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Pamphlet

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EXERCISES: FROM THE CONTINGENCY OF NATIONALITY
TO AN EXPERIMENT ON SELECTIVE-DENATIONALITY

Discussion and collective processing of documents about citizen right to decide "denationalized" especially under certain conditions of state policies.
It was presented in a popular "pub" of Einhoven and openly invited to participate. The formal structure is fired from a pamphlet conceptualized as conversational platform in 3 languages: Dutch, Spanish and English.
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Pamphlet Text

SIDE 1

The notion of “nationality” presupposes hierarchies: people who were born in a determined locality have better rights than immigrants. But, what would happen to these hierarchies if a “native” decided to experiment with selective-denationality?

EXERCISES: FROM THE CONTINGENCY OF NATIONALITY
TO AN EXPERIMENT ON SELECTIVE-DENATIONALITY

A pamphlet as discussion and a discussion as line of flight…

INVITATION TO INTEGRATE THE IN SITU DISCUSSION

On Thursday the 10th of July, 5 pm
Café de Baron
Kleine Berg 32 Eindhoven

INSTRUCTIONS

This pamphlet is composed of questions and blank spaces that invite you to reflect/answer and to integrate it into the discussion.

1-you can keep the pamphlet or throw it away
2-you can participate in the discussion on Thursday the 10th
3-you can answer one, two, or all of the questions and bring the pamphlet to the discussion on Thursday the 10th of July
4-you can integrate your pamphlet/answers into the project’s archive

THANK YOU
Contact:
selectivedena@gmail.com
State of Translocality - Be(com)ing Dutch exhibition- Van Abbemuseum – Eindhoven – 2008

SIDE 2

1-art & knowledge - what kind of small strategies can we create to develop symmetric conditions of interchange and discussion about trans-local issues?

2-horizon of freedom - what sorts of devices, actions, or games—reflecting on our present perspectives of freedom—can we develop?

3-capital flows - what could we do for our protection as citizens given that these are national protections and that the flow of capital and power of corporations are transnational?

4-hypothesis - what exercises or experiments are possible beyond the contingency of nationality? (for example: a new form of citizen status?)

5-exercises – can cultural values other than religion or nationalism be a base for interaction, or an exchange, between trans-local people? Requested currency amount

6-changes - are we prepared to deal with these changes as a global problem, that is, a problem concerning everyone, independent of their place of birth?

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Be(com)ing Dutch participating artists Petra Bauer, Abdellatif Benfaidoul, Bik Van der Pol, Michael Blum, Libia Castro/ Ólafur Ólafsson, Phil Collins, Carla Cruz, Gerrit Dekker, Erwin van Doorn, Ronen Eidelman, Ed van der Elsken, Hadassah Emmerich, Alexandra Ferreira, Daan van Golden, Rana Hamadeh, Nicoline van Harskamp, Alicia Herrero, Hans van Houwelingen, Johan van der Keuken, Annette Krauss, Agung Kurniawan, Surasi Kusolwong, Toos Nijssen, Ahmet Ögüt, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Ilya Rabinovich, Mario Rizzi, Mounira Al Solh, Fiona Tan, Oguz Tatari, Alite Thijsen, Lidwien van de Ven, Tintin Wulia, Bettina Wind.
Charles Esche (director) and Annie Fletcher (curator) 

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