Sunday, 5th February
Collecting Europe

Festival programme day 3

(c) Tasha Marks Eurasic Bath – Fru*Fru
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
 
Sugar Sculpture Workshop – with AVM Curiosities & My Mini Factory
10.30 -14.30
Renaissance sugar sculpture and 3D printing are combined in this one-off workshop. You’ll learn about the history of sugar sculpture with food historian and artist Tasha Marks; have a chance to make your own 17th-century sugar paste, and cast a sugar centerpiece using one of the 3D printed moulds from AVM Curiosities’ installation ‘Alabaster Ruins’. Alongside this taste of history, My Mini Factory will showcase some of their 3D print technology, culminating in a guided tour of the Museum where you’ll visit the works that were transformed into the installation, ‘Alabaster Ruins’.
Location: Level 3, Learning Centre, Art Studio
 
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 1, Grand Entrance, Meeting Point
 
Drop-in Design: Cabinets of Curiosities
All day, drop-in
Explore the Museum to discover curious treasures. What will we choose to collect and keep in the future? Select and collect objects and artworks to create your own Cabinet of Curiosities for 4017.
Location: Level 0, Europe 1600-1815, Room 4
This activity is suitable for families