Fear of Life - Kateřina Šedá: Everything Is Perfect

Описание: Kateřina Šedá
has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions, includ- ing documenta 12 (2007), the Berlin Biennale (2008) or the Biennale de
Lyon (2009). Recent solo shows include The Right side is on the left / CNEAI de Chatou (2014), Asylum / Bielefelder Kunstverein (2016), Fear of the Un- known / Kunsthalle Bratislava (2016), Aubervilliers got Talent / Les Labora- toires d’Aubervilliers (work-in-progress). The changing society which loses its ini- tial identity, or a new architecture which alienates its own inhabitants, these topics engage Kateˇrina Šedá in creating artistic projects. Her commitment is not limited to an artistic process, but she seeks to engage in society itself by actively including social models, indi- viduals or communities.


Fear of Life. The City as a Habitat to All

The actual (and not entirely surprising) political conditions of life in Austria and its neighboring countries is a burning as well as starting point to the planning of this international symposium. Fear respectively the creation of anxieties has become a much too powerful instrument of political persuasion. Solidaric processes are undermined if not destroyed, future is discount­ ed: if circumstances do obviously not improve at least they should not change anymore.
How do notions of innovation come into play in an atmosphere of re­bordering Europe?

How could artists, how should intellectuals act now? And from where? Should they change the contexts of their work? Should they start to focus already on much younger generations? Or should they establish safe spaces inside institutions?

Big questions and maybe the answers could be found in distinct if not even pungent words, in highly precise and detailed actions, in repeated societal acupunctures in both virtual and ana­ logue spaces?