Meeting Points 7

Meeting Points is a multidisciplinary contemporary arts festival focusing on contextualised presentations of art from the Arab World. [email protected]

The 7th edition of Meeting Points is a series of successive exhibitions, taking place from September 2013 to June 2014 in several cities of Europe, Asia and the Arab World: Zagreb, Antwerp, Hong Kong, Moscow, Beirut, Cairo and Vienna. In comparison with previous versions of Meeting Points, this sequence of exhibitions takes a step out of the Arab World – in terms of the cities where they take plac

e, the list of participating artists and the general stance to refrain from national or regional representation. This is very much to do with timing. The process of organising Meeting Points 7 coincided with the aftermath of the popular rebellion that has been shaking the Arab World since 2011, and also with the rise of various other social movements across the world. The last two years have been a time of intense public discussion about the existing social and economic system. The title of this exhibition is a quote from the revolutionary philosopher Frantz Fanon’s book Wretched of the Earth, written in 1961 as a reflection on Algeria’s liberation from French colonial rule, whose title, in turn, quotes the opening lines of the Internationale, the song of the world workers’ movement. As an exhibition title, the phrase Ten thousand wiles and a hundred thousand tricks refers only indirectly to Fanon’s analysis of the passage from colonialism to neo-colonialism and the transformation of anti-colonial revolutionaries into the administrators of a post-colonial order, but it does use his insight to assess the role of middle classes in today’s movements and configurations, including the new globalised class of artists, curators and intellectuals. Similarly, the ‘wiles and tricks’ make us think of the many creative counterstrategies for exposing, recycling and subverting oppressive infrastructures, which have erupted in recent protests and uprisings and forged new alliances between political activism and aesthetic gestures. Yet the exhibition itself is not an attempt to highlight or archive these outstanding episodes of our time. ‘Wiles and tricks’, rather, allude to the ever-shifting ground of complex, unfinished social processes that we see in the Arab revolutions and in the current radical reconfiguration of capitalist development throughout the world. Curators: What, How & for Whom/WHW
Organized by: Young Arab Theatre Fund (YATF)

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31/08/2014

Zagreb, Antwerp, Hong Kong, Cairo, Beirut, Vienna and finally Moscow. 7 cities, 7 stops for the 7th edition of Meeting Points. Check out the latest news, pictures and updates on our website! YATF

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04/08/2014

Meeting Points 7 / last station: Moscow. Exhibition till the 22nd of August.

«Десять тысяч уловок и сто тысяч хитростей».
Институт Африки РАН, ул. Спиридоновка д. 30/1.
7 июля - 22 августа 2014.

«Десять тысяч уловок и сто тысяч хитростей» — заключительная выставка междисциплинарного фестиваля современного искусства Meeting Points 7, который с сентября 2013 года прошел в Загребе (Gallery Nova), Антверпене (M HKA), Каире (Contemporary Image Collective), Гонконге (Para Site), Бейруте (Beirut Art Center) и в Вене (Wiener Festwochen). Кураторы Meeting Points 7 — коллектив WHW.

Фотографии Юрия Пальмина.

Ten thousand wiles and a hundred thousand tricks
Institute for African Studies, 30/1, Spiridonovka Street, 123001 Moscow
8 July - 22 August 2014

Ten thousand wiles and a hundred thousand tricks is final chapter of the contemporary arts festival Meeting Points 7, which was held starting on September 2013 in Zagreb, Antwerp, Cairo, Hong Kong, Beirut and Vienna. Meeting Points 7 were curated by curatorial collective WHW.

