[spectre] 'After Neurath: Like sailors on the open sea'

[Jon Thomson]

Hello,

We are in the following exhibition opening in Holland at the end of  
next week.
Please come along if you're nearby.

best wishes,

Jon & Alison
http://www.thomson-craighead.net

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Stroom Den Haag present:
'After Neurath: Like sailors on the open sea'

Gerd Arntz,
Bureau d'études,
Alice Creischer & Andreas Siekmann,
Stephan Dillemuth,
Chad McCail,
Oliver Ressler,
Thomson & Craighead

curated by Steve Rushton

February 25 thru April 8, 2007
opening reception: Saturday February 24, 5 pm
opening speech by Prof. dr. L. de la Rive Box, director Institute of  
Social Studies
performance/screening Stephan Dillemuth: 4-5 pm
lectures by Oliver Ressler, Chad McCail: Wednesday February 21, 8 pm

location: Hogewal 1-9, The Hague, The Netherlands
opening hours: Wednesday thru Sunday, 12-5 pm

In recent years there has been a renewed interest in the work of the  
Austrian utopian philosopher Otto Neurath (1882-1945), in fields as  
various as fine art, design, philosophy, cultural theory and urban  
studies. With the ‘After Neurath’ project Stroom poses the question  
what Neurath, this architect of modernity, this social engineer, can  
teach us today. The exhibition brings together a group of artists  
whose work engages with the implications of the work of Neurath. They  
investigate the possibilities of collectively building a better  
future, the unification of different fields of knowledge and  
emancipation through organisation. Subjects closely linked to the  
social-democratic ideals from the past, which now, at the start of  
the 21st century tend to be submerged in a culture of individualism,  
consumerism and indifference.