Susanne Kriemann,
"Optical commotion in a satellite dish's retina (Kaknästornet television tower Stockholm)", (2007)
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Susanne Kriemann, “Optical commotion”, [performative reading]
“Optical commotion (Kaknästornet television tower Stockholm)” consists of 36 black and white slides, taken by Susanne Kriemann on the 31st of December 2006 at Stockholm’s television tower. On the occasion of this talk, Kriemann presents her work as a performative reading, placing her personal experiences during a residency at IASPIS in Stockholm from November 2006 to February 2007 within the broader context of the slide work “Optical commotion in a satellite dish’s retina (Kaknästornet television tower Stockholm)” (2007). [Susanne Kriemann is a German artist who lives and works in Rotterdam.]
Mounira Al Solh, "The beach is a stereo, a stereo", 2007
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Mounira Al Solh, “A buttock sitting comfortably on a watery threshold: about The beach is a stereo, a stereo (2007)”, [presentation]
“Emigration is the act of leaving one’s native country to live in another one. Immigration is the act of entering into a new country to settle permanently. When someone Emigrates, she or he will become an Immigrant, but if the process is slow (and usually it is), there is a threshold where she or he will stand by or sit while waiting. She or he would be an Emigrant waiting to become an Immigrant…Let’s suppose that this process of waiting would be symbolically located on threshold”. Starting from this consideration, Al Solh will give a presentation of her latest work, The beach is a stereo, a stereo (2007), shot in Beirut.
[Mounira Al Solh is a Lebanese artist living in Amsterdam. She is currently a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten.]
Praneet Soi, [presentation of] "Calcutta Art Research programme"
Calcutta Art Research is a recent project resulting from a joint effort between the artist Praneet Soi (India/NL) and curator Anders Kreuger (Sweden). It comprises two sub-programmes, the interactive interpretative archive project (IIAP) and the international visiting artist program (IVAP). Of these sub-programmes, the IIAP is the central activity, which invites local artists to document aspects of the city in ways that would not enter a conventional archive. Over the course of this lecture Praneet Soi will discuss the programme as it has evolved, the artists that have participated and the work that is being undertaken for the archive. [Praneet Soi is an Indian artist living and working in Amsterdam.]
Annie Fletcher, [presentation of] "Cork Caucus" and "Be(com)ing Dutch in the Age of Global Democracy".
Annie Fletcher is an independent curator interested in investigating the potential of curatorial practice and what it means to show and mediate art. In her lecture, Fletcher will comment on her curatorial methodology particularly in relation to two of her recent projects: "Cork Caucus" co-curated with Charles Esche, Tara Byrne& Sean Kelly (NSF) and Art/Not Art in Cork, Ireland (2005) and "Be(com)ing Dutch" developed with Charles Esche at Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven (2005-2008). [Annie Fletcher is an independent critic and curator who lives and works in Amsterdam.]
Lucy Cotter, [presentation of] “Here as the Centre of the World”
Here as the Centre of the World is a trans-national artistic research project for young artists, initiated by the Dutch Art Institute and involving partner institutions in Enschede (NL), Taipei (Taiwan), Khartoum (Sudan), Damascus (Syria), Beirut (Lebanon) and Diyarbakir (Turkey). Rather than assuming that participating artists can or should transcend their cultural context to make ‘international’ art, the project takes each city as a source of artistic discourse in its own right, challenging the geo-political and cultural hierarchies that have made it difficult for artists in each of the cities to find their place in mainstream artistic networks. Workshops held in 2006 and 2007, brought artists together to make site-specific projects on the streets of the six cities. The lecture reflects on the concept of the project, as well as showing documentation from the workshops. [Lucy Cotter is an art critic and lecturer at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. She is co-curator of “Here as the Centre of the World”, together with Gabriëlle Schleijpen and Alite Thijsen.]
Rosa Barba, "A Document from Gotland", 2007
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Rosa Barba, [video presentation]
A short journey through the experience of "production in residence" at the
Baltic Art Center in Visby. In a video presentation Rosa Barba comments on photographs of the research and production period spent in Sweden, where she made her last film "Outwardly from Earth's Center" (25’, 2007). [Rosa Barba is a German artist who lives and works in Amsterdam.]