Date:
4 Dec 2021–13 Mar 2022
Place:
GES-2
https://v-a-c.org/en/ges2/when-gondola-engines-were-taken-to-bits-exhibition
Defamation!- An upcoming group exhibition
ACC Gallery Weimar, Germany,
2021/2022
A brief introduction
Defamation as an instrument of social control with unaccountable consequences seems to have been always present. As a communication strategy, it often serves to exclude individuals, makes society and individuals ill, bears the traits of a passion. Yet it appears to be an anthropological given, closely linked with curiosity, rumor, gossip, and betrayal. So we, too, are at risk, because a particular criminal energy is not required for defamation – in times of digital networks, it is even tempting and easier for everyone, and the transition from inconspicuous ordinary citizen to the defamator is fluid. We are apparently seduced into defamation by a heightened need for aroused sense of control and aroused desire for power, in short a potential, a block-warden-mentality that is potentially dormant in us. Non-political backgrounds are often the cause of ‘common’ defamation, rather hidden private motives such as envy, resentment, bitterness, feelings of revenge and jealousy play an important role. If one can exert little influence in any other way, he or she might try to get rid of a competitor or to exercise power over a superior by making a false (anonymous) statement. The feeling of being of influence seems to some so appealing that moral considerations are superseded. At the same time, different social environments produce different patterns of defamatory behavior, ranging from personal favoritism to state domination and combinations of both. It is possible that the tendency to defamation is particularly high in times of diffuse political insecurity. Its effectiveness also depends on the prevailing norms and social conditions. An ethic of dealing with our information behavior and its consequences is unavoidable, because, just as there are reports that are ethically required or reports to the state or institutions are necessary, other reports can be devastating for the individual. As is known, the victims of defamation as a ‘weapon’ often suffer from vehemently damaged trust; they have not infrequently paid with their lives.
In an upcoming international group exhibition, eight to ten artists will show works that explore defamatory behavior and examine various aspects of defamation, works that deal with specific cases of defamation, its history, the psychology of the defamator and the victim, defamation techniques and language use, the role of (mass-)media and social networks, the role of anonymity, and so on.
Propoganda Flowers at group show Can you be revolutionary and still like a flowers
group show NEST / Den Haag ,10 September 2021
Propaganda Flowers is a series of drawings that are accompanied by stories from interviews with people from different countries on the connection between politics and flowers. For example, the Kimilsungia violet orchid was named after Kim Il-Sung, former leader of North Korea, and tells a narrative about the remembrances of socialism. The Vampire Tulip asks questions about human hypocrisy, distracted from the water crisis in Africa, whereas the Welwitschia flower is accompanied by the text about the flower as a symbol for democracy. Each drawing touches upon the ethics of politics, combining the sweet symbolism of flowers with deep geopolitical concerns.
For the exhibition at Nest in The Hague, Can you be a revolutionary and still like flowers?, a new chapter of the Propaganda Flowers series was created. The works was done in the context of Russia , with supportive conversations with the eco -activist Maria Tinika who created a Saving Trees society in St -Petersburg.
photo documentation of the Installation : Charlott Markus
Reviews:
Den Haag Centraal: https://www.nestruimte.nl/bloemen-als-symbolen-van-verzet/
Groene Amsterdammer: https://www.groene.nl/artikel/de-laatste-sanseveria and https://www.groene.nl/artikel/dansende-bloemen
McKinney visiting artist to the Eskenazi School of Art
March 2022
McKinney visiting artist to the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture, and Design
Indiana University – Bloomington
zoom artist talk and graduate studio visits
Final Celebrating
Dear people!
Today we are celebrating the finalisation of our first serial of lab sessions within the Gluklya project CLINIC OF MULTIPLICITIES with members from Matras Platform. We were writing on mattresses on the streets of Amsterdam working with the questions which were raised during our conversations. We are doing it at 3 pm in Vondel park because the same time it is a Protest Demonstration will start at Pieter Calandlaan 1-In solidarity with the victims of the event that was happened in AZC Echt on 21 April 2021.
Welcome to join us with the amazing present of doctor Marianne Koemanand doctor Yulia Ratman
Today our generalisation questions are :
How we can turn the disciplinary rules and distance into a positive flow, by embracing the synchronisation in TIME?
How we can embrace the TIME by synchronising it with the Distance?
Can we stay united by synchronisation of actions at the same TIME?
Welcome to choose the Care Walk by silent way or with talking.!
Dying to see you during the slot of time 3 -5 pm in Vondel park near Blau cafe at the bike place. Veel Kusjies,hartelijke .
The Monument of Modern Slavery, 2021
The Monument of Modern Slavery
I am contributing to the exhibition disturbance: witch, curated by Alba D’Urbano and Olga Vostretsova at the Center of Contemporary Art (ZAK) / the Citadel Spandau – see a short description attached. The opening reception is scheduled for the 10th of September and I would be happy to welcome you there.
For this exhibition, I am preparing a work entitled „Monument for Modern Slavery“, which is going be an installation that reflects upon phenomena of slavery, which I am developing in dialogue with the international cultural community and the Fashion Revolution movement. Having spent time in Indonesia and witnessed the horrific living conditions of garment workers there and listened to the stories of their exploitation, I had the impulse to create this installation, which displays clothes collected from the art community and hopefully from other communities, on a series of burnt wooden stakes.
