On Wednesday 28 November, the artists, selectors and curator of Artes Mundi 5 will come together with historians and critics to discuss the exhibition. Three presentations from invited historians and academics will provide alternative frames of reference for the work; while panel sessions and roundtable discussions between the artists and selectors will offer opportunities to talk about individual projects.
The event concludes with a reception at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, and a world premiere performance of Bäckström’s new play Motherfucker.
On the morning of 29 November, a follow-on event ‘The Morning After the Day Before’ will be held at Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales. Additional satellite events include The Critical Mass Symposium on 6 December, a one-day event bringing together early-career practitioners to reflect on the practices of this year’s Artes Mundi artists.
Established in 2003, Wales’s biggest contemporary visual art exhibition aims to demonstrate the capacity of the visual arts to communicate across linguistic and geographic boundaries – exploring socially engaged practices that are both locally meaningful and internationally relevant.
Works in this year’s show – which range from Miriam Bäckström‘s large-scale tapestry of figures composed of broken mirror fragments; to a video installation by Phil Collins featuring broadcast recordings of a futuristic teleshopping channel – engage with themes of place and community, subjectivity and identity, the documentary and the fictional.
Artes Mundi 5 – Social Contours: Art at the Borders, Wednesday 28 November, Reardon Smith Lecture Theatre – Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales. Tickets £25.00 / £20.00. artesmundi.org
