re;Verse
25 january 2021-…
The idea for 𝗿𝗲;𝗩𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲 stems from a fantasy of justice. It is a co-created experiment and initiated by Ceyda Berk Söderblom and Reishabh Kailey, to challenge the institutionalised art funding systems by questioning the agency of unused/unproduced thinking.
By welcoming artists, art makers, cultural professionals, academics, autodidacts, doers and makers, space was set up with the intention to challenge non-transparent expert hierarchies within grant application systems. 𝗿𝗲;𝗩𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲 is open to all, regardless of the author’s experience, background, age or qualification. The 𝗿𝗲;𝗩𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲(d) poetry is shaped by everyone who takes part in it.
We are very excited to invite you to view the 𝗿𝗲;𝗩𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲 and If you to contribute to our poetic venture if you happen to have any rejected ideas lying around.
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After acknowledging our privilege of being artists and art-makers who have access to potential funding, we decided to design space for empathy and healing as a critical practice.
Art professionals who continually create and re-create proposals of ideas, invest a fair amount of creative labour in proposal-making. When a proposal gets rejected, the idea is suspended, abandoned, or reconfigured.
Through 𝗿𝗲;𝗩𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲 we are experimenting with new reconfigurations of discarded ideas that have been rejected by the establishment. By doing so, we want to critically analyse the contemporary art funding systems while creating a safe space for unproduced thinking.
We are engaging with the concept of ownership and creative labour in the algorithmic world. Ideas as objects which are owned can easily be ripped apart by Artificial Intelligence and new ideas can be formed, requiring no additional ‘originality’ from us - still the ideas are new so who owns them now?
© Team Rejection, Helsinki, 2021