November 23–December 2, 2012
Opening: November 23, 3–11pm
(former) Sint Nicolaas Lyceum
Prinses Irenestraat 21
Amsterdam
Hours: Wednesday–Thursday 3–9pm; Friday–Sunday 12–9pm. The festival is closed to the public on Monday 26 and Tuesday 27 November.
In less than three weeks, the 9th edition of Kunstvlaai: Festival of Independents, titled “INexactly THIS,” will open in Amsterdam with contributions from over 70 independent art institutions, art schools and artist-led initiatives presenting live arts, exhibitions, film screenings, archival presentations, lectures and workshops.
As a temporal platform of ideas, collective experimentation and intuitive organizational approaches, the visual identity of “INexactly THIS” draws inspiration from probability principles and subatomic pathways as seen in the Feynman diagrams, which altered the field of particle physics in the mid-20th century.
Events Programme Highlights:
Ephemeral Geometry
Performance, music & sound experiments
24–25 October
Cabaret Night by 98Weeks with special guests
Ongoing live arts programme with contributions from:
CEIA, de Service Garage, FLAM, Goleb, Roodkapje & WORM, Society, among others.
Doubling Time
Artists’ Cinema
Festival Premiere 30 October
2084, a science fiction show [first episode]
Directed by Pelin Tan and Anton Vidokle, Camera: Derek Howard, Edited by Derek Howard and Anton Vidokle. Sound design: Tisha Mukarji. Special thanks to Julieta Aranda and Hito Steyerl.
Artist films and curated film screenings by:
1646, Atopia, Worm.Filmwerkplaats, The Reading Room, Mumbai Art Room, Britto Arts Trust, Indonesian Visual Art Archive, Red Shoes, and The One Minutes, among others.
Improper Fractions
Lectures, Readings & Workshop Area
2 December
Book launch and public conversation with Anne Szefer Karlsen, Charles Esche and Johan Hartle.
Self-organised edited by Anne Szefer Karlsen and Stine Herbert, OPEN Editions, 2012.
Ongoing lectures, public conversations, workshops & reading groups with contributions from: ADA (Area for Debate & Art), Arrow Factory, Arbour Lake Sghool, Arts Initiative Tokyo, Extrapool, PrintRoom, TAAK, and The Reading Room, among others.
Please follow latest programme updates on our website.
DIAGRAMS IN SPACE is a multi-layered showcasing of commissioned works, process-based projects and exhibitions created by participating institutions that present the work of over 350 artists, art students, independent publishers and theorists based in the Netherlands and abroad.
Participants based in the Netherlands:
1646; ADA (Area for Debate & Art); Amsterdam Dinner Movement; Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier; Apiece For Artists; Attraction of the Opposites; Baracca; Berm Collective / Stichting Berm; Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory; De Fabriek; De Service Garage; DEFKA; de Appel Curatorial Programme; Dutch Art Institute / MFA ArtEZ in association with If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution; Casco; Van Abbemuseum & guests; Extrapool; Fam. Ruim; Foam Lab; Frank Mohr Institute; Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Architectural Design Department); Goleb, HorizonVerticaal; HMK (HotelMariaKapel); Kees Koomen; Kunsthuis SYB; Kunsttraject; KUS; Location Z; Lost Painters; Lost Property; MaHKU (Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design); KABK (Master Artistic Research, Master ArtScience); Sandberg Instituut (all departments); Piet Zwart Institute (Master of Fine Arts); St. Joost / AKV (Master of Fine Arts); Metropolis M; MILK; MOIRA; Nest; Nieuwe Vide; NP3; Onomatopee; P.art of Your Life; P/////AKT; Pietmondriaan.com; Plan B; Planet Art; Polly’s Picture Show; PrintRoom; Public Space with a Roof; RC de Ruimte; Rhizomatic; Roodkapje & WORM; Salon Sur+; San Serriffe; Sign; TAAK; Teto Projects & W139; Urban Living Room; The One Minutes; Trendbeheer; Upominki; Werkplaats Typografie; Whatspace; Wild-C; MU with KOP-Breda; Kunstpodium T; CBK ‘s- Hertogenbosch and Landkunst (BKKC); WORM.FilmWerkplaats; and Zet Foundation.
International Participants (As of 28 October 2012):
98Weeks (Beirut), After the Butcher (Berlin), AIT (Tokyo), Amit Charan & Laura Preston (Wellington), Arbour Lake Sghool (Calgary), Atopia (Oslo), Arrow Factory (Beijing), Britto Arts Trust (Dhaka), CEIA (Belo Horizonte), Centre for Visual Introspection (Bucharest), CHIOŞC / KIOSK (Chisinau), First Floor Gallery (Harare), Green Papaya Art Projects (Quezon City), Indonesian Visual Art Archive – IVAA (Yogyakarta), JAAGA (Bengaluru), Instituto Buena Bista (Curacao), Komplot (Brussels), Más Arte Más Acción (Bogota), Mumbai Art Room (Mumbai), (Or Nothing), Partizaning (Moscow), Platform Open Place (Kiev), Red Shoes (Paris), Society (Sydney), The Institute of Wishful Thinking (New York), and The Reading Room (Bangkok), among others.
Curators: Natasha Ginwala (IND) and Fleur van Muiswinkel (NL).
“INexactly THIS” is generously supported by:
Gemeente Amsterdam, Dienst Zuidas; Metropolis M; Gemeente Amsterdam, Stadsdeel Zuid; Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam, Masters Rietveld Academie; VSB Fonds; Cultuurfonds BNG; Mondriaan Fonds; Arts Collaboratory; Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten; Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds; Office for Contemporary Art, Norway; NSW Government, Trade & Investment Arts NSW.
For press inquiries or general information please contact:
Judith Konz, press[at]kunstvlaai[dot]nl.