I cordially invite you to contribute to this project with the clothes from your own garderobe – those that you might be bored of, or about to throw in the garbage – from one of the big exploitative brands such as H&M, C&A, Adidas, Reebok, Esprit, Marks & Spencer, Patagonia, Timberland, VANS, The North Face, Wrangler, Puma, ASOS, Converse, Jordan, Nike, Primark, COS, Zara, Promod, GAP, TopShop, etc. These clothes will be modified according to my artistic method and placed on burnt wooden pillars reminiscent of medieval stakes for burning “witches”, expressing a common feeling of guilt in face of the oppressed workers You can send or bring the items of clothing directly to the below address, the Citadel in Spandau.
If you want your name or the name of your organization to be mentioned please let me know. You are welcome also to write a bit your thoughts about the subject along the sending the clothes.
Thank you so very much!
Gluklya
Zitadelle
Am Juliusturm 64
13599 Berlin
with mark: Clothes for Gluklya
Links:
The exhibition disturbance: witch
disturbance: witch
Exhibition curated by Alba D’Urbano and Olga Vostretsova
ZAK – Center of Contemporary Art
Spandau Citadel Berlin
Opening reception: Sept 10, 2020, 7 pm
Duration: Sept 11 – Dec 20, 2020
The feminist movement of the 1970s had already made the connection between witches and emancipated women, and the witch became a feminist archetype. Often quoted are the slogans by the Italian feminists, “Tremate, tremate, le streghe sono tornate!” (Tremble, tremble, the Witches have returned!) or “La gioia, la gioia, la si inventa, donna si nasce, le streghe si diventa!” (The joy, the joy, she will be discovered: was born as a woman, became a witch). Sylvia Federici, in her analysis of witch-hunting in connection with the transition from feudalism to capitalism, also describes the solidarity of feminists with witches: “Across ideological differences, the feminists have realized that a hierarchical ranking of human faculties and the identification of women with a degraded conception of corporeal reality has been instrumental, historically, to the consolidation of patriarchal power andthe male exploration of female labor.” (Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation).
The exhibition disturbance: witch, located at the ZAK (Center for Contemporary Art) of the Spandau Citadel in Berlin, puts into focus disturbing factors that shake deadlocked power relations that are inherent in the character of the witch. The witch, the “abnormal,” the “irrational,” the “magical” and the “inverse” resists rigid role models and structures.
Unfolded within the framework of this international contemporary art exhibition are the aspects of the witch’s character. disturbance: witch does not address the practices of the historical witch nor the practice of magic, rather it analyzes the accompanying attributions to women and queer persons that are used as instruments of exclusion and strategies of a new witch hunt.
Artist list: Jamika Ajalon (US/FR), Emilio Bianchic (AR), Anna und Bernhard Blume (DE), Johanna Braun (AT), Barbara Breitenfellner (AT/DE), Lysann Buschbeck (DE), Alba D’Urbano und Tina Bara (DE), Sarah Decrostoforo (AT), Veronika Eberhardt (AT), Margret Eicher (DE), Parastou Forouhar (IR/DE), Gluklya (Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya) (RU/NL), Valerio Fuguccio (IT/DE), Nilbar Güres (TR), Horst Haack (DE), Emily Hunt (AU/DE), Orsi Horváth (HU), Isabel Kerkermeier (DE), Sharon Kivland (GB), Franziska Meinert (DE), Lisl Ponger (AT), Lambert Mousseka (CD/DE), Johannes Paul Raether (DE), Suzanne Treister (GB).
Clinik-4 Invitation January 2021, zoom
| Dear Friends! In continuation of project CLINIC about the mutual support and care about each other through the informing and learning of essential topics of our days ( inevitable with the performative elements ) we are cordially inviting you to our zoom conversation meeting on the 13 January 2021 at 4 pm CET time At each of the meetings, Gluklya is inviting a spoke person named Doctor. This time a meeting will be constructed as a dialogue between doctors GLUKLYA Natalia Pershina-Jakimanskaya and Vita Buivid about the topic of Aging of our society or Population ageing as it described in the Wikipedia. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6517435460?pwd=aE9Dc0FwVjk0dmMrVTBENjlDQ200QT09 Meeting ID: 651 743 5460 Pass-code: 327510 Abstract of the subject of the talk by Vita Buivid My interest in research of social and political aspects of ageing relates to the contradictory process of self-awareness. It is devoted to the consideration of one of the critical problems of social philosophy – the study of old age as one of the periods of life of a person and society. Through this research, it seems to me that the essential problem of modern ageing based on the paradoxes and inconsistencies of chronological time and social time. Possibly we can also think about these notions through the local time, expanding it to local chronological time and local social time. The study is presented in the form of fictocritical dystopian novel. This form appeared to be the most suitable to display a large pool of questions that can already be posed, but still do not have an answer. The time in the novel seems to be infinitely stretched, but at the same time, it sometimes shrinks to a specific event. The story is not only the container of thoughts but also contains ideas transforming themselves and adapting while their nature remains the same, but continuously negotiating boundaries between fiction and reality. The future is already here, and therefore it is necessary to be more careful with forecasts. Please watch the video of Vita made related to the topic https://vimeo.com/413972533 pass – buivid2020 PS 13 January -is the day of saying goodby to the Old Year. Our tradition that we started in St-Petersburg is that we are exchanging presents. What does it mean : If you have already antibodies or just feeling healthy please come to the studio where i will give you the present physically . In return I will ask you to tel me the story about your most recent prominent experience related to the topic of Love and Care .If you are experiencing other conditions please join our zoom and you will take your present as a free performative lecture about Aging of the Society and in return I would kindly ask you to create a question to the Doctor or Doctors. Sincerely yours ,Gluklya and Hybrid Studio of the Anonymous Doctors ( HSAD) |