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Betsy Damon has been fascinated by water for the past 35 years. In her recent work, which can be seen against the walls, she examines the relationship between water and the stars, between microscopic drops and galactic eruptions.
In the 1990s, when awareness about climate issues was still in its infancy, Damon created installations and performances with local artists in Asia. Her aim: more attention for protecting water sources. You can see a documentary about this on the platform and screens.
The series Zanzibar is about trips Himid has taken. In 1959, she left Zanzibar as a four-month-old baby. She returned to the island for the first time 38 years later. She discovered that she had unconsciously painted the place, the sounds and her memories of Zanzibar all this time.
In 1991, French philosopher Felix Guattari visited Chili, where he gave a reading of The Three Ecologies. It appeared prophetic for understanding the link between our natural, social and personal worlds. In this room, you can see photos of Guattari's visit to Chilli and a documentary about his ideas
Here, you see some issues of the magazine Revista de Critica Cultural, created by Nelly Richard in 1990. This magazine grew into an internationally oriented platform for Chilean artists, writers and thinkers after Pinochet's dictatorship.
This new film by artist and activist Cecilia Barriga is about various feminist internationalism issues. In the film, she combines film material from the 1990s with recent images and shows how the issues of the past are still relevant today.
Cokes’s black & white video Mikrohaus, or the black atlantic? consists of a rhythmic interchange of music and text from the 1990s and early 2000s. The video connects transnational events and music styles, such as German Techno and its pre¬decesors in Detroit and Chicago.
This room shows the work of various artists and collectives in their battle against AIDS. You see a series of poetic anti-war posters and the video performance SIDA DA by the Spanish artist, activist and pacifist Miguel Benlloch (1954–2018).
The international network ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) was established in 1987 in New York as a solid organisation. The local branch in Barcelona however, was set up due to a combination of circumstances. Videos, posters and other materials provide an insight into the activities there.
CEPSS (Center for Studies and Prevention in Health and AIDS) was founded in 1989, based on an initiative by Christian Rodríguez, a left-wing Chilean activist. In this room, you see documents that refer to the history of CEPSS.
The basis of the multimedia installation REWIND / REPLAY is the archive of the Gate Foundation, which was established in 1988 to raise awareness of non-Western art among a Dutch audience. Images and light from various sources form a strange new mix.
Oguibes work Many Thousand Gone comprises 84 painted portraits of unidentified persons. It is a monument to the victims of the AIDS pandemic in South Africa. Medicines against this disease were, much like the COVID-19 vaccines, predominantly available in Europe and the USA.
Pekün's film Disturbed Earth is based on the 24 hours before the fall of Srebrenica in 1995, after which 8,000 Muslim men and boys were murdered. The script is based on transcriptions of meetings between the UN, NATO and White House officials.
In this room you see the work of artists who took part in the exhibition Contemporary Art of the Non-Aligned Countries: Unity in Diversity in International Art held in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1995. Non-Aligned Countries have no political allegiance with the major powers of the USA or Soviet Union.
This room shows the film Shokouk (Doubt) by the Pejvak duo, which plays out around the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the largest space launch facility in the world. You can also see the bed of astronaut Sergej Krikolev, who went into space in 1991 and returned after the fall of the Soviet Union.
The story of Philips in the 1990s is one of change due to globalisation. Van Onna’s photos depict Philips buildings and factories in Eindhoven, which, as a result of the relocation of the head office to Amsterdam and the production to non-European countries, ended up empty.
L'Association pour la Démocratie à Nice (AdN) was established in 1991. The photos in this room show how AdN activists reacted to the emergence of Jean-Marie Le Pen and the Front National in France. Theirs is a local story, but stems from an internationalist vision.
On 30 november 1999, a protest march against globalisation took place in Seattle. On that same day and in the same city, the WTO held a top about international trade agreements. Sekula’s slide show Waiting for Tear Gas (White Globe to Black) shows photos of the demonstrators.
The end of the Cold War, the AIDS pandemic and increasing globalisation caused massive changes, also in art. Rewinding Internationalism shows how developments, ideas and stories from the 1990s resonate in the world today.