© 2014 R. O. |
The Question Consortium takes place from Fri 27 March to Sat 11 April 2015 with an opening Fri 27 March at 6pm and a symposium Sat 28 March at 2pm. This exhibition is open Fri 5-7 and Sat 11-5, with Sundays exceptionally closed.
The Question Consortium is exclusively about questions
and only questions. The public is asked to write any questions on A5 paper one
at a time, that myriads of questions hijack the space, locally, globally,
inside and outside the community with all kinds of questions. It is intended to
provide a space for questions, where everybody can visit and consult the
questions with an interest in the question headspace. All questions are
anonymous.
We assume that we don’t know the outcome of an event before it has
become history, though history vanishes irreversibly when events are based on
such a hypothesis.1 Jean Baudrillard
Questions create an access to the
hypothetical world and through which we are able to recognise the world. We
live in a hypothetical world, with questions making sense. The hypothetical
world fills dreams. Deprived of questions, the world would be empty. Next of
reminding at the constructed world, the hypothetical world reminds also of
this. Yet there are limitations, while we continue believing in questions. The
ways we tend not to know about today or tomorrow, the people, ourselves,
nature, are as if we had no choices.
The Question Consortium attempts to break through these
palisades of the hypothetical world. Although it questions the tendencies of
questions generating new questions, with questions steering oxymoronically
hypothetical traits, it nevertheless estimates that questions transport our
intentions more transparently then answers do. Questions guarantee being
interesting. To be reminded at the world of hypotheses has actuality, since in
our age of crisis what concerns hypotheses, there seems to be much confusion
about how to tackle the multitude of issues that we are confronted with.
The Question Consortium has to do with how people are
with each other and how people communicate with people. It has also to do with
how people interact with nature and how nature interacts with people. In these
intersectional fields, questions are raised and also dropped, as we all know.
While certain systems promote questions, other systems cut questions. Freedom
gets defined through questions. It gives questions the chance to be what they
are, to emerge without filters and
allowing the questioning of what questions want. However, here it is also asked
how we get away with the questions we are asking.
The Question Consortium organises and questions this event at the same time, with
questions organising and questioning questions. You question and are this
event, with its questions moving you.
© 2015 The Hypothetical World©
1Baudrillard Jean, Cool
Memories 1980-1985, p. 92, Éditions
Galilée, Paris, 1987, transl.: ‘Si on a pu faire l’hypothèse qu’aucun événement
ne saurait avoir de sens définitif avant que l’histoire ait pris fin d’une façon
ou d’une autre, alors toute façon de donner un sens quelconque à un événment
est une façon de metre fin à l’histoire.’