“(anti-)career days” from February 5 until 7 at EKA Gallery

Join the diverse program of “(anti-)career days” from February 5 until 7 at EKA Gallery!

The three-day event series “(anti-)career days” invites all those active in the field of art and culture to participate in workshops, reading groups, discussions and exercises that seek to explore what it means to be an artist today. The event focuses on the personal, collective and institutional touchpoints on a creative journey, initiating discussions on themes of precarity, solidarity and social and political responsibility. Academic education asks us who we are in order to shape us into prescribed frameworks and prepare us for a professional career. What if, instead, we focused on who we would like to be and the kind of world we would like to live and create in? The aim of the “(anti-)career days” project is to abandon the individualistic idea of surviving as an artist in order to discuss how we can collectively flourish. Realizing collectivity can, in turn, be a liberating and unifying force to critically rethink the role and function of institutions and intervene in the broader social context to which art is inevitably connected. The event is an open platform for several collectives, networks and creative individuals who will explore the topics from different perspectives.

Initiated by: Laura Konsand
Participants: Community in EKA for Palestine, Daylight Project, ENKKL (Estonian Young Contemporary Art Union), Frederik Klanberg, Kolkaplikad, Laura Konsand, Performing Arts Curator, Queer Association of EKA Students, Ulvi Haagensen, Yvette Bathgate & Jake Shepherd 
Graphic design: Fatima-Ezzahra Khammas
Technical support: Mattias Veller
Drinks for the communal dinner from Põhjala Brewery.

Read more about the events and the participants here.

Additional information:
Kaisa Maasik
E-mail: eka.galerii@artun.ee
Tel: +372 5396 2524

EKA Gallery
Tue–Sat 12–18 ja P 12–16
Kotzebue 1, Tallinn 10412
www.artun.ee/ekagalerii