Friday, 3rd February
 Collecting Europe

Festival programme day 1

'4017 Enacted'-Tour (c) Common Initiative und Onkar Kular 18.30-22.00
There will be music and drinks available throughout the evening in both the Grand Entrance and the John Madejski Garden. Food and drinks will be served in the Café until 21.00.

Collecting Europe Tour
18.30
Location: Level 1, Grand Entrance, Meeting Point

Design Culture Salon
UK design post Article 50
18.30-20.30
The result of the UK’s referendum on EU membership has caused uncertainty across many industries. What does this mean for European and British design? Is there a distinctly European design culture and, if so, what is this? How might British design and the cultural industries become realigned once the UK leaves the EU? What other international alignments are there at work for British design?
Location: Level 2, British Galleries, Clore Study Room 55

The Return of Tipu’s Tiger – Raqs Media Collective
19.30-20.30
This lecture performance is a communication from the future, channelled by Raqs Media Collective. In this future, Tipu’s Tiger has become an uncanny meme for Europe’s presence in the world. It is meant as a funny, fantastical reminder of the ongoing battle between defeat and victory; man and nature; history and mystery.
Location: Level 3, Learning Centre, Lunchroom

Jasleen Kaur in Conversation with Elinor Morgan
19.30-20.30
Join artist Jasleen Kaur in conversation with Elinor Morgan, Curator at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. The discussion will centre on Jasleen's Collecting Europe commission 'Yoorop' and her wider practice, which currently encompasses sculpture, video and social practice as part of an ongoing exploration into the malleability of culture and how social histories become embedded in materials and objects.
Location: Level 0, Europe 1600-1815, Room 4

Europa – IF&00
19.00-20.00
Ian Hutchinson from IF and Alastair Parvin from 00 tell the story of their Collecting Europe project, Europa: an imagined collective that offers digital or ‘parallel’ citizenship to anyone, granting citizens the rights and social security that were once provided by the nation state. They’ll be sharing the ideas behind the project, and opening up a discussion about the changing nature of citizenship in the digital age.
Location: Level 3, Learning Centre, Lecture Theatre

How Do Neural Networks Access Cuture?
Constant Dullaart in Conversation
20.00-21.00
What are the political implications of creating data sets for machine learning? Join artist, designer and performer Constant Dullaart, V&A Senior Curator Corinna Gardner, Europeana’s former Community Developer James Morley and Christoph Rauhut from the German National Committee for Monument Protection as they discuss the problems and peculiarities of recording complex and multi-facetted cultures for neural networks.
Location: Level 3, Learning Centre, Lecture Theatre

Eurasic Bath – Fru*Fru
18.45, 19.45, 20.45
In a series of performances, Fru*Fru bring to life three different futuristic bathroom situations, performed within a technological set. ‘Eurasic Bath’ sees the overlapping of culture and technology, building a Eurasic identity of intimacy and consumption. The use of technology in these future imagined bathrooms promotes the creation of blurred identities by turning intimate spaces into performance stages.
Location: Level 1, The Raphael Cartoons, Room 48a

A Song for Europe - Thibaut de Ruyter
20.00-21.00
Join Thibaut de Ruyter as he explains and plays the song choices from his commissioned poster 'A Song for Europe'. From Kraftwerk to Kate Tempest, together the songs create an intriguing poem where 'Europe' is repeated and considered on a historical, ironic or personal level.
Location: Level 3, Bridge by lift O

Curator's Tour of Ephemeral Architecture
18.45
Senior Curator of Designs, Olivia Horsfall Turner, takes you on a tour of the V&A’s Ephemeral Architecture display. This dynamic and diverse tradition of temporary architecture defies our expectations of architecture as permanent and monumental.
Location: Level 1, Grand Entrance, Meeting Point

Remco Torrenbosch and Amira Gad Walking Talk
19.00
Listen to the fragmented score of Remco’s commission ‘EU, 2017’, a contemporary version of Beethoven's Ode to Joy, as Remco and Amira take you on a journey between all six fragments and contemplate the history of Europe, its music and its flag.
Location: Level 1, Grand Entrance, Meeting Point

4017 Enacted
18:00-21.00, Special tour versions will be running continuously
In the year 4017, how might identity and territories be transformed by advances in artificial intelligence? What if multiple data streams could define citizenship, or if Europe itself ceased to be a fixed continent and became a land mass with daily changing borders depending on data flows? Location: Level 1, Grand Entrance, Meeting Point