Interferencias was addressing topics like collaboration, empirical process and alternative ways to make art. Nevertheless, the project didn’t intend to fix its own shape, ruling and results a priori. It didn’t intend to pre-define what the participants would make out of it. It was a bet on emergence and a try to embrace the fundaments of what experimenting is. From the beginning the artists taking part to Interferencias were invited to (collectively and individually) appropriate the offered space and circumstances. It was their responsibility to create their own means, paths and solutions inside of it. In a way, the project itself sought after being surprised by what could occur from the conditions it gathered. In my view, the main goal of the project was to allow an essay on pursuing, observing and feeding in vivo a self-organization. As a consequence, the main artistic attempt wasn’t located on the art media themselves, but in using these media to allow, channel and generate a significant human and societal experience. Participants indeed went through a kind of micro-society managing its own process of constitution, adaptation and versatility in order to move along.
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In Interferencias, we were a community in becoming as soon as we came together. The whole challenge for us was to take the chance, as a small and temporal society, to partially review schemes and patterns of organization, and to approach this attempt as an artistic proposition in itself. We gradually understood and valued it. The fact that a group has to self-organize itself can first look like a boring but necessary pre-condition for doing what has to be done. Nevertheless, our point of attention was precisely in distinguishing how specific means to agree and organize lead to peculiar behaviors, whether it is in society, in politics or in art. Collaboration was indeed the core topic of our encounter and had as a consequence to intimately link our field of investigation with our collective process, in such a way that form and content merged together. We entered both artistic reflection and collective process by (re)exploring on us what collaboration is or could be. We tamed from scratch, without pre-made guidelines, ways to agree and function together in order to become able to actualize action collectively. I N T E R F E R E N C I A S
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