Whole Waste Catalog – after the first pilot test
In my practice, I am interested in the waste, the outcast and what’s hidden in the dark corners of our life world. The occupation with margins and outsiders opens up a new perspective on mainstream culture in the center and moves at the same time the periphery into the focus of the discourse. This activity is a tradition of European art history, which Nicolas Bourriaud describes as Exform: «... the site where border negotiations unfold between what is rejected and what is admitted, products and waste. Exform designates a point of contact, a ‘socket’ or ‘plug’, in the process of exclusion and inclusion—a sign that switches between centre and periphery, floating between dissidence and power.»
My ongoing research is a starting point for works in various mediums and formats. As i see the urgent necessity of an intervention into reality beyond art, I allow myself the liberty to go even a step further and get engaged with the smartphone app 'Whole Waste Catalog', providing education and support for informal e-waste workers. I am now presenting the current state of the project, the findings and put it up for discussion.
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This is the realm of the exformal: the site where border negotiations unfold between what is rejected and what is admitted, products and waste. Exform designates a point of contact, a ‘socket’ or ‘plug’, in the process of exclusion and inclusion—a sign that switches between centre and periphery, floating between dissidence and power. ... As such, the question of waste—and the principles governing its elimination—will be posed in two ways in the future: in terms of centrifugal movement, which concerns apparatuses of power, and in terms of centripetal dynamic animating countervailing artistic forces.
— Nicolas Bourriaud, The Exform
6 Contact and Bio
Raphael Perret is a Zurich based artist, exploring the interplay between physical and virtual spaces, the closing of circles, as well as the examination of value systems. He developed a research based art practice, in which he likes to peak behind the veil of our life world and poke holes in it. Because the longer we look into the dark corners, the clearer gets the picture of our current situation. After exploring the technical possibilities of computers, their afterlife has moved into focus. Since 2012, he has worked on the informal-illegal recycling of e-waste in India and is researching from a socially engaged, artistic perspective the aesthetic of decaying technology as well as the circumstances of the workers in India. He holds a Master of Advanced Studies in Scenography and has exhibited in Europe, Asia and the Americas.
8 Notes
The Centrifugal and the Centripetal Forces (Exform)
In the text that goes with the foto series 'Afterlife' i am referring to 'bringing the fringes of society back into the center'. And the one thinker, who is describing this in full length is Bourriauld in 'Exform'. Now, I am not so deep in theory but what I get from it is really interesting. So it may also be of interest for AMRO2020.
This is the realm of the exformal: the site where border negotiations unfold between what is rejected and what is admitted, products and waste. Exform designates a point of contact, a ‘socket’ or ‘plug’, in the process of exclusion and inclusion—a sign that switches between centre and periphery, floating between dissidence and power. ... As such, the question of waste—and the principles governing its elimination—will be posed in two ways in the future: in terms of centrifugal movement, which concerns apparatuses of power, and in terms of centripetal dynamic animating countervailing artistic forces.
— Nicolas Bourriaud, The Exform
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