Matadero Madrid center for contemporary creation
TRANSEUROPA 2017
A Festival of arts, politics and culture
Programme
The influx of refugees and migrants in Europe is often interpreted in media and political discourse as a crisis and a threat. TRANSEUROPA brings to Madrid a series of exhibitions questioning the role of Europe and its responsibility to be a place of sanctuary today.
The exhibitions by the the curatorial collectives Perpetuum Mobile and AthenSYN as well as Athens Biennale and the National Museums of World Culture in Sweden display a series of different viewpoints and artistic expressions both by artists with a refugee background and without. The exhibitions are part of ‘Re-Build Refuge Europe’, a project led by European Alternatives and co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Commission, that brings together partners from the UK, Sweden, Spain, Finland, Germany, and Greece.
The pieces brought together in these exhibitions all share the fundamental aim to break stereotypical imagery and counteract the dominant discourses and visualisations of ‘crisis’ and ‘threat’ of newcomers.
TRANSEUROPA provides a space to link up cultural and societal actors mobilised in different corners of Europe to exchange and build new cultural practices. As part of this exchange, Oliver Ressler also brings two video works that reflect on the voices that go unheard in the so called “refugee debate”: Emergency turned upside Down and There are no Syrian Refugees in Turkey.
Opening of exhibitions: Wednesday, October 25 at 8 pm.
The exhibitions by the the curatorial collectives Perpetuum Mobile and AthenSYN as well as Athens Biennale and the National Museums of World Culture in Sweden display a series of different viewpoints and artistic expressions both by artists with a refugee background and without. The exhibitions are part of ‘Re-Build Refuge Europe’, a project led by European Alternatives and co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Commission, that brings together partners from the UK, Sweden, Spain, Finland, Germany, and Greece.
The pieces brought together in these exhibitions all share the fundamental aim to break stereotypical imagery and counteract the dominant discourses and visualisations of ‘crisis’ and ‘threat’ of newcomers.
TRANSEUROPA provides a space to link up cultural and societal actors mobilised in different corners of Europe to exchange and build new cultural practices. As part of this exchange, Oliver Ressler also brings two video works that reflect on the voices that go unheard in the so called “refugee debate”: Emergency turned upside Down and There are no Syrian Refugees in Turkey.
Opening of exhibitions: Wednesday, October 25 at 8 pm.
