Exhibition

Unorganised Response

6 Jul 2019 – 8 Sep 2019

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Saturday
12:00 – 17:00
Sunday
12:00 – 17:00
Thursday
12:00 – 17:00
Friday
12:00 – 17:00

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Auto Italia South East

London
England, United Kingdom

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Unorganised Response explores the ways in which artistic production is used as a tool for influence by organisations engaged in international cultural relations and diplomacy.

About

Bringing together artists, activists and community organisers, this project asks how creative workers navigate local and international cultural infrastructures when commissioned to build connections, engender trust, and respond to complex geopolitical events. Throughout this programme we encounter a pervasive image of an ideal creative worker who is autonomous, transnational and readily mobilised, employed to facilitate the soft power politics of repair, healing and regeneration under the guise of cultural development. How does working in this way affect artists’ experiences of belonging, representation and cultural ownership?

Unorganised Response launches with an exhibition at Auto Italia featuring works from Kareem Lotfy, Christelle Oyiri and Grace Samboh + Julian Abraham “Togar”. The exhibition explores the ways in which artists mobilise critically and collectively to resist being reduced to their various identity markers, through a series of projects that explore advocacy and self-organisation through personal and often celebratory experiences.

The exhibition features a publication of conversations co-commissioned by Auto Italia and Cemeti Institute for Contemporary Art and Society in Yogyakarta, which includes contributions from Marleen Boschen, Kate Cooper, Ali Eisa, Sulafa Hijazi, Daniela Ortiz, Christelle Oyiri, Jamal Nxedlana, Grace Samboh and Julian Abraham “Togar”. The publication brings together artists’ experiences of the politics of representation, community organising and educational work.

Exhibiting artistsToggle

Marleen Boschen

Julian Abraham

Sulafa Hijazi

Daniela Ortiz

Christelle Oyiri

Grace Samboh

Jamal Nxedlana

Ali Eisa

Kate Cooper

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