de Appel presents in 2009:
THE FUTURE WILL LAST LONGER THAN THE PAST
A whole year of performances, projects,
informances, lectures and publications
De Appel has been anything but a stick-in-the-mud during its long existence in Amsterdam. Housed first on Brouwersgracht, then Prinseneiland and finally Nieuwe Spiegelstraat, de Appel has undergone some remarkable metamorphoses in the period from 1975 to 2008. Now de Appel is readying itself for a fourth phase of life.
This is not something we mean to do in embarrassed utmost silence. While awaiting completion of our new home base in 2010, de Appel is celebrating our temporary disembodiment with a special programme under the title “The Future Will Last Longer Than The Past”. There will be a radical scene change with the background becoming foreground. The emphasis will temporarily shift from objects and images, to texts, (the spoken) word and gesture. Our regular parallel schedule of performances, lectures, ‘informances’ and publications, known as “de Appel On The Side”, will become our main programme.
This will be accompanied by a second change of scene: the white cube turns into a black box. De Appel has formed institutional alliances with two of Amsterdam’s best known theatres, Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam and Theatre Frascati, as venues for our public activities. Both these partners are interested and active in a wide range of performative practices.
Other institutional alliances that will shape de Appel’s activities in 2009 are SKOR, the University of Amsterdam, Witte de With (Rotterdam), the Rijksakademie (Amsterdam), STUK (Leuven), Tate Modern (London) and The Kitchen (New York). We are also planning collaboration with the fine art auction house Christie’s.
An overview of the events planned for the first three months in 2009 is given below. See www.deappel.nl for updates or subscribe to our newsletter on this website.
Programme beginning 2009:
JANUARY 2009:
From now on:
Publication – “Richard Hawkins – Of two minds simultaneously”, Ann Demeester, Bruce Hainley, ed. by Edna van Duyn, Christopher Müller, published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König – available online – 206 pp., language: Eng.
Publication – “Les Demoiselles de Bruxelles”, Sven Augustijnen, published by Spectres, Projections, Auguste Orts, Jan Mot, de Appel arts centre, language: Fr, Eng. version to be released in Spring 2009.
Publication “Decollecting”, ed. by Anette Schemmel, published by FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, language: Fr, Eng, Nl.
21 Jan.
Launch of THE OLD BRAND NEW: a monthly lecture series in the English language in Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam revolving around the concept ‘new’ in the arts. By looking at the term ‘new’ in light of ‘old’ subjects such as virtuosity, beauty, knowledge and idealism, the lecture series THE OLD BRAND NEW proposes to free ‘new’ of its stale image and present it in its full complexity.
On 21 Jan.: New Subversion with Marina Gržinić (SI), Joep van Lieshout (NL) and Michael Uwemedimo (UK).
With the artist apparently departed from the scene as a radical questioner, insubordinate or revolutionary, can creative and productive subversion still thrive at the start of the 21st century?
Tickets can be reserved via www.ssba.nl.
For more information about the themes and the speakers see:
www.theoldbrandnew.nl.
FEBRUARY 2009:
10 Febr.
Lecture – The Old Brand New: New Knowledge
with Sarat Maharaj (RSA) a.o.
In recent decades there has been a movement towards developing alternative forms of ‘thinking together’, undermining conventional methods or institutionalized ideas on the production and transfer of knowledge. Can the field of art truly be a site for producing knowledge in a different, new – and potentially more egalitarian – ways?
MARCH 2009:
1 March
A second interruption by Otto Karvonen (FI) who has currently his project “Het Vreemdelingenpaleis”(Alien Palace) at de Appel
24 March
Lecture – The Old Brand New: New Virtuosity
with Luc Tuymans (BE) a.o.
What is the status and place of a notion as virtuosity in an epoch in which the borderline between mastery and ordinary ability has dramatically shifted?
For more information please contact Hiske Zomer via Hzomer@deappel.nl or check out our website www.deappel.nl.
Our correspondence address from 2 April 2009 onwards will be:
de Appel Office
Postbus 10764
1001 ET Amsterdam
