Social Practice Lab

On November 8 SPL director Pedro Lasch joins a panel of professionals in Rio de Janeiro to discuss Decolonizing the Museum. Decolonize the Museum: From Collection to Institutional Positioning – Narratives and exchanges of experiences carried out in national and international institutions based on decolonial thinking, approaches and strategies, applied to collections, curatorial and educational processes
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This artist talk will embark on a journey through Mingyong Cheng’s artistic evolution, starting with her early experimental artworks at Duke University, such as "Under Virus" (2020) and "Water or More" (2021). These initial projects laid the groundwork for her shift towards new media art, marking the beginning of her exploration into the boundless possibilities

Water is a main protagonist of all human mythologies, a metaphor for life itself – and at the same time subject of countless, very concrete and rapidly growing conflicts. The 29th edition of The Art of Assembly asks how water can be considered not as a commodity based on concepts like ownership and exploitation, but
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