THE HUMAN CONDITION

In November 2015 National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center will present the project THE HUMAN CONDITION.

Artistic director of the project - Viktor Misiano - is one of the most authoritative Russian experts in the field of contemporary arts, curator, art theorist.

The title of this project programmatically refers to the namesake book by Hannah Arendt, whose philosophical thought tried to answer the key question of the past century – how to be and stay Human in the face of the drama of History. The idea of this project comes out of the assumption that the anthropological problematic once again draws close attention or, in other words, the Human today once again becomes one of the central cultural issues. One of the explanations for this “anthropological turn” can be the experience of high completeness of contemporary reality, so common to today’s world view, and its irreducibility to simple definitions and exhaustive interpretations. Thus the Human – his direct and present experience in the face of the inconceivable world - becomes the initial and the final point of the actual picture of the world.

The project combines research, exhibition and discussion formats. Exhibitions implemented in the framework of the project will be the starting points for discussion and analysis. They will be accompanied by workshops, video screenings, lectures, workshops, poetry readings, performative action and so forth.

Among the participants of the project THE HUMAN CONDITION - representatives from more than 50 countries of Western and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia, North and South America.

The project «The Human condition» consists of seven sections (sessions), each of which will include a symposium, lectures, master classes and an exhibition, and is supposed to unfold in time and space over four years at different NCCA and partner venues:

Session 1 26 November 2015 – 31 January 2016 | NCCA LIMITS OF THE HUMAN. Human, inhuman, overhuman, antihuman

Session 2 September 2016 | MMOMA HUMAN AND THE “OTHERS”. Love, friendship, suspicion, aversion

Session 3 May 2017 | Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center SEARCHING FOR A PLACE. Home, homeless, travel, refugeeness

Session 4 Autumn 2017 | NCCA TELEOLOGY OF THE HUMAN. Biography, destiny, hope, faith

Session 5 2018 | MMOMA VITA ACTIVA И VITA CONTEMPLATIVA. Labor, duty, leisure, idleness

Session 6 2018 | Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center TIME AND SENSES. Trauma, memory, oblivion, knowledge

Session 7 2018 HUMAN PASSIONS. Happiness, joy, fear, anxiety

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Artistic director of the project: Viktor Misiano

Co-curators of exhibition program: Daria Pyrkina, Elena Yaichnikova