How do artists perceive, express or solve contemporary challenges such as loss of meaning in a world that appears to be overwhelmed by crises of all sorts? How can we approach pressing global threats, including climate change and wars, without being overtaken by opinions and delusions of everyday life? What does it mean to be human today?
The four founding artists of the collaboration: Karin van der Molen (NL), Katharina Lökenhoff (D), Karem Ibrahim (EG, UK) and Pat van Boeckel (NL) take a stand against nationalism. The project doesn’t choose sides other than humanitarian and ecotopian.
The artists raise the white flag to ‘stay with the trouble’.
It means to point out the need for a change of the contemporary common narrative towards bearing witness of the great challenges and to acknowledge that the complexity of nowadays global problems require a PAUSE, an abstinence of easy opinions and temporary solutions. The white flag serves as a symbol of surrender to not-knowing, the white as a place of roaming in a place to explore a core humanity and empathy.
