2024
The term went viral that same year, playing a key role in the fake news account of a celebrity breakup involving rapper Kanye West (now known as Ye) and soon-to-be fashion icon Julia Fox. While post-breakup Ye kept lingering in his now-signature ‘dark mode’ behavior, Fox’s newly adopted goblin state led her to embody a distinctive expression of discontent, to become the face of a fresh take on contemporary beauty—the latest iteration of the aesthetics of ugliness.
The ugly seemed to have seeped into every pore of visual culture. The messy, raw, and the hideous slowly pushed out sleek looks and polished images. BeReal’s ‘genuine glimpses’ seriously threatened the reign of the Instagram face. The weirdos took center stage. We embraced smudges. Dirt. Alien vibes. Welcomed ugly ducklings. Killjoys. Chaos. Everything macabre. Opened doors to ‘bad beauties’, ‘trashy girls’ and ‘creepy cuties’. ‘Feral girl summers’ and ‘anarchist femme baking’. All the strangely defiant micro-trends. The Y2K, in general. Goblin mode came to represent a somewhat grotesque, yet poignant rejection of perfectionism, both in relation to bodies and visual culture. It emerged as a way of seeing, but also as a mode of being — an unfiltered response to spiritual nihilism triggered by the current state of global affairs, by the imminence of the world falling apart, evidently much sooner than we expected.
This year, Organ Vida is all about these odd disobediences. Micro-rebellions, gut reactions, instincts, intense yearnings and bizarre obsessions — the weirdly visceral. We are interested in images that incite repulsion, but also fascination, that give us both creeps and butterflies. We are looking for those unafraid of getting dirty, those that joyously mess with mainstream beauty ideals, societal norms, or art conventions. Those that try to make sense of the chaotic world we live in, in the most unusual ways — that delve into parody, fantasy, or camp. We hope to find those that have bad taste or manners. Those that might seem dark but are also funny or cute. Stunning, even. Because in the right light, as Fox would say, ‘everything, even the ugly, is nothing short of breathtaking’*.
Julia Fox, Down the Drain
Creeps and Butterflies
Exhibition
26/09 – 03/11
Museum of Contemporary Art
Ties That Bind
Exhibition
26/09 – 03/11
Museum of Contemporary Art
Zoe Williams:
Seasons in Hell
Exhibition
26/09 – 03/11
Museum of Contemporary Art
Ivan Buvinić:
ID_75
Exhibition
26/09 – 03/11
Museum of Contemporary Art
Cem A.: Crit Club
Performative panel
27/09 at 20:00
Pogon Jedinstvo
Moderator: Cem A
School: The Unquestioned Answer
Performance
28/09 at 17:00, 22:00
Pogon Jedinstvo
With: Andrea Lumplecker (school), Yasmina Haddad (school), ABC b2b, shoggoth II, Babilonska, Ivna Franić
AdO/Aptive: a-/o-holics groups
Workshop
26/09 at 12:30
27/09 at 18:00
Pogon Jedinstvo
Myriam Boulos: Editing LTerm Projects
Workshop
26/09 at 12:30
27/09 at 18:00
Pogon Jedinstvo
Katarina Šoškić: Those in the know – facing the unknown
Workshop
27/09 at 15:00
Pogon Jedinstvo
Krzysztof Candrowicz: Art in Action
Workshop
26/09 at 12:30
Pogon Jedinstvo
Pogon Jedinstvo
Ana Zibelnik and Jakob Ganslmeier: Visual Compass
Workshop
27/09 at 15:00
Pogon Jedinstvo
26/09/2024
FUTURES Event Program, FUTURES artists and member only
Krzysztof Candrowicz: Art in Action: Social and Environmental Responsibility and Visual Activism
adO/Aptive: a-/o-holics groups
Myriam Boulos: Editing and sequencing long term and ongoing projects
20:00-00:00 Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb
Exhibition openings:
Creeps and Butterflies, Ties That Bind, Zoe Williams: Seasons in Hell, Ivan Buvinić: ID_75
Performances:
Teo Ala-Ruona: Anabolic Spectacle, Annemarija Gulbe, Anna Ansone, Krišjānis Elviks: THIRST
Music program:
Viatori
27/09/2024
FUTURES Event Program, FUTURES artists and member only
Krzysztof Candrowicz: Art in Action: Social and Environmental Responsibility and Visual Activism
adO/Aptive: a-/o-holics groups
Myriam Boulos: Editing and sequencing long term and ongoing projects
Cem A.: Crit Club, performative Panel with participants: Nikola Bojić, Bettina Freimann, Fette Sans, Abbas Zahedi, and moderator Cem A
28/09/2024
Ritual/ listening session:
School: The Unquestioned Answer
Muzej suvremene umjetnosti
Address
Avenija Dubrovnik 17, Zagreb
Croatia
open: 11:00 - 19:00
Pogon Jedinstvo
Address
Croatia
open: 18:00 - 19:00
Organ Vida
info@organvida.com
Ozaljska 71
10000 Zagreb
Croatia
Curators
Barbara Gregov
barbara.gregov@organvida.com
Lovro Japundžić
lovro.japundzic@organvida.com
Lea Vene
lea.vene@organvida.com
Curatorial associate: Ana Škegro
Curatorial assistant: Ivana Završki
Design: Alma Šavar
Website: Osam
Public relations: Inesa Antić
Photographers: 925 studio, Samir Cerić Kovačević, Luka Pešun
Translation: Tihana Bertek
Hospitality: Tena Kovačić
Press and Public Relations
Inesa Antić
press.organvida@gmail.com
Festival partners
Pogon – Zagrebački centar za nezavisnu kulturu i mlade, FUTURES
Main festival partner: MSU Zagreb
Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb, Zagreb Tourist Board, Kultura nova Foundation, Austrian Cultural Forum – AKF, French Institute in Croatia, TelepART, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland / The Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Acknowledgments
Studio B-nula, Uramljivanje slika Ramasutra, Print studio Anula
Media Partners
Vizkultura, Kulturpunkt, Grazia, Mood.hr