This year's diverse artistic and exhibition program of the Museum of Contemporary Art - Skopje will be rounded off with another impressive international exhibition, which will be opened on December 5, at 20 p.m.

The exhibition "War of the Senses / War on the Senses" includes some of the most renowned authors and artistic collectives today, winners of numerous awards and recognitions, among others the prestigious Turner Prize.

The exhibition exhibits works by international and Macedonian authors: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, "Beirut Urban Lab", Center for Spatial Technologies, "Forensic Architecture" collective, Kumjana Novakova, in collaboration with Matthew Fuller, Matsuko Yokoji and Graham Harwood collective will also present "YoHa".

– The exhibition focuses on the relations between modern digital technologies and the production, distribution, interpretation and use of images, as a record of wars today and at the same time emphasizes the importance of research and the connection between aesthetics and violence. The exhibition presents six projects, which investigate and analyze these conditions. Each individual work affects the understanding of certain cases in areas of military conflicts, providing a record, among other things, the works represent a call for justice. From there, the exhibition affirms the ability of art through the use of visual methodologies, such as models, drawings, maps, interactive cartographic maps, web-based films and animations, to produce knowledge and act in the direction of the protection of human rights. curators Matthew Fuller and Tihomir Topuzovski.

War is ubiquitous today. How do we figure that out? War is taking up more and more space, mediated by technologies, affecting our senses as well as our actions. In addition to the destruction caused by war, it also acts through the sphere of sensibility and on the senses. First of all, through the technologies that mediate the ways in which we experience, know, interpret, classify and exist in the world.

Seeing conflicts as an enormous amount of data, circulating online at a considerable speed, they transform feelings and experiences; especially through what is understood as information warfare, a disinformation campaign, as well as the automation of warfare itself today. The development of technology redistributes depictions of crises and military conflicts, making them the site of war as well as part of the daily news.

The exhibition will be followed by a lecture by exhibition co-curator Matthew Fuller. On December 6, starting at 15:30 p.m., Fuller, who is a professor of Cultural Studies at the most prestigious "Goldsmiths" University in London, will speak on the topic of research aesthetics.

As a cultural theorist, his research work is in the spheres of art, science, politics and aesthetics. Fuller is the author of numerous publications, including How to Sleep: The Art, Biology and Culture of the Unconscious (Bloomsbury, 2018), How to be a Geek: Essays on Software Culture (Polity, 2017), "Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility" ("Minnesota", 2019), as well as co-authored with Eyal Wiseman, the book "Exploratory Aesthetics: Clashes and the common in the politics of truth" ("Verso", 2021).

The graphic design for the exhibition is by Denis Saraginovski, and the exhibition design was prepared by Jovan Ivanovski.