Current Values

In his lecture, ‘Neoliberalism and the Iconography of the Local’, Professor Christopher Parker focuses on the consequences of the neoliberal processes of globalization for the ‘Global South’; artist Melle Smets talks about the African car, TURTLE 1, that he and his team in Ghana manufactured locally using discarded car scrap from the West; Tuur van Balen from the design duo Cohen van Balen introduces ’75 Watt ‘, an object designed to be used on an assembly line in China whose sole purpose is to elicit a dance during the production process so that the workers’ movements shape the products; and artist Tinkebell talks about how she raises money from art projects to help Peruvian slums and Filipino hostesses.