EDITION II - EPISODE 2
- EXHIBITION - NOV 2006 - JAN 2007, DE APPEL
- SYMPOSIUM II - NOV 2006, DE BALIE
- INSERTS - DEC 2006 - MARCH 2007, STEDELIJK MUSEUM
- SYMPOSIUM II - DEC 2006, STEDELIJK OP 11
- PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME - JAN 2007, DE APPEL
Introduction
As an agile and experimental curatorial platform, If I Can't Dance... departs from a spirit of open questioning and enquiry with artists. This year it looks specifically at the legacies and potentials of feminism in relation to art today.
If I Can't Dance... is not trying to sum up a contemporary feminist art or to collate an aesthetic for feminism, but rather to explore how feminist thinking on all levels (social, artistic, political, theoretical, ideological or structural) may be important in our cultural life. There is currently a rich artistic discourse, which taps into this legacy and manifests itself in the materiality and language of visual art, but also interrogates how artists choose to perform themselves and their work within the dominant visual economy. The project aims to explore these tendencies as inquisitively and openly as possible.
Developing If I Can't Dance... with De Appel makes it possible to articulate a historical context for this legacy very precisely. Established in 1975, this art centre has a rich history of showing experimental art for over thirty years and a revived interest in its programming now. Archival documentation exploring this legacy from the late 70s and early 80s will be presented. These practices provide an interesting comparison to the vernacular used by artists to think through ideas of agency, singularity and political empowerment today.
If I Can't Dance... doesn't offer a determined survey in the form of a single exhibition, it works repeatedly with an expanding group of over thirty artists in a series of public platforms. To this end, in Amsterdam If I Can't Dance... manifests itself as an exhibition and a series of performances at De Appel, a symposium at De Balie, an insert by the Otolith Group into the exhibition Just in Time at the Stedelijk Museum CS and with two evening events at Club 11.
As an agile and experimental curatorial platform, If I Can't Dance... departs from a spirit of open questioning and enquiry with artists. This year it looks specifically at the legacies and potentials of feminism in relation to art today.
If I Can't Dance... is not trying to sum up a contemporary feminist art or to collate an aesthetic for feminism, but rather to explore how feminist thinking on all levels (social, artistic, political, theoretical, ideological or structural) may be important in our cultural life. There is currently a rich artistic discourse, which taps into this legacy and manifests itself in the materiality and language of visual art, but also interrogates how artists choose to perform themselves and their work within the dominant visual economy. The project aims to explore these tendencies as inquisitively and openly as possible.
Developing If I Can't Dance... with De Appel makes it possible to articulate a historical context for this legacy very precisely. Established in 1975, this art centre has a rich history of showing experimental art for over thirty years and a revived interest in its programming now. Archival documentation exploring this legacy from the late 70s and early 80s will be presented. These practices provide an interesting comparison to the vernacular used by artists to think through ideas of agency, singularity and political empowerment today.
If I Can't Dance... doesn't offer a determined survey in the form of a single exhibition, it works repeatedly with an expanding group of over thirty artists in a series of public platforms. To this end, in Amsterdam If I Can't Dance... manifests itself as an exhibition and a series of performances at De Appel, a symposium at De Balie, an insert by the Otolith Group into the exhibition Just in Time at the Stedelijk Museum CS and with two evening events at Club 11.
'Afterimage', Haegue Yang, 2007, De Appel arts centre
Exhibition
With: Alexandra Bachzetsis & Lies Vanborm, Bless, Kate Davis, Pascale Gatzen & Myrza de Mynck, Karl Holmqvist, Jutta Koether, Claudia & Julia Müller, Isabel Nolan, Paulina Olowska, Falke Pisano, Stefanie Seibold, Lucy Skaer, Frances Stark, Lily van der Stokker, Sue Tompkins, Haegue Yang and a selection from the archive of de Appel. Read more
With: Alexandra Bachzetsis & Lies Vanborm, Bless, Kate Davis, Pascale Gatzen & Myrza de Mynck, Karl Holmqvist, Jutta Koether, Claudia & Julia Müller, Isabel Nolan, Paulina Olowska, Falke Pisano, Stefanie Seibold, Lucy Skaer, Frances Stark, Lily van der Stokker, Sue Tompkins, Haegue Yang and a selection from the archive of de Appel. Read more
November 17, 2006 - January 7, 2007, De Appel arts centre
Performance programme
With (a.o.): Susan Cianciolo, Will Holder, Judith Hopf, Maria Pask, Sarah Pierce, Sue Tompkins and Haegue Yang. Read more
With (a.o.): Susan Cianciolo, Will Holder, Judith Hopf, Maria Pask, Sarah Pierce, Sue Tompkins and Haegue Yang. Read more
January 13 & 14, 2007, De Appel arts centre
Symposium II: Feminist Legacies and Potentials in Contemporary Art Practice
Following our first symposium held in Utrecht in March, De Balie will host Symposium II (organised in collaboration with Huis & Festival a/d Werf). In this symposium the notion of 'legacies' will be further articulated and expanded upon. Departing from our general perspective, the growing consciousness of a 'global feminism' calls for a necessary nuancing within, and a questioning of, the thinking in terms of generations or 'waves' in the European context.
