Hope4Hope – Cross-Disciplinary Investigations

As global crises multiply and exhaustion becomes chronic, the very notion of hope feels suspiciously kitschy, yet all the more desirable. While despair tempts us with a deceptive clarity, the challenge of our time lies in rediscovering the potential(s) of hope. We, the Master students from the Department of Cross-Disciplinary Strategies, are undertaking a search for the manifold traces of hope in our daily currents and surroundings – exploring the conditions under which hope manifests and/or becomes a definitive feature of our activities. Undermining the constraints of traditional disciplinary boundaries, we want to investigate the phenomenon of hope through a mix of artistic strategies, scientific methods, performative moves and technological tools. By interweaving different methodologies and approaches, the exhibition sets out to generate a multifarious map of different modes of hope, such as hope as collective emotion, hope as illusion, hope as resistance ... Together, the works form a constellation of diverse perspectives, depicting possible hopes “for hope” in a collective brainstorm to which visitors are very much invited to contribute.