You can’t spell discourse without disco
Darko Aleksovski, Željko Beljan, Diana Cantarey, Adrijana Gvozdenović, Maksym Khodak, Nadežda Kirćanski, Stela Mikulin, Ruoru Mou, Kristina Pashkova, Christian Sleiman, Bojan Stojčić, Huda Takriti
WHW Akademija participants opened the bar (a Base for Artistic Research), in Gallery Nova from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., where guests were invited to visit their exhibition in progress and join public events. The programme was developed with the mentoring support of that year’s resident professor Ivana Bago.
ONGOING:
The bar – daily from 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.
The bar was initially conceived by Bojan Stojčić to be a place of gathering and later extended to be both a conceptual and physical structure that will support the different activities and works during this week. Eventually, the bar became a shorthand for Base for Artistic Research. The bar menu will include twelve special cocktails created by the participants as a reflection on their own practices.
Exhibition in Progress, curated by Maksym Khodak and Nadežda Kirćanski
The exhibition is imagined as an accumulative framework evolving during the week-long programme, and including both the artworks by the WHW Akademija participants and traces from the ongoing public events and group gatherings. It is built around the idea of the bar as a bare structure that will uphold the creation of a modular, flexible, fluid, and ongoing social space of gathering, collaboration and participation. In this sense, it questions these hybrid practices and the different ways in which they can constitute an exhibition. Accordingly, the exhibition is based on the presence in the gallery space and is treated as a collaborative work – an exhibition-in-progress and a habitat of artistic research, with individual inputs of each of the participants, where the actual experience happens in the process of constant shifting and negotiating between the individual and collective.
Design by: Chris Sleiman and Bojan Stojčić
Photos: WHW Akademija, final week, Zagreb, october 2022 (photo by Sanja Bistričić)
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