MASA

There can therefore be moments of community- not those festive moments that are sometimes described, but dialogic moments, moments when the rule laid down by Gregory of Nazianzus is contravened, when an impertinent dialectic is created by those who have no rights in matter, but who nevertheless assert such right in the junction between the violence of a new beginning an the invocation of something already said, something already inscribed…

Jacques Ranciére

"I Wanna Hurt I Wanna Love" is an exhibition composed of the objects which remain from the actions of a non-existent music band that carries the same name as the title of the show. The history and places of these objects coincide with the important breaking points in the musical and political history that are often referred to by the anti-culture and thus create for themselves a quiet existence beside these fundamental historic stations. This work also examines the notions of partnership and community which have arisen after the occurence of a series of events during those times. It tries to create a community which is imagined as the partnership of those who are terrorized by what has happened, requestion it and then produce a counter stance using the historical structure of a music band.