Following our first symposium held in Utrecht in March, De Balie will host Symposium II (organised in collaboration with Huis & Festival a/d Werf). In this symposium the notion of 'legacies' will be further articulated and expanded upon. Departing from our general perspective, the growing consciousness of a 'global feminism' calls for a necessary nuancing within, and a questioning of, the thinking in terms of generations or 'waves' in the European context.
November 18, 2006, De Balie
Symposium II: Curating & Feminism Today
The second symposium aims to shed light on the question why a large group of curators has currently developed an interest in the legacies of feminism. The guest speakers have been invited to present current projects and to share their thoughts and knowledge on feminist strategies in curating. With (a.o.): Mirjam Westen, Heike Munder and Bettina Steinbruegge.
The second symposium aims to shed light on the question why a large group of curators has currently developed an interest in the legacies of feminism. The guest speakers have been invited to present current projects and to share their thoughts and knowledge on feminist strategies in curating. With (a.o.): Mirjam Westen, Heike Munder and Bettina Steinbruegge.
December 7, 2006 | Stedelijk Museum CS at Club 11
Insert: Just in Time
As part of the exhibition Just in Time (Gemeenteaankopen 2006), ‘If I Can’t Dance…’ has been invited to propose a contribution, responding to the question posed by the curator Maxine Kopsa: ‘what is necessary’? Our answer was evidently ‘feminism’, more precisely ‘global feminism’. With: The Otolith Group (Anjalika Sagar & Kodwo Eshun) and a selection from the archive of the Stedelijk Museum CS.
As part of the exhibition Just in Time (Gemeenteaankopen 2006), ‘If I Can’t Dance…’ has been invited to propose a contribution, responding to the question posed by the curator Maxine Kopsa: ‘what is necessary’? Our answer was evidently ‘feminism’, more precisely ‘global feminism’. With: The Otolith Group (Anjalika Sagar & Kodwo Eshun) and a selection from the archive of the Stedelijk Museum CS.
December 1, 2006 - March 11, 2007, Stedelijk Museum CS
Film programme
On the occasion of the launch of the 4th issue of GLU magazine. With: Susanne Winterling (curator of the film programme 'The Fantasy of Failed Utopias' and a 'Girls Daydream' with contributions by Emily Roysdon, Marriage, E.E. Cassidy, Erika Vogt, Kat Ross, Kaucyila Brooke, Margo Victor, Lynn Chan, and Eve Fowler), Planningtorock (performance) and Djuna Barnes (DJ afterparty).
On the occasion of the launch of the 4th issue of GLU magazine. With: Susanne Winterling (curator of the film programme 'The Fantasy of Failed Utopias' and a 'Girls Daydream' with contributions by Emily Roysdon, Marriage, E.E. Cassidy, Erika Vogt, Kat Ross, Kaucyila Brooke, Margo Victor, Lynn Chan, and Eve Fowler), Planningtorock (performance) and Djuna Barnes (DJ afterparty).
December 21, 2006, Stedelijk Museum CS at Club 11
Top: 'Recital of Gertude Stein's The Making of the Americans', Will Holder, 2006, De Appel arts centre
Middle: 'Act', Alexandra Bachzetsis, 2006, De Appel arts centre
Below: 'The Birds and The Bees', Maria Pask and Esther de Vlam, 2006, De Appel arts centre
Above: Frances Stark, 2007, de Appel arts centre
Below: 'Inside Me, Outside You', Planningtorock, 2006, Stedelijk Museum CS at Club 11
