Culture+Conflict in partnership with the Goethe-Institut London and Central Saint Martins.
Following on from a sold-out panel discussion at the ICA in October this one-day symposium provides a platform for artists, curators, writers, intellectuals and experts to address the promise of Europe as a place of human rights, security and prosperity; and the Europe of borders, refugee camps, populism, and heightened nationalism.
The event will see artists, experts and professionals working in the field addressing the alarming shifts in current European politics.
Confirmed speakers include Professor
Ulrike Guérot (European Democracy Lab; keynote speech) who has a positive proposition for a new radical version of democracy; artist
Tobias Zielony talking about his work
The Citizen for the German pavilion at Venice Biennial last year, a self portrayal by refugees, rather than the ubiquitous accounts in the media of the ‘other’;
Emeka Okereke, artist and initiator of Invisible Borders (Nigeria), whose work prompts an Afro-centric conversation about Europe, including an account of an overland journey crossing borders from Lagos to Sarajevo;
Nanna Heidenreich, Professor of Digital Narratives at the International Film School, Cologne;
Giacomo Orsini, conducting research into borders at the University of Essex; Palestinian artist
Bisan Abu Eisheh, currently living in Glasgow, who suggests a shared awareness around the details often lost within grand narratives and tangible stereotypes, addressing questions about national identity, mobility, migration and socio-political injustices; Dutch video artist
Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen, who creates captivating visual responses to challenges within today’s society such as migration and disempowerment; and artist
Phoebe Boswell, born in Kenya, a childhood in the Middle East before coming to London, who will explore the meaning of ‘home’ and belonging.
Following works of art will frame and lead the narration of the event: screenings by Christoph Schlingensief (
Foreigners Out! Schlingensief's Container, 2002), Nina Katchadourian (
Accent Elimination, 2005) and Philip Scheffner (
Havarie, 2016) as well as the premiere of Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen’s new audio installation
Quicksand, imagining a future UK where people flee via the same routes currently being used by refugees coming to Europe.
Please join us in exploring this timely subject!
The symposium is followed by a drinks reception, and will conclude with the screening of
Havarie*.
Buy Tickets on Eventbrite *Should you wish to purchase a ticket for the screening of
Havarie only please click
here.
You may also be interested our accompanying
film series: Promised Land at the Goethe-Institut London.
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