NORMALIZATION [ARTISTIC PRACTICE]

Contribution to Normalization project in Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Gasverksgatan 22 Malmö with the work 'priority List', on operational society and population’s priority categories (with Critical Studies group). – – – By examining processes of normalization in various political, social and cultural contexts, the exhibition focusses on how people and societies are ‘normalized’. Twenty-one international artists present works reflecting on the impact normalization has on how we organize our societies and on how we relate to each other. The exhibition project Normalization was initially developed in dialogue with the curator group WHW in Zagreb and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center in Istanbul resulting in different exhibitions in each location in 2004 and 2005. – – – Participating artists Kristina Ask, Johanna Billing, Michael Blum, Pavel Braila, Goran Devic, Nermin Durakovic, Luke Fowler, Irwin , Sejla Kameric, Andreja Kuluncic, Chad McCail, Lisa Nyberg, Tanja Ostojic, Dan Perjovschi, Renata Poljak, Kirstine Roepstorff, Pernille Skov & Soren Holm Hvilsby, Silke Wagner, Jasmila Zbanic, Ahmet Ogut, Erkan Özgen & Sener Özmen, Critical Studies group Malmö. – – – Image courtesy by Tanja Ostojic (l), Dan Perjovschi (r)

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Priority List, 2006

Billboard, text
cm 600 x 300 x 200 ca.
In connection with the exhibition "Normalization" in Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art Malmö (Sweden), Critical Studies group presented the project Priority List on Rooseum’s billboard at Gasverksgatan. The project consists of a fragment from a so-called priority list — a government directive as to the allocation of resources to different groups in society in case of a crisis. A priority list is based on suppositions of who is the most useful for the continued functioning of the rest of society. The project Priority List casts light on this hierarchy, focussing on those who are at the bottom of the ladder. – – – Critical Studies 2005–2006: Kyongfa Che, Alfredo Cramerotti, Övül Durmusoglu, Minna Henriksson, Christian Hillesø, Jee-Eun Kim, Christian Schult.