On November 24 at 7 p.m. the fourth international discussion of the educational program cycle of the VII Moscow International Biennale of Young Art will be streaming.
Participants: artist Egor Rogalev (Russia), associate professor Oksana Moroz (Russia), Professor Franco Berardi (Italy). With the support of the Italian Institute of Culture.
The ability to communicate is placed at the heart of modern ways of "non-material" production. In post-industrial countries a wageworker is no longer someone, working at the machine, but a master of communication, moving from one Zoom meeting to another. Networking and social capital are considered to be essential attributes of a career success and the number of Facebook friends or Instagram followers is becoming a new currency. Such communication is getting instrumentalized and therefore ceases to be a form of a disinterested interchange. As the philosopher Paolo Virno wrote: “There is no one more unhappy than the one who discovers that his relationships with other people, in other words, his ability to communicate, his language skills are reduced to wage labor” (Paolo Virno, “A Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life").
Despite the demand to be responsive and outgoing, we are noticing a proliferation of autistic disorders, social phobia and social anxiety. Social media, messengers and dating apps give an opportunity to block, ghost and ban, while lockdown and social isolation seem to leave communication without any physical presence. At the same time the rejection of communication was an important characteristic of modernist art: it was silence and inexpressibility that began to define art from the end of the XIXth century. At the other extreme there are modern performative and participatory artistic practices that allow the creation of alternative language systems or some non-verbal affective ways of interaction.
Link to registration: https://winzavodart.timepad.ru/event/1479075/
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