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Close Connections 2006
During Art Amsterdam/ KunstRai, the IZA foundation organizes in collaboration with various cultural institutes the program Close Connections 2006. Over 23 international curators and critics are invited to bring a special visit to the Dutch capital. During their stay they also provide a number of public discussions and debates, among which the debate in SMBA, Maison Descartes, SMCS at 11 and De Appel.
(open to the public)
Program WEDNESDAY 3rd May
12 am 2 pm
Lloyd hotel & Culturele Ambasade (Oostelijke Hamdelskade 34, tel: 020-561.36.36)
CLOSE CONNECTIONS/Meet&Greet
curators of Close Connections will give an introduction about their activities with Christina Li, Hong Kong, China), Eugene Tan (Singapore), Chaos Y. Chen (Beijing, China), Laetitia Gauden (Beijing, China), Zoran Eric ( Belgrade, Servia & Montenegro), Narvika Bovcon (Ljubljana, Slovenija), Hristina Ivanoska (Skopje, Macedonia), Marko Stamenkovic (Belgrade, Servia & Montenegro), Ana Janevski (Zagreb, Croatia), Mira Gacina (Skopje, Macedonia), Sener Ozmen (Diyarbakir, Turkey), Esra Sarigedik (Istanbul,Turkey), Mona Marzouk and Bassam Baroni (Alexandria, Egypt), Sven Beckstette (Berlin, Germany), Lise Nellemann (Berlin, Germany), Edwin Ramoran (New York, USA), Marianne Lanavere (Paris, France), Corinne Charpentier (France), Charlotte Laubard (Paris, France)
8 - 11 pm
Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (Rozenstraat 59, tel: 020-422.04.71)
CLOSE CONNECTIONS/Debate
With Hala Elkoussy, Igor Dobrčić and guest curators, hosted by Suzanne van de Ven.
THURSDAY 4th May
9 - 11 am
Lloyd Hotel & Culturele Ambasade (Oostelijke Hamdelskade 34, tel: 020-561.36.36)
CLOSE CONNECTIONS/Meet the artists
with presentations of o.a. Magnus Monfeldt, Saskia Janssen, Martine Stig, Orpheu de Jong, Edwin Zwakman, Arthur Kleinjan, L.A.Raeven. (detailed information and last changes see: www.edbprojects.nl)
12 am 2 pm
Maison Descartes (Vijzelgracht 2A, tel : 020-531.95.01)
CLOSE CONNECTIONS/Debate
On Art practices and presentation in the age of globalisation.
Great exhibitions and the phenomenon of intercultural culture. Hosted by Fatima Harhour, with Marko Stamenkovic, Judith Angel and Mona Marzouk
Reservation required f_harhour@hotmail.com
8.15 11 pm
Stedelijk Museum CS at 11 (Oosterdokskade 5, 11 th floor)
CLOSE CONNECTIONS/film program
Film-selection by Close Connection curators Edwin Ramoran, Judith Angel, Chaos Y.Chen, Rola Kobeissi and Jelle Bouwhuis of SMBA
Detailed information: www.stedelijkmuseum.nl
11 pm Stedelijk Museum CS
at 11 restaurant _bar_club
Drinks & music
FRIDAY 5th May
9 11 pm
De Appel (Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, tel: 020-625.26.51)
CLOSE CONNECTIONS/Debate
About artistic interference by curators in relation to the CTP exhibition Mercury in Retrograde Hosted by the director Ann Demeester, Tessa Giblin and Angela Serino (CTP 06), with Eugene Tan, Lonnie van Brummelen en Alexis Vaillant.
More specific details will be published on the website: www.deappel.nl. Reservation required at press@deappel.nl mentioning Close Connections.
