Ars Electronica Garden Dubrovnik/Zagreb

Quarantine

KONTEJNER ǀ bureau of contemporary art praxis (HR)

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Through topics like pollution, interspecies communication, climate change, the „post-human“ body and the Anthropocene, the KONTEJNER Garden project underlines the need for new values and morals. The project artists are not complacent or ignoring life, they are creating their own visionary narratives building on discourses of unity rather than division and embracing concepts like „human” and “nature“.

Quarantine – the concept

Over the last few years, the EMAP/EMARE network of media arts organizations have produced a multitude of works dealing with life-science and cybernetics that examine the fragile ecological equilibrium of life on Earth. A few of these artists find inspiration from scientific discoveries like archaea, a group of unicellular micro-organisms believed to be the oldest form of life on Earth. Other sources of inspiration include the impact of pharmaceuticals on life in the water and the sonic vision of bats. These artistic explorations envision future evolution in magical and often transgressive ways.

Through topics like pollution, interspecies communication, climate change, the „post-human“ body and the Anthropocene, the KONTEJNER Garden project underlines the need for new values and morals. The project artists are not complacent or ignoring life, they are creating their own visionary narratives building on discourses of unity rather than division and embracing concepts like „human“ and „nature“.

In the times of COVID-19, KONTEJNER Garden will take place in a beautiful renaissance building, formerly a quarantine pier in the old Republic of Ragusa that protected the city from plague and cholera.

Preview Video

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Timetable

Program

Project Credits / Acknowledgements

Organizer: KONTEJNER ǀ bureau of contemporary art praxis
Curators: Olga Majcen Linn & Tereza Teklić ǀ KONTEJNER
Set-up design: William Linn
Artists: Robertina Šebjanič (SI), Gjino Šutić (HR) – aqua_forensic, Anna Dumitriu, Alex May (UK) – Archaeabot, Tiziano Derme, Daniela Mitterberger (AT) – The Eye of the Other, Taavi Suisalu (EE) – Waiting for the light, Quimera Rosa (FR/AR/ES) – Trans*Plant: an OncoMouse™ journey, Kat Austen (UK/DE) – Stanger to the Trees, Luana Lojić (HR) – What is Sound: Alpha Blending
Partner organisations: Universal Research Institute UR, Dubrovnik; Art Workshop Lazareti, Dubrovnik

The exhibition is organized as part of EMAP (European Media Art Platform).

Supported by: Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb, Government of the Republic of Croatia – Office for Cooperation with NGOs

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