{"id":53279,"date":"2022-12-17T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=53279"},"modified":"2022-12-12T12:10:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T11:10:22","slug":"im-not-sad-the-world-is-sad-pia-louwerens-a-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=53279","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Not Sad, The World Is Sad. 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src=\"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/i-m-not-sad-the-world-is-sad-pia-louwerens-a-pass-7-682x909.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53284\" width=\"682\" height=\"909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/i-m-not-sad-the-world-is-sad-pia-louwerens-a-pass-7-682x909.jpeg 682w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/i-m-not-sad-the-world-is-sad-pia-louwerens-a-pass-7-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/i-m-not-sad-the-world-is-sad-pia-louwerens-a-pass-7-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/i-m-not-sad-the-world-is-sad-pia-louwerens-a-pass-7.jpeg 1083w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m Not Sad, The World Is Sad\u201d is an autotheoretical, semi-fictional account of a performance artist who lands a part-time job as an Embedded Artistic Researcher in an art institution. Invested in queer theory and institutional critique, she sets out to perform the artist \u201cdifferently\u201d through a process of negation and passivity, inadvertently causing her relationship with the institution\u2019s curator to grow increasingly speculative and paranoid. Louwerens\u2019 labor as tour guide, security guard, artist, hostess and researcher at different institutions begins to overlap and blend under the name of \u201cperformance.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m Not Sad, The World Is Sad\u201d is a fragmented story of paranoid and reparative reading, script and utterance, exposure and vulnerability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pia Louwerens is a performance artist and researcher from the Netherlands, living in Brussels. Her research revolves around the becoming of the artistic subject, the I who writes, speaks and makes, in relation to the (institutional) context. From 2019 \u2013 2020 Louwerens was working as embedded artistic researcher at a big research project, for which she was embedded in an art institution. Through this research she attempted to perform or practice the artist, and thereby the institution, differently. Her work usually takes the shape of a performance in which she speaks, switching between registers of the actual, the possible, the professional and the anxious artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Order <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/shop\/i-m-not-sad-the-world-is-sad-pia-louwerens-a-pass.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/shop\/i-m-not-sad-the-world-is-sad-pia-louwerens-a-pass.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m Not Sad, The World Is Sad\u201d is an autotheoretical, semi-fictional account of a performance artist who lands a part-time job as an Embedded Artistic Researcher in an art institution. 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