Ctrl + ↑ for Coyote Time
We look down and realize that we've run over the edge of the cliff, the abyss is below us. What do we do? What can we do? Is there by any chance a keyboard shortcut for this?
Schedule
Exhibition and series of events
exhibiting artists: Bassam Al-Sabah, Hollow (Muskovics Gyula, Páll Tamás, Szeri Viktor), Denis Kozerawski, Lawrence Lek, Paula Malinowska, Tabitha Nikolai, Sin Wai Kin
curators: Jen Kratochvil, Szalai Borbála, Maxine Vajt
on view: 2024/03/23 - 2024/04/07
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umping forward from this moment of suspension, the exhibition Ctrl+Up for coyote time asks whether it is possible to imagine worlds - digital or physical - where the rules by which we 'play' can be redefined. Where the hegemonic play and the failed normative goals of videogames can be transcended, where the systems of rules can be reimagined, where individual and shared experiences -that are both political and deeply personal- can be lived.
Questions of how mainstream gaming formulates daily routines of our lives meet more specific challenges to the basic principles of gamification and world-building used as a toolbox for normalized existence in late capitalism - how to disrupt, take apart, and reconfigure them to counteract the system they originated from? The exhibition explores the boundaries and adjacent niches of the continuous bleeding of digital and physical reality into each other; a probe into hegemonic play and its deconstruction through queer and trans methods and strategies; an elaborate ploy to reach the state when time freezes, and you keep levitating, and a the second jump appears to be an option.
Detailed programme below ↓
More info: https://trafo.hu/en/trafo_gallery/coyotetime
Trafó House of Contemporary Arts
The Trafó House of Contemporary Arts in Budapest is a unique venue in Hungary, embedded in the international contemporary scene, where different genres - theatre, dance, new circus, music and visual arts - are presented in a unique and authentic way.
