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Intermedia/festival/2021
Catalog
https://issuu.com/festivalizis/docs/izis_2021_web
The title of this year’s Izis - rebus, anagrams, repositioning - calls for
determining the implications of the riddle rather than solving it. It is
a very simple assumption based on scientific data and with very little
intervention of throwing signs: in 2200, the average sea level will be
3 meters higher, submerging Izis. The relationship between fact and
presumption is central to the theme of this year’s Izis. We contemplate
“how to combine predestination, freedom, and reason” (Frank Ruda)
and what it is that prevents us from even imagining something similar
in the future. Recalling that environmental issues were recently referred
to as climate change, that the term climate crisis has been in use for
some time, and that the recently published Report of the United Nations
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states unequivocally and
sharply that man is to blame, it is difficult to accept that the short-term
resonance of scientists’ warnings and the increasing frequency of
extreme weather events produce almost nothing but delay.
That “fantasies about the end serve to ensure that nothing ends.”
(Alenka Zupančič) The current approach to dealing with the crisis,
which calls for constructive action based on moralizing and
individualizing guilt, remains horizontally dispersed.
Credits:
Production:PiNA
Coproduction:Stran 22
Curator: Marko Vivoda
Texts: Karlo Hmeljak, prevod Jasmin B. Frelih
Exhibition design: Luka Murovec, Maja Linnea Wendel
Design: Kaja Kisilak
Technical team: Rok Pahor, Grega Gregorčič Pezdirec, Deni Bordon