26. 10., 18.00 @ MGLC Švicarija, conversation
Human rationality is a disappointment, a distortion into chaos. We must seek succor in other forms of rationality, including that of the computer algorithm. And at the edge of any rationality, we already sense the pull of that which occupies its Outside.
The Perennial Biennial is currently working on a new publication engaging with the biennial format as it is encountered, engaged with, and critiqued in its local context. They are reaching out to biennials, artists, collaborators and others for existing texts written in response to biennials in their local context, and specifically published outside of the international biennial discourse. Deadline is 24 October 2021 at midnight (UTC+2).
9. 10., 17.00 @ Banka Slovenije’s exhibition room Mala galerija
The speculative narrative about the future in which fictional seeds, awakened after years of sleep, begin to grow.
Hamja Ahsan, I DON’T BELONG HERE أنا لا أنتمي الى هنا
Historical artefacts, revolutionary iconography, never-before-seen photographs, first-person narratives by followers of the movement, extroverted enthusiasts and experts in the field of human rights and contemporary art show how the Shy Radicals project has succeeded in penetrating the crazy and largely dislocated standardised world, constantly bypassing truth and fiction, without losing its speculative core.
21. 11., 11.00 @ skyscraper (TR3 Gallery)
Nascent (Paul Seidler and Max Hampshire): Temporal Secessionism, project presentation
On 10 September 2021, Iskra Delta successfully launched 43 high-tech art projects by its 55 lucid collaborators, co-conspirators and agents in the 6 areas it has hijacked for its political-economic and artistic operations. They are on view under the brand of the 34th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts until 21 November 2021.
16. and 17. 9., 9.00–19.00 @ TR3 Gallery, International symposium
Vote for the best artist of ISKRA DELTA: The 34th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts. Voting will take place from 10 September to 14 November, the results will be announced at the end of the Biennale.
In a time haunted by the specters of "lost futures" the biennale harnesses the desire to inhabit a reality different from the one we inherited. Against a backdrop of social and environmental unrest, deep in the pandemic that has fixed our bodies in place and our eyes on screens, Iskra Delta returns from the future to provide a spark for imagining and constructing alternative presents. Collaborators, co-conspirators and other agents whose practices use the power of fiction, speculative design, larping, video games, the internet, pop and emerging technologies, will help her piece together the glimmering splinters of other possible worlds that are already emerging in our midst.
Iskra Delta, a technology conglomerate, has been summoned from the future to present its covert production at the 34th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts.
