAMAH HIJAWI
THE WANDERING SINGER OF TALES
Located in political and artistic histories around Palestine, ‘The Wandering Singer of Tales’ is a performance questioning the temporality of images reproduced of lost places.
cecilia molano
story lines
Writing becomes trace. The diary is an invented document: the fiction of oneself.
In this work Cecilia Molano turns back to the place of words before being articulated.
PHILIPPINE HOEGEN
VERSIONS AND DISPLAYS
Traits, qualities and characteristics that were assumed to be constitutive for ‘our’ of ‘their’ selves, are questioned and relativized; they may in fact simply be a consequence, an outcome, of the angle at which you are looking.
GOSIE VERVLOESEM
TUPPERWARE
Everybody knows Tupperware, the handy plastic boxes to store and conserve food, for eternity.
‘Recipes for Disaster” uses the format of the Tupperware Party (women getting together around the kitchen table to attend demonstrations) to disrupts the idea that everything can be nicely stored away.
VERIDIANA ZURITA
TELEVIZINHO #1
A project on re-enactments of codes.
may 29th 7pm
PETRA VAN BRABANDT
To entertain the idea of ‘back to an order’ is far too precocious, even pernicious to the imaginative process of unworking the order
may 30 th 5pm
Patricia reed
mobile order
To demand ‘order’ is not (necessarily) to seek to submit oneself to relations of authoritarian dominance, but to seize upon structural possibilities as a project for construction.
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Conceived in three moments and a publication, Aleppo opens Back to the Order a public program of performances, lectures, workshops and re-enactments on the order, at the edge of its normative restoration and an imaginative re-appropriation.
(a reading group of Furio Jesi's difference of revolution and revolt, a re-enactment of an historical speech by R'm Aharoni and of Tania Bruguera's Tatlin's Whisper, a panel with Sonja Lavaert, Lieven de Cauter and Anna Rispoli on restoration and reappropriation, a lecture by André Lepecki, a series of performances by Samah Hijawi, Cecilia Molano, Philippine Hoegen, Gosie Vervloesem and Veridiana Zurita, two lectures by Patricia Reed and Petra van Brabandt, a discussion with Jozef Wouters, Marinella Senatore and Matteo Lucchetti, a workshop by Museum of Arte Util, a lecture by Stephen Wright, and a publication on the dynamics of restoration).
2015 sees the two-hundredth anniversary of the Congress of Vienna, the most common quoted example of Restoration in western historiography; and no anniversary seems to have prepared its arrival with a more accurate precision. In 2011, words from streets in Tunis to New York started spreading like a pebble in the pond exposing the present to an uncertainty still to be written. But what then when a re-solidification occurs, closing again the surface into a solid conformation?
Two-hundred years after the Congress of Vienna and two-hundred weeks after Tahrir Square the crucial question is no longer how to open a space of possibility, rather how to face the moment of restoration. Back to the order.
Still, his sentence hiddenly preserves the possibility of something more than simply going back to a previous order, and while calling for an order, it leaves open for an instant the possibility to create a new one. If the order is given through laws, institutions, words, can this sentence eventually suggest the urgency to imagine new laws, different institutions, new words?
Back to the Order
(200 years after Vienna, 200 weeks after January 25th)
april-september 2015
N36 13 59.988 E37 10 0.012
Aleppo (Arabic: حلب / ALA-LC: Ḥalab, IPA: ['halab]) is the largest city in Syria
and the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world.
Aleppo is a laboratory for experiments in performance and politics.