Vašulka Kitchen Brno cordially invites you to the opening of the group exhibition LOADING COEXISTENCE which will bring together installations by Radovan Dranga, Lenka Glisniková, Lenka Hámošová, and Lukáš Prokop. The opening will take place at the House of the Lords of Kunštát on Tuesday, September 16 at 6 PM. 

LOADING COEXISTENCE  / Radovan Dranga, Lenka Glisníková, Lenka Hámošová, Lukáš Prokop 

Curator: Viktória Pardovičová 

17 September – 2 November  

What forms of sensory and emotional perception are demanded by contemporary communication—shaped by platform-based mechanisms and online sharing—that has long since become reliant on collaboration with technology and digital environments? This reality stands in stark contrast to earlier modes of human–technological coexistence, when technical or media innovations marked groundbreaking openings of possibility, enhanced quality of life, or expanded the potential of artistic practice. Loading Coexistence poses the question of whether or not in the second decade of the 21st century, it is still possible to approach the world of technology with both critical distance and empathy—an empathy that unfolds amid the ongoing need to continually reassess the critical lenses through which we understand it. 

The exhibition brings together artists who welcome technology into the act of creation as an equal partner, granting it its own space and agency. Their work calls for an attunement to the specific sensibilities of software, AI, moving images, photography, and even machine hardware itself. These mutually communicative forms also function as metaphors for a search for new sensitivities and capacities for coexisting with technologies and media—forces that fundamentally shape social processes and personal intimacy, influence the evolution of interconnected crises, and, under certain conditions, open up layers of new meaning and interaction. 

Susan Sontag drew attention to a global “societal desensitization” in connection with the accumulation of images of catastrophe and the circulation of trauma. A similar phenomenon can be observed today in the contexts of the technologization of attention and power, as well as the algorithmization of time and emotions. Even so, is it still possible to find forms of collaborative relationships and techno-organic ecosystems that can be made accessible precisely through the inclusivity of artistic language? 

Photo: Lukáš Prokop 

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