The World Explained
9 December
2011 until 11 March 2012
Park Hall,
Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam
‘Our view of the world consists to a large
extent of suspicions, makeshift connections and personal interpretations.’
Erick Beltrán
From 9 December 2011 Mexican artist Erick
Beltrán presents the art project The
World Explained. Since September 2011, Erick Beltrán and a team of young
anthropologists began interviewing residents of Amsterdam, assembling the results in a
contemporary encyclopaedia. You can see the results of these interviews until
11 March 2012 in the Park Hall of Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam.
For the occasion, Park Hall, Tropenmuseum, will
be refurnished as a live print workshop: here visitors are interviewed and
selected stories are printed on three printers. In Tropenmuseum you can view
the 32-page volume of the latest theories.
Three
editions: Amsterdam, São
Paulo and Barcelona
Before this edition, Erick Beltrán produced
volumes of The World Explained in São Paulo (2008) and Barcelona
(2009). You can also see the personal theories he collected there, compare Amsterdam’s mentality with that of São
Paulo and Barcelona.
When the exhibition finishes, the three editions will be combined to form a
single complete volume.
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