MBF2018 ALIEN BODIES: Weekend 1 -Exhibition
‘Everyone’s quick to blame the alien’ Aeschylus, The Suppliants (490BC)
With ALIEN BODIES, we want to seek, confront and empathize with the alien, whether that is our environment, ecosystem, other organisms (animals, plants, microorganisms), objects and matter, man-made technological aliens (robots, AIs and our algorithmic fabrications), the alienness of political, economical and cultural structures, or alien human beings in places near or remote who have become the invisible or undecipherable other. Especially in today’s climate, we feel it is of particular importance to address the idea of Alienness. People, communities, and nations are turning more and more solipsistic, enclosing themselves into bubbles of kinship and pushing away what is different, what is unknown. Find our more on the festival’s website.
Founded, directed and curated by Stelios Manousakis and Stephanie Pan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXm9y52ahBE MBF2018 ALIEN BODIES: Weekend 2 – performances https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaAP9WpN0K8
MBF2018 ALIEN BODIES: Weekend 1 – Exhibition & Symposium
| Year: | 2018 |
| Type: | Festival as art project |
| Featured artists: | Rita Gobi (RS/HU) & Ryuji Yamaguchi (JO/JP), Meinhardt Krauss Feigl (DE), Moritz Simon Geist (DE), Julian Hetzel (DE/NL), Maria Molina Peiro (ES/NL), The Constitute (DE), Weihaw Wang (TW/UK/JP), Tivon Rice (NL/US), Hertog Nadler (NL/IL), Alina Ozerova (RU/NL), Sabina Hyoju Ahn (KR/AT), Natalia Papaeva (RU/NL), Alcaeus Spyrou (GR/NL), Erdem Tasdelem (TR/CA), ^ studio (RU/DE/CH), Enfant Terrible (NL), Phil Toffer (NL) |
| Dates: | 26-28 October & 2-3 November 2018 |
| Location: | The Hague, NL: Grey Space in the Middle, De Nieuwe Regentes, iii workspace @ WD4X |
| Materials/Media: | Intermedia / Mixed media / Multimedia |
| Photo credits | Erin McKinney, Madhouse Heaven |