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Herbarium Collection

Art Project Depot - Herbarium Collection

The Herbarium collection documents the energy of the creative act, whether it is a fixed momentary impulse or a precisely considered gesture. Herbarization is the act of capturing memories, emotions, words, images that have lost their meaning, images that have gradually become essential, the explosive joy of new ideas, its transformation into calm indifference, or in short, the ceaseless human quest for meaning in all its dimensions. What would the selection of museum specimens of world culture look like if it were the work of artists rather than art historians? In what way would each artist [...]

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Symbiotic Synchronicity

Art Project Depot - Symbiotic Synchronicity

The multimedia installation Symbiotic Synchronicity by Austrian artist Dagmar Schürrer is inspired by the scientific and philosophical work of Lynn Margulis, who articulated symbiosis as a central organizing principle of life. In contrast to dominant Darwinian narratives that place competition at the core of evolution, Margulis argued that intimate forms of living together among different organisms—whether mutually beneficial or parasitic—constitute a key driving force behind biological complexity and innovation.

Symbiosis is not an exception but the norm in the microbial world: the boundaries [...]

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# stateofexception

Art Project Depot - # stateofexception

On March 13, 2020, a state of exception was stated in Bulgaria, as in many countries around the world, in connection with the declared pandemic of  Covid 19 virus. The subsequent social isolation stopped not only the normal rhythm of life for every citizen from the affected countries, it rescheduled all over the world under completely new rules of conduct in the public arena unforseen for us all. Unexpectedly, we found ourselves in a situation of an unfamiliar form of government, which, according to Giorgio Agamben's definition, "is no one's land between public law and political fact, and [...]