KRíSIS

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Friday 28 October – Friday 9 December 2016

In what seems like an intensifying atmosphere of global, media-driven expressions of shock, horror, fear and anxiety – how can we use states of crisis as ways to re-think the future?

Can we harness these acutely painful conditions as opportunities to recuperate alternative modesof creativity?

Curated by Something Human and presented in partnership with the Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University and Nottingham Contemporary, Krísis presents an exhibition and events programme with international visual and performance artists to engage you with multifaceted perspectives on the meaning of ‘crisis’, and its understanding within the current socio-political climate.

Through multidisciplinary artworks, live performance and conversations, the project focuses on crisis as a creative and curatorial opportunity in accordance to artist Charles Gaines’ claim that ‘criticality is a strategy for the production of knowledge’. Krísis explores how these critical conditions can be reclaimed and reconfigured to drive change through artistic practice.

With reference to its Greek etymology, the exhibition addresses the notion of ‘crisis’ as a power of distinguishing, a decision, a choice, a dispute, and it walks the public into a journey that touches different public and intimate spheres. From the crisis of arts institutions (Raju Rage), the blind spots into urban landscapes (John Clang) and connected migrants’ displacement and traces left on their passages (Boedi Widjaja), the audience is invited to engage with stories of women affected by FGM practice (Aida Silvestri), Syrian and Cambodian refugees personal stories of travels and stops (Dictaphone Group, Srey Bandaul, Aida Silvestri); conflicts, memories of passages and healing processes (Tuan Mami, Lynn Lu). Moreover, Krísis presents investigations on the contemporary vocabulary of war (Maryam Monalisa Gharavi), ecological crises resulting from manmade disasters (Sama Alshaibi), economic downturns and financial heavens (Núria Güell and Levi Orta), and personal and common ways to overcome difficult life challenges, implement change and build future sharable knowledge (Marija Milosevska, Nicola Anthony, Post-Museum).

Participating artists include: Sama Alshaibi (Palestine-Iraq) | Nicola Anthony (UK) | John Clang (Singapore) | Dictaphone Group (Lebanon) | Maryam Monalisa Gharavi (US-Iran) | Núria Güell and Levi Orta (Spain-Lebanon) | Lynn Lu (Singapore) | Marija Milosevska (Macedonia) | Post- Museum (Singapore) | Raju Rage (UK) | Aida Silvestri (UK) | Srey Bandaul (Cambodia) | Tuan Mami (Vietnam) | Boedi Widjaja (Singapore)

Krísis is the culmination of the three-year travelling exhibition project MOVE W I T H (OUT), which connected artists with site-specific performances and dialogues in Berlin, London, Rome, Venice, Belgrade, Singapore, Budapest, Skopje and Lisbon.

MOVE W I T H (OUT) trunk and screening programme artists: Zsuzsa Bakonyi (Hungary) | Tanja Balac (Macedonia) | Sarah Choo Jing (Singapore) | Mauro De Giorgi (Italy) | Adolfina De Stefani (Italy) | Nina Feldman (South Africa) | Valerie Grove (UK) | Howard Hardiman (UK) | The Huddle (UK) | Gloria Houng (US) | Andrea Inocencio (Portugal) | The Light Surgeons (UK) | Jakrawal Nilth-amrong (Thailand) | Bill Psarras (Greece) | Ana Rodic (Serbia) | Carlo Michele Schirinzi (Italy) | Shakinart (Italy) | Samin Son (Korea - New Zealand) | Malvina Tan (Singapore) | Ines Von Bonhurst (Portugal)