Edited by: Galit Eilat and Aneta Szyłak
Published with thegenerous support of the Polish Institute in Israel, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland.
C.H.O.S.E.N has been published as part of a series of contemporary art readers by the Israeli Center for Digital Art.
The Ideologies constituted in the modern era, Marxism, Nihilism, Communism, Socialism and Nazism, functioned at times as secular options for religious notions. These ideologies are founded on the messianic- profane desire of the modern person, professing singlehandedly to form both this and the next world as one reality. This anthology set out to examine.
Through Polish and Jewish culture, the way national or contemporary communities’ narratives are influenced by messianic thought, and how visions of individuals, nations or countries acting as agents of unique missions of liberations, salvations and intensifications are reflected in contemporary art.
C.H.O.S.E.N anthology is published six years after an exhibition by the same name was presented at the Israeli Center for Digital Art, both are Polish-Israeli cooperation. The book is a co-production of the Israeli Center for Digital Art and Wyspa Institute for Art, Gdansk, Poland. It was published with the generous support of the Polish Institute in Israel, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland.
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