YES!!!! > On 31 May 2016, at 11:17, Andreas Broeckmann <a...@mikro.in-berlin.de> wrote: > > Jonas Staal > After Europe > > June 21–October 7, 2016 > > State of Concept > Tousa Botsari 19 > 117 41 Athens > Greece > Hours: Wednesday–Friday 4:30–8:30pm, Saturday 1–5pm > > T +30 21 3031 8576 > i...@stateofconcept.org > > http://www.stateofconcept.org/ > http://www.jonasstaal.nl > > State of Concept is proud to present After Europe, the first Greek > solo exhibition of Dutch visual artist Jonas Staal, curated by Iliana > Fokianaki. > > The exhibition /After Europe/ centers on the current political, > economic, and humanitarian crises in Europe. Rejecting both the existing > managerial and corporate policies of the EU as well as the rise of > ultranationalist parties all over the continent, Staal proposes art as a > space to criticize and rethink the idea of the political union. What comes > after Europe as we have known it so far? Where can the desire and imaginary > of art bring us, to establish a new transdemocratic union? > > The first part of the exhibition consists of the artistic and political > organization New World Summit, which the artist founded in 2012 and > since then has developed by creating "alternative parliaments" for > stateless and blacklisted political organizations from all over the > world. In the past four years, these parliaments have taken the form of > large-scale architectural constructions in theaters, public spaces, and > art institutions, in which the artist invited representatives of > stateless political organizations to discuss the political histories of > their organizations and the alternatives they represent, and furthermore to > debate the violent policies enacted against them by Western democracies in > the name of the War on Terror. From the Basque to the Kurdish and Tamil > independence movements, these parliaments became spaces of assembly to > propose and discuss alternative world orders. Staal's New World Summit is > currently working on a commission of the autonomous Kurdish region of Rojava > (northern-Syria) to build a > permanent public parliament for this revolutionary society. As a whole, > New World Summit makes visible violent policies enacted in the name of > democracy, including the European one, and simultaneously shows the > political alternatives proposed by those who have resisted neocolonial > and neoliberal policies. > > The second part of the exhibition consists of Staal's /New Unions/, the > beginning of a new long-term project shown for the first time, in which > the artist's research in Athens became its point of departure. This > project starts with the current European crises and takes the form of an > artistic campaign to support progressive, emancipatory, and autonomist > movements all over the European continent to explore the possibility to > establish a new transdemocratic union. With the term "transdemocracy" the > artist refers to the massive rise of social movements and new political > parties throughout the continent that have challenged traditional > institutional structures by creating new models of political assembly and > decision making. From the civil initiative in Iceland to collectively rewrite > the constitution after the economic crisis to new pan-European initiatives > opposing the economic terror imposed upon the Greek people. Together, these > political experiments emerging out of Europe propose new forms of > transdemocratic practices, no longer limited by traditional state boundaries. > In this exhibition the artist presents the layout of the New Unions campaign > for the first time. > > Both Staal's New World Summit and New Unions, aim to contribute to the > imaginary of an age after Europe. > > On the opening of After Europe the artist and curator will join the > stage with activists, thinkers and academics to discuss what comes after > Europe. Confirmed speakers are Quim Arrufat (Popular Unity Candidacy, > Catalunya), Angela Dimitrakaki (writer and academic, Greece/Scotland), Maria > Hlavajova (artistic director BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, The > Netherlands), and Vincent W.J. Van Gerven Oei (publisher, punctum books, > US/Albania). For further information about the event refer to > http://www.stateofconcept.org. > > State of Concept is supported by OUTSET Contemporary Art Fund (Greece). The > exhibition After Europe is made possible, in part, by the Mondriaan Fund (The > Netherlands). > > http://outset.org.uk/greece/ > https://www.mondriaanfonds.nl/en/ > ______________________________________________ > SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe > Info, archive and help: > http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
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