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[SLO spodaj]EKO 8, International Triennial of Art and Environment
A Letter to the Future
21 May 21 - 18 July 2021
Former MTT Factory
Ulica heroja Šaranoviča, Melje
2000 Maribor
Slovenia
www.ugm.si/en/eko-8/eko-8-intro/
In May 2021, the UGM | Maribor Art Gallery is re-launching EKO, International Triennial of Art and Environment, with its 8th edition.
EKO Triennial, established in 1980 in then Yugoslavia, explores the intersections between current socio-economic challenges, environmental policies and post-colonial globalisation. In line with a growing awareness that the state of our environment depends on a range of interconnected systems; including environmental policies, technological developments, social practices and the economy, the triennial relates natural and social ecosystems and blurs the boundaries between notions of nature/culture, individual/common, national/international, global/local. The renewed 2021 triennial will reflect and comment on the many changes at the global and local levels that affect the environments we live in and depend on.
Alessandro Vincentelli, artistic director and curator of the EKO 8 Triennial, has given this revived edition of the triennial the title A Letter to the Future. The title comes from a memorial plaque by the Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason with which Icelanders marked the loss of the Ok (Okjökull) glacier to climate change in 2019. The plaque reads: “Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years, all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.” The eulogy to the glacier is a powerful plea that throws us forward into the future and reminds us of the task in front of us.
The exhibition will develop along several radiating themes: ecological awareness, consciousness raising projects and propositions of collective assembly. Using the factory as site, it considers the idea of ‘deep listening’, both to sounds from the industrial past of the MTT, and field recordings in nature, presenting parallel worlds of indigenous knowledge alongside practical and imaginative journeys. EKO 8 unfolds across three spaces with an approach rooted in the mapping of memory. Narratives of people history, species extinction and industrial change co-inhabit across the former factory. “We need new stories and new myths to allow us to comprehend our current predicament. Artists have a fundamental role in telling these stories,” asserts Alessandro Vincentelli. “A Letter to the Future is presented in a place where hundreds of workers once wove textiles with a common purpose. Within these walls, artists’ voices and visions spanning generations now resonate and come together, alert to the ecological crisis we collectively face.”
The venue of EKO 8 is the former Maribor Textile Factory (MTT) in the old industrialised area of the city of Maribor from the 1930s. This sleeping giant with its size of more than 44,000 m2 and striking modernist architecture, located along the river Drava embankment in the close proximity of the Maribor city centre, represents an important site of history, memory and possible futures. Future editions of the EKO Triennial will look for new spaces and new challenges elsewhere in the city.
Participating artists: Allora & Calzadilla, Lucien Anderson*, Manca Bajec*, Maxime Berthou & Mark Požlep, James Bridle & Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Kara Chin*, Jasmina Cibic, Marcus Coates, William Cobbing, Vadim Fishkin, Laura Harrington, Mikhail Karikis, Janja Kosi*, Harley Kuyck-Cohen*, Polonca Lovšin*, Antonis Pittas*, Marjetica Potrč, Mako Sajko, Nina Slejko Blom & Conny Blom*, ScanLAB Projects*, Danae Stratou*, Emiija Škarnulytė, Marko Tadić*, Jimmy Turrell*, Chris Watson* and others
(*Names with asterisks correspond with new commissions.)
As part of the opening events, we are announcing:
International conference Toward Radical and Creative Ecologies, on Saturday, May 22, 2021, in Maribor, Slovenia and online.
Emerging from the EKO 8 concept, the conference addresses environmental and climate urgencies as well as the potential of art to critically and creatively address and engage with them at the local and global level. Speakers: T. J. Demos, Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Elke Krasny, Andri Snær Magnason, Luka Omladič, Lucia Pietroiusti, Marjetica Potrč. The partner of the event: Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Supported by: ERSTE Foundation
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EKO 8, Mednarodni trienale umetnost in okolje
Pismo za prihodnost
21. maj - 18. julij 2021
Nekdanja tovarna MTT
Ulica heroja Šaranoviča, Melje
2000 Maribor
Slovenija
www.ugm.si/en/eko-8/eko-8-intro/
Umetnostna galerija Maribor v maju 2021 s ponosom predstavlja EKO, Mednarodni trienale umetnost in okolje, tokrat v že 8. ediciji.
EKO trienale, ustanovljen leta 1980 v takratni Jugoslaviji, raziskuje stičišča med trenutnimi družbeno-ekonomskimi izzivi, okoljsko politiko in postkolonialno globalizacijo. V skladu z naraščajočim zavedanjem, da je stanje našega okolja odvisno od vrste medsebojno povezanih sistemov; vključno z okoljskimi politikami, tehnološkim razvojem, družbenimi praksami in gospodarstvom, trienale povezuje naravne in družbene ekosisteme ter zabriše meje med pojmi narava/kultura, posameznik/skupno, nacionalno/mednarodno, globalno/lokalno. Za leto 2021 prenovljeni trienale bo odseval in komentiral številne spremembe na globalni in lokalni ravni, ki vplivajo na okolja, sredi katerih živimo in od katerih smo odvisni.
