Open Call
We are looking for artists eager to face a challenge of creating a project on the topic of “What can we do to deserve aliens’ attention”? Please send us your CV and portfolio to apply for the Open Call
Deadline: 30.05.2024
- Duration: 1 month
- Location: Spain
- Date: October 2024
- Application deadline: May, 30
- No application fee
- Residency covers transportation within the EU, accommodation, and production materials (the estimate is agreed upon individually).
- Residency does not cover daily allowance or meals.
- Currently, we do not provide visa support
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On-topic
In recent years, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek has extensively explored the concept of the future and its current state. His approach is realistically pessimistic—humanity is moving fast towards various global catastrophes, whether ecological, nuclear, or of any other nature.
Despite being fully aware of this trend and able to predict consequences, mankind consistently continues following the same direction.
Many social scientists state that we currently exist in an era where optimistic scenarios for the future are exhausted, and we are only left with a variety of predictions perfectly consistent with the best of the best horror movie collection. Žižek believes that to alter the future, we must effectively work to change the past; we must act as if the catastrophe has already happened
that perhaps we have had no contact with intelligent extraterrestrial beings because, as "the dominant species on a relatively small planet developing their civilization toward multiple kinds of self-destruction (ruined ecological balance, nuclear self-annihilation, etc.)," we are simply not of interest to them. What can we do to earn their attention? The focus is on us rather than them. Are we capable of changing our future? How can we change the past (most likely by altering our collective memory)? We believe that artists could play a critical role in seeking answers to these incredibly ambitious and very relevant questions.
In one of his articles, Žižek writes
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International Manifesta Foundation – Chairman. October 2010 - 2014
Sate Centre for Museums&Exhibitions “ROSIZO”– Deputy director, October 2001 - 2006
Commissar (responsible curator) for Russian Pavillion in Venice Biennial.
1994-1995, 2002-2003
Contemporary Art Centre (CAC). Moscow. Russia. Curator (Director).
September 1992 - July 1997
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Chief of Modern and Contemporary Art Department. January 1989 - January 1990
Founder and Chief Editor of “Manifesta Journal. Journal of Contemporary Curatorship”, Amsterdam-Ljubljana, January 2003 - 2011
Founder and Chief Editor of "Художественный журнал" ("Moscow Art Magazine"), Moscow, July 1993-present
Sate Centre for Museums&Exhibitions “ROSIZO”– Deputy director, October 2001 - 2006
Commissar (responsible curator) for Russian Pavillion in Venice Biennial.
1994-1995, 2002-2003
Contemporary Art Centre (CAC). Moscow. Russia. Curator (Director).
September 1992 - July 1997
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Chief of Modern and Contemporary Art Department. January 1989 - January 1990
Founder and Chief Editor of “Manifesta Journal. Journal of Contemporary Curatorship”, Amsterdam-Ljubljana, January 2003 - 2011
Founder and Chief Editor of "Художественный журнал" ("Moscow Art Magazine"), Moscow, July 1993-present
Duration: 1 month
Location: Spain
Location: Spain
- Date: October 2024
- Application deadline: May, 30
- No application fee
- We provide artists with accommodation, cover travel expenses within the EU, and refund the cost of production materials (the estimate is agreed upon individually). Residency does not cover daily allowance or meals;
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