Project description:

Crushed by the vast amount of pop culture that fetishizes, valorizes, and commodifies rejection (including Jia Jiang’s Rejection Therapy project,  Johannes Haushofer’s CV of Failure, Suzanne Clements’ Rejection Letters of an Emerging Artist, Robert De Niro’s You're Fucked speech at Tisch School of the Arts), WE WILL ROCK an open thinking brainstorm session, which embraces rejection while working against using IT as a motivational or therapeutic f(t)ool in pursuit of future success. Instead we will THINK together about personal and professional ideas that were rejected yet still live somewhere in the back of our minds, in the cells of our bodies (KOMMA?) or amANGST the stored files on our clouds. 

Our brainstorming  session is an opportunity to give these successfully rejected attempts the chance of realization with the hope of eliciting a debate about the politics and the poetics of rejection. We invite presentation/participation proposals of artistic, scientific, mundane (KOMA?) and spiritual nature. As artists, scholars, and c(R)ooks, we are intrigued by the potential of contributions and provocations in different forms including - but by no means Ltd. to - mini lectures, performance sketches, reenactments, physical exercises, video and photographic documentations, scientific experiments (KOMA AGAIN?) etc.

We welcome

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Presentation time: suggested 5-10 min.

Presentation format: open

·         mini-lecture

·         mini-presentation (e.g. how to do things, movement, magic or the  making of a

          thing)

·         mini-performance (e.g. song, dance, poetry, multi-disciplinary texts)

·         mini-exhibition (video, photo and recorded sound projects)

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