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‘Rewinding Internationalism’ is an exhibition-research project that engages with the construct of internationalism through multiple scenes. It includes five new commissions and a number of collaborative research projects, alongside loans and archival material from public and private collections. The departure point for the project is the 1990s—when internationalism was in a deep state of flux across both political and cultural contexts. Rather than represent a history of the decade, the exhibition brings different ‘ecologies’, as Félix Guattari would describe them, into relation with one another. Visual, archival and sonic associations allow evocations and implications to speak across the 1990s and today, defined as it is by deepening and ongoing ecological, bio and geopolitical crises - and when the idea of internationalism is again—is still—in flux. Finally, Rewinding Internationalism can be understood as an experiment in mobilising histories, knowledges and subjectivities through the form of exhibition making.