The exhibition Voices Outside the Echo Chamber: Questioning Myths, Facts and Framings of Migration takes the phenomenon of echo chambers as a starting point for understanding the meta-framing producing current discourses on migration. More information below.
Curated by Katayoun Arian with works by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Angela Anderson, Kaya Behkalam & Azin Feizabadi, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Banu Cennetoğlu, Harun Farocki, Foundland, Maryam Monalisa Gharavi and Daniela Ortiz.
The form of recent debates about migration to the European continent mirrors that of online filter bubbles, or so-called echo chambers, in which individuals intensify their world-views by surrounding themselves with information that corroborates and echoes back their own beliefs. The recurrent use of terms such as ‘crisis’, ‘borders’ and even ‘human rights’ in these echo chambers, disregards the complexity of human mobility and movement, obscuring the histories created largely by European colonial powers, that call for closer attention to the conditions and uses of such words.
The artists’ works in the exhibition break out of these echo chambers, freeing themselves from regulated discourses propagated through the language used by the media, NGOs and other institutions, which conveniently filters out all other possible perspectives. In an attempt to unsettle fundamental notions such as ‘human rights’ and ‘borders’, the exhibition calls attention to modernist knowledge-systems and structures of truth-making at work today. In destabilizing prevailing views on migration from a historical and contemporary perspective, and by shifting and displacing the meanings of supposedly fundamental concepts, the exhibition and the event program aim to create space for voices that are otherwise filtered out or marginalized.
Forthcoming events include dialogues with collectives and individuals, artists, activists and thinkers on the injustices of the migratory control system and the discursive framework of human rights.
Radio shows in collaboration with Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee
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The opening event is a Framer Framed collaboration with Ongekend Bijzonder and Beeld voor Beeld film festival.
See: http://bit.ly/1YsjMk8
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