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Art After the End of the World: Discussion Platform for the 1st Kyiv
Biennial Arsenale 2012

 
February–May 2012
Venue:
 Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
 Lavrska street 10-12
arsenale2012.com
artarsenal.in.ua
Participants:
Zygmunt Bauman, Franco “Bifo”
Berardi, Boris Buden, Ilya Budraitskis, Vasyl Cherepanyn, Sebastian
Cichocki, Boris Groys, Maria Hlavajova, Aleksandra Jasinska-Kania, Artem
 Magun, Oleksiy Radynski, Gerald Raunig, Renata Salecl, Simon Sheikh,
Slawomir Sierakowski, Oksana Timofeeva, Anton Vidokle

Contributing Artists:
Luchezar Bojadjiev, Dora
Garcia, Dan Perjovschi, Gruppa Predmetov, Roee Rosen, Andreas Siekmann,
Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, Oleksandr Wolodarsky and others

Curated by Ekaterina Degot

Art is quite comfortable with the idea of the end of art. But how can art
deal with the end of the world?
The popular fantasy of the end of the universe coming in 2012 has
recently acquired unexpected political significance. There is a growing
conviction that the world as we know it should end. In fact,
the resounding crash of global financial capitalism and spectacular
manifestations of discontent all over the world are telling us that the
world of unrestrained consumption is already on its deathbed. Why wait
passively until the system decomposes by itself—until “the world ends”?
Why not start inventing a new world, the one that will succeed the
current apocalypse?
The utopian tradition of the artistic reinvention of society has
become a political necessity today. The basic question of the platform
and the accompanying publication—”What is and what should never
be?”—is
addressed not to professional politicians and economists, but rather to
artists, philosophers, activists and theoreticians. We expect that the
answers to this question will contribute to the process of inventing our
 postapocalyptic world anew, with a particular focus on the situation of
 “art after the end of the world.” We are aware of the pivotal role of
the institution of contemporary art within neocapitalism—contemporary
art with its logic of innovation and postindustrial immaterial practice,
 with its spirit of resistance (so often defeatist) and its critical
attitude (so easy to domesticate). In any case, we believe that the
artistic ability to see the horizons of an uncertain future and to
create the vector of the possible is priceless.
These issues are not to be considered from a neutral, totalizing,
“globalized” point of view. Rather, our suggestion is rooted in the
experience of an “apocalypse” that for more than two decades now has
defined the context where the Kyiv Biennial is about to take place. The
collapse of symbolic that occurred with the end of “socialism” in the
Soviet bloc is comparable to the ongoing fall of the global
neocapitalist system. This experience seems to be gaining new
significance nowadays, as similar threats are becoming universal.
The platform is an extended event structured as a series of
discussions, talks, lectures and seminars. A publication forthcoming in
summer 2012 will sum up the project.

Schedule:
February 29 – Lecture by Simon Sheikh
March 23 – Lecture by Anton Vidokle
April
 6–8 – Conference with Zygmunt Bauman, Boris Buden, Ilya Budraitskis,
Vasyl Cherepanyn, Sebastian Cichocki, Maria Hlavajova, Aleksandra
Jasinska-Kania, Artem Magun, Oleksiy Radynski, Gerald Raunig, Slawomir
Sierakowski, Oksana Timofeeva
May 7 – Lecture by Franco “Bifo” Berardi
May 14 – Lecture by Boris Groys
May 25 – Lecture by Renata Salecl

The platform will take place in the frame of the 1st Kyiv Biennial
Arsenale 2012. The main exhibition of the Biennial will be curated by
David Elliott (23 May–30 July 2012).
 Arsenale 2012 is organized by the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine,
Kyiv City State Administration, State Directory for Affairs, National
Cultural-Art and Museum Complex “Mystetskyi Arsenal.”
http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/art-after-the-end-of-the-world/


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