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The exhibition Happiness Is Not for Everyone is a look at the phenomenon of self-help guides that resuscitate the myth of the strong, masculine individual who has his life firmly in his own hands. However, when we focus more closely, we see a lonely man in distress. From the constructed nature of the situation—the asynchronization and denial of the source image and sound, the speaker's hesitant yet determined diction—we can guess that this is a game with authenticity, that we are witnessing the performance of a role, the fulfillment of a task, the immersion in the state of sovereignty.
Hlavajova envisions a possibility of art as radical, speculative, public pedagogy geared at learning to be together otherwise: that is, a pedagogy of collective worldmaking that involves learning with one another what does not yet exist, and then living that new knowledge, that newly envisioned world, “as if it were possible.”
In the broadest sense, Todosijević's exhibition and his lifelong artistic practice balance on the edge of the possibilities of interpreting various symbols originating from history, our present, or the art world itself. It represents walking a very fine line between moral and perverse interpretations of history or contemporary global events, which are not entirely distinguishable at first glance.
Through the moving images of artists Jeanie Crystal, Zein Majali, and Emily Pope, the exhibition explores the theme of diaries and personal narratives. You Make Me Feel is a dose of feelings, a jumble of reactions, and a message to one's future self.
The tools brought about by technological progress and the network society create an alternative way of establishing communication and building new relationships of interpersonal and interspecies cooperation. However, we suggest listening to the sounds of practices associated with community: rituality, coexistence with the world of plants, animals, and fungi, dissolving the hypersensitivity of the individual "I" in favor of the collective "we," sensitivity to the stories and perspectives of plants and animals, oil, or clouds.
No Fun I. is a journey among skyscrapers that bank clerks and employees of multinational corporations left long ago. Perhaps, most likely, they will return once again to continue the endless cycle leading to a non-existent future. But for now, at least, they have been replaced by a different situation. Somewhere in this desolate landscape, a lonely woman is now telling her life story. Nearby, in a dark alley, a tense battle is taking place between a tough truck driver and an innocent high school girl. Not for long, though. Everything will soon be cut short by the nuclear explosion of two non-binary rockets in love.
The transformation of football as such has been continuously running since its inception in Britain in the second half of the 19th century. What started as a community activity associated with locality, corporeality and grass very quickly acquired a parallel of the commodity branch, which has gained worldwide importance due to its distribution through the media image.
The long life of industrial products, their slow decomposition and their subsequent journey into the earth - with all this, the artist gives nature and geological time a far more optimistic perspective than we as humans can attribute to ourselves. We now know that the garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean has exceeded the size of Texas and is approaching the size of all of North America.