CLIO ART FAIR  

Special Section

 

Clio Art Fair presents a special section titled

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I Don’t Want To Be Useful

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We live in a time where almost everything is expected to have a purpose — to perform, produce, optimize, and deliver results.

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This September, Clio Art Fair creates space for another possibility:

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What if art does not need to be useful?

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Art does not always have to solve a problem, provide an answer, or justify its existence. Sometimes it can simply interrupt, question, provoke, resist, or exist.

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Performance sits at the center of this experience. It unfolds in real time — shared space, shared presence, no filters.

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For this edition, Clio invites performances that resist the pressure to be productive or easily defined. Works explore the body, identity, memory, absurdity, vulnerability, resistance, freedom, and the simple act of being present.

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Within the fair, these performances create moments outside the expected rhythms of viewing and collecting art.

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Art does not always need to serve a function.

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Sometimes, its freedom lies in refusing to.