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In the third round of the Open Call Presentations Abroad, proposals were made for presentations in the disciplines of fashion design, urban design, digital storytelling, bio design and art-science, which related to a variety of themes and topics. These include climate change and environmental awareness, circularity, the role of technology within society and the impact of colonialism and political ideology on identity formation.
Most project forms are exhibitions of one or more works within a museum or gallery or as part of programming at a festival or event. Several projects are developing new site-specific work that responds to and/or concerns a local development, place or theme in a programme. For example, as part of Ornamenta 2024, Studio ThusThat is designing an exhibition for the project Treasure to Treasure, Dust to Dust. This deals with the ecological, social and geopolitical nuances surrounding precious metals and silverware in Germany’s northern Black Forest, for which the region was once known. For the Synthetic Exercises project, Andrius Arutiunian was invited to develop a new installation of an existing work for the 15th edition of the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea. The work explores the intertwined history of oil extraction and automatic voice-tuning technologies developed from the same algorithm and its use for value and data extraction.
A number of proposed presentations are the result of collaboration between partners in the Netherlands and other countries. For instance, a group of theatre and film makers, musicians, artists, producers and cultural venues are designing a multidisciplinary installation and performance for the project The Indonesian Dialogues. The aim is to foster space for dialogue on colonialism, heritage and identity in Indonesia through various media, including video installations, live music and illustrations.
