2021
The participants of the third generation of WHW Akademija were taking part in the tutoring program with mentors Marwa Arsanios (Berlin/Beirut), Alex Baczyński-Jenkins and Kasia Wlaszczyk (Warsaw/London/Berlin), Vlatka Horvat (London), Pablo Martínez (Barcelona), Aude Christel Mgba (Amsterdam), Dan Perjovschi (Sibiu), and What, How & for Whom / WHW (Zagreb/Vienna). Engaged in developing a new working model in unpredictable circumstances, they were chosen in dialogue with the mentors.
The program migrated from the premises of the WHW office and Gallery Nova in Zagreb to all the cities in which the participants were based, creating a widespread network despite the fact that traveling wasn't possible due to the pandemic. The program was based on individual encounters, and yet it didn't give up on collectivity, rather rethinking possibilities of being together in new and sustainable ways.
In order to navigate this period of immense disruption, WHW had developed a tripartite program for March to September 2021, comprising one-on-one tutoring, a summer school in collaboration with The Tree School by DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Research), and the public program "Evenings with WHW Akademija".
As in previous years, the 2021 program remained focused on strategies that took art practices from the Kontakt Collection as the point of departure and as a source of inspiration for bridging divisions between theory and practice, with an emphasis on topics of care, locality, resilience and anti-fragility.
The program migrated from the premises of the WHW office and Gallery Nova in Zagreb to all the cities in which the participants were based, creating a widespread network despite the fact that traveling wasn't possible due to the pandemic. The program was based on individual encounters, and yet it didn't give up on collectivity, rather rethinking possibilities of being together in new and sustainable ways.
In order to navigate this period of immense disruption, WHW had developed a tripartite program for March to September 2021, comprising one-on-one tutoring, a summer school in collaboration with The Tree School by DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Research), and the public program "Evenings with WHW Akademija".
As in previous years, the 2021 program remained focused on strategies that took art practices from the Kontakt Collection as the point of departure and as a source of inspiration for bridging divisions between theory and practice, with an emphasis on topics of care, locality, resilience and anti-fragility.