29 Sep 2024
10:00 - 16:00
Finissage: Really? Art and Knowledge in Time of Crisis
Join us on Sunday 29 September 2024, as we conclude the exhibition, Really? Art and Knowledge in Time of Crisis with a full-day symposium at Framer Framed. Featuring conversations and discussions on how artists tackle the erosion of trust in knowledge and the rise of disinformation through their investigative and critical practices.
Numerous commentators and critics have observed a profound crisis in what it means to know and not know – an epistemological crisis, a crisis of knowledge. While this issue is old, there has been an intense debate for over four decades about what constitutes ‘valid’ knowledge and what does not. However, this problem has been greatly exacerbated by the spread of massive misinformation tactics. These tactics, employed by a new breed of malign state and corporate actors, are designed to create strategic doubt using sophisticated internet-based media forms.
Artists have responded by using critical investigative and forensic practices to challenge this strategic epistemological uncertainty and the resulting collapse of trust in institutions that are supposed to ‘know’. However, this ‘evidentiary’ turn in aesthetics and artistic research brings its own challenges. As curators Mi You and David Garcia put it, these works often “project an aura of the irrefutable”, creating a need to move beyond “uncomplicated scientific empiricism”.
How do we navigate the complexities of a situation in which, as the exhibition asserts, the crisis of knowledge and the crisis in politics have become one and the same?
The symposium consists of two thematic blocks of interlocked conversations that explore the challenges of epistemological uncertainty and possible ways to counter strategically created doubt, including new approaches to documentary practices.
The conversations involve artists present in the show, theorists, researchers and activists, including interventions by the research group Politics of Knowledge of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK). The symposium is moderated by co-curator David Garcia, Eric Kluitenberg (Tactical Media Files) and Alexandra Barancova (NADD – Network Archives Design and Digital Culture).
Speakers
Contributors include Paolo Cirio, RIWAQ, UKRAiNATV, Lua Vollard, Anke Haarmann, Fieke Jansen, and the Politics of Knowledge Research Group (KABK).
Join us on Sunday 29 September 2024 from 10:00 – 16:00 and confirm your attendance by signing up here!
This event is in English and free of charge. Donations are welcome.
This event may be photographed and filmed. Please let us know in advance if you prefer not to have your picture taken.
This event is supported by the Network Archives Design and Digital Culture.
Framer Framed is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Amsterdam Fund for the Arts; Municipality of Amsterdam; and VriendenLoterij Fonds.
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Exhibitions
Exhibition: Really? Art and Knowledge in Time of Crisis
Exhibition about the commodification of knowledge and ignorance, curated by Mi You and David Garcia
Agenda
Opening: Really? Art & Knowledge in Time of Crisis
Opening of the exhibition about the commodification of knowledge and ignorance, curated by Mi You and David Garcia
Network
RIWAQ
Center for Architectural Conservation
UKRAiNATV
Art Collective
Eric Kluitenberg
Independent theorist, writer, and organiser
Paolo Cirio
Artist
