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Hudson is an international curator and museum director who brings a contemporary curatorial expertise combined with an in-depth knowledge of media arts. From 2018 to 2022, he served as director of two museums in Manchester: the city's Manchester Art Gallery and The Whitworth, the University of Manchester's museum of art and cultural history collections across all genres.
With his concept of the "useful museum," Alistair Hudson understands art and cultural institutions as places for social responsibility and change, and defines artistic and curatorial practice as social practice. Together with artist Tania Bruguera, Hudson directs the Asociación de Arte Útil, a growing international network that includes other institutions, such as the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven and the FRAC Poitou-Charentes.
Hudson is the scientific-artistic director of ZKM, and a member of a number of committees. Among other things, he was a jury member for the Turner Prize and a member of the selection committee for the British Pavilion at the 2021 Venice Biennale.

Summit One
Beyond the Horizon: Inventing the Reality

“We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind—mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.”

J.G. Ballard, Crash

Reality is not made out of representations but is what makes representations possible. The mind-independent reality withdraws from any direct relation and remains unseen and untouched. Furthermore, the thing-in-itself adds to the mind-independent reality of what we may term conditions of knowability. Therefore, our understanding of the mind-independent reality is continuously conditioned. There can be no absolute knowledge of reality nor a concrete representation of it. Everything falls into the realm of what we may call distortion, like a mere symptom of the hidden reality.

Beyond the Horizon: Inventing the Reality explores conditions of knowability and the relation between mind-independent reality and representation. It investigates how artists utilize different approaches to challenge “that which is” in favor of “that which is not” or “that which could be possible” through their artistic practices. How can artists, through dialectical relations, disclose and elicit new potentialities from reality and challenge our limited understanding of the world’s haecceities?