Displacement Series: Open Talks with Jonathan Saldanha and Rinus Van Alebeek

Within the scope of what has been called the ‘’artistic class’’, it has been developed an

 ongoing need for mobility, either by weak labour conditions that force someone to 

move in order to search for subsistence; or due to the desire of accessing ‘’ways of doing’’

, different from the departure point. 

Beyond judging this need as a positive or a negative influence, we have initiated a process

 of research on how the notion of Displacement affects processes of cultural production. 

One of the main reasons why we took this concept lies in its breadth _ in its polysemic 

capacity and in the multiplicity of its narrative pathways, not necessarily linear. Thanks 

to this, we can analyze cause and effect, reference and referent from a creative reading 

attitude.

Displacement is a generative process, through which Piso Collective articulates a dynamic

series of work that reflect on interrelated concepts with the idea of:

cultural production, space, place, nation, border, territory, travel, symbol, 

history, context, de-contextualization, identity, network, self-organization,

strength/resistance, empathy, otherness, anachronism, mirror neurons, sequence,

dyslexia, shift, memory, eco ...

In June we initiate a series of conversations with invited collaborators.

These working tables will be documented to create an archive to be integrated in the

 exhibitions and available in our webpage.

The guests that will present their projects this month are

Rinus Van Alebeek (musician, writer and Staalplaat organizer) 

and

Jonathan Saldanha (musician, investigator and Soopa Colective/ Label director)

After the conversation the Rinus Van Alebeek and Jonathan Saldanha will present a

 very special improvisation using the content of the "normationist" drifting road trip 

tapes that were recorded in 2005.