In collaboration with the Syracuse University Humanities Centre, Slought foundation and the Treaty of Utrecht, the Centre for Humanities is presenting a symposium, workshop and exhibition around Immanuel Kant's foundational essay "Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch" (1795).
The exhibition runs from October 13 - 27 in the
Utrecht University Library on the Drift, in the inner city of Utrecht.
The installation is arranged in an open space with 6 video monitors each depicting a response on Kant’s Perpetual Peace text. The installation implies that there is a virtual conversation amongst the artists and academics in the short film that does not necessarily have and end. At the entrance of the Library, their will be a blue board, cohesive with the style of the PPP, with a brief description of the project and all sponsors. Between two screens there will also be a round board with information on the speakers.
In the centre of the exhibit space an Computer Pillar that is logged onto a specially made PPP blog space, on which the visitors of the exhibition can write down their reaction to the statements on peace, in order to keep dialogue flowing.
The Exhibition presents complexity surrounding the concept of peace between the fields of diplomacy and theory anchored in Kant's Perpetual Peace essay. The format of the exhibition rejects the notion of a “locked picture” and instead presents the ideas in a form of an ongoing or flowing dialogue.
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