- A FESTIVAL FOCUSING ON THE INTERCULTURAL ART SCENE IN DENMARK.
/ February 5th-13th 2011
As something new, you can experience no less than two festivals in Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art in 2011. The first in line, Generous Gestures, is an exhibition event which hides under its title a pressing need to discuss the lack of focus on issues such as interculturalism, xenophobia and Danishness.
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During the 10-day exhibition, a series of public art events will be taking place such as performances, talks, study groups, lectures, filmscreenings and an artist kitchen. SEE THE PROGRAMME HERE
The exhibition has been produced by 25 artists with different national and cultural backgrounds who all have in common that they are artists living in Denmark and that they in the past year have participated in the Danish Arts Agency’s Intercultural Mentor Program, which aims to discuss the issue of interculturalism and the underrepresentation of intercultural artistic practices in Denmark. |
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Their works contribute, both politically and aesthetically, to the discussion on contemporary art today, an area in which the players reflect the Danish society's transition from a homogeneous to a multicultural society.
Generous Gestures is facilitated by Tijana Miskovic and Jane Jin Kaisen, who feel that their efforts and interest in interculturalism in Denmark must be seen in conjunction with a broader artistic, social and cultural understanding of what the National is, who society's "other" is and what - at a given point in time - is considered a cultural, historical and aesthetic part of the cultural heritage and how we understand the evolution of culture and society in general. PRESS RELEASE |
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PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Amir Zainorin, Andreas Olesen, Anne Bennike, Charlotte Haslund-Christensen, David Ramirez, Giuditta R, Juan Hein, Kristine Agergaard, Maher Khatib, Mahmoud Alibadi, Maj Hasager, Marcelo Lerer, Mette Kit Jensen, Michelle Eistrup, Nikolaj Kilsmark, Nynne Haugaard, Parul Modha, Rick Towle, Samaira Ali, Søren Dahlgaard, Thierry Geoffroy, Thomas Bjørkå, Abdul Dube and YNKB.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ARTISTS HERE |
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