Ženski mural, mitohondrijski zid
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Argentina in Slovenija / 2016
Delo v nastajanju
Na rezidenci gostimo argentinsko
umetnico Lauro Olalde, ki vas vabi k
sodelovanju pri ustvarjanju kolektivne zidne
poslikave.
Zidovi v mestih so lahko glas prebivalcev.
Tako kot celične stene so živi in izražajo
spremembe v okolju. Mitohondrijski zid je
skupinska zidna poslikava, ki bo predstavljala
molekularno pokrajino, osredotočeno na
mitohondrij, organel z lastnim genskim
zapisom, ki se deduje skozi žensko nasledstvo.
Študije mitohondrijske DNK, ki jih
je v osemdesetih letih opravil genetik s
Kalifornijske univerze Alan Wilson, so
pokazale, da sodobni človek izvira iz Afrike,
iz afriške pramatere. Zaključki so sprožili
polemike, ker so se dotaknili občutljivih tem,
kot sta identiteta in filogenetika. Ta molekula,
imenovana »mitohondrijska Eva«, je bistvena
za sorodstvo po materini strani, ker 100 %
DNK prihaja v liniji po materini strani, kar
omogoča hitrejše odkritje skupnega izvora
homo sapiensa. Če se ob tem potopimo v to
kompleksno molekularno pokrajino, ki jo
lahko beremo tudi kot zemljevid izvora, lahko
prevprašamo koncepte, kot sta življenje in
identiteta, ki so se ob soočenju z novo tehnoznanstveno
paradigmo in prehodom od
biologije k molekularni biologiji spremenili.
Koncept življenja ni več vpisan samo v naših
telesih, ampak v naših molekulah, ki so postale
novo politično sredstvo, okrog katerega so
danes organizirane biopolitične prakse.
Kot metafora mitohondrijske dediščine
je ustvarjanje zidne poslikave nekakšna
simbolna zapuščina žensk, ki živijo v mestu
in obiščejo Ljubljano v času festivalov Mesto
žensk. V upanju, da bo zidna poslikava Ženski
mural postala dejavno srečevališče prihodnjih
edicij festivala.
V angleščini.
Brezplačna udeležba.
Ob zaključku bo otvoritev murala s katerim zaključimo 22. Mednarodni festival sodobnih umetnosti - Mesto žensk.
Produkcija in organizacija: Mesto žensk, KUD Mreža,
Galerija Alkatraz in Celostna umetnina Metelkova / Urbani
likovni projekt.
S podporo: Fondo Metropolitano.
Mural by Women, Mitochondrial Wall
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Argentina and Slovenia / 2016
Work in progress
We are hosting artist Laura Olalde from
Argentina, who invites you to participate in
creating a collective wall painting.
Walls in cities can be the voice of their
inhabitants. As cell walls, they are alive and
they express the changes in their environment.
Mitochondrial Wall is an open and permeable
project for the women in Ljubljana and it
consists of the realization of a collective mural
painting representing a “molecular landscape”
with a focus on mitochondria, an organelle
that has its own genetic information that
passes through maternal heritage.
In the 80’s, studies in mitochondrial DNA
done by Alan Wilson, a geneticist from the
University of California, determined that the
first humans on Earth came from Africa, from
a unique African mother. These conclusions
were polemical because they touched upon
matters such as Identity and Phylogenetics.
This molecule, called the “mitochondrial Eve”
is fundamental for maternal filiation, because
100% of DNA comes from the maternal line
this way, a faster path to reaching the common
origins of Homo sapiens. At this point, and
by immersing ourselves in this complex molecular landscape that can be read as
a map of origins as well, we can reflect on
the concepts of life and identity that have
changed facing the new techno-scientific
paradigm, with the transition from biology to
molecular biology.
The Concept of Life is now
circumscribed not only in our bodies but in
our molecules, a new political device around
which the biopolitical practices are now
organized.
As a metaphor of mitochondrial heritage,
the mural action is proposed as the desire for
of a symbolic legacy between women who live
in and visit the City of Ljubljana from one to
other edition of the City of Women Festival,
that the Mural by Women painting can grow as
a meeting point activity in future editions of
the Festival.
In English.
Finishing with an opening of the mural with which we are also closing the 22nd Festival of Contemporary Arts - City of Women.
Production and Organization: City of Women, KUD Mreža, Gallery Alkatraz, A Gesamtkunstwerk Metelkova/Urban
art project.
Supported by Fondo Metropolitano.
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