RESEARCH PROGRAMME PIET ZWART INSTITUTE
PIET ZWART INSTITUTE, MAURITSSTRAAT 36, ROTTERDAM
In autumn and winter 2009-2010 If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution coordinated a research project on masquerade at the Fine Arts department of the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. Writer and curator Lars Bang Larsen taught the monthly course. The sessions were organised around the lectures, the readings that participants were expected to do, and discussions between the participants. In addition to this, participants to the project were invited to the monthly If I Can't Dance Tonight performances at the Frascati theatre in Amsterdam. The day after, these were followed by a conversation between artist, a curator and the students and studio visits in Rotterdam.
As part of the programme, If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution presented a public series of screenings and lectures by Francesco Bernardelli (art critic and curator), Dominic Eichler (artist and writer), Yann Chateigné Tytelman (writer and curator) and Lars Bang Larsen (writer and curator), in the frame of the current edition focusing on the notion of the masquerade.
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By Frederique Bergholtz, Annie Fletcher, Lars Bang Larsen and Tanja Baudoin.
LARS BANG LARSEN - 13/10/2009
Workshop session. Reading material: Mary Anne Doane: 'Film and the Masquerade: Theorizing the Female Spectator' in Kaplan (ed.): Feminism and Film; Jacques Ranciere: 'The Emancipated Spectator', Artforum International, March 2007.
RUTH BUCHANAN AND BINNA CHOI - 21 & 22/10/2009
Students attend the performance 'Lying Freely' by Ruth Buchanan and meet with Ruth Buchanan and Binna Choi at the Piet Zwart Institute the following day.
FRANCESCO BERNARDELLI - 29 & 30/10/2009
Public film screening 'Affections' by curator Francesco Bernadelli, followed by a workshop session the next day.
PLAYGROUND - 13/11/2009
Students visit Playground Festival at STUK in Leuven.
YAEL DAVIDS AND AND VANESSA DESCLAUX - 25 & 26/11/2009
Students attend the performance 'Learning to Imitate' by Yael Davids and meet with Yael Davids and Vanessa Desclaux at the Piet Zwart Institute the following day.
LARS BANG LARSEN AND DOMINIC EICHLER - 8/12/2009
Workshop session with Lars Bang Larsen and public lecture by Dominic Eichler. Reading material: Peggy Phelan: 'The Ontology of Performance: Representation without Reproduction' in Unmarked (1993); Suely Rolnik: 'Anthropophagic Subjectivity' in Arte Contemporânea Brasileira: Um e/entre Outro/s, São Paulo: Fundação, Bienal de São Paulo, 1998.
THE OTOLITH GROUP - 15/12/2009
Students attend filmscreening and book presentation by the Otolith Group and Will Holder, 'A Long Time Between Suns'.
LARS BANG LARSEN AND YANN CHATEIGNE TYTELMANN - 12 & 13/01/2010
Workshop session with Lars Bang Larsen and public lecture by Yann Chateigné Tytelman. Students meet with Yann Chateigné Tytelman the next day.
AURÉLIEN FROMENT, YOURI DIRKX AND MYRIAM VAN IMSCHOOT - 26 & 27/01/2010
Students attend the performance 'In Order of Appearance' by Youri Dirkx and Aurélien Froment and meet with Aurélien Froment and Myriam van Imschoot at the Piet Zwart Institute the following day.
VAN ABBEMUSEUM, EINDHOVEN - 19/03/2010
Students attend 'From Dusk Till Dawn', the conclusive event of If I Can't Dance…'s edition on Masquerade. This night also marked the launch of the publication '(Mis)reading Masquerades', a collaboration between the Dutch Art Institute, Piet Zwart Institute and the If I Can't Dance Reading Group, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.
Public Lectures
Francesco Bernardelli
29/10/2009, 19:30 hrsaffections
Paying tribute to the (un)historical line of independent New American Cinema, a landmark moment which, from the first timid inception in post Second World War to the larger influence on European Auteurs cinema. Read more »
Dominic Eichler
08/12/2009, 19:30 hrsMaking Exceptions
The role-playing, falsity and fakery associated with masquerade and carnivalesque traditions create a state of exception or respite from societal norms - a temporary, performative, utopian space in which class and gender distinctions for instance, can be up for grabs - a celebration of disordering. Read more »
Yann Chateigné Tytelman
12/01/2010, 19:30 hrs'MIMETIC POWERS: MODERNITY AND ITS DOUBLE (ART, THEATER, ANTHROPOLOGY)'
Yann Chateigné Tytelman is Head of Visual Arts at Geneva University of Art and Design. His lecture approaches the theatrical dimension of works by different artists based on a look at various forms of popular rituals. Read more »
Lars Bang Larsen
25/01/2010, 19:30 hrsThey Live. Towards and Beyond a critique of the Experience Economy.
Economy and production have often been dressed up in gothic cliché, such as ’the dark satanic mills’ of industrialisation or the equally uncanny ’free hand of the marketplace’: a dead limb full of independent activity. Read more »
