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KUNSTFORUM: Parasitäre Paradoxa
Title: Tiny-stepped and Dangerous: PARASITES at the 36th Youth Salon in Zagreb
Text by: Jurica Mlinarec, Klara Petrović, Luja Šimunović
Publishing date: 2023
"We would now define the parasite as that which adapts, adopts and transmutates and that which actively works between the bounds of fiction and reality, the material and the digital, the human and non-human. The parasite is a menace which must work in-between, which must escape the rationalizing grip of the modernist promise to reach a utopia through progress and reason. But while that was a failed promise, this parasite makes no new promises. It creates conditions for new affective experiences, for new stories made of other stories, new worlds within worlds."
Text by: Jurica Mlinarec, Klara Petrović, Luja Šimunović
Publishing date: 2023
"We would now define the parasite as that which adapts, adopts and transmutates and that which actively works between the bounds of fiction and reality, the material and the digital, the human and non-human. The parasite is a menace which must work in-between, which must escape the rationalizing grip of the modernist promise to reach a utopia through progress and reason. But while that was a failed promise, this parasite makes no new promises. It creates conditions for new affective experiences, for new stories made of other stories, new worlds within worlds."
ETC.#2: Fever Dream
Title: THIS IS HOW WE HIKE RAINBOWS
Text: Jurica Mlinarec, Klara Petrović, Luja Šimunović
Publishing date: March 2023
"They descend on a white fluffy apparatus covered in colorful digits and take us to a space that is not a space at all. Atop, motionless as if frozen in time and space, are two strange, alien figures cradling newborns.
Andrej Beštak and Anja Leko revealed a soft poetic space with their ambient installation that came to life at the opening of the exhibition in the form of an extended, bodily sculpture. In THIS IS HOW WE HIKE RAINBOWS, they are reflecting on the transformative role of forgetting as a meditative method that places us somewhere inbetween, betwixt being and without being. "
Text: Jurica Mlinarec, Klara Petrović, Luja Šimunović
Publishing date: March 2023
"They descend on a white fluffy apparatus covered in colorful digits and take us to a space that is not a space at all. Atop, motionless as if frozen in time and space, are two strange, alien figures cradling newborns.
Andrej Beštak and Anja Leko revealed a soft poetic space with their ambient installation that came to life at the opening of the exhibition in the form of an extended, bodily sculpture. In THIS IS HOW WE HIKE RAINBOWS, they are reflecting on the transformative role of forgetting as a meditative method that places us somewhere inbetween, betwixt being and without being. "
&&& Journal
Title: Parasites, A Biennale Manifestation
Text: Jurica Mlinarec, Klara Petrović, Luja Šimunović
Publishing date: February 6, 2022
"This is the concept text for the 36th Youth Salon, a biennial manifestation organized by the Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HDLU), that his year will be curated by the KUCCA collective. The Salon will open in April 2022 in Zagreb."
Text: Jurica Mlinarec, Klara Petrović, Luja Šimunović
Publishing date: February 6, 2022
"This is the concept text for the 36th Youth Salon, a biennial manifestation organized by the Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HDLU), that his year will be curated by the KUCCA collective. The Salon will open in April 2022 in Zagreb."
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