Underlying, “on how to appear invisible” is an open set of responses to Pier Paolo Pasolini’s call for the poetic in a film he was commissioned to do in 1963: “La Rabbia” (Rage). In the film Pasolini comments on the state of normalcy and lack of excitement in a post-war period. He suggests that the “state of emergency” must be artificially created, and attributes this necessary change and possibility of action to poets and artists. A departure point for this project is how a (self)critical reflection on how constructed spheres and narratives of power can be (re-)appropriated through the tools and approaches of artist practices.

“on how to appear invisible” is an exhibition, choir, party, series of non-events, performances, reproduced papers, readings groups and talks, making a re-turn to the more casual, everyday, personal and introspective approach to art and performative practices.

“on how to appear invisible” is an ongoing project by Reloading Images that will be launched at the Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art in Cairo, by Sarah Rifky, and will connect to Homeworks V, Beirut, and On Rage, curated by Valerie Smith at the Haus der Welt Kulturen, Berlin. More information will follow soon.