The exhibition vanishing structures. Politics of Disappearance examines the questions and social, political, and ecological conditions tied to the disappearance of architecture, landscapes, people, and traditions.
Jaroslava Tomanová (*1989) grew up in the Czech Republic, studied for a PhD in the UK and has been working in curatorial and organizational roles in contemporary art since 2009. She is interested in alternatives to dominant socio-economic models and relevant artistic practice.
The exhibition vanishing structures. Politics of Disappearance examines the questions and social, political, and ecological conditions tied to the disappearance of architecture, landscapes, people, and traditions.
Four artists explore the dynamics of collectivity and futures as they might exist in our shared imagination, each with their own approach. They offer a multi-perspectival view of the ways we understand our relations to each other and the media structures that amplify, stifle, and liberate our speech. In media explorations rooted in collective practices, the field of participation extends well beyond the walls of the exhibition space.
The exhibition Start Sniffing focuses on collaborations between human and nonhuman artists, highlighting the scope of cross-species dialogue at eye level and integrating neighbouring fields of research in interdisciplinary human-animal studies, philosophy, and animal ethics. The question of how we can abandon human exceptionalism in an anthropocentric world order has also arisen within the art world – latest since the artistic method of “Artistic Interspecies Collaboration” coined by Lisa Jevbratt.
Living Apart Together brings audio-visual artworks from Belgium and Austria, with some stops along the way, into correspondence. It explores how self-images and identity are constructed and performed, and examines the role of everyday habits and objects in this process.
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