Name: Moratorium by Ideas Block LT
Duration: 1 h 10 min 52 s
Description: A bunch of rather wacky people ranting about art.

As part of the art exhibition Wild and Violent Sea, artists Gretchen E. Vogt  and Lukas Žalalis joined us for a discussion on the meanings and ideas behind their artworks. Discussion moderators: Roberto Becerra and David Cuadra.

In the exhibition “A Wild And Violent Sea,” G.E. Vogt and Lukas Žalalis explore the forms that contemporary authoritarianism has taken in their respective countries, the United States and Russia. Despite the dynamic differences between the two countries, one common theme intertwining through both is their communities’ preoccupation with a mythos of a “Great Past.” This obsession with nostalgia often becomes an avenue which authoritarian figures exploit in order to manipulate support for their otherwise reprehensible practices. Through this lens of nostalgia for a fictionalized past, Vogt and Žalalis examine the harsh realities which their countries are facing: Žalalis from the perspective of a country fully under an authoritarian regime, and Vogt from the perspective of a country that is steadily moving towards authoritarianism.

2023 06 29

WILD - AND - VIOLENT - SEA

A bunch of rather wacky people ranting about art.

Moratorium

Ideas Block LT

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