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Counter-Recommendations The way to do things with others

Art.emis is a non-profit organization with a defined and specific manifesto. The way to do things with others. Present or absent. Others may be present, natural persons, familiar forms, some living or working with you for a common purpose, perhaps. Again, although you are absent from your time and geographical coordinates, you can not offer the opportunity to conciliate with their work, actions and behaviors. The others have faces and faces. They can speak your language, share your cultural history, embrace common with your own system of values, form together groups that make up common forms of life. Nothing is ruled out. They may speak another language, their starting point is different from yours, their historical memory is based on other standards, they are haunted by other obsessions. The way to do things with others is not one. It's one at a time. It sometimes presupposes similarities, sometimes differences: identity, gender, ethnicity, origin, educational level, economic surface, ideological background and even age. Art, as one way of doing things with others, is confronted with the conflicts and contradictions of life: it penetrates between faces and roles, structures of power and subordination, exposes or confirms conventional discrimination, proposes groundbreaking redefining by regulating individual and collective Perceptions. A prominent field of collective expression, art also displays more than one way of doing things with others. There are arts that are traditionally considered lonely, such as writing or painting, and others regarded as essentially collective, such as theater, cinema, dance. Yet, in the first as well as the second it is impossible to avoid, however impossible it is to play a game completely privately, following rules that you only understand. Art plays require a community of participants, commonly recognized communication codes, public criteria of interpretation and comprehension, which depend on specific historical and cultural realities and practices. Never quite identical, never quite different, games of art, or more precisely artistic games, are, we would say, always close to each other, as they constantly explore ways of communication, dialogue, cooperation and participation. Within their versatility, the tropics of art seek common places, places of meeting of 'I' and of 'us'. Art.emis supports the program of the Contemporary Art Hall of the Wonderland. Art.emis does things with others.