Music: Aérea Negrot

Fades

The Transfinite

The Black Box

Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova

"The Museum Contemporary Art Metelkova derives its specificity not only from its geopolitical and cultural position, but also from its orientation which questions hegemonic history through a multiplicity of narratives, heterogeneous approaches to historicizing, resonance between the urgencies of different localities, and reciprocal methods of learning. "

Alfred Barr: Abstract Cabinet and the Modern Narrative

Lecture at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana:

"This is a story about a collaboration between a museum director who completely changed the appearance
of art history through innovative museum displays and an avant- guard artist who invented a new way to
exhibit abstract art. It is also a story about an ambitious dictator who passionately believed that "art is noble
and up to the fanaticism demanding mission". His desire was to shape the course of art by building a huge
temple of art and staging exhibitions of both "false art" called degenerate and "real art" he thought was truly
for the people. Finally it is a story about a young director of the modern museum on another continent who
reinvented modern art by abandoning the notion of "National Schools" and introducing instead "International
Movements" as basic principle for both the museum and the history of modern art that became widely accepted and remained until today. "

Raqs Media Collective

“Strikes at Time” is a lucid dream, readings from an occasional anonymous journal, and a long walk at the edge of the city of the night.

"The Raqs Media Collective enjoys playing a plurality of roles, often appearing as artists, occasionally as a curators, sometimes as philosophical agent provocateurs. They make contemporary art, have made films, curated exhibitions, edited books, staged events, collaborated with architects, computer programmers, writers and theatre directors and have founded processes that have left deep impacts on contemporary culture in India. Raqs follows its self declared imperative of 'kinetic contemplation' to produce a trajectory that is restless in terms of the forms and methods that it deploys even as it achieves a consistency of speculative procedures. "

Temporary Autonomous Zones

The Temporary Autonomous Sarai is an attempt to give form to an ethic of improvisation, conversation and hospitality through an impermanent structure that can contain itself as it moves from place to place.

In this spatial configuration – all visitors are encouraged to be playful with the presences and traces of others.

On Horizons: Art and Political Imagination

Watch the video recordings of the 2nd FORMER WEST Research Congress here

CENTRE FOR THE AESTHETIC REVOLUTION: 1ST GRAN BIENAL TROPICAL, 'TROPICO ABIERTO' CURATE...

Watch the images here


“The myth of “Tropicality’ is much more than parrots and banana trees: it is the consciousness of not being conditioned by established structures, hence highly revolutionary in its entirety. Any conformity, be it intellectual, social, or existential, is contrary to its principal idea.”
Hélio Oiticica, Tropicalia, March 4, 1968