Kas

KAS is a group exhibition of performative nature that constitutes the third episode of the "Anti-Modern Trilogy", a cycle of exhibitions that Centrale Fies has been dedicating for some years now to the relationship between objects and their activations, re-evaluating forms of knowledge (affective, somatic, visual) that are censored or suppressed by Western sex-colonial modernity.

The title takes its cue from Kas, a pre-modern city that is said to have existed on the Fies site before the great landslide that created the Marocche biotope in prehistoric times.

Its evidence is the discovery of a brickwork - whose 'veracity' and 'authenticity' are still being dabated by historians - and kept alive by popular fables and the pictorial production of the local pharmacist Alfeno Liboni.

Kas will become the starting point for artists to express a series of socio-political questions underlying such imaginaries, often considered innocuous, but in fact innervated by forms of critical struggle against oppressive architectures: speculative archaeology and orography as a source of legitimation of nationalisms or their functional re-appropriation in an anti-nationalist function; symbolic and material violence of foundation processes as well as their transmission and reproduction through material and visual archives or through hegemonic notions of heritage and cultural inheritance; the artificiality of the time of history and its tripartition into past, present and future; the affirmativity of speculative notions of futurity and catastrophe; the reform of the artificial concept of 'objectivity' and the possibilities of its erosion.

Like the other two exhibitions of the trilogy, KAS will have a 'static' duration of two months and will be activated with a performance cycle on the occasion of Live Works Summit 2022.