Curated by: Maja and Reuben Fowkes
Participating artists: Zbyněk Baladrán, Adam Chodzko, Petra Feriancova, Siniša Labrović, Ciprian Muresan, Csaba Nemes, Nada Prlja, Janek Simon, Péter Szabó and Katarina Šević.
Prlja presented two installations What Would Happen if We Succeeded and Strike.
Loophole to Happiness sets out to locate and explore the freedom-enhancing loopholes that exist on the margins of repressive social systems from East European communism to global capitalism. Faced with the perfection of techniques of absorbing criticism and the systematic mobilisation of our creativity, sociability and sentiments for economic ends, the search is on for new forms of resistance to the endless pressure of production. The exhibition takes the inventive strategies of worker resistance under communism as the starting point for fresh attempts to imagine exceptions, find escape routes and evade the smooth surface of today’s neo-liberal capitalist order.


Installation
Trees, pots, bucket of water
2011

Installation
Trees, pots, bucket of water
2011
Book about the exhibition
- Loophole to Happiness Edited by: Maja and Reuben Fowkes Published by: Translocal.org, December 2011 ISBN: 978-963-08-2491-0
About the book: Loophole to Happiness reassesses the left critique of socialism through the work of dissident theorists and artists, reviving the spirit and working methods of the neo-avant-garde to suggest contemporary routes to escape the smooth surface of capitalism.
Contributors: Zbyněk Baladrán, Franco Bifo Berardi, Adam Chodzko, Petra Feriancova, Maja & Reuben Fowkes, Miklós Haraszti, Siniša Labrović, Ciprian Muresan, Csaba Nemes, Nada Prlja, Janek Simon, Péter Szabó, Tamás St.Auby and Katarina Šević.
Link to the Book on curators website / Amazon
Bibliography and Press coverage:
Culture,pl, trafó gallery budapest, PDF / Link
Link Skvíra kartalk.cz, e štěstí ve Futuře, Foto report, by Silvie Šeborová / pdf 1
LinkDeník Referendum, Jak vypadá škvíra ke štěstí?, Johana Lomová / pdf 2
Link undo.net, Loophole to Happiness, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz / pdf 3
Link ninateka.pl. Loophole to Happiness/Furtka do szczęścia | Muzeum Sztuki Łodź (video)
Link plasterlodzki.pl, Loophole to Happiness w ms (foto), Kinga Filińska
Link print control, Loophole to happiness, catalogue design
Link ISABART, Škvíra ke štěstí / Loophole to Happiness
Link artmap, sympozium, Reclaim Happiness: Opposing Systems (Symposium)