Moderators: Nafiz Akşehirlioğlu, Zeynep Gündüz

Seminar Abstracts:

by Robert Pfaller
Interpassivity Today [2008] - Escaping Strategies in a Society of Total Participation

By the term “interpassivity” I have named a certain behaviour which consists in delegating one’s pleasure. People who use their videorecorders instead of watching; intellectuals who use the photocopying machine instead of reading a book; or former alcoholics who manage to avoid drinking by constantly filling the glasses of their guests are examples of interpassive subjects; their substitutes to whom they delegate their pleasures function as their interpassive media.

This interpassive behaviour is strangely opposed to those tendencies in contemporary culture which try to provide individuals with reinforced appropriation and participation. Interpassivity can be regarded as an attempt to overcome the increasing “tyranny of intimacy”.

by Barbara Musil
From passive affliction to interpassive enjoyment - shift expectations

The artistic experiment shift expectations uses the benefits of "Interpassivity" to turn a seemingly inavoidable source of frequent dissapointment , well known to everyone whose daily business involves a lot of applying and competing for something into a never ebbing fount of joy and success.