How to Life – Lowering your expectations below average is a project combining art and artistic research by Anna Jensen and Andrea Coyotzi Borja. The project is an ongoing site-specific practice in a constant state of becoming. The project places an opportunity to be present, and be involved with practices, research, and experiences taking diverse forms and mediums within a context focusing on the process, the in-between, and not in an end product. It is an approach to embrace the unknown without immediately reducing it to what we already know. How To Life Below Average is about engaging, even before knowing, or defining, what you are engaged to. It is a space allowing thinking without the expectation of a result, without the confinement of the framework which some platforms seem to set upon the practice. How to Life is about walking, smoke bombs, T-shirts, avocados, and writing and thinking together in different spatial conditions.
When setting our expectations, we might not be willing to accept our limitations. Anyways, who would? Acceptance is only for the settlers, and we are forever moving towards the possibility of failing without a safety net. However, that doesn’t mean that every impact is painless and risk-free.
It is so that when expectations come and install without request, we do not limit them, instead, we are to set a record and construct an average, thus, locating them below that fanciful line.
How to life: setting your expectations below average takes onto every experience who has ended up in disappointment. To every action which has resulted in a conclusive dissatisfaction, to every failure, to every contradiction, to every tumbleweed without an observer (I got tired of hearing and reading the tree in the forest metaphor), to the every, to the none, to whatever comes to mind when expecting nothing, and everything.
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