Curated by Marianne Dobner

Basically is an ongoing live project. It utilizes the exhibition space as a hybrid production space and playground; a context to practice and perform within. Basically is structured as a choreographic game in which four performers hold the rules of the game constant, incorporating visitors in visible and invisible ways. The work is governed by the formal rules as well as by the subjective interpretations that occur in interactions with and between the participating artists and visitors. The creation and re-creation of the environment is central in Basically. Each presentation is one moment in a long-term long-form megawork. Visitors are invited to experience how the works’ characters write the world of Basically into existence – and to become a part of this open-world, role playing game.

Jagudajev developed ‘re-schooling’ – a prefigurative practice inspired by playful ways students subvert the educational system. Some of the most creative and heartfelt acts of our early education, like self-organized play, flirting, or passing notes, were extra-curricular yet located within the institution. In Basically, the exhibition space as architecture and institution, contains this world in which other things are happening: eating and sharing conversations, making clothes and music, and surreptitiously playing a game.