SATURDAY 6th May
9 11 am
Lloyd Hotel & Culturele Ambasade (Oostelijke Hamdelskade 34, tel: 020-561.36.36)
CLOSE CONNECTIONS/Meet the artists
with short introductions by Anne Jaap de Rapper, Charlotte Dumas, Guido van de Werve, Michiel Kluiters, Diana Scherer, Betty Ras, Monica Tormell (detailed information and last changes see: www.edbprojects.nl)
SUNDAY 7th May
9 11 am
Lloyd Hotel & Culturele Ambassade (Oostelijke Hamdelskade 34, tel: 020-561.36.36)
CLOSE CONNECTIONS/Meet the artists
with short introductions by Benoit Goupy, Steve Van den Bosch, Franck Bragigand, Lars Eijssen, Germaine Kruip (detailed information and last changes see: www.edbprojects.nl)
(Beside the public part of the program, the invited guest curators will visit the Art Amsterdam/KunstRai, as well as De Ateliers, Rijksakademie, Montevideo, Mediamatic, W139, SMCS and SKOR)
Close Connections 2006 has been made possible by the generous support of Institut Français des Pays-Bas/Antenne de la Haye, Goethe Institut Amsterdam, Mondriaan Stichting, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds/Oost-Europa Fonds, Prins Claus Fonds, Roberto Cimetta Fund, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, De Appel, Culturele Ambassade, Maison Descartes, SMCS/SMCS op 11, SMBA, Rijksakademie, de Ateliers, Mediamatic, Montevideo, W139, en Art Amsterdam On initiative of IZA foundation, international support for the arts/Ellen de Bruijne Projects and Art Amsterdam/Kunstrai p.a. Rozengracht 207 A, 1016 LZ Amsterdam, tel: 020-530.49.94
Curators
Invited curators/critics
Close Connections programma/program: 3 7 mei/May 2006
- Judit Angel, curator Kunsthalle Budapest/freelance curator (Hungary)
- Bassam Baroni, art critic, set up a new multidiscilinary space Alexandria contemporary art forum (Alexandria, Egypt)
- Sven Beckstette, curator and critic, writes for Texte zur Kunst and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Berlin, Germany)
- Narvika Bovcon, artist and curator, organised 10th edition of the International Festival of Computer Arts in Maribor, Slovenija (Ljubljana, Slovenija)
- Corinne Charpentier, director of art center La Synagogue de Delme (France)
- Chaos Y. Chen, principal, CHAOSPROJECTS |VisualThinking (Beijing, China)
- Zoran Eric, curator museum of modern art Belgrade (Belgrade, Servie & Montenegro)
- Mira Gacina, assistant curator Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje (Skopje, Macedonia)
- Laetitia Gauden, director and initiator of Imagine Gallery / artist in residence (Beijing, China)
- Hristina Ivanoska, artist / curator initiated projectspace Press Exit in Skopje (Skopje, Macedonia)
- Ana Janevski, freelance curator Zagreb, Paris (Zagreb, Croatia)
- Marianne Lanavere, director la Galerie/contemporary art centre in Noisy-Le-Sec (Paris, France)
- Charlotte Laubard, independent curator/art critic, worked for Castello di Rivoli (Paris, France)
- Christina Li, curator ParaSite alternative art space and magazine (Hong Kong, China)
- Mona Marzouk, artist and art critic, set up a new multidiscilinary space Alexandria contemporary art forum (Alexandria, Egypt)
- Lise Nellemann, director Sparwasser HQ (Berlin, Germany)
- Sener Ozmen, curator Diyarbakir Art Centre, artist and critic (Diyabakir, Turkey)
- Edwin Ramoran, curator and director of art space Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx (New York, USA)
- Esra Sarigedik, curator ass. Istanbul biennale, ass. Van Abbemuseum (Istanbul, Turkey)
- Marko Stamenkovic, O3one Gallery (Belgrade, Servie & Montenegro)
- Eugene Tan, director of the Institute of Contemorary art Singapore (Singapore)
- Stevan Vukovic, curator and writer, currently working for SKC Belgrade and MMC Rijeka (Belgrade, Servie & Montenegro)
Filmprogram
SMCS on 11
Close Connections
Thursday May 4
Close Connections: video screenings
Starts at 8.15 p.m.
