Live intervention and installation
14.05 to 18.06.2025
DOCK, Basel
Vernissage: 14.05.2025 / 19.00 hours
Got a Question worth its salt?
Bring it along and Parvez will check its worth. Good ones will be bought.
All kinds of questions related to the city and the here and now – from life in general to art, education, jobs, healthcare, childcare, migration, insurance, cost of living, stresses, love, breakups, economy, banking, bureaucracy, discrimination, science, pollution, history, future, politics, feminism, patriarchy, supremacy, oppression, colonialism, museums, market, wars, profits, anthropology, space etc. etc. … in short, anything that is on your head.
*Best price guaranty!
*Depends on the worth / context / framing of the question. If you don’t like the price, the question remains yours.
THE INTERVENTION:
This is a performative installation where Parvez sets up a shop to buy questions from anyone who has a good one to offer.
There are three options for people to sell their questions:
- Visit the shop on Wed 14.05 and Fri 30.05 (17-21.00) or Wed 11.06 (17-19.00)
- Online on 30.05 at 19-21.00
- Drop a question (with name & contact number) at DOCK on any Tue, Wed, Thu between 13.30-18.30 hrs from 15.05 till 10.06.
Parvez will call back each person and discuss the question and the transaction.
During this time, he will also evolve an artwork from the collected questions, and display it in DOCK / its windows.
EVENTS:
14 May, 2025
17.00: Shop opens
19.00: Vernissage (buying of questions to continue)
30 May, 2025
17.00: Shop opens
19.00: Hybrid Event
PUBLIC SPACE/PUBLIC ART
a conversation between Parvez and Catherin Schoeberl.
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ONLINE BUYING OF QUESTIONS
Online guests will have the possibility to sell their questions.
11 Jun, 2025
17.00: Shop opens
20.00: *Shop wraps up / Finissage
*Installation and traces can be viewed at DOCK until 18. Jun, 2025.
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Background:
The art of questioning and critical reflection form the cornerstone of Parvez’s work. He translates his concepts into artworks, through a variety of media that include the body, text, videos, prints, sounds, found materials etc. etc.; while posing the question: whose aesthetics? Q BAR (2022) and Ask Me Anything (2019) are two examples of his previous engagements with questioning as the core of his work.