Where Do We Migrate To?
Exhibition at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture
Curated by Niels Van Tomme, Director of Arts and Media at Provisions Learning Project in Washington, D.C. and organized with the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, Where Do We Migrate To? explores contemporary manifestations of required mobility as well as experiences of displacement and exile, and examines how intensified situations of transition inexorably undermine our cultural and personal notions of settlement and belonging. In establishing an imaginative framework that allows artworks to inspire new insights about such conditions, the exhibition also questions notions of inherence and destiny.
Where Do We Migrate To? features the work of nineteen internationally recognized artists and collaboratives including:Acconci Studio, Svetlana Boym, Blane De St. Croix, Lara Dhondt, Brendan Fernandes, Claire Fontaine, Nicole Franchy,Andrea Geyer, Isolla & Norzi, Kimsooja, Pedro Lasch, Adrian Piper, Raqs Media Collective, Société Réaliste, Julika Rudelius,Xaviera Simmons, Fereshteh Toosi, Philippe Vandenberg, and Eric Van Hove.
An accompanying film and video program, curated by Sonja Simonyi, will feature eight programs/screenings by a wide range of international filmmakers and video artists including: Ulirch Seidl, Ursula Biermann, Herman Asselberghs, Lonnie Van Brummelen, Berni Searle, Chantal Akerman, Pavel Brailia, Egle Rakauskaite, Tanja Ostojic, Oliver Husain, Usha Seejarim, and Isaac Julien.
Admission to the exhibition is free. The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and is located in the Fine Arts Building. For more information call 410-455-3188.
Image: Xaviera Simmons, (detail) Superunknown (Alive In The), 2010, C-prints mounted on Sintra, dimensions variable/size of installation variable, first produced for Greater New York 2010 MoMA/PS.1.