Remarkable Meetings with Disgusting Men
How does political oppression penetrate the individual, infiltrate the boundaries of the body? Remarkable Meetings with Disgusting Men, initiated by EMIRHAKIN, reflects on (self-)censorship as a pervasive experience, and suggests ways to deal with fear.
Remarkable Meetings with Disgusting Men
A highly tangible experience
Initiated by EMIRHAKIN, Remarkable Meetings with Disgusting Men reflects on (self-)censorship as a highly tangible experience, proposing ways for maneuvering through fear. In this exhibition, the strategies of oppressive regimes and their bodily implications are explored, subverted, and reappropriated through a careful spatial choreography. How does political coercion permeate the personal, infiltrate bodily boundaries, and ?
EMIRHAKIN has invited a group of artists to reconfigure the symbols and strategies associated with fear and oppression—holding space to reflect on the erasure of choice, identity, agency, and life within heavily politicized structures. Taking shape through video works, archival footage, performances, sound and light installations, and paintings, the exhibition navigates the manufacturing of (cultural) identity, nationalism, the impact of censorship, and life under authoritarian regimes.
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Dates and times
Thursday 26 September | 12:00 - 18:00 |
Friday 27 September | 12:00 - 18:00 |
Saturday 28 September | 12:00 - 18:00 |
Remarkable Meetings with Disgusting Men
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