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Imagining a Tidalectic Worldview

July 4 – September 30, 2018

Susanne M. Winterling

Susanne M. Winterling, Glistening Troubles, 2017. Installation view: Oceans at Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, 2018. Photo: TBA21

Newell Harry, Untitled (Anagrams + Objects for R.U. & R.U. Installation view: Oceans at Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, 2018. Photo: TBA21

Janaína Tschäpe with David Gruber, Fictionary of Corals, 2017 and Blood, Sea, 2017. Installation view: Oceans at 1483, Lopud, 2018. Photo: TBA21

Newell Harry, Trade Delivers People (sometimes): Vignettes for N.J. Installation view: Oceans at 1483, Lopud, 2018. Photo: TBA21

Julian Charrière, Iroojrilik, 2016. Installation view: Oceans at 1483, Lopud, 2018. Photo: Reto Guntli, Adeilson Simoes

Tue Greenfort

Tidalectics

TBA21–Academy

Oceans. Imagining a Tidalectic Worldview presents 17 artists whose works cast oceanic perspectives on the cultural, political, and biological dimensions of the oceans, some examining the effects of human-made issues such as climate change and sea-level rise, and others reimagining human and “more-than-human” relationships. Organized by TBA21-Academy and the Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, is presented in two parts, at the Museum of Modern Art in Dubrovnik and at the newly restored Franciscan Monastery on the island of Lopud. The symposium Return to the Sea spanned across the opening of Oceans in its two locations to inaugurate the exhibition by focusing on the important issues facing the oceans today and on the policies that could bring about change as seen through the lens of art.

…like the movement of the ocean she’s walking on, coming from one continent/continuum, touching another, and then receding (“reading”) from the island(s) into the perhaps creative chaos of the(ir) future… —Kamau Brathwaite

Coined by the Barbadian poet-historian Kamau Brathwaite, the term tidalectics describes a worldview that draws on “the movement of the water backwards and forwards as a kind of cyclic motion, rather than linear.” In this spirit the exhibition suggests a different way of engaging with the oceans and the world we inhabit. Unbound by land-based modes of thinking and living, it is reflective of the rhythmic fluidity of water and the incessant swelling and receding of the tides. Curated by Stefanie Hessler, Oceans is comprised of nine new commissions, many the result of the Academy’s expeditions in the Pacific Ocean, alongside some exceptional pieces from the TBA21 collection.

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CURATOR

Stefanie Hessler

ARTISTS

Doug Aitken, Atif Akin, Darren Almond, Julian Charrière, Rineke Dijkstra, Elmgreen & Dragset, Tue Greenfort, Ariel Guzik, Newell Harry, Alexander Lee, Armin Linke, Eduardo Navarro, Lisa Rave, Sissel Tolaas, Janaina Tschäpe & David Gruber, Jana Winderen, Susanne M. Winterling

LOCATION

Franciscan Monastery Lopud
Samostan Gospe od Špilice
Island of Lopud
July 10 – September 30, 2018
Tue – Sun, 11 am – 7 pm
Tickets for Lopud are available on site and online

Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik
Umjetnička galerija Dubrovnik
Frana Supila 23
Dubrovnik
www.momad.hr
July 4 – September 30, 2018
Tue – Sun, 9 am – 8 pm

SYMPOSIUM AND OPENING

On Wednesday, July 4, the Symposium Return to the Sea starts at 6 pm at the Museum of Modern Art in Dubrovnik, and is followed by the opening of the exhibition at 8 pm.
The symposium continues on Friday, July 6 at the Franciscan Monastery Lopud.

SUPPORTED BY

Air Tahiti Nui

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