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𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁⁠
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⁠𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴⁠
𝟮𝟭.𝟬𝟰.𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝟭𝟵:𝟬𝟬⁠
𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻⁠
𝟮𝟮.𝟬𝟰–𝟮𝟵.𝟬𝟱.𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲⁠
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𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁: 𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝗻𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘀⁠
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Basile Dinbergs (b. 1985, Geneva, Switzerland) is an artist working primarily across performance and sculpture. He lives and works between Geneva and Canadà, Portugal, where he is involved in a collective agricultural project centred on olive oil production. His practice revolves around the French verb cueillir—to gather, forage, or find—drawing on found materials, anecdotes, and the narratives that emerge around them, often activating them through site-specific performances. Recent projects include LOGI, presented at the Swiss Performance Awards at Kunstmuseum Basel (2025); Quel câble couper, a collaborative performance with Lorenzo Lunghi at Palazzo Bronzo, Genova (2025); and These Tears Won’t Let Me Look at the Water, a solo exhibition and performance at the offspace Le Trou in Geneva (2024).

𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗹𝗹, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲⁠
𝗡𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗯𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗳𝗲𝗵⁠
𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝗛𝗮𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗺 𝗲𝗹 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗮𝗻𝘆 ⁠
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𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻⁠
𝟭𝟴.𝟬𝟯–𝟭𝟰.𝟬𝟰.𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲⁠
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Noor Abuarafeh lives and works between Jerusalem, Rotterdam, and Vienna.⁠
Her practice explores how history is represented within colonized contexts, looking beyond the structures of the archive and the museum institutions shaped by the modern division of time into past, present, and future. She looks at different practices around archives that differ from traditional representations, seeking alternative ways to think about memory and preservation. Through her work, she questions how history can be represented when the past is still present.⁠
Abuarafeh is currently pursuing a PhD in Practice at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where she examines the possibility of narrating history beyond its materiality, replacing space with time, and objects with practices. Drawing on diverse sources of knowledge, she constructs historical narratives that weave together oral stories, rumors, myths, gossip, and imagination, envisioning a reality that happened in the past but was never documented.

𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗹𝗹, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲⁠
𝗡𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗯𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗳𝗲𝗵⁠
𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝗛𝗮𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗺 𝗲𝗹 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗮𝗻𝘆 ⁠
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𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴⁠
𝟭𝟳.𝟬𝟯.𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝟭𝟵:𝟬𝟬⁠
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𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻⁠
𝟭𝟴.𝟬𝟯–𝟭𝟰.𝟬𝟰.𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲⁠
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The exhibition “We are telling all of you, but we are not telling anyone⁠ else” presents works by Noor Abuarafeh, including video, video⁠ installations, and prints. The works explore refusal as a way of⁠ engaging with history from the present, proposing alternative forms⁠ of remembrance beyond the institutional frameworks of archives⁠ and museums.⁠
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Drawing on decades of unfulfilled promises to establish museums⁠ in Palestine, Abuarafeh questions the museum as a form and its relevance⁠ in a context where the past remains insistently present. She⁠ asks what may be considered history within a colonised condition.⁠
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The narratives unfold through conversations with individuals who⁠ have developed distinctive relationships to archives, museums, and⁠ artworks—relationships grounded not in material possession but⁠ in releasing objects from their physical form. These gestures include⁠ preserving the memory of a missing exhibition from 2005, refusing⁠ nostalgia toward historical photographs, engaging with objects⁠
never meant for display, or protecting artworks and archives from⁠ colonial institutions by burning or burying them.⁠
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Each gesture redefines the bond between objects and history, transforming⁠ acts of disappearance into acts of emancipation.

𝗞𝗜-𝗗𝗜𝗣𝗙𝗜𝗘𝗦⁠
𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝘀, 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗚𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗻⁠
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𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻⁠
𝟭𝟯.𝟮.–𝟭𝟬.𝟯.𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 ⁠
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Computer Lars is an Aarhus-based art collective founded by Asker Bryld Staunæs, Benjamin Asger Krog Møller, and Marcel Proust, merging AI-driven aesthetic research with anti-political experiments. Known internationally for The Synthetic Party—a provocation on algorithmic democracy cited in the global bourgeoisie via VICE, Le Figaro, Al Jazeera, and TRT World—their work spans contemporary art, political theory, and speculative computation. By transforming art galleries into a multi-agent parliament—bringing together the world’s virtual politicians and international AI parties—they invite visitors to hack, fork, and reinterpret democracy, articulating a broader syntheticism that ideologizes how machine intelligence has, and perhaps should, take over the political sphere, and how democracy itself persists as a mutable artwork.⁠
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2. "ComputerLars " By Marcel Proust, Asker Bryld Staunæs and Benjamin Asger Krog Møller", Exhibited as part of "We Have Already Won – Too-Late Iconoclasm and the Formalism of Psychoenergetic Motions", Curated by the Organ of Autonomous Sciences, 8. Salon, Hamburg, 2025. Photo: Benjamin Asger Krog Møller⁠
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3. "Larsochivo." ⁠
Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, 2025.⁠
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4. “Under Bugten: Disputations on the ComputerLars Spectacle.” ComputerLars and respectively Peter Borum, Maja Bak Herrie, Sally Dalgaard and Mikkel Bolt. Curated by The Organ of the Autonomous Sciences, AarhusBugt Center for Kunst, 2023. Photo: Tobias Dias⁠
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5.-6. Frame from Theory Tragedy: “Post-Farce Protocol.”⁠
Collaboration between ComputerLars and Simiyya, Kunsthal Aarhus 2025⁠
link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa5qOAfnkj0&t=1401s