Battle of Ideas
Museums for World Peace?
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Photo: © Jessica Long
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Cultural diplomacy’ is in vogue. The idea is that museums, galleries, libraries, art, theatre and music can play a critical role in international relations. The think tank Demos recommends these institutions address terrorism and conflict in the Middle East, and work to enhance relations with diasporas. Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, argues that the museum, its staff and collections can play a role in state-building and promoting peace and stability internationally, as well as helping those who visit in Bloomsbury to understand and appreciate other cultures. It is argued that in the context of a world that is experiencing a dramatic resurgence in nationalism and sectarian violence, encyclopaedic museums can play a positive role in encouraging understanding and tolerance between cultures.
But can culture really ease international conflict and foster tolerance? Or does looking to old objects to find messages of tolerance for today meaning obscuring the contemporary reasons behind conflicts? Does assigning cultural institutions such a role risk undermining their more traditional goals, or even compromise their scholarly objectivity? What kind of relationships should Western cultural institutions have with their counterparts abroad, and to what purpose? What role, if any, can and should museums play on the international stage?
Speakers:
Dr. Stephen Deuchar, Director of Tate Britain
Dr. Tiffany Jenkins, sociologist; Director of the Arts & Society programme at the Institute of Ideas
Jonathan Jones, Art Critic of the Guardian
Andrea Rose, Director of Visual Arts at the British Council
Tim Stanley, Senior Curator, Middle East at the V&A, as well as the principal author of Palace and Mosque: Islamic Art from the Middle East
Claire Fox, Director of the Institute of Ideas and panellist on BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze
£10 (£8 concessions), booking recommended
or call 020 7887 8888.
25th September
Opening 19.00 h
in 2 galleries
at the same time
in Berlin
Dörrie Priess gallery, Yorckstraße 89a
http://www.doerrie-priess.de
and
Crystal Ball gallery, Schönleinstraße 7
Overground-galerie and Underground-gallery
underground – overground
SÉANCE VOCIBUS AVIUM
extinct birds – reconstructed sounds and drawings
by WOLFGANG MÜLLER
different and similuar
ähnlich und verschieden
zugleich
you are welcome!
Beau Travail
Claire Denis’ masterful film explores the activities of a small company of French Foreign Legionaries, and the conflicts that arise within the group. “This film communicates predominantly through gestures and looks rather than through dialogue or plot,” says Nashashibi, “and, like plays within plays, the final scene encapsulates the whole work in a single physical activity so satisfying and complete, it’s stunning.”
Claire Denis, France 1999, 93 mins, cert 15
£5
| Date | Time | Venue | Book |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday 27 September 2009 All tickets £5 only |
2:30 pm | Cinema 1 | |
| Monday 28 September 2009 All tickets £5 only |
6:30 pm | Cinema 1 | |
| Thursday 1 October 2009 All tickets £5 only |
8:30 pm | Cinema 2 |
Van DoesburgSimultaneous Counter Composition 1929-30
© Private Collection
Controversial and opinionated, van Doesburg formed relationships with the most influential artists of mid-century Modernism. There will be over 300 works by 80 different artists on display including works by Alexander Archipenko, Raoul Hausmann, El Lissitzky, László Moholy-Nagy, Hans Richter, Gerrit Rietveld, Sophie Taeuber and Piet Mondrian.
The new piece by Rosas is a creation for nine men and one woman. The performance raises the question: Where are we going in this world that seems to be turning faster and faster? Which values do we share, what belongs to the past and what belongs to the future? The body –still- has a central place in this whirlwind of change. Like a sounding board in a chaotic world. Choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker will collaborate closely with light sculptor Ann Veronica Janssens and visual artist Michel François. They turn the space into an ever-changing field of possibilities. As the game of sound and light waves unfolds, a different environment is revealed each time. The new creation continues where previous performances Keeping Still and Zeitung left off.
- Artists
- Rosas
- Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
- Eleanor Bauer
- Mikael Marklund
- Simon Mayer
- Carlos Garbin
- Pieter Ampe
- Matei Kejzar
- Michael Pomero
- Sandy Williams
- Bostjan Antoncic
- Mark Lorimer
A production by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Ann Veronica Janssens & Michel François
Mark Lorimer, Bostjan Antoncic, Sandy Williams, Michael Pomero, Matei Kejzar, Pieter Ampe, Carlos Garbin, Simon Mayer, Mikael Marklund & Eleanor Bauer (dancers), Claire Diez (dramaturgy), Eugénie De Mey (musical dramaturgy), Anne-Catherine Kunz (costumes)
Production: Rosas
Coproduction: De Munt / La Monnaie, Théâtre de la Ville, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Concertgebouw Brugge
Oren Ambarchi / Manuel Mota
The Australian guitarist and percussionist Oren Ambarchi creates slow yet exciting compositions with which he allows his totally unique guitar sound to be heard. He manipulates the sound of the instrument to such extents that it is hardly recognizable as a guitar. Through live performance Ambarchi is proven to be a gifted improviser, both as a solo artist and in collaborations, including those with Sunn O))), Christian Fennesz, John Zorn, Phill Niblock, Keith Rowe and Dave Grohl. His CD releases are produced by the renowned electronica label, Touch.
