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12 February - 25 March
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Opening: Saturday 11 Feb, 5 – 7 p.m
‘Any other Business’ by Nicoline van Harskamp started off as a scripted conference. The public had an ambiguous role in this. Were they going to take part in this performance, or not? The whole event was recorded as a video installation, and is now to be seen for the first time in The Netherlands at Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam.
The title Any other Business refers to a point at the end of the agenda at many meetings and conferences: matters that have not yet been dealt with but require brief consideration. It comes at the tail end of the meeting, when everyone has lost concentration. Van Harskamp concentrates precisely on the apparent trivialities in situations such as these. She sought her sources in existing lectures, speeches and discussions from the recent past, using them as her point of departure for the conference. The less pretty aspects of impassioned arguments subtly but unmistakeably take over at moments like these.
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Wednesday, February 15th 2012, 3 - 4 pm.
Location: ARCOmadrid, Hall 10, stand G36, Feria de Madrid, 28042,
Madrid, Spain
Jelle Bouwhuis will participate in the presentation of Dutch art organizations at ARCOmadrid, in collaboration with the Mondriaan Fonds and the Dutch embassy in Madrid. His presentation will address Project '1975'.
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Speakers: Paul Chan & Hito Steyerl
Date: Thursday, February 9th
Location: Aula, University of Amsterdam (Oude Lutherse Kerk), Singel 411 (corner Spui), Amsterdam
Time: 8:00 – 10:30 pm
Language: English
On Thursday, February 9th the fourth event in the lecture series Facing Forward: Art & Theory from a Future Perspective will take place, on the theme of FUTURE FREEDOM. The speakers of this evening are artist Paul Chan (USA) and philosopher and filmmaker Hito Steyerl (DE). Following the two lectures, there will be a debate with experts and the public, moderated by Ann Demeester, Director of de Appel arts centre in Amsterdam. Fardi Tabarki (NL), Director of Studio Zeitgeist and lecturer, will provide an introduction statement.
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Sunday, 5th of February 2012.
Start at 2:00 pm until 3:00 pm.
Free entrance. Please reserve on mail@smba.nl
On its closing day Tala Madani’s exhibition ‘The Jinn’ will be the setting for a guided tour by Arnisa Zeqo. A characteristic feature of Madani’s works is that they have the power to direct the viewer’s imagination in a variety of ways. Often they appear to be felicitous snapshots depicting just one moment in a possibly much more extensive narrative, seducing the viewer to fill in the missing elements by thinking of all kinds of personal memories and references. Accordingly, during this tour Zego will not restrict her comments to informative details about Madani’s practice, but in an unconventional manner will relate what comes to her mind in response to the works.
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