Program

12 artists (and artistic collectives) from around the world have been invited to share their different perspectives, reflections, solutions and/or comments on the world’s crises – referring to both the past and future, to the recent lockdown(s) and the new reality of a pandemic.

Each artist received a space within the website, which they will be able to add to, design, shape and arrange, treating the web as a canvas. Every month a new artistic project appeared on “The Virtual Canvas” website responding to the previous artists’ pieces. The project was structured like a chain: initiated first by artists responding to the crises, the following artists were creating pieces responding to this first input, as well as including their own perspective. Each new contribution was developing the narrative further until a collective work was created, coloured by many voices singing in many mediums.

Various artistic projects collected in the virtual exhibition space were an attempt to build an artistic dialogue and share the insights of creatives experiencing the current crises at various latitudes. This multi-voiced story were changing and taking different courses depending on the participating artists, on the present situation and on our present condition. As the project evolves, the platform was like an international common diary and a testimony of the time.

“and–akter” hosted a limited number of participants of the common online experience. The project emerged as an ambient landscape lulling the participants through eight acts of bodyings, feelings, breathings, languagings, voicings, borderings, rootings and deathinings. “and–akter” imagined other ways of being together; a sphere for moving air between one body and another, for making sounds, and listening. For everyone with a breathing body.