Saturday, 4th February
 Collecting Europe

Festival programme day 2

Fru Fru - 'Eurasic Bath', 2017 (c) Fru Fru Fru*Fru - Eurasic Bath
11.30, 12.30, 13.30
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
 
Enfolded World: Mysteries of Lost Civilisations – workshop with Tu Wei-Cheng
10.30-13.30
Come and roll an impression onto clay using roller stamps which were moulded and cast in a Taiwanese workshop. During this session, you will be invited to join the discussion prompted by what you find in the imprints, and the links between them and artist, Tu Wei-Cheng's commission 'A World in Waiting', in which false cultural relics pose the question 'What is Europe now?' What could happen during the next 2000 years to bring about and leave us with discovered cultural relics like this? War? Natural disaster? Or just time?
Location: Level 3, Learning Centre, Art Studio
 
I Have No Recollection – Rosa Barba
10.30-14.30
In this photography workshop you’ll cross centuries and capture images of objects in the Museum from around the world, including the Ardabil Carpet, the wine cup of Shah Jahan, and the British 19th-century ceramics collection, to help develop an understanding of identity. In a similar way to objects in your own home, you’ll consider how the objects in the Museum talk to you in terms of the past, personality and intimacy. How does the construction of our own visual language influence us across place and time? 
Location: Level 3, Learning Centre, Lunchroom
This activity is suitable for 8-12 year olds
 
IC-98 in Conversation with Risto Isomäki
14.00-15.00
Is there a sustainable future for a united Europe, both economically and environmentally? Artists IC-98 and science- and science fiction writer Risto Isomäki imagine the alternatives to our current culture of debt, reliance on fossil fuel and disregard for other species.  The session will envisage the possibilities of a world without humans.
Location: Level 3, Learning Centre, Lecture Theatre
 
Mapping and Making
11.00-16.00, drop-in
Work with artist Molly Behagg to create a map of the Museum, travel across time and discover objects from faraway places.
This activity is suitable for all ages.
Location: Level 0, Europe 1600-1815, Room 4
 
4017 Enacted
13.00-18.00, Tours 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 0, Grand Entrance, Meeting Point