Saturday 28 June 2008, 14.00–16.00

As a prologue within a prologue, Flávia Müller Medeiros invited artist Nasrin Tabatabai for a discussion during which they take the two of their previous works as the starting point to question and reflect on notions of exile.

In 2007 Flávia Müller Medeiros spent time in the capital cities of the Baltic region as part of Holiday in residency, and became interested in the EHU International, a Belarusian university which relocated to Vilnius after its forced closure by the Belarusian government in 2004. Her video 'Untitled', 2007 documents a group portrait of five hundred politically displaced EHU students at the Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius.

Nasrin Tabatabai's video 'Passage', 2005 is a puzzling portrait of an immigrant performing and regaining her daily life while selling magazines at a shopping mall in the city of Rotterdam.

Coming together for the first time at Prologue 2: Exiles, the conversation between the two artists is the beginning for development of a new work.

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Tate Britain  Auditorium
Free
Limited capacity.

  

This event is related to the Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009 exhibition