[NetBehaviour] Exchange Mechanism.

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Thu Feb 18 11:01:30 CET 2010


Exchange Mechanism.

Curated by Raimi Gbadamosi
Exchange Mechanism is an exhibition that questions the demands and 
denials of freedom in contemporary life, alongside artists’ 
responsibility to actively engage with the political. Increasing 
regulation of public life, restrictions on travel, censorship and self 
censorship, routine invasions of personal privacy, amidst a general 
sense of public disengagement from political process and debate. This is 
the exhibition’s starting point.

Over eight weeks, Belfast Exposed’s public gallery will be transformed 
into an alternative political space, where activists, artists, campaign 
groups and interested citizens are free to meet to exchange ideas, 
whether via talks and debates on a specially constructed platform or 
informally over a drink or a coffee.

Themes range from imaginative looks at city centre development to 
controversies around photographing in public, human rights, privacy and 
DNA databases; media reporting of political scandals to sectarian 
conflict; photo-journalism in an age of disbelief to debating the 
fallout from global recession.

Presenting contemporary art in the context of live political engagement, 
the newly opened second gallery will be showing three new works by local 
artists, alongside documentary film from the UTV archive and a film by 
curator Raimi Gbadamosi, responding to Belfast Exposed’s political 
photographic archive.

Belfast Exposed, The Exchange Place, 23 Donegall Street, Belfast, BT1 2FF
When: Fri 12 Feb – Fri 9 Apr 2010, Tue-Sun 11am-4pm
Further Details:
http://www.belfastexposed.org/



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