RESEARCH PROGRAMME AT DUTCH ART INSTITUTE
In the academic year 2008-2009, If I Can't Dance... coordinated the research project 'Masquerade' at the Dutch Art Institute/Master Programme/ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Enschede. Artist Stefanie Seibold taught the course. A selected group of students met and worked with artists, theorists and curators involved in If I Can't Dance... and developed a project culminating into a presentation at the LAB, a contemporary art space in Dublin. The interventions of DAI in Dublin ran parallel with If I Can't Dance...'s presentation of episode 3 in Project Art Centre (Dublin).
RESEARCH PROGRAMME ON 'MASQUERADE' AT DUTCH ART INSTITUTE
[November 2008- July 2009]
The Office of Lost Gestures (June 2009)
Eleven students of the Dutch Art Institute /Master Programme/ArtEZ Institute of the Arts worked with the students of the MA Visual Art in Dublin for a 10-day performative art exhibition in The LAB art space in Dublin. Read more
'Styling of the Self' (April 2009)
DAI students met with Wendelien van Oldenborgh & Dieter Roelstaete. In his lecture, Dieter Roelstraete focused on 'Styling Of The Self’. Wendelien van Oldenborgh lead a workshop on 'roles and repetition'. Read more
Extra DAI Weekend Westerdok Amsterdam (March 2009)
The students discussed their plans for Dublin in June 2009 with Stefanie Seibold, who lectured on her special interest in gender and dance and will have a closer look at the practice of Trisha Brown. Marta Zarzycka teached an overview lecture of feminist art history, from Artemisia Gentileschi to Shirin Neshat. Read more
'Dancing' (March 2009)
Gender and media scholars Iris van der Tuin and Rik Dolpijn discussed the text 'How Can You Tell The Dancer From The Dance?' by Prof. Claire Colebrook with the DAI students. Colebrook is an influential 'Deleuzean' feminist. Students were asked to discuss their work from the Deleuzean feminist frame and hence to put it in a new context. Read more
'Gesture' (February 2009)
Together with artist Sarah Pierce, DAI-students reflected on Agamben's "Notes on Gesture" and looked at Jean Rouch' "Chronicle of a Summer". Pierce asked the students to collaborate on a new work in the exhibition 'Coalesce' in SMART, Amsterdam. Read more
'Camp' (January 2009)
Francesco Bernardelli screened an intensive and comprehensive program of short video fragments and full feature films, revolving around notions of Camp and Glam. He tried to "give some sense of unity and historical development to an area of reflection and cultural analysis quite explored in the UK and English field of studies, but perhaps not much elsewhere". Read more
'Autobiography' (December 2008)
Examining the concepts of self-portraiture, gesture and roleplaying, Dr. Marta Zarzycka focused on the problem of masquerade in the art of American photographer Cindy Sherman and its implications for feminist art practices. Read more
'Archive' (November 2008)
Students met with Stefanie Seibold, whose work bears a significant interest in the idea of staging, by which she means a play with objects, gestures, meanings, as well as language, movements connectable to performance and the theatrical. Read more
[November 2008- July 2009]
The Office of Lost Gestures (June 2009)
Eleven students of the Dutch Art Institute /Master Programme/ArtEZ Institute of the Arts worked with the students of the MA Visual Art in Dublin for a 10-day performative art exhibition in The LAB art space in Dublin. Read more
'Styling of the Self' (April 2009)
DAI students met with Wendelien van Oldenborgh & Dieter Roelstaete. In his lecture, Dieter Roelstraete focused on 'Styling Of The Self’. Wendelien van Oldenborgh lead a workshop on 'roles and repetition'. Read more
Extra DAI Weekend Westerdok Amsterdam (March 2009)
The students discussed their plans for Dublin in June 2009 with Stefanie Seibold, who lectured on her special interest in gender and dance and will have a closer look at the practice of Trisha Brown. Marta Zarzycka teached an overview lecture of feminist art history, from Artemisia Gentileschi to Shirin Neshat. Read more
'Dancing' (March 2009)
Gender and media scholars Iris van der Tuin and Rik Dolpijn discussed the text 'How Can You Tell The Dancer From The Dance?' by Prof. Claire Colebrook with the DAI students. Colebrook is an influential 'Deleuzean' feminist. Students were asked to discuss their work from the Deleuzean feminist frame and hence to put it in a new context. Read more
'Gesture' (February 2009)
Together with artist Sarah Pierce, DAI-students reflected on Agamben's "Notes on Gesture" and looked at Jean Rouch' "Chronicle of a Summer". Pierce asked the students to collaborate on a new work in the exhibition 'Coalesce' in SMART, Amsterdam. Read more
'Camp' (January 2009)
Francesco Bernardelli screened an intensive and comprehensive program of short video fragments and full feature films, revolving around notions of Camp and Glam. He tried to "give some sense of unity and historical development to an area of reflection and cultural analysis quite explored in the UK and English field of studies, but perhaps not much elsewhere". Read more
'Autobiography' (December 2008)
Examining the concepts of self-portraiture, gesture and roleplaying, Dr. Marta Zarzycka focused on the problem of masquerade in the art of American photographer Cindy Sherman and its implications for feminist art practices. Read more
'Archive' (November 2008)
Students met with Stefanie Seibold, whose work bears a significant interest in the idea of staging, by which she means a play with objects, gestures, meanings, as well as language, movements connectable to performance and the theatrical. Read more
DAI students with Marta Zarzycka and Stefanie Seibold in Westerdok
