Proposal

We have the sensation that within the art sector there's a widespread tendency to fixate on products from the part of both the sender, the receiver and the distributor. By using the word proposal - to address the meeting between the participants and the audience - we want to find a more open approach to that which is being presented. We believe that it can facilitate both sharing and appropriating that which is being presented if we call it a proposal.

What does a proposal signify to us? We suggest that a proposal has the potential to provide the receiver with the possibility to leave their own conditions for a little while. To understand what is being proposed we must first listen to the proposal. The listening in itself is a kind of open reception where we let ourselves to be affected. To understand what the proposal suggests we have to see it from its own perspective, e.g. we need to tune in with it (what is its history? where does it come from? in which context are we located? etc). We need to allow ourselves to listen without identifying, what we are receiving is the becoming of the proposal. By approaching the proposal on its own terms, there is a possibility that we ourselves start to produce meaning, we are becoming activated.

Please note that the choice of word is an attempt to find approaches (to art) that mean something to us.