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O.FICC! Office for Institutional Complaint Culture
2024

Performative action and object and postal exchange

In collaboration with Belén Arellano Cañizares

Public Art│ Activism │Participatory


OFICC! Is a fictional office promoting non-fictional results. The office will be established on campus during Summaery, the end of the year exhibition of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, for a limited amount of time, and it will be a platform for the general public to voice their complaints to any cultural institution of their choice in the form of complaint letters that the office will handle and mail to their corresponding recipients in a confidential manner.
            In the spirit of contrasting the fictitious reward system that Summaery embodies and promotes, each participant will receive a gift strategically targeted to what they hope their complaint will accomplish: either to light an unstoppable (metaphorical) flame, be a vehicle to vent out or a tool to help themselves get loud. Regardless of whether these complaints will achieve palpable results or only disrupt the bureaucratic structures, a metabolic exchange was already made, needs and demands were formulated, words were transformed into action, and a material object is the residue that enacts this chain.