Engaging FLEFF 2025’s theme of 'movement,' the Arts in Movement exhibition investigates ways that artists both respond to social changes through movement and also initiate news ways of conceiving movement as a socially engaged arts practice that opens questions, not always considered by the computational, natural, and social sciences.
Arts in Movement considers art that literally moves, as in cookbooks, songbooks, and graphic storytelling alongside art that emerges from movement, as in field and auditory research, forced migration, and voluntary itinerancy. In particular, the exhibition focuses on how movement reroutes thinking and making at a nexus of environmentally-inflected topics such as agriculture, damming, food, labor, migration, pollution, trade, and memory.
The exhibition will go live on Friday 28 March, 2025 and conclude with an online panel discussion with featured artists on Friday 11 April, 2025.
Dale Hudson , New York University Abu Dhabi
Claudia Costa Pederson , Wichita State University