Photographs by Yuri Palmin

25/07/2014

«Мы ведь сами достаточно экзотичны» | Colta.ru

09/07/2014

Meeting Points 7 Moscow

«Мы ведь сами достаточно экзотичны» | Colta.ru В Москве открылась седьмая часть кочующей выставки на тему колониализма

07/07/2014

In the framework of MP7 Moscow

Rajkamal Kahlon • Born in 1974, lives in Berlin

The lingering spectre of colonialism and the aesthetics of (Western) ethnography are in continual focus for Rajkamal Kahlon. In Ten
thousand wiles and a hundred thousand tricks, she exhibits Did You
Kiss the Dead Body?, a series of over-painted US army prisoner autopsy reports, and three of her disconcerting cut-out figures, in which found anthropological images are transformed by added symbols of struggle such as grenades or weapons. These compositions use the strategy of collage to expose the colonial gaze
and to give a belated visual rehabilitation to the figures depicted. Appropriating and subverting colonial imagery, Kahlon’s work stems from a desire to, in her own words, ‘deal with the revenge, violence and rage inherent in colonial exchanges’.

06/07/2014

"Ten thousand wiles and a hundred thousand tricks", last stop of Meeting Points 7 in Moscow /... V-A-C Foundation and the Young Arab Theatre Fund are proud to present the final chapter of the contemporary arts festival Meeting Points 7 in Moscow. The international group exhibition, entitled Ten thousand wiles and a hundred thousand tricks, is curated by the acclaimed curatorial collective from…

05/07/2014

Last stop in Moscow, in collaboration with V-A-C Foundation | e-flux Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Chto Delat, DAAR (Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti, Eyal Weizman, Nicola Perugini), Karpo Godina, Iman Issa, Sanja Iveković, Maryam Jafri, Nikita Kadan, Rajkamal Kahlon, Anton Kannemeyer, Vlad Kruchinsky, Runo Lagomarsino, Victoria Lomasko, Maha Maamoun, Tom Nicholson, Trevor Pagl…

01/07/2014

Maha Maamoun in the framework of MP7 Moscow
"Night Visitor: the Night of Counting the Years", 2011
Series of photographs and video, colour, sound, 8’.

Looking through footage from videos recorded and uploaded on YouTube by the many men and women who broke into Egyptian State Security buildings on 5 March 2011, different narratives of this
highly charged political space and moment are encountered. Beyond the immediate layer of shredded documents and other sought after paraphernalia of this coveted moment, the curious eyes of cell phones expose the psychological space inhabited by both the visitor and the visited.

30/06/2014

MP7 Moscow starting July 8 at The Institute for African Studies

"Procedure Room", Nikita Kadan, 2009-2010
Series of 8 porcelain plates

"This project is about police torture, a widespread practice in contemporary Ukraine. One could also say that this project is about the body, as something personal (unalienated), something private (an object of exchange), and as something that exists for the public good (entrusted to uniformed professionals). The project consists of a set of souvenir plates printed with drawings of police tortures. The choice of forms and visual means is connected with the absence of any clear visual documentation of torture procedures, with their specific ‘invisibility’. The didactic character of these drawings addresses the collective responsibility of all those who know and remain silent, bearing the guilt for what goes on ‘in the shadows’. These instructions have been executed in the style of the “Popular Medical Dictionary” of the Soviet era, where one could often find illustrations of patient-characters with serene facial expressions, even though they are undergoing extremely painful procedures. ‘The doctor knows what he is doing. It’s all for our own good".
Nikita Kadan

26/06/2014

Meet us in Moscow starting July 8 for the last chapter of MP7!

"Fanonian Spirit", Vlad Kruchinsky, 2014
Ink and watercolor on paper, 21 x 38 cm
Courtesy of the artist

Created specially for Meeting Points 7, Vladislav Kruchinsky’s project is a graphic series investigating the history and current state of Moscow’s
Institute for African Studies.The series consists of captioned portraits of researchers working at the Institute and cartoons reflecting on more general notions connected to African Studies in Russia. As a part of the project Kruchinsky, himself a PhD candidate and a junior research fellow at the Institute, has been interviewing his colleagues on a topics varying from Institute’s history to their backgrounds and experiences as workers of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The interviews were later transformed into short captions, which accompany the portraits. This direct and linear approach is being countered in the second part of his work, where, through the medium of cartoons, Kruchinsky touches some more general issues, such as exotisation and selfexotisation, issues of language and a seemingly bizarre position of being an Africanist in Russia.

YATF

31/05/2014

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