Underskog

The exhibition “The Routines of Resistance” combines one work by each of the three participating artists – Ibon Aranberri (b. 1969, Bilbao), Johanna Billing (b. 1973, Stockholm) and Marius Engh (b. 1974, Oslo) – equally reflecting on models of resistance and on resistance as non-productive repetition or administration. These works locate certain enterprises and systems of behaviour in civil society that serve as reminders of alternatives to common regulations – spanning from soft subversions of public space (where street vendors contest the official economy by running their business from unauthorised sales points, selling bootleg products and dodging tax) to the ideologically motivated drafting of manifestos and planning acts of political resistance. Linked with this is an element of resignation; knowing that any position or opposition is subject to neutralization, or that any dissidence or attempts at radical change may be reduced to mere traces, relics and rituals.