SEAFair '11: Energy, Biopolitics, Resistance strategies and Cultural subversion
1 - 20 November 2011
Exhibition | Symposium | Workshop in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje
Curators: Melentie Pandilovski, Elena Veljanovska, Zoran Petrovski
Artists: Ken Rinaldo, Valentin Thurn, Hrvoje Puksec, Jasenko Rasol, Evelina Domnitch & Dmitri Gelfand, HaHa, OPA, Ivanka Apostolova, Toni Dimitrov, Zorica Zafirovska, Igor Stojanovski, Niki Sperou, Dragan Ilich.
Website: http://seafairskopje.tumblr.com/seafair11
The current events in the field of Biopolitics directly refer to the great social changes through which we progress as a society and individuals. SEAFair 2011 contextualizes the artistic and theoretical discourses developing around Bio-politics, aiming at re-evaluating its meaning today, as well as address the possibilities for resisting the dominant international discourses through emancipation and cultural subversion. The artists and critics have looked into the physical and biological systems which interact with each other and addressed issues as varied as sources and forms of energy (natural and artificial); entropy; causes and consequences of global environmental change; the sustaining of the environment; macro and micro ecology; the choice of fuel materials; alternative energy sources; nuclear energy, current topics in applications of microbiology in biotechnology; and genetically modified foods. The ability to code life into symbols, and being able to interpret these symbols, has changed the very notions of what we understand as life.
Artists: Ken Rinaldo, Valentin Thurn, Hrvoje Puksec, Jasenko Rasol, Evelina Domnitch & Dmitri Gelfand, HaHa, OPA, Ivanka Apostolova, Toni Dimitrov, Zorica Zafirovska, Igor Stojanovski, Niki Sperou, Dragan Ilich.
Website: http://seafairskopje.tumblr.com/seafair11
The current events in the field of Biopolitics directly refer to the great social changes through which we progress as a society and individuals. SEAFair 2011 contextualizes the artistic and theoretical discourses developing around Bio-politics, aiming at re-evaluating its meaning today, as well as address the possibilities for resisting the dominant international discourses through emancipation and cultural subversion. The artists and critics have looked into the physical and biological systems which interact with each other and addressed issues as varied as sources and forms of energy (natural and artificial); entropy; causes and consequences of global environmental change; the sustaining of the environment; macro and micro ecology; the choice of fuel materials; alternative energy sources; nuclear energy, current topics in applications of microbiology in biotechnology; and genetically modified foods. The ability to code life into symbols, and being able to interpret these symbols, has changed the very notions of what we understand as life.