Untitled Collective | Mutual Assent (Dec. 4th, 7-10pm)

Exhibitions

MUTUAL ASSENT
Untitled Collective
December 4, 2010
7–10pm

Untitled Collective understands that current U.S. law does not recognize an
implicit, contractually-binding relationship created between parties in
which social capital is exchanged under the circumstances contemplated in
this exhibit. Nor does U.S. law recognize a property right whatsoever in
social capital. Nonetheless, the collective aims to examine strategies in
which social capital can be traded, transferred, and treated as a
recognizable quantity or currency.

Untitled Collective presents MUTUAL ASSENT, a participatory performance that
will investigate the potential to treat interaction as a quantity—a quasi or
momentary property. Following the structure of a legal doctrine employed in
the realm of land use and property rights, Untitled Collective asks visitors
to abandon social obligations owed to them that they are not currently using
or do not intend to use. The collective is especially concerned with social
capital that has been accrued in the formation of unspoken or implicit
contracts and hopes to provide a more instantaneous place of market for its
value. Somewhat like squatters, the group will then make efficient use of
the dormant, unproductive obligations within an agreed-upon period of time.
Through this agreement and successive notification, Untitled Collective
will obtain the right to alter, combine, and use these obligations and
opportunities. By allowing the group possession over these rights,
participants welcome their potential exposure to unforeseen benefits and
opportunities of social capital.

The interests of Untitled Collective (Gerhard Schultz, Claudia Slanar,
Gordon Toast, Seth Weiner and Sarah Williams) are rooted in its members’
interdisciplinary backgrounds ranging from architecture and writing to
experimental music and law. Formed in 2010, the group investigates the
fabrication of social structures in and around the field of artistic
production.