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The large cardboard carpet around which crocheted wool cushions are placed in the room creates an inviting effect. At first glance, the carpet seems to be decorated with ornaments, but a closer look reveals a variety of motifs…

In her poem and in her video work, Karin Lindstén deals with the cohabitation of animals and humans in the big city. In her film, the artist explores the characteristics and difficulties of human and animal cohabitation in a poetic way…

„Embodied Un-democracies“ or in greek „Ενσώματη Αν-δημοκρατία“, is a term the artist, Eleni Danesi, uses to describe the sensations, memories, and cognitive information that is registered in our bodies when we experience states of violence, oppression, abuse, violation of boundaries, physical or emotional rapism, poverty and the list goes on…, within systems that claim to be democratic otherwise…

Since modernity, art and democracy have been a sign of progress, of emancipation; both are to a great extent objects of engagement. They are not only both something worth fighting for, or even something that nobilises the person fighting. They are also both only conceivable as activity, as commitment.