“CARAMBAS Y GÜIRAS”
Make the Conditions Dance: 50 Years of Kemnade International
© Heinrich Holtgreve
Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum (DE)
2024
about carambas y güiras
“In the summer of 2024, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of an experiment: in 1974, the Bochum Art Museum launched Kemnade International, a festival that focused not only on music and art, literature, and dance, but also on networking and shared knowledge. It became an outstanding example of the rich culture of our region, a culture that has long been shaped by migration. What remains of that utopia? What stories still need to be told, what dances still need to be danced? Together with artists from different generations and former festival participants, we have looked from the present into the living history of the festival.
Our large exhibition space becomes a platform of multi-voiced sounds and memories, offering suggestions for a new way of living together and a critical view of the present. How can a dialogue between generations succeed, and what does solidarity mean today? And how much festival can fit into a museum space? Following the logic of a festival ground, things happen here simultaneously and collectively. With playable instruments, installations, film, and archival materials, the exhibition is an invitation to come together again and, even today, make the circumstances dance once more.”
Our large exhibition space becomes a platform of multi-voiced sounds and memories, offering suggestions for a new way of living together and a critical view of the present. How can a dialogue between generations succeed, and what does solidarity mean today? And how much festival can fit into a museum space? Following the logic of a festival ground, things happen here simultaneously and collectively. With playable instruments, installations, film, and archival materials, the exhibition is an invitation to come together again and, even today, make the circumstances dance once more.”
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