The International Off-Space Network aims to build an extensive network of international artist-run spaces cultivating new relationships and ideas between artists, curators, galleries, and people in arts. The series attains an alternative approach to collaboration and production with its non-hierarchical, reachable, transparent, open-source, non-competitive, and progressive structure. It promotes the solidarity of independent art spaces, building a strong network of art professionals, and counteracting the sovereign art market. Each year, international off-spaces are invited to participate in and curate their shows, encouraging participation and teamwork. The collaborative process is later presented in an exhibition, each time with a different focus and location. Each year’s theme investigates matters of the present time, applies and tests utopia, and challenges postmodern understandings.

DIRTY LAUNDRY

In the anticipated scenario where the earth ends in agony, all systems collapse, and abandoned constructions host hybrid beings, imitation of life prevails because all human emotions are carried successfully by matters of rituals, magic, and heartbroken believers. DIRTY LAUNDRY talks about the exhaustion of the human monarch, filling the earth with its industrial, capitalistic greed and neglect. In a rightful existential desire, recalling mythology and ancient knowledge, to find reconciliation with the present, the artists fasten to the spirits of mother earth, rejecting all the lifeless, numbed, material distractions the majesty is offering. DIRTY LAUNDRY delivers painful wounds and attends to haunted stories of the past; with a faithful devotion to life and its endless creations, it realizes all ends in affection, love.

Curated exhibitions from ten different artist run spaces turn into a transient narrative, becoming a moment of wishful confrontation. DIRTY LAUNDRY has three steps; the first exhibition in the local regions of the off-spaces (1), later be translated into an online show (2), and finally displayed at Keiv, Athens (3). The first sub-show takes place in the location of each off-space, where the artists sense familiarity in physical form. Careful of territorial understandings, DIRTY LAUNDRY engaged firstly with artists' existing realities in their own locality before bringing them to a foreign land and arrangement. Initial local shows became a resource, and DIRTY LAUNDRY wanted to test how things evolved from translating the art shows into a digital medium and then back to a physical one, questioning the material and immaterial.

DIRTY LAUNDRY

'dirty laundry' stands for revealing the things that are not shown, said, or told - confronting our lives and societies, even in discomfort. DIRTY LAUNDRY tells stories of the present, past, and future.