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extractivism
András Csefálvay, Natália Trejbalová, Diana Lelonek + 4 more
We would like to outline the conditions for a new sensibility and redefine our needs and future actions, based not only on the logic of endless production and consumption, exhausting fragile ecosystems. Last but not least, through this joint rearrangement of basic and small stones, we try to actively integrate non-growth strategies into our lives.
Reuben Fowkes, Maja Fowkes
Oil Rocks was a magnet for artists who in the 1950s made the strenuous journey to witness the heroism of oil workers in their battle with the elements to extract Caspian “black gold”. This presentation considers the representations of Oil Rocks in socialist art as an exception to the general invisibility of the petroleum industry in modern literature and art. How can we account for the prominence of oil drilling imagery in Soviet Azerbaijani art and what does it tell us about the petroleum imaginary of the Socialist Anthropocene?
A more-than-oceanic perspective is a speculation on perception, emotion, intelligence, and agency. It brings with it a tidal wave of decolonial thought, posthumanism and material feminisms, queer ecologies, media theory, and spirituality, refracting it through interdisciplinary aesthetics and environmental justice.
Jiří Novák, Jiří Borl, Jiří Sozanský
In July 1981, when Sozanský created his first work in Most, Jiří Putta came to take photographs at the place and the Film and TV School graduate Michal Baumbruck together with the cameraman František Brabec recorded on film there. The resulting film depicts not only the sculptures but also performances with actors which Sozanský staged for the film purposes. The film was called Evacuation and it was shown just few times during the 1980s at meetings of the artist's friends.
Tomáš Uhnák
The number of fields and trends Tomáš Uhnák devotes his attention to is misleading. In reality we can discover intersections and a „specialization“ of its kind, which is based on „expert generalism“, to use his own term. In other words in an effort aimed at intentional, conscious generalization and interconnection of different fields of interest. This is connected with constant negotiating related to the organization of different regimes of changing the world.
Diana Lelonek
Diana Lelonek explores relationships between humans and other species. Her projects are critical responses to the processes of over-production, unlimited growth, and our approach to the environment.
Václav Drozd
They are often presented as condescending patrons of arts, who have decided to put aside a couple of their millions and contribute to public welfare and the promotion of exquisite culture. However, their seemingly good intentions should be seen with view to the context of the troubled political and economic past of our (and not only our) country. We should know how they acquired their property and what social or ecological damage they caused while amassing their fortune.
Josef Holý
Josef Holý focuses on the topics of information warfare, disinformation and the influence of algorithms of technological giants on our lives. How are and have these themes been reflected among artists working with moving image? The depiction of artificial intelligence or artificial humans has a fairly firm place in the history of visual art and is associated with many ethical issues that have realistically impacted us today.
Dalibor Knapp
Jussi Parikka is a writer, a media theorist and Professor in Technological Culture and Aesthetics at Winchester Art School (University of Southampton). He is concerned mainly with contemporary culture theory, philosophy, contemporary art, cyber-culture and digital culture. He has contributed significantly to the field of materiality of media, which he analyzes from the viewpoint of philosophy of new materialism. He deals with the relationship between nature and technologies using the term medianatures, which is a clear reference to naturecultures of Donna Haraway.