Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan Perspectives #13

Thursday, July 9, 2015, 6 pm
Urban Struggle as a Cultural Production
Talk with Galit Eilat (Curator, Amsterdam and Berlin)
In English language

The year 2011 was a significant year for social unrest. The demonstrations in Egypt snowballed into a worldwide movement from Brazil to Russia, Turkey, Greece, Israel and more. For a moment, the struggles commanded international attention from politicians, artists, theorists and institutions. Since that time, resistance to neo-liberalism and dictatorship has shifted in many directions. In her lecture Galit Eilat would like to look at past and current urban struggles as a critical generator of contemporary cultural production.

Galit Eilat is an independent curator and a writer and the founding director of DAL – The Israeli Center for Digital Art in Holon. Among her co-curated exhibitions are the 31st Sao Paulo biennial (2014), Black or White, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2013); Yael Bartana: And Europe will be stunned, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2012) and Venice biennial, Venice (2011). Her projects deal with the topics of the political situation in the Middle East, activism and the political potential of art.