The Oracle: On Fantasy and Freedom. This item is unavailable.The Oracle: On Fantasy and Freedom

The Oracle names and honors the symbolic place from where all beings wonder about the course of life. Because we care about tomorrow, we should assume we care about staying alive, about a world in peaceful coexistence. Times of increasing insecurity and the experience of living in a world that refuses to acknowledge our needs give rise to various forms of escapism and misguided decision-making. Searching for big answers and expecting significant movements capable of undoing the damage of wars and dark forces seems unrealistic. Art assumes the existence of a tiny but meaningful spot from which to dream and demand freedom and peace. The Oracle is about this spot. Contributions by Maja Petrovic-Steger, Sadie Plant, Manca G. Renko, Renata Saleci, Svetlana Slapsak.

Born in Spain, Chus Martínez has a background in philosophy and art history. She is Head of the Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW (Switzerland), associate curator of TBA21 (Madrid/Venice), and Artistic Director of the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts. She has been the Chief Curator at El Museo Del Barrio, New York, dOCUMENTA (13) Head of Department, Chief Curator at MACBA, Barcelona, and Director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein. Recent publications include The Complex Answer: On Art as a Non-Binary Intelligence (Sternberg Press, 2023), Like This: Natural Intelligence As Seen by Art (2022), and Coding Care (edited with Sabine Himmelsbach) (Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2022).