In this 22nd edition, individual and collective memories intersect and intertwine through the works on display. A spectral presence haunts these narratives, whether real or fictional. Ghosts from the past or future, whose poetic appearances unsettle, question, and take us away. They may reveal a need for reparation, involving a re-examination of history through perspectives beyond the colonial gaze, and a reinvention of identities through language and images.
Several artists also address how technology and capitalism continue to impact our environment and human bodies. AI, whose voice echoes our own, manifests itself across several works as an entity. It becomes a reflection of our own condition: fragmented and incomplete, yet eerily familiar.
Almanac Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
November 19: 7.30-8.30pm
November 20, 21: 4pm-8.30pm
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November 19: 12-7.30pm
NIKA Project Space is delighted to announce its participation in Loop 2024, taking place in November 19-21, 2024 in Barcelona.
We will present the video ‘More than a hundred thousands time’ by Alexander Ugay. He made this video while working in a factory in Korea—a new and challenging experience for him. This practice enabled him to feel both the alienation and moments of understanding and mastery that come through repetition. In such instances of complete physical and emotional immersion, a person’s consciousness can wander far beyond the confines of the factory. It presents a paradoxical situation of meaninglessness on the one hand and heightened awareness on the other. It feels very much like standing on the edge of an existential abyss, beyond which there is either nothing—or freedom. In the video, migrant workers from post-Soviet countries demonstrate the motions of their work process. Their memorized movements, displaced from the factory setting, evoke the impact of labor on the life and imagination of the Koryoin* community.