• 8 июля 2014, вторник
  • Москва, Institute for African Studies 30/1, Spiridonovka Street, 123001 Moscow

"Ten thousand wiles and a hundred thousand tricks", last stop of Meeting Points 7 in Moscow

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3552 дня назад
с 11:00 8 июля до 18:00 22 августа 2014
Москва
Institute for African Studies 30/1, Spiridonovka Street, 123001 Moscow

V-A-C Foundation and the Young Arab Theatre Fund are proud to present the final chapter of the contemporary arts festival Meeting Points 7 in Moscow. The international group exhibition, entitled Ten thousand wiles and a hundred thousand tricks, is curated by the acclaimed curatorial collective from Zagreb, Croatia, WHW. Previously held in Zagreb, Antwerp, Cairo, Hong Kong, Beirut and Vienna, the Moscow version of the show is hosted by the Institute for African Studies.

"Ten thousand wiles and a hundred thousand tricks" features the work of twenty contemporary artists presented in the unique location of a working scientific institution that does not lend itself easily to the demands of the white cube, but neither to site-specificity rooted in its physical location or the temporality of its scientific, cultural and political roles. Resisting the drive towards nostalgic celebration of international solidarities during the times of anti-colonial liberation struggles and the symbolic capital that the Institute for African Studies in Moscow entails, the exhibition rather acknowledges its own status as a temporary intruder, pushing the agenda of anti-colonialism towards contemporary class struggles. It takes a stance against the processes described by David Harvey as "accumulation by dispossession", colonial replays, the revival of Cold War rhetoric and stereotypes, the neo-imperialism of multinationals and international organizations, and the renewed imperial aspirations of states as they play out in present geo-political constellations.

Meeting Points 7, a multidisciplinary contemporary arts festival focused on artistic production from the Arab World, began in 2012 in the aftermath of the shockwaves of popular rebellion that had been reverberating across Arab World countries since 2011, alongside the prolonged economic crisis and various anti-capitalist movements across the world that have dented the myths of neoliberalism and delegitimized the existing social and economic order. Two years later, the apparent stifling of these movements still keeps their assessment open. On one hand, celebrated as novel political movements, without hegemonic organizations and leaders, indicating alternative means of emancipation, and on the other, denounced as failed revolutions that allowed for a speedy conservative restoration of intact coercive apparatuses or, even worse, that led to a descent into chaos and the rise of ethnic and religious strife, these movements reopened the question of how to regard revolutions historically and politically, and pushed forward the idea of international solidarities and an awareness of the mutual conditioning of social battles in different regions of the world.

Under the title "Ten thousand wiles and a hundred thousand tricks", a quote taken from Wretched of the Earth (1961) by Frantz Fanon, a philosopher and a revolutionary, written as a reflection on the Algerian Revolution and taking its title from the opening lines of the Internationale, the song of theworld workers’ movement, Meeting Points 7 was conceptualized as a dialogue whose non-linear chapters digress, continue, complete and contradict each other.

Starting from the context of artistic production in the Arab World, but looking for routes of escape from the games of national or ethnic representations, Meeting Points 7 was devised as an international exhibition taking place in different geographic locations, whose artists, artworks and conceptual focuses shifted in response to the local contexts in which it was realized: Zagreb (Gallery Nova, September 2013), Antwerp (MuHKA, October 2013), Cairo (Contemporary Image Collective, February 2014), Hong Kong (Para Site, March 2014), Beirut (Beirut Art Center, April 2014), and Vienna (21er Haus, in partnership with Wiener Festwochen, May 2014).

Curated by What, How and for Whom / WHW

Participating artists: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Chto Delat, DAAR (Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti, Eyal Weizman, Nicola Perugini), Karpo Godina, Iman Issa, Sanja Ivekovi!, Maryam Jafri, Nikita Kadan, Rajkamal Kahlon, Anton Kannemeyer, Vlad Kruchinsky, Runo Lagomarsino, Victoria Lomasko, Maha Maamoun, Tom Nicholson, Trevor Paglen, Darinka Pop-Mitic, Mykola Ridnyi, Maxim Spivakov, David Ter- Oganyan

Institute for African Studies

30/1, Spiridonovka Street, 123001 Moscow

8 July — 22 August 2014

Please note that individual visitors are not allowed entry due to the academic functioning of the Institute. To attend the exhibition, please join one of the guided group tours at 11 am and 4 pm every weekday. You should specify the most convenient time of viiting in the registration form below.

 

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