TENT.Rotterdam Center for the Arts
Witte de Withstraat 50, 3012 BR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
July 10 – August 24, 2008
Opening Reception: Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 20.00h
http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/fama/
Inger Alfnes (NO), Maja Bekan (RS), Gunndís Yr Finnbogadóttir (IS), Egle Budvytyte (LT), Jacqueline Forzelius (SE), Gerwin Luijendijk (NL), Margo Onnes (NL), Terje Øverås (NO), Mirjana Boba Stojadinovic (RS), Edward Clydesdale Thomson (UK), Esmé Valk (NL), Esther de Vlam (NL), Sjoerd Westbroek (NL)
Imagine being lost in transit, stuck in an odd place together with a guy named Barry. He’s more of the silent type but once he gets going, it’s hard to stop her. She will speak about the future, the past and the place she is from, in ways which aren’t that easy to comprehend. She talks in images, allusions and ciphers. Sometimes she gesticulates so intensely that her gestures seem like they are part of a ballet of sorts. Conversing with Barry becomes like performing some kind of choreography together. After a while there are moments when you feel you catch his drift and get his jokes. Was he even joking? With Barry it’s difficult to tell. But there are some things you have in common: you both love Hitchcock and you’d do anything to leave this place behind. So you go, you travel with Barry to magical and mysterious places. Other times you just go for coffee or a walk in the park. The exact nature of your travels is difficult to describe. You might say, they feel a bit like two years at an art school and one exhibition.
TENT.Events:
Saturday, July 19, 2008,15.00h: Guided tour by artists through the exhibition, including artist talk by Esmé Valk. Followed by a reading of The Decapitated Snake Descending by Terje Øverås at 16.30h.
Sunday, July 20, 2008, 15.00h: Maja Bekan, Secret Power for Identity, Security and Self-Respect in Troubling Times. Sienna X Spray Introduction Party.
Photo credits: Margo Onnes, Filmstill from Nola Dee and the Ongoing Invasion of the Rats, 2008.
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PIET ZWART INSTITUTE
POSTGRADUATE STUDIES AND RESEARCH
MAURITSSTRAAT 36, 3012 CJ ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
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