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Galerija Skuc : NATURAL RELATIONS - 24 June 2008 to 16 July 2008 Current Exhibition |
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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 Jos� Galindo, Kinda Hassan, Lamia Joreige, Tea M�kip��, Ulrike Mohr, Claire Pentecost, Adriana Salazar, Helene Sommer, Nika �pan, Mare Tralla, Lala Ra�i� 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 [email protected] 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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