  Laura Mudde  Yes Naturally - How art saves the world, Het Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, 2013  Uncommitted Crime - How art and biotech affect us, Quartair Contemporary Art Initiatives, The Hague, 2012 |
The next guest and lecturer of the Check-in Budapest curatorial visitor program is:LAURA MUDDE, independent curator Date: 31th March 2014 (Monday), 18.00
Venue: Studio Gallery (Studio of Young Artists' Association) "In my lecture I would like to introduce the exhibitions Yes Naturally, how art saves the world (GEM/Photomuseum, the Hague, 2013) and Uncommitted Crime, how art and biotech affect us (Quartair, the Hague, 2012), and their interdisciplinary nature. I will also share the outline and aims of the research I am doing currently. Together with Claire van Els we are developing an international group exhibition and discursive program The Measure of our Traveling Feet. The project places itself within the social and political debate about finding ways of living together in contemporary Europe. In a time where the consequences of the ideals underlying the formation of the union become clear, while our concepts, symbols and vocabulary still seem to be based on old oppositions. The Measure of our Traveling Feet researches how contemporary art can play a role in the imagination, conceptualization and redefinition of different forms of mobility in contemporary Europe. What do these new and at the same time constant flows of migration mean for the condition humaine? How absolute is our freedom? And what is its function and value in a globalized society? How do the borders in a frontierless Europe look like? We are aiming to develop a traveling group exhibition presented at three institutions in respectively The Netherlands, Hungary and Romania. A public program consisting of lectures, debates, performances, screenings and gallery talks will accompany the exhibition. At the end of the presentation I would like to use the opportunity to open up a conversation about the topics mentioned above, like the consequences of being part of the EU for the (cultural) life in Hungary and the role of the arts in imagining a shared future.
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