The Grand Exhibition: «Great Disorder»

Within the scope of this exhibition, we address the theme of «Great Disorder, ” analyzing numerous spheres where its manifestations are transforming what exists. The feeling of increasing entropy and the turbulent nature of contemporary processes compels reflection on the ubiquity of this phenomenon. Ultimately, orderliness, structure, and predictability appear more relative and transient, whereas the entropic nature of existence is likely one of its primary essential characteristics.

This year, for the first time, the open call was open not only to students, alumni, and faculty of the Design School, but also to independent artists. The competition was hosted on the art.mediiia platform—a space created in partnership with the School—where contemporary artists and curators showcase their projects, art critics publish research, and cultural reviewers provide commentary on events in the art world.

We attempt to define disorder and explore the nature of the apparent chaos in complex phenomena: processes of decay, forms of digital and technological entanglement, the multiplicity of the subject, and the ecological dimension of entropy. Simultaneously, we examine possibilities for resisting these processes and localizing chaos—its aesthetics and metaphoricity—including dreams as a domain of semantic confusion.