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City of Women 2008 /
animals-nature-culture
Natural
Relations (Naravni odnosi)
International group
exhibition
June
24 – July 16, 2008
You are kindly invited to
attend the opening of the
exhibition
with
performance on Tuesday, June
24th at 8 pm at Galerija
©kuc.
The Natural Relations
exhibition is thematically linked to the
»animals, nature, culture« proposition
of the 14th international City of Women
festival of contemporary arts to take
place in October.
Natural Relations
question the (non)sense of activity and
the relations that give rise to the
social and natural environment. The
exhibition deals with man's position in
nature using a radical environmentalist
discourse that goes against the grain of
social axioms of labour and
hyper-production. Relations as the
central element of the works exhibited
reveals various appropriations of nature
and man's dual position of a demiurgic
creator (technological development) and
subsequent (self)enslaver on the one
hand, and the executor of apocalypse on
the other.
While social relations are regulated and
determined by laws and contracts, nature
is still conceived as a given, except in
rare particular cases. Natural
Relations don't discuss this
important but exhausted topic but rather
develop the idea that technology,
politics, urban planning and
architecture have in the context of
geography and geopolitics become a new
nature. Are the spirals of
turbo-production on the one or a final
withdrawal on the other side really the
only possible exits? And can we achieve
a paradigm shift from the
depersonalised, bodiless subject who has
seemingly separated themselves from
nature and placed themselves and their
tools in a predatory, parasitical,
dependent and raw symbiotic position?
Perhaps this is a beginning that will
eventually lead to an end.
The exhibition will
feature artists of various generations
from Slovenia, Germany, Austria,
Guatemala, Lebanon, Finland, Colombia,
Estonia and the US:
Artists:
Katinka Bock,
Jasmina Cibic, Ines Doujak, Regina José
Galindo, Kinda Hassan, Lamia Joreige,
Tea Mäkipää, Ulrike Mohr, Claire
Pentecost, Adriana Salazar, Helene
Sommer, Nika ©pan, Mare Tralla, Lala
Ra¹iè
and
Vuneny.
http://www.cityofwomen.org
The exhibition is a
collaborative project and the result of
rhizomatic relations between the
featured artists, ©kuc Gallery and the
City of Women.
In collaboration with the
Domestic Research Society.
For
further information contact
Dunja Kukovec or
Katja Kobolt, curators of the
exhibition on
pr@cityofwomen.org
and
+ 386 40 167 967.
The
programme of ©kuc Gallery is supported
by Ministry of
Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
and
Cultural Department of the City of
Ljubljana.
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