Manuel Mota is an experimental jazz and blues guitarist / improviser from Lisbon with a very personal, almost radical “finger style” of guitar playing. He has shared the stage with Margarida Garcia, Sei Miguel, Rafael Toral, Chris Corsano and Philll Niblock.
€ 10 / 7
****May not be suitable for under-15’s****
La Fura dels Baus’s the Catalan ‘total theatre’ company that famously created the Barcelona Olympics opening ceremony, makes its ENO debut with a production of this intensely dark comic masterpiece by György Ligeti. (after de ghelderode)
With outrageous wit, wildly virtuosic vocal writing and astonishing filmic effects, La Fura dels Baus’s Le Grand Macabre is a spectacular surrealist farce set in a fantasy world that laughs in the face of modern life and points to the moral: eat, drink and make love, for who knows when the world might end. La Fura dels Baus recently produced one of the most unforgettable Ring Cycles of the last 30 years, to enormous critical acclaim and sold-out audiences.
Watch a video introducing Le Grand Macabre through the world of percussion. Le Grand Macabre: Beeping in Breughelland
‘A magnificently clever production… you find yourself chuckling about it the morning after’
Financial Times
‘An astonishing achievement’
The Sunday Times on La Fura dels Baus’s Seville Ring CycleA co-production with La Monnaie Brussels, Gran Teatro del Liceu Barcelona and Teatro dell’ Opera di Roma
Sep 17 • 22 • 25 & Oct 1 • 9 at 7.30pm | Oct 3 at 6.30pm
6 performances. Running time: 2hrs 15mins
Pre-performance talk by Richard Steinitz: Sep 22, 5.30pm, London Coliseum, £4
ENO Youth Summer School focusing on Le Grand Macabre, 25 – 28 August. For more information click here
New production supported by the 20 / 20 Group
A co-production with La Monnaie Brussels, Gran Teatro del Liceu Barcelona and Teatro dell’ Opera di Roma
Venus/Gepopo Susanna Andersson; Mescalina Susan Bickley; Prince Go-Go Andrew Watts; Piet the Pot Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke; Nekrotzar Pavlo Hunka; Astradamors Frode Olsen; White Minister Daniel Norman; Black Minister Simon Butteriss; Amanda Rebecca Bottone; Amando Frances Bourne
Conductor Baldur Brönnimann; Directors Alex Ollé and Valentina Carrasco; Set Designer Alfons Flores; Video Designer Franc Aleu; Costume Designer Lluc Castells; Lighting Designer Peter van Praet; Translator Geoffrey Skelton
The Abattoir Pages
Written and directed by John Harrigan
Thurs 22nd - Sat 31st October 2009
Guerilla Zoo and FoolishPeople present The Abattoir Pages, an immersive Halloween event, hosted in a vast, secret subterranean landscape that was once one of London’s largest abattoirs.
The Abattoir Pages combines immersive performance, art installation, haunting and treasure hunt-style activity to form a labyrinth of mystery and horror, exposing the earliest Gaelic and Pagan rites. Once inside, audience members will be free to explore the abandoned underground chambers, join the secret party or may be caught in the middle of the most terrifying of puzzles.
This Hallowe’en, the infamous horror author Helen Mayer will hold court at a debauched secret party. She will share the perverse and warped research conducted inside the old abandoned abattoir, which was the genesis of her greatest work. In this dark playground, the very nature of human terror has been tested, abused and fed into the living story ‘The Forest’.
The author invites you to solve the puzzle and unlock the terrifying history within the old and powerful pages hidden throughout the slaughterhouse. Each holds a key to learning the truth of an ancient tale, which will ensure your survival.
Tonight, a debt will be repaid to blood dishonoured. An eternal nightmare rises up from the depths of the dark boreal forest, in the shadow of the mountain. It comes to feed on new meat inside an old abattoir.
Entrance times: 7.30pm, 8.30pm & 9:30pm
• Ticket Prices £15 Limited Edition £20
• Tuesday 27th October ‘PAY WHAT YOU CAN’ (Subject to availability)
• All tickets are NON-REFUNDABLE
• Not suitable for people with a nervous disposition
The Old Abattoir, 187- 211 St. John’s Street, Clerkenwell, London. EC1V 4LS
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