In Search of Europe: Considering the Possible in Africa and the Middle East - Exhibition project
Daniela Swarowsky
The research projects will be accompanied by an exhibition at the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien in Berlin in 2013. Daniela Swarowsky, an artist, curator and filmmaker who in recent years has developed new ways of reaching audiences beyond the art, academic and cultural circles, has been commissioned to develop and curate this exhibition.
Swarowsky’s concept is to link each researcher with an artist or artist group, ideally from the region or country where the research is located. Six artists will be commissioned to produce new work in collaboration with each of the researchers, developed in an ongoing dialogue between the parties involved. The goal is not a mere translation or interpretation of the scientific research into artistic media, but rather artistic visions around the topics of the research, thus bringing in commentaries from and discourses of local actors. Some researchers are also interested in mediating the methods and process of research itself to a larger audience. Therefore, another layer of the exhibition will not only focus on the research topics as such, but will also include the process of research and fieldwork. As preparation towards the main exhibition in Berlin, part of the concept is to collaborate with cultural actors in the countries of research in organising academic-artistic exchanges in the form of exhibitions, debates, workshops and/or film screenings in the course of 2012. A selection of these works and processes will flow into the final exhibition in Berlin in fall 2013. The exhibit will be accompanied by an auxiliary programme.
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