EDITION II - EPISODE 3
- PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME - MAY 2007, FESTIVAL A/D WERF
- FILM PROGRAMME - MAY 2007, CASCO
Performance programme (full)
This edition of If I Can't Dance... explores how feminist thinking on all levels (social, artistic, political, theoretical, ideological or structural) may be important in our cultural life. The project has explored these tendencies as inquisitively and openly as possible over the last year and a half by repeatedly working with an expanding group of over thirty artists and mounting exhibitions, organising symposia and performance events, and running an on-going reading group.
This May for Festival a/d Werf in Utrecht a new programme of performances by Jutta Koether, Jon Mikel Euba, Itziar Okariz and planningtorock will take place. If I Can’t Dance... will also premiere the newly commissioned film of The Otolith Group, 'Otolith II', at Casco in Utrecht.
This edition of If I Can't Dance... explores how feminist thinking on all levels (social, artistic, political, theoretical, ideological or structural) may be important in our cultural life. The project has explored these tendencies as inquisitively and openly as possible over the last year and a half by repeatedly working with an expanding group of over thirty artists and mounting exhibitions, organising symposia and performance events, and running an on-going reading group.
This May for Festival a/d Werf in Utrecht a new programme of performances by Jutta Koether, Jon Mikel Euba, Itziar Okariz and planningtorock will take place. If I Can’t Dance... will also premiere the newly commissioned film of The Otolith Group, 'Otolith II', at Casco in Utrecht.
Jutta Koether: Touch and Resist
In her new performance 'Touch and Resist', leading artist Jutta Koether merges the art of painting with other disciplines, such as performance and music. For Koether, painting is not an autonomous medium, but rather a ‘vehicle’. She said in an interview that painting, for her, could as easily be a flyer, piece of scenery or music. Koether’s work is an intense exploration of feminist ideas in relation to painting. Read more
In her new performance 'Touch and Resist', leading artist Jutta Koether merges the art of painting with other disciplines, such as performance and music. For Koether, painting is not an autonomous medium, but rather a ‘vehicle’. She said in an interview that painting, for her, could as easily be a flyer, piece of scenery or music. Koether’s work is an intense exploration of feminist ideas in relation to painting. Read more
May 21 + May 22, 2007, Huis a/d Werf, Studio 2 and 3. 'Touch and Resist' is coproduced by Huis & Festival a/d Werf
Jon Mikel Euba: Re: Horse and RGB Horse
A white horse is central to 'Re: Horse', a 'live concert of images'. Improvisation by the participants is stimulated using a script. Simultaneously, a film is made, and can be watched on screens. In this film, links are made between the performance Titus/Iphigenia by performance artist Joseph Beuys (which also featured a white horse), and a legendary recording made by Andy Warhol of a rehearsal of the Velvet Underground (Symphony of Sounds).
In 'RGB Horse', Euba attempts to fathom an indefinable feeling he experienced on seeing Diego Velasquez’ paintings of royal cavaliers. Through a prominently present horse in the ‘corvette’ position, Euba attempts to share this intense experience with others and open it up to several interpretations. Become a partner in a work of art created in the here and now, with the ultimate synergy of collective experience and individual sovereignty. Read more
A white horse is central to 'Re: Horse', a 'live concert of images'. Improvisation by the participants is stimulated using a script. Simultaneously, a film is made, and can be watched on screens. In this film, links are made between the performance Titus/Iphigenia by performance artist Joseph Beuys (which also featured a white horse), and a legendary recording made by Andy Warhol of a rehearsal of the Velvet Underground (Symphony of Sounds).
In 'RGB Horse', Euba attempts to fathom an indefinable feeling he experienced on seeing Diego Velasquez’ paintings of royal cavaliers. Through a prominently present horse in the ‘corvette’ position, Euba attempts to share this intense experience with others and open it up to several interpretations. Become a partner in a work of art created in the here and now, with the ultimate synergy of collective experience and individual sovereignty. Read more
May 22 + May 23, 2007 , 'Re: Horse', Cartesiusweg, Utrecht and May 25 + Saturday May 26, 2007, 'RGB Horse', Cartesiusweg, Utrecht
Itziar Okariz, Climbing Buildings
Look around you and you may well see the performance in which a woman climbs a building on the Neude square, the busy Festival Square. The woman is dressed in everyday clothes - no climbers outfit - and her climbing ropes and other equipment are nearly invisible. Read more
Look around you and you may well see the performance in which a woman climbs a building on the Neude square, the busy Festival Square. The woman is dressed in everyday clothes - no climbers outfit - and her climbing ropes and other equipment are nearly invisible. Read more
May 25 + May 26, 2007, Neude, Utrecht
Planningtorock, Show me what you got
Planningtorock is Janine Rostron’s new one-woman act, specially for the festival; actually, multiple-women act, as a fascinating aspect of planningtorock’s work is her ability to present several identities. With her fantastic masks, costumes and videos, her impressive music and commanding presence, she creates indefinable characters. 'Show me what you got' corresponds to Peggy Phelan’s description of feminism as 'the performative creation of new identities'. Read more
Planningtorock is Janine Rostron’s new one-woman act, specially for the festival; actually, multiple-women act, as a fascinating aspect of planningtorock’s work is her ability to present several identities. With her fantastic masks, costumes and videos, her impressive music and commanding presence, she creates indefinable characters. 'Show me what you got' corresponds to Peggy Phelan’s description of feminism as 'the performative creation of new identities'. Read more
May 25 + May 26, 2007, Huis a/d Werf, Koepelzaal
Screening of 'Otholith II', at Casco
FILM PROGRAMME (full)
Otolith II, 45 min - Concept & Direction: Anjalika Sagar en Kodwo Eshun (The Otolith Group)
The Otolith Group writes, compiles exhibitions and makes essay films. In the film Otolith II, the group explores the situation of women in the lowest castes in India, and how these women are the driving force behind Bombay's impressive slum architecture. The archive left by Sagar’s grandmother - a leading feminist in India in the 1960s - moved the Otolith Group to report on the unrealised ideals described in this archive. Read more
'Otolith II' is co-produced by IICD & Festival a/d Werf, Argos, Centre for Art & Media, and KunstenFestivalDesArts.
Otolith II, 45 min - Concept & Direction: Anjalika Sagar en Kodwo Eshun (The Otolith Group)
The Otolith Group writes, compiles exhibitions and makes essay films. In the film Otolith II, the group explores the situation of women in the lowest castes in India, and how these women are the driving force behind Bombay's impressive slum architecture. The archive left by Sagar’s grandmother - a leading feminist in India in the 1960s - moved the Otolith Group to report on the unrealised ideals described in this archive. Read more
'Otolith II' is co-produced by IICD & Festival a/d Werf, Argos, Centre for Art & Media, and KunstenFestivalDesArts.
