EXHIBITION: INDEXES – A VIRUS SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE (BIOPOLITICS/NECROPOLITICS AND FORMS OF LIFE IN CONTEMPORARY ART), Gallery P74, Ljubljana, June 15 – July 4, 2023

Abstract

The virus is an idea or, perhaps more neutrally put, a metaphor for the agent of crisis within and around various forms of life and their hybrid worlds. The virus is an organism. The idea of a virus is a cognitive entity or agent that intervenes in reference to various aggressive phenomena that may not necessarily be viruses, but act like them. The metaphor of the virus is a rhetorical instrument that introduces the concept of the virus into communication protocols about crisis, disaster