Free entrance
At the occasion of Art Amsterdam, the major contemporary art fair in the Netherlands, the special programme close Connections is organized to host number of art curators from all over the world. Some of them were asked to make a personal choice of art videos to be screened this evening at SMCS on 11. The presenters are: Judit Angel, Chaos Y. Chen and Edwin Ramoran. Each of them will be briefly interviewed about their selection. The organisation of SMCS on 11 also made a contribution for this screening session.
Judit Angel is art historian and curator and works at the Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest. She curated the Report exhibition in the Romanian Pavilion at Venice Biennial in 1999 among other things. Her choice:
- Szabolcs Kiss Pál, Shards (Private Conquest), 2003, 3:30 min.
The video is a lyrical account of the strange encounter between the artist and a deer in an abandoned area of the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna while he was looking for the grave of Ludwig Boltzmann. It happened to be exactly on the 65th anniversary of the Kristallnacht. - Marcell Esterházy, v.n.p.v.0.1, 2004, 4 min.
The video deals with the relativity of the perception of time. At the Sunday lunch, the artists grandfather imperturbably eats his soup, while his whole environment moves in a frenzied speed. The video is in fact speeded up so as to obtain a usual pace for the elderly man.
Edwin Ramoran is chief curator and administrator of exhibition program at Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos and Digital Matrix Commissions Program, Longwood Arts Project, Bronx, NY. Before that he was assistant curator at the The Bronx Museum of the Arts. His choice:
Videos by emerging artists living and producing in New York; most of them were included in the group exhibition Do You Think Im Disco that explored the intersections and complications related to the influence of dance music culture on contemporary artists. All of these artists have produced music videos that are not commercially motivated but instead fueled by identity politics including race, gender, and sexuality. Most of them are driven by emotion and love, while others are playful in confronting current issues as well as presenting performance-based work in new media formats.
- Elia Alba, Masque, 2006 from the series Larry Levan Live!, 2006, 3 min.
- Derek Jackson, The Light, 2005, 5:26 min.
- Kalup Linzy, Lollipop, 2006, 4 min. (Courtesy Taxter and Spengemann, New York)
- Tara Mateik, PYT, 2004, 4:30 min.
- Iván Monforte, And Im Telling You, 2005, 3:38 min.
- Shirley Wegner, Soldier Dancing on Ruins, 2006, 4:33 min.
Chaos Y. Chen started to be a curator at Beijing Art Museum. After working in The Asia Society (New York), the Academy of Art and Design of Tsinghua University (Beijing) and Kunst-Werke (Berlin), among others, she returned to Beijing in early 2003 to become the chief curator at the Millennium Art Museum before founding [CHAOSPROJECTS | VisualThinking] in 2005, which is a curatorial atelier focusing on research, exhibition, publication of visual culture as well as public diplomacy. She chose fragments of:
- Ou Ning & Cao Fei, Dazhalan Project, video footage (work in progress for the exhibition in ZKM, Kahlsruhe, 2006).
An old town becomes Offline City amongst the high-speed urbanism of Beijing. A demolition site becomes to be the protest frontier of the local residents. - Cao Fei, PRD Anti-Hero, documentary video for the theatre performance debut at 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, 2005
A sharp interpretation of the history and reality in Pearl River Delta area in Southern China. Cao Fei, the playwright and director, with her sound observation, sympathetic eyes, and anti-hero structure, conducted a penetrating representation. - Zhao Bandi, Bandi's 2008, 2005 (Courtesy of BeijingCommune, Beijing, China).
Artist Zhao Bandi rehearses the opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics in 2008. He runs down Beijing streets, goes underground and finally appears in the stadium in Bern, Switzerland.
SMCS on 11 is the programme of lectures, discussions and film and video screenings at Stedelijk Museum CS. The 11 refers to the 11th storey of the Post CS Building, where most of the activities take place. Thursday is the regular evening.
Its choice:
- Roy Villevoye, Beginnings, 18:40 min
In this recent video the Dutch artist plays with the documentary genre. What at first looks like typical documentary or tourist footage from Papua New Guinea, a country that often appears in Villevoyes work, gradually turns around all expectations about walking in the nude in a forest.
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