SEAFair '11 - "Energy, Biopolitics, Strategies of Resistance and Cultural Subversion"
Exhibition | Symposium | Workshop Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje 1 - 20 November 2011 Curators: Melentie Pandilovski, Elena Veljanovska, Zoran Petrovski More info on: http://seafairskopje.tumblr.com/seafair11 The current events in the field of Biopolitics directly refer to the great social changes through which we progress as a society and individuals. SEAFair 2011 contextualizes the artistic and theoretical discourses developing around Bio-politics, aiming at re-evaluating its meaning today, as well as address the possibilities for resisting the dominant international discourses through emancipation and cultural subversion. The artists and critics have looked into the physical and biological systems which interact with each other and addressed issues as varied as sources and forms of energy (natural and artificial); entropy; causes and consequences of global environmental change; the sustaining of the environment; macro and micro ecology; the choice of fuel materials; alternative energy sources; nuclear energy, current topics in applications of microbiology in biotechnology; and genetically modified foods. ... Artists included in the exhibition: Ken Rinaldo, Valentin Thurn, Hrvoje Pukšec, Jasenko Rasol, Evelina Domnitch & Dmitri Gelfand, HaHa, OPA, Ivanka Apostolova, Toni Dimitrov, Zorica Zafirovska, Igor Stojanovski, Niki Sperou, Dragan Ilich 2 November 2011 - Symposium Moderator: Melentie Pandilovski Participants and topics: 1. Melentie Pandilovski - "Biophilosophy vs. Biopolitics" 2. Ognen Spiroski - "Modeling Horizontal Gene Transfer: Comparison of Modeling Frameworks Applied to Investigating Antibiotic Resistance in a Fluctuating Environment" 3. Evelina Domnitch - "Mesoscopic Manifold" 4. Ena Hodzic - "Touch Me Festival 2011: Energy Ab/Use" 5. Isin Onol - "Dark Possibilities in Reconnecting with the Notion of Truth" 6. Stanimir Panayotov - "Puppeteering Nothing: Thomas Ligotti and the Abolishment of Paradox in Life" 7. Ivanka Apostolova, Toni Dimitrov presenting the project "Oil in Macedonia? / Oil in the Ohrid Lake" [a project by Ivanka Apostolova, Zorica Zafirovska, Toni Dimitrov ] 8. Niki Sperou - "Duty, Consequence & Virtue: Ethical implications of working with biological media in an art context" 3-5 November 2011 - Workshop D.I.Y. Biotechnology by Niki Sperou SCREENING Films, Video and New Media Video Pool at SEAFair curated by Tom Kohut Artists included: Diana Thorneycroft, Hope Peterson, Freya Björg Olafson, Kevin Kelly, Ryan Takatsu, Rick Fisher & Don Rice, kelsey braun, Gwen Armstrong The project "SEAFair '11 - Energy, Biopolitics, Strategies of Resistance and Cultural Subversion" is organized by the Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art, SEECAN (South East European Contemporary Art Network) and Kontejner, Zagreb. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
