Ukraine, 5th Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art/ TURBULENCE AREA/
August 26 till September 30, 2017.
Half a century later after “Future Shock” by Alvin Toffler outstanding sales manages discovered that we turned out in turbulent flow of V.U.C.A., volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.
Easy to see that the times of turbulence are periodic phases in the state of human culture.
And they occur as a result of the culture activity itself. So the eidos of certainty and perfection in the Renaissance are replaced by turbulent eddies of Baroque.
But if earlier turbulence in the culture has been defined as crises or transitions with their spatial-temporal boundaries, now the state of turbulence claims to be the boundlessness. Ancient curse “May you live in era of change” is losing its meaning because contemporary culture does not assume any eras of stability. Output from turbulent area is considered as a catastrophe that ends human existence as a whole.......
