The dynamics of power and its inevitable disintegration are disclosed, examining how cultural, political, and historical artifacts construct and dismantle authority and ideologies. Navigating the shifting landscapes of legacy, the works probe the mechanisms of historical remembrance and forgetting. By questioning the material and ideological foundations of authority, they collectively unravel the interplay between utopia and dystopia, memory and oblivion, exposing the fragile performativity of institutionalized power. (Boris Hadžija)
A short tale of power, utopia, and madness, seen through the figure of King Ludwig II of Bavaria – doomed in his excessive dreams of beauty and foreseeing the dystopian reality of the times that would succeed him at the turn of the 20th century.
… >>>It takes decades to build a legacy, but how long to forget? In Kotka, Finland, near the Russian border, citizens are rethinking the fate of the town’s last Lenin statue amid Putin's war in Ukraine. Is the monument a disgrace, art, or a tourist attraction? A reflection on forgetting and the shifting meanings of history.
… >>>Nothing seems to be moving in Athens and the people are as still as statues. But elsewhere in the city, a caryatid escapes the museum and a small groupuscule demands the destruction of all antiquities. Perhaps filming is the only way to avoid turning into stone.
… >>>This semi documentary pairs McKenzie Wark’s text with strobing orange-hued images of her body and domestic life, framed by techno and minimalist rave aesthetics. It merges the history of the left with Wark’s gender transition, revealing marks of her life as she reflects on love, loss, and futures while her own death and the death of the left linger just off-screen.
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