Biennale Symposium: Agyna, Advisory of Sages
The symposium’s three-day extended programme of film screenings, presentations, talks, lectures, panel discussions, exhibitions, tours and social gatherings follows the curatorial premise of the 35th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts to explore the void and the space of potential, opening a window onto a cosmos of forms, solidarities, futures, resistances and transnational relations. Besides the void, another important offshoot for this edition of the Biennale is the idea of the gift, inspired by the political ambitions of the legendary Ghanaian artist and intellectual known under the pseudonym kąrî’k· achä seid’ou, who, as a pedagogue at the Kumasi Academy of Art, sought to emancipate the teaching of art and turn the work of art from a marketable commodity into a gift. kąrî’k· achä seid’ou is the keynote speaker at the Biennale Symposium in Ljubljana.