Stichting De
Appel
Image:
Emese Benczur, "Never Close Enough to Things"
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HAUNTED BY
DETAIL
A project by the Curatorial Training Programme 2002, De Appel, Amsterdam
Stichting De Appel is at Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10,
1017 DE, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
T: +31 20 62 55 651 - F: +31 20 62 25 215,
open Tuesday through Sunday, 11am to 6pm
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HAUNTED BY DETAIL
A project by the Curatorial Training Programme 2002,
De Appel, Amsterdam
Exhibition Opening at De Appel on Friday November 15, 6 - 8pm
Aesthetic Movement, a lecture-performance by Karl Holmqvist on November
16, 3pm
A talk with the artists and the curators of the exhibition on November
16,
4pm
at Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam, 15 November, 2002 5 January, 2003
Haunted by Detail is about the way in which small details constitute
entire worlds in themselves. These details tie together the lived
experience and express its tangible nature. Haunted by Detail is a
project, which reflects upon artistic practices where the selection of
these details is the starting point for communication. The project
includes an exhibition at Stichting De Appel, a Film and Video Programme
at the Filmmuseum, and a publication.
The Exhibition presents international artists who, in the midst
of daily
urban existence, discover neglected details and communicate a life
through
them. These details function as metaphors but metaphors, which are
tangible. These artists are not building prosaic or abstract metaphors
but
on the contrary are using what is seemingly common, explicit and obvious
to bring us closer to lived reality. Such metaphors take a physical
object
to imply the entire narrative, use a specific camera location or angle
to
represent the life, select a particular medium to question the
objectivity
of documentation activities or question the borders of the medium itself
or of our perception of it. It can also be the framing of a certain
situation, moment or event to allude to the impact of decisive turning
points on personal, social or political history, or the highlighting of
a
small gesture to consider the nature of human relations. By doing so,
these artistic practices ground our perception in the mundane and force
us
to consider what we already know yet disregard. They invite us to
question
our knowledge and perception, and the way in which we have categorised
and
processed them.
The participating artists are:
Erick Beltrán (1974 Mexico City, lives in Amsterdam), Emese Benczúr
(1969
Budapest, lives in Budakeszi), David Claerbout (1969 Kortrijk, lives in
Brussels/Berlin), Karl Holmqvist (1964 Västerås, lives in Berlin),
Koo
Jeong-a (1967 Seoul, lives in Paris), Leopold Kessler (1976 Munich,
lives
in Vienna), Rivane Neuenschwander (1967 Belo Horizonte, lives in Belo
Horizonte), Anri Sala (1974 Tirana, lives in Paris), Scanner (1964
London,
lives in London), Sean Snyder (1972 Virginia Beach, lives in Berlin),
Marco Vaglieri (1959 Milan, lives in Milan), Barbara Visser (1966
Haarlem,
lives in Brussels/Amsterdam), Akram Zaatari (1966 Saida, lives in
Beirut),
Tarek Zaki (1975 Riyad, lives in Cairo).
A Talk with the curators and the invited artists will be held
after Karl
Homqvists lecture-performance, in order to reflect on the working
method
and its relationship to the broad diversity of the participants
involved.
The Film and Video Programme proposes that a renewed
consciousness of
filmic heritage has led diverse artists to remodel their own visual
language according to particular visual features and styles. Rather than
taking a full retrospective view, but through an exploration of the
imagination and the resources of historical key filmmakers, an
understanding of contemporary arts audio-visual dynamics is
suggested.
The programme presents examples of celebrated but not so often seen film
works, produced during the decisive years in which modern independent
cinema established itself, juxtaposed with contemporary video works.
These
newly-arranged and narrated stories, created by diverse audio-visual
artists, are a testing ground for contemporary sensibilities in dialogue
with established history.
Screenings
Public & Private 16 & 19 November
Hassan Khan (Egypt), tabla dubb no. 9 (2002) 3 36, this is THE
political
film (1998) 1, the eye struck me and the lord of the throne saved me
(1997) 2, fuck this film (1998) 3 40, sometime/somewhere else
(2001) 1
30, six questions to the lebanese (2001) 1, 100 portraits (2001)
1 40
Leopold Kessler (Austria), Private Initiatives, 2002, 14
Robert Bresson (France), Pickpocket, 1959, 75
Fiction & Form 17 & 21 November
Rivane and Sérgio Neuenschwander (Brazil), Love Lettering, 2002,
6´32"
(Brazil)
Gernot Wieland (Austria) Nachahmung, 2001, 1, Unter anderen
Voraussetzungen, 2000, 1 30, Eine mögliche Wiedergabe
allgemeiner Dinge,
2002, 1 30
Deborah Ligorio (Italy), Pattern, 2001, 1, Emptiness, 2001, 1,
Density,
2002, 1, Cycle, 2002, 1, Hyperdevelopment, 2002, 1
Frank Bretschneider (Germany), selected animations, 2000, 15
Derek Jarman (UK), Blue, 1993, 75
Now & Again 1 & 3 December
Akram Zaatari (Lebanon), The Red Chewing Gum, 2000, 10
Pia Rönicke (Denmark), Outside the Living Room, 2000, 9
Pàl Szacsva y (Hungary), Fingerings, 1996, 6
Miha Vipotnik (Slovenia), Gazele, 2000, 12
Ingmar Bergman (Sweden), The Silence 1963, 91
Arrival & Departure 2 & 5 December
Kirsten Pieroth (Germany), Untitled, 2001, 2
Dominique Ghesquiere (France), Le Salon, 2001, 3
Saso Vrabic (Slovenia); Cant Undo, 2001, 10
Ilker Canikligil (Turkey), Simulacra, 2001, 13
Pia Rönicke (Denmark) Some Where Out There, 1998, 9
Johan Grimonprez (Belgium), Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, 1997, 75
Film and Video Programme takes place at the Amsterdam Filmmuseum,
Vondelpark 3, on 16, 17, 19, 21 November and 1, 2, 3, 5 December at
7:30pm
except 17 November at 3:30pm.
The Publication includes essays by Annette Balkema, Jeroen
Boomgaard, Rosi
Braidotti and the curators, and will be available mid-December.
The Curatorial Training Programme 2002 are Mai Abu ElDahab
(Egypt),
Francesco Bernardelli (Italy), Nikola Dietrich (Germany), Edit Molnár
(Hungary), Natasa Petresin (Slovenia) and Basak Senova (Turkey).
Supporters of this project: Adria Airways, Slovenia; Anything is
Possible,
Amsterdam; Austrian Embassy, Den Haag; City Council of Ljubljana;
Drukkerij Mart.Spruijt, Amsterdam; Filmmuseum, Amsterdam; The Ford
Foundation (Middle East and North Africa), Cairo; French Cultural
Institute, Amsterdam; Hakan Guleryuz Inc., Istanbul; Istanbul Foundation
for Culture and Arts, International Istanbul Biennial; Istituto Italiano
di Cultura per i Paesi Bassi, Amsterdam; Ludwig Foundation, Budapest;
Maison Descartes, Amsterdam; Ministry of Culture of the Republic of
Slovenia, Ljubljana; National Cultural Fund of Hungary, Budapest; Prins
Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Amsterdam; The Thami Mnyele Foundation,
Amsterdam.
Special thanks: The European Cultural Foundation, Amsterdam, based in
the
Netherlands, promoting artistic and cultural cooperation in the European
integration process. As well as being a strong advocate of culture, the
ECF supports innovative work in the cultural field by awarding grants
and
running its own programmes.
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