David Bernstein, Se non è vero è ben trovato, 2014. Courtesy of the artist
From May 23 though to June 28, 2015 De Appel arts centre presents the final project of the Curatorial Programme 2014 – 2015 with two exhibitions: Spell to Spelling ** Spelling to Spell and Your Time Is Not My Time.
Spell to Spelling ** Spelling to Spell emerges in the spaces between the linguistic and associative relations of the notions of the spell and the spelling. The exhibition investigates various facets and rituals dealing with voluntary, involuntary and removed memory of the author, the visitors and the artworks themselves.
It came into being as a common fascination and curiosity over the stories, histories, references and biographies of the artworks that we discovered during studio visits and conversations with artists. Meanwhile a question arose whether and how this abundance of information can be transferred and translated to the viewer within an exhibition space. Or should perhaps the entire discovery be left up to the viewer? A tension between telling and showing repeatedly appears in relation to the artworks where the meaning of the works is often hidden behind short annotations. Would a parallel and non-explanatory narrative or hiding the information entirely change the usual relationships and behaviours in the exhibition space?
Spell to Spelling ** Spelling to Spell does the telling through text, and tries out several ways of disclosing what is inside the works as well. It starts already before it is opened, with a journey of performances, screenings and talks A Day in the Life of Thomas in the Stedelijk Museum on May 17. The exhibition opens on May 22 and one can immerse in the space. Most of the works are commissioned for the exhibition. The artist Martin La Roche brings the objects and images to light during different times of the day and night in his unfolding performances. David Bernstein’s work is hosted by the library accompanied with stories and books. Francisco Camacho’s sculptures need to be looked for while listening to a guide. Myriam Lefkowitz can equip you with tools for an aggravated perception.
Artists: David Bernstein, Francisco Camacho, Alberto De Michele, Christian Fogarolli, Ola Lanko, Martin La Roche, Myriam Lefkowitz, Charles Matton, Robertas Narkus, Ossip
Your Time Is Not My Time deals with the proposition of how hypercirculation and overconsumption of images has generated new ways of perceiving and behaving – we copy, remix, share, and circulate. We are producers of data, and circulation has become a currency itself. A scope of dispositions is articulated as the boundaries between audience and producer blur and the notion of authorship continues to expand, while at the same time, ceases to exist. Following the scheme of a playlist, Your Time is not my Time elaborates a custom-fit mode of cognition and perception triggered by the new use of visuality, where love (emphatic economy) and depletion (interface) shape an alternative visual economy.
Rather than experiencing the “fear of missing out” and the struggle between passivity and overstimulation, a more personally adapted use of means is utilized in a network of economic empathy. The exhibition aims to tackle the hypercirculation of data and image with a diverse range of programming: aside from the exhibition at de Appel arts centre, the programme includes an online intervention by Benjamin Forster, a text by Karen Cytter for the catalog, a performance with Sam Smith on the apparatus and cinema, a film screening on sculpting time by Lav Diaz at Filmhuis Cavia and livestreamed discursive events on our emphatic economy and post-digital shape of authenticity with lectures by Timotheus Vermeulen, Metahaven and Erika Balsom.
Artists: Keren Cytter, Lav Diaz, Benjamin Forster, Andrés Galeano, Riley Harmon, Tilman Hornig, Metahaven, Alexandra Navratil, Sam Smith, Wu Tsang, Bruno Zhu
Curators: Barbara Cueto, Bas Hendrikx, Chiara Ianeselli, Inga Lace, Lian Ladia, Rani Lavie (participants of the Curatorial Programme 2014 – 2015)
Programme Schedule:
Sunday 17 May 2.30-5.30 pm
Event: A day in the life of Thomas – Notes of the becoming exhibition Spell to Spelling ** Spelling to Spell
Teijin Auditorium, Stedelijk Museum
An afternoon with performances, film screenings and debates, organized in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum Public Program . With guest-speakers and artists: David Bernstein, Francisco Camacho, Joanna Ebenstein, Alberto De Michele, Laurens de Rooy, Christian Fogarolli, Ola Lanko, Martin La Roche, Robertas Narkus.
Thursday 21 May 8-10pm, stedelijk.nl
22 May – 28 June, ongoing, deappel.nl
Online Intervention: Benjamin Forster, Reading (stedelijk.nl) and Reading (deappel.nl), 2015, online performance and intervention at the websites of de Appel arts centre and Stedelijk Museum
Friday 22 May 6-9 pm
Opening of the Final Project Curatorial Programme 2014 – 2015, with two exhibitions: Spell to Spelling ** Spelling to Spell and Your Time Is Not My Time
de Appel arts centre
Sunday 24 May 11 2.30 pm
Workshop: Myriam Lefkowitz, Walk, Hands, Eyes (a city)
de Appel Arts centre (reservations only)
Sunday 24 May – Sunday 28 June 11-6pm
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Sundays from 2 to 6 pm
Ongoing performance (different stories by different people): Nell Donkers, David Bernstein, Inga Lace, Chiara Ianeselli, and Cathelijne Tiel
Library, de Appel arts centre
Friday 5 June 8-9 pm
Performance: Sam Smith, Notes on the Apparatus
de Appel arts centre
Friday 12 June 6pm
Book Launch: exhibition catalogue Curatorial Programme Final Project
de Appel arts centre
Saturday 13 June 8.34 – 9 pm
Unfolding performance: Martin La Roche, String too short to be saved
de Appel arts centre
Sunday 14 June 1pm
Film Screening in cooperation with Jeffrey’s underground cinema: Lav Diaz, From What Is Before, 2014.
Cinema Cavia – Van Hallstraat 52-1HG, 1051 HH Amsterdam
Night from Friday to Saturday 27 June 1.04 – 1.30 am
Unfolding performance: Martin La Roche, String too short to be saved
de Appel arts centre
Sunday 21 June 2.30-5.30pm
Lecture: Timotheus Vermeulen, Metahaven, Erika Balsom
Teijin Auditorium, Stedelijk Museum
livestreamed at deappel.nl
In this lecture programmed by the exhibition Your Time Is Not My Time, Timotheus Vermeulen talks about New ‘Depthiness’, Metahaven’s reasearch on Uncorporate Identity questions the purpose and value of design in a neurotic and treacherous era of geopolitical instability and Erika Balsom tackles what it means to be Against the Novelty of New Media: The Resuscitation of the Authentic.
Sunday 28 June 5pm-6pm
Reading: Bruno Zhu and the book, Facsimile
About de Appel arts centre
De Appel is an internationally oriented arts centre in the centre of Amsterdam. Since it was founded in 1975 it has served as a leading platform for research and the presentation of contemporary art.
About the Curatorial Programme
Initiated in 1994 as an in-house international training trajectory for young curators, the Curatorial Programme of de Appel arts centre offers its participants hands-on experiences and skills for the further development of their professional career. Each year the programme culminates with the collective development of a final project at de Appel arts centre.
de Appel arts centre
Prins Hendrikkade 142, Amsterdam
