Considering the contradictory terms—such as “public friendship” and “private public”—that define this social and cultural sphere, we would like to inquire into possibilities for alternative social forms and different modes of critique that enable constructive dissidence and conflict to be produced. The dialogue of the symposium will be taken as the source material for the script of an online test-forum to be structured and composed by a group of students from the department of graphic design at ArtEZ, The Arnhem Academy of Art and Design, which will be accessible to the public after 13 December
Language: English
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Contributors:
Design Negation [1] is a research team at Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, dedicated to the investigation of populist politics in both the Netherlands and abroad from the perspective of design and theory.
Mia Jankowicz (London/Amsterdam) is a curator and art critic, currently participating in the Curatorial Programme at De Appel in Amsterdam. She was a curator at Gasworks in London and recently co-organized, with Anna Colin, the project Disclosures, on the notion of openness across fields of cultural production at large.
Annette Krauss (Utrecht) is an artist. She, together with artist Petra Bauer, realized the project Read the Masks. Tradition is not Given. at Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, rethinking the social implications of the Sinterklaas/Zwarte Piet tradition. The project generated extremely intensive – mostly negative – public reactions in diverse press media, which led to the cancellation of a protest-march, which was originally planned as part of the project.
Florian Schneider (Munich) is a filmmaker and writer. He was one of the initiators of the campaign Kein Mensch ist illegal at Documenta X in 1997. Subsequent projects include the No Border Network and the onlineplatform kein.org. His current research project, Imagery Property, examines issues of ownership and open-source.