Alessandro Vincentelli, umetniški vodja in kustos trienala EKO 8, je tej oživljeni izdaji trienala dal naslov Pismo za prihodnost. Naslov izvira iz spominske plošče islandskega pisatelja Andrija Snærja Magnasona, s katero so Islandci leta 2019 zaznamovali izgubo ledenika Ok (Okjökull) zaradi podnebnih sprememb. Na plošči je zapisano: »Okjökull je prvi islandski ledenik, ki je izgubil status ledenika. V prihodnjih 200 letih mu bodo predvidoma sledili vsi naši ledeniki. S tem spomenikom naznanjamo, da se zavedamo, kaj se dogaja in kaj je treba storiti. Samo vi veste, ali smo kaj od tega uresničili.« Dogodek je pritegnil mednarodno medijsko pozornost. Gre za odločen apel. Nekrolog ledeniku nas izstreli v prihodnost. Opominja nas na nalogo, ki je pred nami.
Razstava povezuje več tem: odgovornost do okolja, projekti ozaveščanja in pobude k zborovanjem v kolektivih. Prizorišče razstave v tovarni nagovarja idejo »poglobljenega poslušanja«, tako zvokov iz industrijske preteklosti MTT, kakor tudi terenskih posnetkov narave, ki predstavljajo vzporedne svetove med znanji staroselcev in praktičnimi ter domišljijskimi potovanji. EKO 8 se razprostira v treh prostorih tovarne na podlagi pristopa, ki temelji na preslikavi spomina. V nekdanji tovarni zaživijo pripovedi o zgodovini človeka, izumrtju vrst in industrijskih spremembah. »Potrebujemo nove zgodbe in nove mite, ki nam bodo omogočili razumevanje trenutne stiske. Umetniki v najširšem smislu igrajo ključno vlogo pri posredovanju teh zgodb,« trdi Alessandro Vincentelli. »Pismo za prihodnost je predstavljeno na mestu, kjer je nekoč stotine delavcev s skupnim namenom tkalo blago. Znotraj teh zidov zdaj odmevajo in se združujejo glasovi in vizije umetnikov širokega generacijskega razpona, ki skupaj opozarjajo na ekološko krizo, s katero smo danes vsi soočeni.«
Prizorišče EKO 8 je nekdanja Mariborska tekstilna tovarna (MTT), katere začetki segajo v trideseta leta 20. stoletja in je del zgodovinsko industrijskega območja Maribora. Ta speči velikan s površino več kot 44.000 m2 in s presenetljivo modernistično gradnjo leži na prisojnem nabrežju reke Drave v neposredni bližini mestnega jedra Maribora. Predstavlja pomembno prizorišče, kjer se je pisala zgodovina, kjer je zapisan spomin in kjer se pišejo možne prihodnosti. Prihodnje edicije trienala EKO bodo nova okolja in nove izzive iskale drugod po mestu in v okolici.
Sodelujoči umetniki in umetnice: Allora & Calzadilla, Lucien Anderson*, Manca Bajec*, Maxime Berthou & Mark Požlep, James Bridle & Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Kara Chin*, Jasmina Cibic, Marcus Coates, William Cobbing, Vadim Fiškin, Laura Harrington, Mikhail Karikis, Janja Kosi*, Harley Kuyck-Cohen*, Polonca Lovšin*, Antonis Pittas*, Marjetica Potrč, Mako Sajko, Nina Slejko Blom & Conny Blom*, ScanLAB Projects*, Danae Stratou*, Emiija Škarnulytė, Marko Tadić*, Jimmy Turrell*, Chris Watson* in drugi
(*Avtorji z označbo so za EKO 8 ustvarili nove projekte.)
V okviru dogajanja ob otvoritvi EKO 8 napovedujemo:
Mednarodna konferenca Radikalnim in kreativnim ekologijam naproti, v soboto, 22. maja 2021, v živo v MTT in na spletu.
Konferenca obravnava resnost okoljskih in podnebnih razmer, pa tudi potencial umetnosti, da se z njimi kritično in kreativno spopade tako na lokalni kot globalni ravni. Govorci: T. J. Demos, Maja in Reuben Fowkes, Elke Krasny, Andri Snær Magnason, Luka Omladič, Lucia Pietroiusti, Marjetica Potrč. Partner dogodka: Društvo Igor Zabel za kulturo in teorijo, Ljubljana. Podpora: ERSTE Sklad
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Maribor, Slovenia