Joanna Bacas, Socrates Stamatatos: EVA (Evil Vibrant Astute) 2.0
Group exhibition as part of the Tactics&Practice #16: Are You a Software Update?
14/05–13/06/2025

In their multimedia exhibition EVA (Evil Vibrant Astute) 2.0, Socrates Stamatatos and Joanna Bacas invite you to a playdate. The large-scale installation is both a city–similar to the playsets of our childhood–and something that resembles the inner structure of a machine–like a motherboard. Within this peculiar city, visitors can interact with a network built specifically for the project. Using it, they can exchange theory and media on topics like girlhood, feminism, re-enchantment and technology, to name just a few. The artists invite visitors to crouch down and play as they did when they were children. Recalling memories of endless games and countless imaginary worlds, they can understand how fantasy and magic played an integral part in their early enchantment with life and the world. The exhibition aims at expanding on the idea of action in order to counteract oppressive systems. How can re-enchantment foster environments for collective action? How can fantasy and escapism act as tools for synergy and for visualizing more equitable and bright futures?

*Please note: Aksioma is open only on Friday, May 23, from 12:00 to 18:00. 
Organisation: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana