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Opening: 26.05.2023 – 20:00

26.05—25.06.2023

Exhibition

Curatorial Studies:
Dancing Forward, Looking Backward

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Curatorial Studies (KASK & Conservatorium) presents their show Dancing Forward, Looking Backward.

Traditions come in many forms, carrying different meanings for each one of us. They are revived through our bodies as sources of collective wisdom and action, yet they also live within us as limiting and oppressing forces. This double-edged sword cuts into a myriad of complexities: How do we relate to so-called traditional ideas through the body? Does the body remember what was once silenced? Are bodies able to tell us something other?

Dancing Forward Looking Backward features a group of international artists whose works deal with the embodied complexities of tradition - understanding the body as a living archive. From queering embodied experiences to re-enacting erased narratives through the body, the artists explore how our bodies collect and remember, resist and protest, celebrate and reimagine tradition in their own ways.

  • Participating artists: Felipe Arturo, Juan Pablo Echeverri, Vincent Ferrané, Tarek Lakhrissi, Wang Mengfan, Almagul Menlibayeva, Julieth Morales, Hwayeon Nam, Sheida Soleimani, Evelyn Taocheng Wang and Xiyadie.
  • An exhibition by Curatorial Studies Class of 2022-2023: Laura Sofía Arbeláez, Yehbonne Bien, Jiao Feng, Sophie Fitze, Hannah Keirsse, Jessica Meuleman, Davide Musco, Sepehr Sharifzadeh, Milana Starklova, Laurine Tribolet, Lise Van Acker and Dajo Van den Bussche.
  • Special thanks to: Godart Bakkers, Hera Chan, Coll. Wilfried & Yannicke Cooreman, Bieke Criel, Olivia de Vos, Valentijn Goethals, Laura Herman, Harlan Levey, Samuel Saelemakers, Anna Stoppa, Nick Terra, Elles Walschaerts, KIOSK, Kunsthal Gent team, S.M.A.K., and Ghent University
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Programme
    • 11.06 - Free Guided Tour of the exhibition, 17:00 - 18:00*
    • 18.06 - Free Guided Tour of the exhibition, 17:00 - 18:00*
    • 22.06 - Affective Reading Session Workshop, @Syllabus, 18:00 - 20:00 — Reservation required
    • 25.06 - Free Guided Tour of the exhibition, 16:00 - 17:00*
    • 25.06 - Body in Space, Body in Time workshop, @ Syllabus, 17:00 - 19:00 — Reservation required

* The Guided Tours are free, open to everyone and limited to 15 people.

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Curatorial Studies:
Dancing Forward, Looking Backward

MDC KHG CS 01 001 LR