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MaMA x Nieuwe Instituut: Meme Talk around Portal Park

Immerse yourself in the fusion of the digital and the real world during the meme presentation by NRC journalist Süeda Işik around the exhibition Portal Park, on display in the showroom of MaMA. During the evening, Işik and the audience explore the intertwining of shitposts and journalism, the blurring of the boundaries between the online and offline world and how Gen-Z uses the internet as a form of self-expression.

22 July 2023 13:00 - 14:30

NRC-journalist Süeda Işik. Photo: Lin Woldendorp

Süeda Işik

Süeda Işik is a journalist at NRC. In her work she focuses on what the boundaries are between the real world and virtual worlds. In her weekly meme column, Isik dives into liminal spaces; interviewing individuals behind shitpost profiles, and explains why certain memes, for example a meme about a specific Honda dealership, work so well.

Portal Park. Design: Studio Appartement. Photo: Ricardo van den Berg. Editing: Mark van der Sluis.

Portal Park

Portal Park welcomes you in a new world in the heart of Rotterdam – a play paradise, a staged reality, a place of illusion, disillusion and possibility. Programme maker Maria Mombers uses the internet is an inexhaustible source for connection and content and poses the question: how do you move forward in a world where it is no longer clear what is real and what is not? And more importantly, what if that difference no longer matters?

With work by: Lena Kuzmich, Emily Mulenga, Vincent Snijders and Zuza Banasińska.

The exhibition is on display from 30 June until 27 August 2023 in Showroom MaMA.

Portal Park is made possible by: Gemeente Rotterdam, Mondriaan Fonds, Elise Mathilde and Nieuwe Instituut.

Maria Mombers

Maria Mombers (1998) is a visual artist, designer and teacher with a fascination for pop and internet culture. With an interest in the social side of the online domain, she searches digital environments for content of which she believes belongs in a contemporary art museum. Her findings are as funny as they are bizarre. Not the technology itself, but our relationship to these new developments, are central to her work.

Language: English | Location: Nieuwe Instituut | Tickets: 10,-/5,-/0,-

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