[spectre] SEAFair ’11 – Energy, Biopolitics, Strategies of Resistance and Cultural Subversion

[Melentie Pandilovski]

SEAFair '11 - "Energy, Biopolitics, Strategies of Resistance and
Cultural Subversion"

Exhibition | Symposium | Workshop

Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje
1 - 20 November 2011
Curators: Melentie Pandilovski, Elena Veljanovska, Zoran Petrovski

More info on: http://seafairskopje.tumblr.com/seafair11

The current events in the field of Biopolitics directly refer to the
great social changes through which we progress as a society and
individuals. SEAFair 2011 contextualizes the artistic and theoretical
discourses developing around Bio-politics, aiming at re-evaluating its
meaning today, as well as address the possibilities for resisting the
dominant international discourses through emancipation and cultural
subversion. The artists and critics have looked into the physical and
biological systems which interact with each other and addressed issues
as varied as sources and forms of energy (natural and artificial);
entropy; causes and consequences of global environmental change; the
sustaining of the environment; macro and micro ecology; the choice of
fuel materials; alternative energy sources; nuclear energy, current
topics in applications of microbiology in biotechnology; and
genetically modified foods. ...
Artists included in the exhibition: Ken Rinaldo, Valentin Thurn,
Hrvoje Pukšec, Jasenko Rasol, Evelina Domnitch & Dmitri Gelfand, HaHa,
OPA, Ivanka Apostolova, Toni Dimitrov, Zorica Zafirovska, Igor
Stojanovski, Niki Sperou, Dragan Ilich


2 November 2011 - Symposium
Moderator: Melentie Pandilovski
Participants and topics:

1. Melentie Pandilovski - "Biophilosophy vs. Biopolitics"
2. Ognen Spiroski - "Modeling Horizontal Gene Transfer: Comparison of
Modeling Frameworks Applied to Investigating Antibiotic Resistance in
a Fluctuating Environment"
3. Evelina Domnitch - "Mesoscopic Manifold"
4. Ena Hodzic - "Touch Me Festival 2011: Energy Ab/Use"
5. Isin Onol - "Dark Possibilities in Reconnecting with the Notion of Truth"
6. Stanimir Panayotov - "Puppeteering Nothing: Thomas Ligotti and the
Abolishment of Paradox in Life"
7. Ivanka Apostolova, Toni Dimitrov presenting the project "Oil in
Macedonia? / Oil in the Ohrid Lake"  [a project by  Ivanka Apostolova,
Zorica Zafirovska, Toni Dimitrov ]
8. Niki Sperou - "Duty, Consequence & Virtue: Ethical implications of
working with biological media in an art context"

3-5 November 2011 - Workshop D.I.Y. Biotechnology by Niki Sperou

SCREENING

Films, Video and New Media
Video Pool at SEAFair curated by Tom Kohut

Artists included: Diana Thorneycroft, Hope Peterson, Freya Björg
Olafson, Kevin Kelly, Ryan Takatsu, Rick Fisher & Don Rice, kelsey
braun, Gwen Armstrong


The project "SEAFair '11 - Energy, Biopolitics, Strategies of
Resistance and Cultural Subversion" is organized by the Skopje Museum
of Contemporary Art, SEECAN (South East European Contemporary Art
Network) and Kontejner, Zagreb.