On Point of Oversight
Off STIFF exhibition/ Rijeka Capital of Culture 2020

Josipa Baljak, Anastasiia Belousova & Frederik Hochheimer, Jacob Bissell, Gabriel Hensche, Lech Kalita, Gordan Kreković & Antonio Pošćić, Aaron R. Moreno, Petra Mrša, Nicole Mullan, Sidney Mullis, Chris Revelle, Rajat Sharma, Jake Williams





The Point of Oversight
looks into the society in which we live in relation to the ubiquity of technology and algorithms that shape our daily lives, opening a new perspective on the familiar, moving out of comfort and pointing out how private experience is political, placing the common in focus.

Seeking an independent view, free from manipulation, we wonder how can we see beyond the ideology which we live in? Oversight, referring both to surveillance and eye-lapse, thinks over a system in which error has the potential of resistance. 



WHERE: PIK FACTORY ATTIC (MMSU RIJEKA), RIJEKA, CROATIA.
WHEN: MARCH 2021.
THANKS TO STUDENT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL STIFF, EPK RIJEKA 2020, AND MUSEUM OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART IN RIJEKA.
CONCEPT IS COLLABORATIVELY MADE WITH PETRA ČARGONJA AND SETUP WITH DAMJAN ŠPORČIĆ.

Algoritmi oblikuju naša mjesta udobnosti - sigurne prostore u kojima se dobacujemo vlastitim odrazom i stvaramo utočište od sve kompleksnije realnosti globalnih odnosa. Druga strana ove ‘pogodbe’ sveprisutni je nadzor koji amplificira nelagodu kojoj pokušavamo umaći. Tehnologija može biti alat za mučenje, sredstvo samodiscipliniranja, iznenadni napad panike ali i sredstvo otpora, utopijski prostor. Kako s njom pregovaramo, kako joj umičemo ili je prigrljujemo, koliko je ona pasivni produžetak naših infantilnih želja ili sredstvo emancipacije i promjene, kako intimno tako i na nivou zajednice?


Petra Čargonja