Troia/Embedded art - project presentation

MMC Kibla, Wednesday, 31.12.2008, 12 pm - presentation of the Troia/Embedded art project.

In 2009, the first exhibition of the year at Berlin´s Akademie der Künste will be devoted to a topical, highly political theme. EMBEDDED ART looks at the threats to unrestricted public life following the 9/11 attacks and the attacks in Madrid, Moscow and London. Security issues in the 21st century have an impact on the day-to-day life of millions of people. Since terrorism has reached major European and US cities that were once considered safe, citizens have been subject to increasing state control. To ensure comprehensive physical, political and national integrity, security has becom a new ideology, the ´mantra´ of civilised society.

For EMBEDDED ART, the curators Olaf Arndt, Moritz von Rappard, Janneke Schönenbach and Cecilia Wee of artist´s group ´BBM´ have commissioned international artists to respond to the current situation. EMBEDDED ART will only show works realised on location or against a background of research into future security. The diverse works focus on the conflicting fields of terrorism and terror, security and control. Broadly speaking, the artists can be said to explore the subject in the following three ways: investigating the validity of ´new threats´, the predominantly technical reactions to these threats, and their resulting impact on society. EMBEDDED ART is the working principle, ´art in the name of security´ is the theme of the exhibition, a provocative phrase which itself is an artistic comment on one of the core questions of global development.

more about project on: http://www.embeddedart.org/