2030: War Zone Amsterdam
2030: War Zone Amsterdam is an international curatorial program by Brigitte van der Sande that explores the possibility and consequences of conflict in a far-future Amsterdam. To kick off the Warzone program, Joost Janmaat and Christiaan Fruneaux took the thirty international artists on a tour to the open society that is contemporary Amsterdam. We visited the vast squatters free state at the ADM wharf, went for a beer at Angels Place, the sancto sanctorium of the radically autonomous motor club, and scrambled through the Red Light District, the world's Free Zone of bad taste, cheap food, sex and drugs, and sleazy morals.
The Amsterdam Radical Freedom Tour took off from the observation that the freedom and peace this city enjoys is not a static affair: it is constantly made. Many of the unique and very specific freedoms of Amsterdam, prosper in the cloudy realm of toleration. Euthanasia, the selling of drugs, prostitution, squatting: all these freedoms are constantly balancing on the edge between the legal and the illegal. Of Law-enforcing and toleration. This particular notion of toleration ensures that the sharp edges of freedom in this city remain a continuous matter of interpretation, discussion and doubt.
The results of the one-week artistic research will be presented at Mediamatic BANK, Saturday November 28. Don't forget to make a reservation.
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