Residential Aliens // Trixie @ U10 Belgrade

Residential Aliens” is a collectively produced artwork by members of Trixie, shown at u10  Art Space Belgrade, June 22 – July 6, 2023.

For the first time since its establishment five years ago, the group has come together to collaboratively develop a work. This action has allowed  the collective to reflect back on its  past, while simultaneously considering what may be its collective future.  

This consideration was translated by the collective into a “patchwork”; a patterned network of relationships that constitutes a coherent whole. In this, patchworking is a metaphor for building relationships across scales; of individuals, groups and institutions, of forming a stable whole from patterns of individual components; in essence a necessary precondition for working and living collectively. 

By choosing to make a patchwork the collective translated this idea into a  physical patchwork; a monumental collaborative textile work occupying the centre of the gallery space. Supporting this central work are a series of collaborative paintings and audio and video works, similarly developed in the mode of ‘patchworking’. 

The techniques and methods used in the creation of the  individual elements are based on the individual practices and ideas of its makers, while the resulting “Gesamtkunstwerk” reflects its collective nature. This serves to relfect at once of the mulitfacted nature of a collective while elucidating the  diverese range of works and approaches from each individual in the collective whole. 

Patchworking is the action of bringing many elements together to become one, an ongoing process of forming and reforming to allow space for individual elements and a sense of belonging to the whole. Similarly, maintaining a Collective requires an equivalent to design and pattern finding; one made of actions such as compromising, listening, caring and co-creating, as a mode of bringing diverse people, each specialists in their own fields, together to a whole, a collective social system.

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U10 Art Space is an independent artist-run space dedicated to supporting contemporary art founded in 2012 in Belgrade.
With generous support of Stroom den Haag.