I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have
The Practice of Everyday Life

Opening Saturday 26 May, 21:00 - 03:00 hrs

21:00 hrs Lado Darakhvelidze presents Museum TV Station (MTVS)
23:00 hrs Blodfet & DJ Lonely FROM TUSCANY TO PROVENCE
Record Release Party with Nathaniel Mellors and Xander Karskens

Christian Marclay | Werner Herzog | Eddie the Eagle Museum | Jonas Ohlsson with Daniela Bershan, Bas de Boer, Gilbert van Drunen, Kaleb de Groot, Ron Stern, Dennis Tyfus, Sands Murray Wassink, Magnus Monfeldt, including Music & Performances by DJ Jane Doe, Rex-N-Undercover, Blodfet & DJ Lonely, Frequency, Dennis Tyfus/ Ultra Eczema, Lost Property |Lado Darakhvelidze with Evelyn Austin I Anatoly Belov I Alexander Delphinov I Jessica Dill I Ruben Doornweerd I Charlie Fox I Roel Griffioen I Jimini Hignett I Yota Ioannidou I Kung Fu Junkie I Irakli Kakabadze I Mark McGowan I Outsider I Pamela Renner I Zurab Rtveliashvili I Kevin Schuit I Mr Solo I Damon Taylor I Nadia Tsulukidze I Zelda and the Unibrows I Eelco Wagenaar I Stefan Wharton

An extended performance, of objects, conversations, film, music, silences

The exhibition I'm Losing More than I'll Ever Have (The Practice of Everyday Life) aims to engage as wide an audience as possible in a dialogue around the paradoxical gaps between life as it is lived by a society of individuals, and the aspirations afforded by spectacular life as we absorb it through mediated images of ourselves and everything around us. Borrowing its title from the 1987 Primal Scream song of the same name, which captivated the mood of Britain's bleak Thatcher years, and informed a youth so redundant of hope they could only live in the now, when everything mattered right then. Now that the end of Capitalist growth is in sight, the lines of flight are productive when they attempt to challenge the existing order and traverse the odyssey of spirit through history and culture. By organizing the Institutional space differently, the exhibition demonstrates an artistic strategy of actualizing the possible ways in which art can be developed today and still fulfill its historical mission while testing Alain Badiou's 'existence of the communist hypothesis, in our consciousness and on the ground'.

The desire to change the world has often led artists to align themselves with wider social movements and to break with established institutions of art. This exhibition gathers together a selection of artists' whose different critical and artistic reference points refuse to participate in the tired prescriptions of marketplace and authority and instead create new methods of engagement that transcends the outmoded formulations of insurrection and resistance.

Exhibition until 29 July 2012

( TYI : Lado Darakhvelidze is an alumnus of the DAI )