On Crisis and Representation
On 4 May, 14.30, join us at a sharing event hosted at Perdu, Amsterdam, featuring the cohort of Cycle 1 of the Mentorship Award: Moving Narratives. The gathering invites us to reflect on the prevailing structures of contemporary crises and their critical representations.
Is It A Body: A Field Inside a House, 2019, Dian Suci Rahmawati
Featuring 12 artists and 4 mentors from across the globe, the event will engage with their distinct strategies for re-examining history and challenging dominant narratives.
The event is free of charge - please RSVP via the button below!
Inequality, imperialism, poverty, war, genocide, patriarchy, xenophobia, ecocide — the list goes on. Today, we live in a world where crises accumulate at an accelerating pace. In response, artists and cultural practitioners persist in creatively showcasing catastrophes and their repercussions.
Yet, it seems that so much representation of crisis has itself generated a crisis of representation. This manifests in the fact that we can more readily imagine the end of the world itself rather than transforming the world’s daily suffering. Despite the abundance of artistic responses, photojournalism, forensic documentation, citizen recording, or archiving of the events as they unfold; we remain stuck in the face of an unyielding cycle of repeating crisis.
The symptoms of our contemporary crisis of imagination are closely intertwined with a crisis in representation, requiring a serious conceptual, discursive, and aesthetic engagement.
The cohort of Moving Narratives will curate a sharing moment (of individual and collective, visual, performative, and discursive work) that not only represents crises and their consequences but will also challenge our imagination considering possibilities and approaches that are not simply moved by the world (representing the world as it is), but rather inspire moving the world.
The Mentorship Award: Moving Narratives is organised in collaboration with the British Council.
