Extra Academy #2: The artist's panel - Enacting Populism

03.05.2011, 16:00 — 20:00 Lecture

Extra Academy is a spontaneous alliance of Extra City, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Sint-Lucas Antwerpen.

What does it mean to enact a populist political strategy through an art practice? As part of the project Enacting Populism – that runs in several formats and in different institutions until February 2012 – a panel of artists will address this and other questions inherent to the populist Zeitgeist.

Enacting Populism started its research phase in the frame of the AIR Residency in Antwerp. Within this residency program Matteo Lucchetti, curator of the project, has invited three artists - Francisco Camacho, Luigi Coppola and Danilo Correale - to share this research phase with him and to work on their individual contributions in relation to it.

This residency will have a final outcome scheduled for the 3rd of May at Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen, in the frame of the Extra Academy series, in which an artist’s panel will gather the contributions by several artists that have actively reflected with their visual research on the current forms in which the political sphere represent itself in the mediascape, having often considered specifically the populist movements as a main subject. This public meeting is structured as a workshop in which the confrontation of the different strategies and research can lead to a debate around the possibilities for artistic practices to deal with the ongoing populist dimension of western democracies.

In the title Enacting Populism lays the ways in which the project wants to create a relation with this contemporary populist condition of Europe. ‘Enact’ means to make a plan realized, to carry it on but also to make a representation of this plan, to interpret it. These are the two dynamics that the project follows, having always a double level with which to deal with the concept of populism.

To learn more about the Enacting Populism project: enactingpopulism.tumblr.com

Program:

#2a / The Artists' Panel - Presentations

16:00 - 18:00

With Francisco Camacho, Luigi Coppola, Luisa Lorenza Corna, Danilo Correale, Foundland, Freee, Lungomare and Société Réaliste.

#2b / The Artists' Panel - Discussion

19:00 - 21:00

Moderated by Matteo Lucchetti.

Both sessions are open to public. The floor will be open to questions only in the second one.

Language English

Location Extra City - Antwerpen-Noord, Tulpstraat 79, 2060 Antwerpen