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Together with Hegyi, van Oldenborgh will investigate terms like “participation” and “self-determination,” different valences within today’s neoliberal economies, and discuss the broader production and research involved in the initiation of this ambitious new work. In the two-screen video installation, van Oldenborgh traces the concepts of participation and self-determination embedded in the Karregat project.

Tranzit.hu Director Dóra Hegyi will speak with artist Wendelien van Oldenborgh about her complex new body of work “Beauty and the Right to Ugly.” The piece draws inspiration from the multifunctional community center, Karregat, which opened in Eindhoven in 1972, at the time, a bold experiment in architecture and social design. Within the exhibition’s simulated interior of a spaceship, the dialogues mimic the experience of an astronaut calling Earth while on an outer space expedition. The sessions involve in-person participants in conversation with remote respondents, dialed in via Skype.

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The Spaceship Skype Sessions are a series of talks held in the Fifth Floor gallery during the run of “Report on the Construction of the Spaceship Module,” an exhibition guest curated for the New Museum by. “Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module,” 2014.