Navigating Pain: Grieving through Internet Aesthetics at Post-Office explores how recent digital images shape contemporary ways of expressing and processing pain and grief. Through talks, screenings, and an artistic installation, the event reflects on loss, memory, and vulnerability in virtual spaces.
Friday, 5 December
15.45H · Raquel Luaces – Opening + ‘Liminal Aesthetics and Digital Grieving: Research and Artistic Exploration in Where The Data Rests’
Raquel Luaces will open the event by introducing the program and outlining the thinking behind the selection of talks in relation to the overall theme and the artistic installation presented. She will then offer an in-depth presentation of the work exhibited throughout the three days of the event, Where the Data Rests, which explores virtual environments for grieving through contemporary internet imagery.
16.00H · Mela Miekus & Salome Berdzenishvili – ‘Blacha & Gluvi: On Constructing the Surfaces of Post-Soviet Girlhood’
Salome Berdzenishvili and Mela Miekus will present a conversation on Eastern European girlhood and its ingrained mechanisms of (un)becoming. Taking the audience on a path through viral post-soviet aesthetics, they will situate their grimness within the girl’s body. “Blacha”; “Gluvi” will emerge as a central metaphor, signifying a construction material made of a reflective metal sheet, and will be used to understand the post-soviet girl’s devotion to (in)visibility.
16.45H – 18.00H · Exhibition & drinks
Saturday 6 & Sunday 7 December
The exhibition of Raquel Luaces’s work Where the Data Rests will be open between 12.00H and 16.00H, with the artist being present. Everyone is welcome!
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Talks by Mela Miekus, Salome Berdzenishvili, Raquel Luaces
Organized and curated by Raquel Luaces
Poster design by Oriol Diaz