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How does scale affect our ability to deal with complexity, see the world and understand it in a way that would preserve our agency in it? How can we deal with realities that either exceed or fall beneath our ability to see and interface with them?
The 14th edition of
Tactics&Practice, the discursive cultural programme focused on contemporary investigative art, society and new technologies, brings together artists, theorists and researchers in an ongoing exploration of the concept of scale, from nano to global and beyond.
The programme consists of an articulated series of artistic, discursive
and educational activities that will take place in Ljubljana between
March and May 2023.
Participants: Anna Engelhardt, Anthony Downey, Bani Brusadin, Farzin Lotfi-Jam, Laura Tripaldi, Liam Young, Mark Cinkevich, Mojca Kumerdej, Nadim Choufi, Nestor Siré, Nicole L’Huillier, Solveig Qu Suess, Steffen Köhn, Špela Petrič, Yu Hsin Su
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OPENING EVENT → Hybrid conferenceRegistration required only for IRL participation in Ljubljana.
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NODE #1: Anna Engelhardt & Mark Cinkevich
7 ↔ 8 March 2023
Anna Engelhardt and Mark Cinkevich will present their new video installation Onset in a solo exhibition and a workshop both investigating the correlation between existing energy networks and military infrastructures, with a focus on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
28 ↔ 29 March 2023
Articulated in an exhibition, an artist talk and a workshop, this node shifts the spotlight onto the multidisciplinary practice of architect and designer Farzin Lotfi-Jam, who investigates how our most personal thinking habits and domestic routines are increasingly yet invisibly shaped by global infrastructures and international regulations.
NODE #3: Nestor Siré & Steffen Köhn
19 ↔ 20 April 2023
The third node introduces the collaborative artistic research of Nestor Siré and Steffen Köhn, who combine ethnographic research, science fiction and “recombinatory” forms of cinema, exploring the role of piracy in establishing informal networks and human infrastructures of data exchange and distribution.
NODE #4: Nicole L’Huillier
16 ↔ 17 May 2023
Last node focuses on Chilean artist Nicole L’Huillier’s investigation of sound, vibrations, resonances and the poetics of sonic unintelligibility, and her interest in the performativity of every material reality by presenting her latest interactive installation La Orejona Records and introducing audiences to the politics of receiving and transmitting as a way of belonging.
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This edition of Tactics&Practice is a follow-up programme to
transmediale 2023, conceived independently by Janez Fakin Janša and the Aksioma team with curatorial advice from Nora O Murchú, artistic director of transmediale.
Production: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2023
For the series: Tactics&Practice
In collaboration with: Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, ALUO – The Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana, MGML / Cukrarna Gallery, Lokalpatriot, Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory
All activities in March are part of
konSequences – Fragments of a Possible Ecosystem.
The conference and the workshops have been produced in the framework of
konS ≡ Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art, a project chosen on the public call for the selection of the operations “Network of Investigative Art and Culture Centres” co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union.
The exhibitions, lectures and publications are supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana.
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