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Ignorance is Strength?

Artistic Expression and Biopower in the Post/Pandemic Age old

 

In September 2021 the European Alliance of Academies announced a open call for participation in the project “Ignorance is Strength? Artistic Expression and Biopower in the Post/Pandemic Age”. The selection was preceded by a call of projects on the topic of biopolitics, exploring the relation between governments and their citizens, especially in the context of the (post)pandemic crisis. The jury was composed up of Liesbeth Bik (artist, chair of the Akademie van Kunsten KNAW), Arnold Dreyblatt (artist, composer, musician, member of Akademie der Künste), Kristoffer Gansing (director of the International Center for Knowledge in the Arts – The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts), Anca Poterasu (director of the Romanian Association for contemporary Art), Cristina Stonescu (curator of the Romanian Association for Contemporary Art), Josip Zanki (artist, vicepresident of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists) and Siegfried Zielinski (media theorist, member of the Akademie der Künste).

 

The virtual residencies took place from December 2021 until May 2022. During this period, the selected artists created new works that are presented here on the digital platform LOOM – Interweaving the Arts in Europe.

 

A presentation of the project took place in the Museum of Contemporary Art and Ethnographic Museum, Zagreb on 7th and 8th October 2022 in cooperation with the European Alliance of Academies and the Croatian Association of Fine Artists and Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, supported by the City of Zagreb and the Ministry of Culture and Media of Republic of Croatia.

Artists
Ignorance is Strength
Visual: Duje Medić

 

 

The project “Ignorance is Strength? Artistic Expression and Biopower in the Post/Pandemic Age” displays the work of selected artist by an open call of the European Alliance of Academies on the topic of biopolitics, exploring the relation between governments and their citizens, especially in the context of the (post)pandemic crisis.

The virtual residencies took place from December 2021 until May 2022. During this period, the selected artists created new works that are presented here on the digital platform LOOM – Interweaving the Arts in Europe.