The Great Babylon Circus, curated by the Berlin based critic and curator Lukas Feireiss in collaboration with MU, brings together cutting-edge creatives from the field of art, architecture, and design to engage in the continuation of the never-ending design of the Tower of Babel. The Tower of Babel is one of the primordial metaphors of architecture, art and construction, as well as of the multiplication and confrontation of diverse languages and styles. The tower also symbolizes the ultimate hubris of human creation -- the ambition to build something larger than life itself.


The circus

With the round tower as a central element in mind, The Great Babylon Circus choreo- graphs ambitious experimental artistic positions from around the globe with a joyful sense of the spectacular. MU becomes the arena in which visions of the world collide and melt together. In a collaborative effort, spatial installations and visuals from micro to macro-scale are presented, reaching out as a source of inspiration and an invitation to build on and on for creatives across all disciplines.


Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today – Wetlands Collage.

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Lukas Feireiss.

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June 24 - October 2, 2011.

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Mounir Fatmi (Maroc/France) Project Morrinho (Brazil) Speedism (Belgium/Germany) Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today (United Kingdom).

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Published on: June 30, 2011
Cite: "The Great Babylon Circus. The Lure of Architecture" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/great-babylon-circus-lure-architecture> ISSN 1139-6415
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