Author: gadi

THIS ARTIST– published in the book In these circumstances: On collaboration, performativity, self-organisation and transdisciplinarity in research-based practices, Philippine Hoegen & Lilia Mestre (eds.), Onomatopee 181. 2022.– translated to Lithuanian and published in the journal Autoproblema, Goda Palekaitė (ed.), artnews.lt. 2023. NOT IN THE MOOD– published in the book In these circumstances: On collaboration, […]

Moja umjetnička praksa se većinom razvija kroz dugotrajne istraživačke cjeline koji se materijalizuju kroz različite formate. Početna tačka je često anekdotičnog karaktera, sticaj okolnosti ili sakupljanje odbačenih, svakodnevih ili potrošnih materijala. U odnosu na različite polazišne tačke i upućujući na strukture koje želim ispitati, trenutno koristim tri konceptualne kategorije: Who […]

Shifts and disruptions within (self-)institutionalized structures entail instability, uncertainty, and doubt—what I term artistic anxieties. Anxiety, as a deeply personal unease, acts as a signal rather than a defined emotion. Though subjective, it points to shared incapacities within artistic labor. In his essay “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay […]

In late 2016, I started developing a concept of Exhibiting Otherwise, provoked by the (self-)imposed pressure of success in art and the recognition that certain practices are rendered powerless within dominant production models. From this anxious position, Exhibiting Otherwise reimagines the exhibition – visual art’s leading format – by questioning boundaries between making, mediation, […]

Who is Adrian Lister? — Recollection after the gatherings in Arbeitsraum/Ausstellung at nGBK, for Gastarbeiter 2.0: Arbeit means Rad What is a space that is (or is not) a workroom and an exhibition space at the same time, and what kind of sociality does it imply?  I think about this […]

for the exhibition Gastarbeiter 2.0 – Arbeit means Rad, nGbK (neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst), Berlin, 2024. “The exhibition recontextualizes theterm Gastarbeiter (literally “guestworker”) at the intersection ofthe experience of migration, theprecarious position of cultural workers, and the urge to deconstruct contemporary relations of class and production from a postcolonial perspective.” (from the […]

Adrian Lister emerged in 2013 as a (mistranslated) version of my name via Google Translate. This coincided with my move to Belgium, where Adrian Lister became a tool for translating diverse contexts and conditions shaping my practice. What began as a joke evolved into a serious inquiry into the instability of identity, language, and […]