Projects
Ask addoley + Anna
Ask Addoley + Anna is an ongoing collaboration which started in 2019 between artists Addoley Dzegede and Anna Ihle, presented online in a seasonal advice-podcast format.
throughout December
‘IF YOU DO NOT LOVE ME I SHALL NOT BE LOVED’
A contemporary corona response, or a mental whiteout, or perhaps just one more artist slowly becoming the polar bear. Re-mediated through video where images from a Polar Institute stands still while the snow dances Cascando, a technical term that, in music, indicates a decrease in volume or tempo, and a word in which the writer Samuel Beckett named one of his most famous poems - about unrequited love and all the incommunicability that derives from it… Because as this unpredictable situation requires, and as both the polar bear and Samuel says: “You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on.”
Launching early January
STREAMING
For ASEFCC, Duckert presents a live-streamed performance, titled “Streaming”, as part of her ongoing project, “The neutrality of water”. The project centers around a phenomenological approach to water, and it’s changing circumstances as a direct consequence of our contemporary living.
Launching end of February
CASEBEARER 1.0
Dave Greber + Cristina Molina’s videos for A Structure Envisioned for Changing Circumstances take inspiration from the highly adaptive species commonly known as the Bagworm or Case Bearer who creates a cocoon home for itself from whatever debris it finds. As artists who live in New Orleans, a city that faces coastal erosion and is threatened by sea level rise, the Bagworm serves as a model example of a resourceful nomad that acclimates itself to any given situation.
Launching mid-December
EPISODES ABOUT NOT KNOWING HOW IT WILL BE
Līga Spunde’s project takes shape as a poetic, digital artwork exhibited online. The work is divided into five episodes, where each episode represents a character. Among these are: an adventurous optimist, a tired pessimist, a data analyst, an esotericist and an artist. Each of these characters will take over the ASEFCC online platform, offering their musings and visions of the future. The irregular, ever-changing nature of the work makes it unpredictable, emphasizing the lack of stability behind the current conditions we live in. Spunde has designed the characters as very cliché, which symbolizes a collective state of mind in times of uncertainty, where we tend to lean on archetypes, often adopting thoughts and feelings that are stereotypical. The texts of characters produced by Līga Spunde and Klāvs Mellis.
Launching January/Febuary