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

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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.

Independent curator, Master of Arts graduate from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Until March 2022, she was the curator of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA). Anna previously worked at the auction house Phillips and as the program director at Artwin Gallery.

She has been a member of the Expert Council of the Moscow International Biennale for Young Art and a jury member of the Moscow International Experimental Film Festival in 2021. Anna was awarded the Special Prize of the Innovation Award in 2015 from the cultural charity fund "U-Art: You and Art" in the Curatorial Project category for the special project of the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art "East. Deconstruction"

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

Duration: 1 month
Location: Spain

artist@domartresidence.com