“I think I saw us fading (Sense Decay)” is a research project born by the concept of “curse”. 

Curse comes from the Latin maledicere, i.e. to say wrong. It is a phrase that the reflexive consciousness repeats judiciously about actions implemented or to be implemented. these are a visual filter through which our semiotic automation signifies the real, even before it appears, and above its existential matter. Where do these phrases come from? Who taught them to us and imprinted them on our minds? We want to imagine a learning space that is a workshop for the dissolution of curses. 

Starting from a deconstructing meaning process and radicalising the semiotic and physical possibilities that unfold from it, the project stems from the speculative hypothesis that we can reconstruct new semiotics of everyday space, face, voice and body. The elements will be analysed separately during different workshops, with a view to choral performative restitution.

The keys to investigation are three:

1    I exchange the pleasure or displeasure that things give me through a name I give them. And I curse or bless them. But this judgment is not about the in-self existence of the thing, but only about the relation of my body to the thing. The thing is beyond judgment, it is beyond good(say) and evil(say).

2    Desire is a directed pleasure or displeasure. It is an existential investment mediated by knowledge of the relation with a thing. 

3    Space is a value machine. The place is a strategic space. What distinguishes a place is its physical availability; for a space is the symbol of the place usage derived from their expectations.

Part of the iconography of the project is inspired by the “Mocking of Christ” iconography.

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