GET OUT Squatfabrik #1

RAPHAËL ADAMS & REN LOREN BRITTON

At Kulturfabrik, we believe that artistic exploration requires time to develop ideas and personal expression, leading to a deeper artistic language that can have a lasting societal impact. Bold exploration needs space, not pressure. It should not be tied to market value or solely measured by the final result. Squatfabrik challenges the logic of return on investment by providing a space for open experimentation and research for artists in residence. Whether subtly questioning, boldly provoking, or implicitly challenging norms, Squatfabrik exists as a place where artists can break conventional rules, recognizing that art, society, and politics are deeply interconnected.

Squatfabrik invites us to explore how imagination, creativity, and art can reshape the spaces we inhabit and, at its best, facilitate the materialisation of utopian visions. The artistic projects at Squatfabrik challenge all of us – artists, cultural workers, activists, and members of civil society – to question our habits and ecosystems, providing tools to rethink our behaviours and relationships with one another and the natural world. By opening new perspectives, Squatfabrik helps us develop new ways of seeing, feeling, and thinking.

The GET OUT marks the end of each Squatfabrik residency. It's the moment when the audience can experience, discover and discuss the work - or the reflection of work - made during the residency month.
For this first Squatfabrik with Raphaël Adams & Ren Loren Britton, the Get Out will take place on MAY 2nd, in the Galerie Terres Rouges at 6:30pm.

REN LOREN BRITTON (USA/DE).

Coalition Constellations: "Stars Look Different Tonight” compiles an in-progress multimedia installation working across 3D printing, sculpture, video and audio. The installation consists of a sculpture and a video with audio excerpts from interviews. Over this past month while in residence, Ren Loren Britton has been interviewing colleagues at the intersection of disability justice, trans* and intersex experiences, star constellations and abolitionist dreaming. These interviews are spliced together in an audio track set amidst the stars for visitors to listen and dream a little dream with. In these interviews Ren has been attempting to understand how disability, trans* and intersex relations are conceptualized and what kind of liberation or oppressions are active - here. Beginning with the question: what kinds of narratives would we need in the constellations above us that would honor trans* and disabled communities? This artistic research project seeks to rename constellations honoring our worlding and taking constellations and stars as our companions in the trans*feminist struggle. Constellations that have been named during this research include and are not limited to: the TIA (Trans Intersex Agender) constellation, a constellation for Njudine, a constellation constellation, a constellation of small holes, fair constellation, t-rex constellation and the reparations constellation.

RAPHAËL ADAMS (LU/IR).

In a society where there would be no constraints or inhibitions around love and intimacy – an unconditional society of love if you want – what would our new values, ideas and acts of love be? I propose ‘A Dream of Courting’ - not as a space to find love or necessarily even feel intimate or loved - but as a space of negotiation and encounter. A space where we can reflect on the love and intimacy we had, we are currently having, and the one we want to build in the future. How we want to use those words in a new world and what practices we would like to have associated with the words.

This is a collaborative effort into building a new court, an alternative of courtship for the modern age. A dream of courting differently, abundantly, and audaciously.