pKp

607. Kunst & Zwalm 2021. pKp para-instituut voor KUNST en precariteit
from the catalogue The pKp is pitching its tents on the outskirts of the hamlet of Korsele, in the same way as precarious people used to do outside the city walls. The camp is the laboratory, the meeting place and the base for interventions. The pKp takes the art route, aspects of the artworks displayed and characteristics of the surroundings as its starting point in order to interact with carefully selected 'audiences'. The pKp does not consider 'audiences' to be target groups but rather environments of people with authority in which certain knowledge, ideas and convictions live and/or are shared. For each 'audience' pKp seeks forms of interaction. The audiences include people with experiences of loss of property, a group of cows and their farmer, the parents of the artists involved.
At the centre of the laboratory is a large work made of pieces of cloth sewn together, donated by the inhabitants of Korsele. You can visit the camp and at regular intervals there will be orchestrated meetings between residents and others, actions, performances, public talks.
The pKp thanks its neighbours, the people of Korsele, the willing parents of artists and many others for their cooperation and help in the realisation of the project.
BIO The pKp is a collective art practice with a changing cast and educational approach, set up within Stijn Van Dorpe's doctoral research at LUCA School of Arts. For Kunst & Zwalm the pKp consists, besides Stijn Van Dorpe, of Elien Ronse, Nancy Vansieleghem, Does Vandousselaere, Marthe Marynissen, Bas Schevers, Emma Boeyaert, Joan Somers Donnelly, Floor Van Hoof, Mona Schietekat, Luth Lea Roose, Elena Vloeberghen, Sarah Késenne, Georgia Kokot. LUCA School of Arts is a partner in this project.
The pKp creates space from which it takes para positions: next to, within, during or in opposition to existing practices and institutions. Circulating dynamics are examined, reinforced or counteracted. Vulnerability and uncertainty are thereby considered important. What relationships are established with one's own precariousness and that of others? Can giving meaning to precarity in a different way initiate a resistance to the prevailing order? The condition of mutual dependence is a guiding principle, contrary to the ideology of our late-capitalist world.