KIBLIX 2022 Pre-events / Reading Group: A Repair Manual for Spaceship Earth - Shit Tech for a Shitty World
KIBLIX 2022 Pre-events / Reading Group: A Repair Manual for Spaceship Earth
11 April–13 June 2022 (10 meetings), at 5:30 p.m.
MMC KIBLA
As part of our non-formal education program, we are pleased to announce a reading group entitled A Repair Manual for Spaceship Earth. The series of ten meetings will be moderated by art historians and curators Irena Borić and Živa Kleindienst. We will meet weekly from the beginning of April to the beginning of June. The reading group is designed as an open space for meetings, dialogue, conversation and collaborative learning about ecological, socio-political and activist topics, which will be drawn from KIBLA's intermedia productions and the visual exhibition program. The aim of the shared reading of selected texts and collective reflection is to get to know a wide range of artworks and to exchange knowledge on current theories of contemporaneity, the development of technology and the social, political and economic concepts that dictate global shifts and thus condition our everyday lives.
The meetings will be held weekly on Mondays (except for holidays in April and May when the meetings will be moved to Tuesdays) from 11 April to 13 June 2022 at MMC KIBLA (Ulica kneza Koclja 9). The reading group is aimed at a wider, general audience; no professional background is expected, except curiosity, a desire for collaborative learning and sharing of knowledge. We kindly recommend that you read the proposed texts in advance. To register your participation and receive the texts in PDF format, please send an e-mail to irena.boric@kibla.org. Registration is for information only and is not binding.
You are cordially invited!
6. Shit Tech for a Shitty World
Monday, 16 May, at 5:30 p.m.
The sixth meeting will be related to the artistic practice of Sašo Sedlaček, who will be presenting his project Oblomo* at the KiBela, space for art, between 15 April and 14 May. Together we will read Tomislav Medak's text Shit Tech for a Shitty World (2016)*, which deals with the connections between waste, technology and people. Medak also situates the artistic practice of Saša Sedlaček in these relationships. Sedlaček’s work often employs methods of transforming technologies that grow in the shadow of capitalist techno science, such as obsolete hardware or open-source software. Our discussion will draw on the artistic practice of Saša Sedlaček, and together we will reflect on our relationship to technology and (technological) waste in times of climate crisis.
*The exhibition and the text by Tomislav Medak are produced by Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art.
< Visuals: P L A T EA U R E S I D U E, Terra Ignota, 2021, screen capture. Courtesy of the artists.
__
The reading group is part of informal educational program, supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Maribor.
|
