super feelings
September 15–November 6, 2022
Schipluidenlaan 12
1062 HE Amsterdam
the Netherlands
Jota Mombaça, Paola Siri Renard, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi and Kate Cooper.
“There is, then, a set of super-feelings. These feelings extend out and about us; as the long, floating tentacles of the jelly-fish reach out (...) They are not of different material, extraneous, as physical arms and legs are extraneous to the gray matter of the directing brain. The super-feelers are part of the super-mind, as the jelly-fish feelers are the jelly-fish itself, elongated in fine threads.”
From H.D., Notes on Thought and Vision, City Lights Publishers, San Francisco, 2001, originally published in 1919.
About the exhibition
super feelings breathes, moves, shivers, grows and expands. It sees, hears, smells and grasps. It is a living exhibition which stretches out its tentacles and feels around. Throughout Autumn 2022, Jota Mombaça, Paola Siri Renard, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi and Kate Cooper will take over de Appel’s Aula.
Nine months ago, on a misty January morning, the participants of this year’s Curatorial Programme met for the first time. Melissa Appleton, Monika Georgieva, Ka-Tjun Hau and Chala Itai Westerman assembled in the aquarium-like auditorium of de Appel’s current home, built in 1969 in Amsterdam Nieuw-West. Searching for a state of shared consciousness that enabled them to sense collectively and dream wildly, they submerged themselves in the writings of poets such as H.D., Audre Lorde and Diane di Prima. What would happen if the contours of a poem and those of an exhibition blur and eventually melt into one?
The manifestation of this process is super feelings, a four-part exhibition, event programme and reader which unfolds throughout the autumn months of September, October and November 2022. The artists are each invited to contribute a ten-day episode during this period. They will colour daylight blue, create a landscape of sand dunes, dig up fossils, dive to the bottom of the ocean and deep into the human body. Each distinct phase is launched with an event in which the participating artists invite multidisciplinary collaborators for a performance, reading or concert to activate their episode.
Episodes
I: Jota Mombaça: sinking could be
Performance: Thursday, September 15, 7pm
Jota Mombaça with Tessa Mars
Opening hours: Friday, September 16–Sunday, September 25, 2022, 12–6pm
2: Paola Siri Renard: what will you be then Oneiroi?—glamour
Performance: Thursday, September 29, 7pm
Mira Mann with Sol-i So invited by Paola Siri Renard
Opening Hours: Friday, September 30–Sunday, October 9, 2022, 12–6pm
3: Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi: into the earth below, the blue blur of bones
Performance: Thursday, October 13, 7pm
Frankie (Franziska Aigner) invited by Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi
Opening Hours: Friday, October 14–Sunday, October 23, 2022, 12–6pm
4: Kate Cooper
Performance: Thursday, October 27, 7pm
Kate Cooper with Rahila Haque and Jort van der Laan
Opening Hours: Friday, October 28–Sunday, November 6, 2022, 12–6pm (extended hours on Museumnacht, November 5, 2022)
