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>Oreste alla Biennale - Oreste at the Venice Biennale
>will be presented in London at Royal College of Arts
>
>15 April 2000
>
>
>***
>
>
>PRESS RELEASE
>
>
>At the 1972 Documenta, Joseph Beuys presented the Organisation for Direct
>Democracy, an all-inclusive vision which embraced artistic, social and
>political activities.
>
>democracy! explores the substance of this vision. It recognises the need to
>find a productive role for the artist within society.  It acknowledges the
>desire to build relationships and integrate artistic practices, and to
>develop new and practical links within and outside the artistic community.
>
>To embrace democracy involves the sacrifice of ego and the acceptance of
>collaboration. It is risky and uncertain, frustrating and rewarding. Its
>relations cannot be assumed; they have to be debated. It remains abstract
>unless realised and can be stifled by realisation. Nearly everybody
>understands what democracy means. But everybody has different ideas about
>what it is or should be. It is an ongoing process in which contradiction
>and failure play a part.
>
>democracy! at the Royal College of Art might be seen as a contradiction in
>terms, because the work in this exhibition has largely arisen in opposition
>to the specialist institutions of art. democracy! is about questioning the
>structures which prompted the search for alternatives in the first place.
>It looks to create a productive dialogue between communities, collectives,
>individuals, organisations and audiences, acknowledging that all have
>something to learn from each other.
>
>ArtLab, B.a.d. Foundation, Jeremy Deller, Clegg & Guttman, Annika Eriksson,
>De Geuzen, Carsten Höller, Group Material,Jeanne van Heeswijk, Aleksandra
>Mir, Dave Muller, Nils Norman, No Problem Agency, Mejor Vida Corp., Oreste,
>Carissa Rodriguez & Jodi Busby, Rigo 2000 & LPDC, Hinrich Sachs, Sarah
>Tripp, Superflex, Punish, PH Studio, Cesare Pietroiusti, Plamen Dejanov &
>Swetlana Heger, Stephen Willats.
>
>
>Royal College of Art Galleries
>Exhibition open Friday 14 April - Friday 12 May 2000
>Exhibition closed for Easter Weekend Friday 21 - Monday 24 April
>11-6pm (admission free)
>
>
>Curated by final year students from the Royal College of Art MA curating
>course. For further details please contact:
>Tim Hutchinson  T: 020 7590 4494 or F: 020 7590 4495
>democracy@rca.ac.uk
>Anna Brenard Royal College of Art Press Officer
>T: 020 7590 4127
>a.brenard@rac.ac.uk.
>

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