why binary should have all the pun
Our world is brought to us through categorised understandings, binary ideas and normative fields of action, suggesting dichotomies of good and bad, black and white, West and East, masculine and feminin, civilised and barbaric. We are living in a world where the binary ideas are the ones of radical understandings and action. From this point the binary has become part of the human navigation system from where we make up our mind. It guides our daily discussion-making, socio-political behaviour and judgement, and it makes us able to think and act in complex situations. We choose right from wrong and form our preferences, public appearance, taste and belonging. We structure our believes and actions in order to become a good citizen, a loving partner, an emphatic friend and express presence, sensitivity and care. In this moment we also construct notions of evil, distance, otherness and outside. As noted by the French intellectual and writer, André Gide “the colour of truth is grey” and it is an essential reminder that we need to seek in-between our prime categories. Why binary should have all the pun seeks to look between the black and the white, and re-map the journey to Heterotopia between the known and the unknown, from where the binary is brought into a re-consideration by turning to the process of in-between. Exploring how doubts, ambiguity, informality and taboos are approached through contemporary art practices the curation wants to open up new meanings, expressions and possibilities in-between societal binaries. By an investigation of in-betweenness in public spaces, identity, gender, sociality and materiality the exhibition brings in a new notion of rizomatic exploration of daily life and society. In-between becomes a methodology of confusion, blurring and re-making the popular categories and question notions of post-colonial spaces, neo-orientalism, subalternaty and global aspirations. We believe that the greatest riots and emphatic gestures are acts confronting the binaries; forming new possibilities in-between. But how will the narrative of reality be constructed in-between the categories of understanding and acting?