a breath? a name? the ways of worldmaking
View of the exhibition with Carlos Bunga’s works.
Biennale Gherdënia VII +info
Curator Adam Budak wrote:
Nelson Goodman sees the world as a fabric of interwoven narratives; our role is to retell those narratives. To find the strategy - the way to do it - is what constitutes and determines our task: “We are confined to ways of describing whatever is described. Our universe, so to speak, consists of these ways rather than of a world or of worlds. (…) The many stuffs - matter, energy, waves, phenomena - that worlds are made of are made along with the worlds. But made from what? Not from nothing, after all, but from other worlds. Worldmaking as we know it always starts from worlds already on hand; the making is remaking.”
Such is a paramount premise of the 7th Biennale Gherdëina: to research and to challenge our ability to contribute to an active process of the world’s continuous (re)making while the world we inhabit finds itself at its apparent limit: in a critical precarious moment of a sociopolitical turmoil, an ethical vacuum and an immunological crisis. The principle of responsibility and care, as well as civic responsiveness and a humility linked to it, come forth as agencies of our daily poiesis, defining the urgency to act and engage. We are in this together, a chant frequently uttered during the recent months of the pandemic limbo, reminds the founding statement of the philosopher Rosi Braidotti’s politics of affirmation. We are this world’s participants, its tender narrators and the passerby, listening to the poets, the Shelleyian “unacknowledged legislators of the world”. Ultimately, we are the interpreters of this world and its vast fields of land and thought, both real and imaginary. In this together.
Curated by: Adam Budak
2020. Ortisei, Italy.
