March 10 – April 16
an exhibition commissioned by Spazju Kreattiv
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In an age of advanced climate crises, the earth should be read as if it were a script that needs to be interpreted. This links to traditional knowledge, shifts in perspectives and norms and raises the question: what if we pluralised our ideas about the world and acknowledged that the current understanding of the future that has dominated the world for centuries simply leads to a dead(ly) end?
The exhibition heeds the call for a polyphonic view of life on this planet, where humans and non-humans, binary and non-binary subjects and matters have an equal say, and pays attention to the unheard, unseen, indigenous knowledge and futurisms.
When the Moon Waxes Red, borrowed from Vietnamese filmmaker Trinh Minh-h’s book of the same name, brings together artists from around the world that address the imbalance between human activities to extract resources and colonial ideologies, justifying the protection of property over people and nature’s degradation, by using ecofeminism as a point of departure.
Creative Team
Curator: Maren Richter
Exhibition design: Keit Bonnici
Project Management: Ambra Anselmo
Artists:
Ursula Biemann, Seba Calfuqueo, DIS Collective, Charlene Galea, Romea Roxman Gatt, Folly Feast Lab (Yara Feghali and Viviane El Kmati), Crystn Hunt Akron, Sasha Huber, Nation25 (Elena Abbiatici, Valeria D’Ambrosio and Caterina Pecchioli), Daniela Ortiz, Kanthy Peng, Robertina Šebjanič, Bartolina Xixa.
Atlas Proxima, a dialogue between art and marine biology, is an ongoing futuristic project by Nation25 collective – founded by artists, curators and researchers Elena Abbiatici, Sara Alberani and Caterina Pecchioli as a feminist art platform for an ongoing dialogue between artists, curators, humanitarian, scientists, activists and migrants.
Atlas Proxima started during an artistic residency in 2018 promoted by the Museum of Natural History of Florence. Atlas Proxima speculates on a plausible shocking evolution of sperm whales due to the intensive anthropic exploitation of ocean resources and the acceleration of global geological changes – narrated by a female AI scientist.
Around the world, more than 51,5 million individuals have either fled their country or are displaced from their homes due to war and violence. If you considered them as a state, they would represent the 25th nation on Earth.
Nation25 is an imaginative gesture, an art platform that seeks to shine a light on the lives of refugees, migrants and the internally displaced.
The mission is to examine critical questions around the desire/necessity of the experience of flight – reasons for departure, the nature of borders, crossing and drift, climate change, resilience and imaginative places of safety – and what these aspects activate.
Nation25 is the idea of a “nation” whose existence is based on common needs and experiences and opposed to territorial integrity, it’s the conviction that a community displaced in space and time means opportunity not exclusion.
With a particular focus on migratory issues, Nation25 also deals with other socio-political and environmental phenomena on which it intervenes to visualize a rethinking of the current and future society.
Founded by Elena Abbiatici, Sara Alberani and Caterina Pecchioli, Nation25 is based between Rome, Amsterdam and Brussels and is a dynamic art platform for an ongoing dialogue between artists, curators, humanitarian, scientists, activists, both refugees and not.
[source: https://www.nation25.com/]