Under the same title as the conference Planet, People, Care-It Spells Degrowth!, the exhibition is conceived in a conjunction and in a dialogue with the 9th International Degrowth conference proceedings. The focus of the exhibition is on the potentialities of socio-metabolic transformation that our societies need to undertake to return to their fair share within planetary boundaries, and to uphold emancipation and solidarity for all in their population. The exhibition rethinks eco-social artistic practices from the perspective of political ecologies, eco-feminist and decolonial standpoints exploring how artistic agency and imagination can contribute to the transformation of the unjust, extractivist logic of the neoliberal order. The artists included in the exhibition are preoccupied with reconfiguring new subjectivities through reimagining commons, reusing, repurposing, agitating and sharing, as well as igniting new imaginaries through collective desire, joy and solidarity. The exhibition enabled number of new artistic productions and included works by alumni and friends of WHW Akademija, resident and alumni of Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten and artists related to Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit Mountain College program. Part of the exhibition was also presented at the main conference venue at the Zagreb Fair where the in-situ interventions and projects by Željko Beljan and Marko Tadić created situations focused on interaction and play.
Curated by: Ana Dević/WHW
In collaboration with: The Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HDLU), Zagreb
Produced by WHW team: Ana Kovačić, Gordana Borić , Sara Mikelić
Exhibition design: Marko Tadić
Graphic Design: Dejan Kršić
Technical support and set up: Marin Kovačević, Vedran Grladinović
Public relation: Inesa Antić
Photo documentation: Sanja Bistričić Srića