ESSCS visits “Beyond Paradise” at SMBA
As part of the Amsterdam 2008 session, the participants of the European Summer School in Cultural Studies have visited the SMBA exhibition Beyond Paradise, curated by Delphine Bedel and Ayako Yoshimura, in collaboration with Jelle Bouwhuis. The visit included a session with the curators in which they explained the motivation behind the exhibition: “The starting point of this exhibition stems from the paradox that tourism still involves romantic, if not paradisiacal imagery, whereas the tourist experience is actually shattered by all kinds of forces that haunt our daily lives: commercialism, gentrification, the complex entanglement of migration and tourist destinations, war, and fear of terrorism.” Beyond Paradise runs until 7 September 2008.
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