do as us users do

Participating collectives:
WORK HARD! PLAY HARD!
Total Refusal
adO/Aptive

curated by adO/Aptive (Janina Weißengruber und Daniel Hüttler)
 

adO/Aptive will host a discursive and performative evening with the title „do as us users do“. The 3-part program is conceived to reflect on gamification and different modes of immersion into game-realms – be they IRL or fully virtual.

Program:
4 pm: Assembly „Decentric Circles of Leisure Unrest“ by WORK HARD! PLAY HARD!
6.30 pm: Film screening „A World At Stake” by Total Refusal
7 pm: Performance „WHEN IN RO/AM“ by adO/Aptive

First, the WORK HARD! PLAY HARD! working group (Dzina Zhuk, Aleksei Borisionok, Olia Sosnovskaya, Nicolay Spesivtsev) will host an assembly titled “Decentric Circles of Leisure Unrest”, a dynamic, decentralized gathering that blends conversation with spontaneous creative acts to explore themes of joy, struggle, and refusal. The assembly delves into anti-capitalist notions of non-work, burnout, collective care, and resistance through shared tools, practices, and protocols.

Then, the collective Total Refusal will show the 17:00 min film “A World At Stake” shot in sports video games, turning the ordering principles of victory and defeat upside down and negotiating social roles between individual sovereignty and collective passivity.

In the end, adO/Aptive will show their performance “WHEN IN RO/AM” that premiered in May at Torula Kunsthalle in Györ. The performance stages a sports match in two halves divided by a half-time show that features a surprise act. The six players wear jerseys with RFDI chips that can be read by a scanner on the central sculptural element, the "Sacrificial Input Box". The piece is a performative response to the post-informative nature of the extractive practices of platform capitalism and highlights the fragility of our online identities as well as the commercialization of personal information.