Dienstag, 13. November 2007 09:46:54

Eindhoven Caucus - Van Abbemuseum

November 9 marked the start of the Eindhoven Caucus at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, NL. The Caucus is the second phase of the project Be[com]ing Dutch. During the 4-week Caucus (ending December 6), artistic activity and its relation to democracy, diversity and the nation state are discussed.

Contributors include a broad range of critical theorists such as Rosi Braidotti, Homi K. Bhabha, Galit Eilat, Boris Groys, Dieter Lesage, Chantal Mouffe, Nikos Papastergiadis, Paul Scheffer, Shepherd Steiner, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Gerald Raunig and inspiring artists writers and cultural producers such as Yael Bartana, Abdelkader Benali, Igor Dobričić, Tone O. Neilsen, Sarah Pierce, Bik Van der Pol, Renee Ridgway, Artur Žmijewski and many others.

The weekend public programme is streamed live and there is a blog around the Caucus updated by 10 journalism students of the Hogeschool Utrecht, which can be found here: http://becomingdutch.vanabbe.nl/

http://becomingdutch.com/events/?s=0,9,0