Book launch Exhibiting for Multiple Senses
- Come to Kunstmuseum Den Haag for the official launch of Exhibiting for Multiple Senses!
- With editor and author Eva Fotiadi, author Caro Verbeek and cabaretier and theatre maker Vincent Bijlo
What: Book launch Exhibiting for Multiple Senses
When: Saturday 9 November, 14:30–16:00, followed by drinks
Where: Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Stadhouderslaan 41, 2517 The Hague, Auditorium
Organized by: Avans Center of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology (CARADT), Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Valiz
Entry: Free, but reservation required. Mail to marieke@valiz.nl to RSVP
Language: English
Accessibility: https://www.kunstmuseum.nl/nl/bezoek/toegankelijkheid
Exhibiting for Multiple Senses looks into artistic and curatorial projects that emphasize the multisensory character of the human body in the encounter with artworks. For some time now, numerous contemporary artists and curators have moved beyond the primacy of the visual in the experience of art exhibitions. The book discusses this shift by bringing together experimental exhibitions, curatorial theory, artistic and museum research and disability activism. A central intention is to demonstrate resonances between curatorial theory and practice, on the one hand, and disability art activism on the other.
Exhibiting for Multiple Senses shares famous and lesser-known examples of experimental exhibitions as well as of artists' projects linked to exhibitions. By mobilising the senses of touch, smell, taste, and hearing, as well as applications of multimodal technologies, these examples explore abilities and possibilities of the complex and diverse sensory apparatus that is the human body.
Bios participants:
Eva Fotiadi (PhD) is a researcher at CARADT and a lecturer at St. Joost School of Art & Design. Her current research explores multisensory experiences in art exhibitions, with a particular focus on creative access and disability art activism. This work extends her earlier studies on participatory art practices and exhibition histories. Her writings have been published in English, Greek, Dutch, German, Russian, Polish, and Arabic.
Caro Verbeek is a curator at Kunstmuseum Den Haag and an assistant professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam specialized in the senses and embodiment as (artistic) tools. She teaches sensory courses within academia and art academies with an emphasis on smell and touch, and she has developed the multisensory tour 'Clapping to the Beat of Piet' on rhythm in Mondrian's work and abstract art.
Vincent Bijlo is a well-known Dutch cabaretier and theatermaker, the author of books and columns, and a maker of radio programs and podcasts. https://vincentbijlo.com/