Who We Are:
Curator and manager
Concept and Exhibition Design David Goldenberg
Project Manager Jon Fawcett
Assistant Fiona
Website advisor Simon
Advisors:
Dr. Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield
Professor Uranchimeg (Orna) Tsultemin
Dr Maria Kheirkhah
Dr Jamie Wagg
Peter Suchin
Cora
Contact details
dged03@hotmail.com
What we are planning
Touring Exhibition 2025/2026
London
Mongolia
China
Mexico
Comprising installations, talks, performances, and events.
Use existing artworks to trigger responses, alterations, and additions by different audiences and a program of discussions.
A matter of life and death
The project addresses the increasingly severe attacks on art and the literal appropriation of whatever art is, and we can confidently acknowledge the termination or end of art.
The gravity and repercussions of this state have not been fully comprehended, nor its consequences.
These questions and issues open up widespread fundamental problems and raise questions about the ontological status of the object of art as it is understood within the Western Empire and its histories and theorisations.
How do we define whatever art is under the regime of Neoliberalism, the violence and destruction of Neoliberalism, and other Popular regimes’ impact on art, the appropriation and submergence of art within the regime of these governmental forms? How and in what way is it possible to register, comprehend, and look for necessary solutions and break from the state of normalisation and business as usual? We have to think carefully about whether art and the institutions of art that we can now call neoliberal art and neoliberal institutions of art can accomplish this task. This leads to trying to understand why art and its institutions claim to be able to look at and open out such a wide range of issues. And what are we to make of recent projects, theories, and research into neoliberalism? And do they constitute a credible analysis, or can they, in effect, be seen to bury an understanding of the violence of neoliberalism back within neoliberalism itself and, therefore, subject to the same violence? These ambiguities can’t be allowed to exist if we are to seriously get to grips with the dangers that are posed by Neoliberalism and Populist Governments and their programs.
What do we need to take into consideration here?
The project looks at the survival of Art and how to proceed under increasingly hostile conditions and censorship. It is a State of emergency, a matter of life and death, where we confront actual situations rather than wish the problems away.
The starting point is to confront Neoliberalism’s destruction of art and thinking and how to recover whatever art and thinking is.
Start by establishing a Non-Neoliberal exhibition and practice.
How do we understand how art reflects and understands reality compared to actual conditions in Gaza? That confirms that Western Colonialism has not changed and that we are passive bystanders to Barbaric events, making a mockery of history and its crimes, and the claims for change in society and culture, especially around notions of Post-Colonialism and inclusivity.
What do we need to know about existing conditions, Neoliberalism, and the far right to understand what is taking place and reflect on this in an exhibition?
What can art do, and what can’t it do? What are its limits?
What can Neoliberal art and commodified artworks do under current conditions? And are the limits established by art within the Neoliberalism ecosystem?
Establish an international alliance of cultural workers to rescue art and test ideas.
Break Neoliberalism and Colonialism to advance art to where it ought to be.
Speakers
Matt Kennard
List of artists
London Team
Peter Kennard
Terry Atkinson
Rasheed Araeen
Renzo Martin
Ghislaine Leung
Brook Andrews
Alessandra Ferrari
Simon Denny
Decolonize this Space
16 Beaver Group
Christoph Buchel
Khalil Rhabah
Abou Rohme & Basil Abbas
