All That We Have in Common
Museum of Contemporary Art – Skopje
21 December, 2019 – 3. March, 2020
“All That We Have in Common” is a collective work, that emerges at times of uncertainty in the capitalist system, and through analysis of specific works of art and practices, aims to strip away the precarious socially/critically constructed discourse and its manifestations.
Capitalism, through its authoritarian policies, creates a world in which the structures of power are adamantly on the side of the rich, oppressing the lives of the underprivileged and marginalized. The neoliberal culture is abundant in language of innovations and novelties with tendencies to produce capital, and yet the culture has never been more degraded.
If the general uncertainty – reflected in the work, education, popular culture and individual and collective psychology of contemporary society – generates conservatism in the culture, then the following questions are relevant: “Which forms of action and organization may contribute to making art both exciting and useful again? Should art become a supplement of the politics, in terms that the politics may benefit from incorporating art-specific elements, or should we politicize art? Are there possible ways of returning modernity to social forms of action and association and what are the ways in which art and culture can contribute in this?”
Participating artists: Daniel García Andújar (Spain), Julieta Aranda (Mexico), Tania Bruguera (Cuba), Chto Delat (Russia), Hristina Ivanoska (North Macedonia), Sanja Iveković (Croatia), Gjorgje Jovanovik (North Macedonia), Adrian Paci (Albania), Nada Prlja (North Macedonia), Hito Steyerl (Germany), Anton Vidokle (Russia and USA), Artur Żmijewski (Poland).
Curators: Mira Gakjina and Jovanka Popova.
Visual identity: Neda Firfova
Julieta Aranda, Swimming in Rivers of Glue (an excersize in counterintuitive empathy 2016/17, installation, video
Julieta Aranda, Swimming in Rivers of Glue (an excersize in counterintuitive empathy 2016/2017, installation
Chto Delat, Safe Haven. It Did Not Happen to Us Yest, 2019, installationGabriel Garcia Andujar, Postcapital: Archive 1989-2001/2006, installation Gjorgje Jovanovikj, Protest Monument, 2019, installation
Hristina Ivanoska, Easy Accumulation of Capital, 2019, Performance, installationNada Prlja speaking about her work Subversion to Red, 2019, installation Julieta Aranda speaking about her work Hristina Ivanoska speaking about her work Gabriel Garcia Andujar speaking bout his work Artur Żmijewski speaking about his work Plein-Air, Sweden, 20019, video Djordje Jovanovikj, speaking about his work Anton Vidokle, Immortality for All: A Film Trilogy On Russian Cosmism, 2014/17, video Sanja Ivekovic, Gen XX, 1997/2001, photography, digital print Adrian Paci, Centro di Permanenza Temporanea, 2007, video
Hito Steyerl, In Free Fall, 2010, videoTania Bruguera, Self-Sabotage, 2009, video
The exhibition is financially supported by Ministry of culture of Republic of North Macedonia, Eurolink Insurance – Skopje, Saint Gobain and Rigips, ZSF COM, City of Skopje, Park Hotel & Spa and Tikves. Special thanks to: Museum of the Macedonian Struggle and Monozero.