Mark Nash:

Mark Nash is an independent curator and writer.

Third Way / After Bandung

7 April – 7 June 2020

Screening on loop during opening hours.

Single Screen

Curated by Mark Nash and Vladimir Seput

The programme featured films that engage with post-colonial processes covering different moments and geopolitical contexts. The Asian-African Conference in 1955, known as the Bandung Conference, amidst the complex processes of decolonization, established self-determination, non-aggression, and equality as part of the core values that then formed the Non-Aligned Movement. This history was unpacked and contextualised through the series of eleven screenings.

"The Shadow Never Lies" took place between April and July 2016 at the Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum (M21). The international exhibition has been designed to show how concepts and their aesthetic preoccupations cross political

and cultural boundaries. It includes 34 different artists' works in photography, video, film, animation, painting, installation and performance.

The exhibition has been curated by Jiang Jiehong and Mark Nash.

The exhibition featured artists, filmmakers and groups from across Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. Drawing on film, photography, propaganda and public art, the exhibition presented interdisciplinary reflections on African connections to the Soviet Union and related countries.

Red Africa: Things Fall Apart was a touring exhbition presented at Calvert 22, London; Iwalehaus, Bayreuth; Galeria Avenida da Índia; and the Open Society Archives, Budapest.

One Sixth of the Earth: Ecologies of Image presents art from the last decade from countries that were part of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc. The main focus of this exhibition is on moving image work, the medium of choice of many contemporary artists, with which it develops a broad 'ecological' frame to present and contextualise a wide range of work from very diverse and different countries and cultures.

One Sixth of the Earth: Ecologies of Image understands ecology in the sense that French Psychoanalyst Felix Guattari develops in his essay 'The Three Ecologies' (1989), where he argues that the ecological dilemmas the world is currently facing can only be addressed by addressing human, societal and environmental ecologies as a totality. He also argues that art is one of the ways we can bring these three levels together: artists can be at the forefront of a new synthesis, and we can all learn from the experience of art in ways that can make our lives more balanced and less socially and ecologically disruptive.

This exhibition was curated by Mark Nash and commissioned by and presented at MUSAC from January 28th to June 3rd, 201; and at ZKM Karlsruhe from March 3rd to April 1st, 2013,