2023
The program of the fifth generation of WHW Akademija started in March 2023 and lasted until November 2023. It was set up as an education model that combined online and physical encounters and explored participatory modes of artistic and knowledge production.
As we are transitioning from the pandemic to an even more severe crisis related to the ongoing wars, rising austerity measures, increasing international recession, and intensifying ecological disaster, WHW Akademija 2023 aimed to create an environment for engaged eco-social participatory cultural production. Focused on eco-social and somatic practices, artistic ecologies, care, collectivity, and degrowth, the 2023 program explored methodologies developed by artists and cultural workers to engage with their environments, be that artistic, social, digital, or ecological.
The 2023 program included twelve participants and two summer school guest participants. The professorial team for 2023 was: Yael Davids, Adelita Husni-Bey, Miguel A. López, Pablo Martínez, Marina Naprushkina, and WHW. Alongside this professorial team, the public lectures and workshop series Evenings with WHW Akademija brought together further artists, curators, and thinkers, such as farid rakun/ruangrupa, alumni of WHW Akademija, and others, who presented public conversations and lectures.
As we are transitioning from the pandemic to an even more severe crisis related to the ongoing wars, rising austerity measures, increasing international recession, and intensifying ecological disaster, WHW Akademija 2023 aimed to create an environment for engaged eco-social participatory cultural production. Focused on eco-social and somatic practices, artistic ecologies, care, collectivity, and degrowth, the 2023 program explored methodologies developed by artists and cultural workers to engage with their environments, be that artistic, social, digital, or ecological.
The 2023 program included twelve participants and two summer school guest participants. The professorial team for 2023 was: Yael Davids, Adelita Husni-Bey, Miguel A. López, Pablo Martínez, Marina Naprushkina, and WHW. Alongside this professorial team, the public lectures and workshop series Evenings with WHW Akademija brought together further artists, curators, and thinkers, such as farid rakun/ruangrupa, alumni of WHW Akademija, and others, who presented public conversations and lectures.