Reports

Possibility of Preserving

Intellectual cultivation of the human outside of the productive work meant his transition to contemplation as the highest form of being. Laziness became the cultivation of life for its own sake outside of the prison of economic calculation. And the human was enabled to look up from the abyss.
The era (aka Earth Recharging Association) of cognitive automation came into being. This cognitive mutation dissolved the relation between consciousness, politics, and freedom. The governance became the automation of data interpretation and decision–making. The establishment of automated chain of logical procedures aimed at substituting the conscious voluntary elections meant the end of politics or a concept called democracy.

artistsAleš Čermák, Lucia Gavulová, APART kolektiv, van Harskamp Nicoline, Karaoke Tundra, Kristína Országhová, Marianna Simnett, Josef Dabernig, Parallel Practice, András Cséfalvay, PLURAL
curatorsLucia Gavulová
placeKunsthalle Bratislava
tags
castAndrej Žabkay
cameraKata Mach, Tomáš Kmeť
soundTomáš Kmeť
editingTomáš Kmeť
interviewKata Mach
translationPalo Fabuš
categoryReports
published7. 8. 2017
languageČesky / English
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Possibility of Preserving
The exhibition is concerned with contemplative pieces that exist in themselves as unfolding inquiries, probes that fluidly transition from the quotidian to the exceptional utilizing technical means as a virtual haptic pathway inviting us to delve deeper, to consider and reconsider.
We hope that by combining a number of various artworks and projects, hints of possibility will begin to emerge, from which a way out of today’s situation, that is oppressive on many levels, can slowly be carved. When it seems there is nowhere to run, we can try running into the future – and from there, start to reshape the present.