Negotiating equity
Negotiating equity aims to offer a participatory platform to address the ethics and practice of curatorship as a mode of art production, asserting that these terms of engagement imply rethinking the economic and social conditions of art. Negotiating equity will draw upon theories of fairness in questioning divergent value systems and testing artistic models amongst students, curators, artists, art critics and writers from around the world. The nature and format of this project favors cooperative endeavor, while considering the implications of self-curation.
Specificially, this project will address collaborative curation and the position of the artist as curator- investigating experimental and conceptual art practices under physical as well as virtual conditions. Using the ‘temporary reside’ from ID 11 in Delft, apartment flats donated from the city, as a space in which to engage the above practices, DAI lectures and seminars will focus on ‘creating context’ in the broadest sense of this term. Drawing upon a wide range of artistic and art-related practices, some off the radar, undocumented and under-theorized, others representative of art historical paradigms, we will examine how to use temporary housing as an exhibition and presentation model along with addressing and finding other audiences, virtual or otherwise, implicitly or explicitly challenging dominant regimes of spectatorship all too often considered self-evident.
Negotiating equity will be organised by Renée Ridgway, co-initiator of n.e.w.s. (http://northeastwestsouth.net), an online platform for contemporary art and new media structured by curatorial positionings from around the world. n.e.w.s. will serve as the hub to the project. Each month at DAI, contributors from the n.e.w.s. platform will present their individual approaches to curating and their particular social and economic criteria regarding art production. Concomitantly, experts on the positioning of the so-called ‘artist/curator’ will address this terminology with regard to present-day artistic and art-critical practice. In June, DAI participants will be expected to produce a work at ID 11 in Delft, parallel to developing their individual website, along with reading and following n.e.w.s. An online forum at n.e.w.s. will contextualise this project.
Website Renée Ridgway: http://reneeridgway.net
Website http://negotiatingequity.net
Negotiating Equity: cooperative endeavor and self-curation.
11 DAI participants will use FLAT_land from id11 and STeC in Delft as a space.
Sunday June 7th: artists talks.
FLAT_land, Sunday July 5th: artists talk and _galerij_loop_03___
‘Negotiating Equity’ at the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) addresses collaborative curation and the position of the artist as curator- investigating experimental and conceptual art practices under physical as well as virtual conditions. The nature and format of this project favours cooperative endeavour, while considering the implications of self-curation.
The past two months 11 DAI participants have used FLAT_land from id11 and STeC in Delft as a space in which to engage the above practices. We have examined how to use temporary housing as an exhibition and presentation model along with addressing and finding other audiences, virtual or otherwise, implicitly or explicitly challenging dominant regimes of spectatorship all too often considered self-evident.
DAI participants: Amanda Koelman, Hidenori Mitsue, James Skunca, Jimini Hignett, Julio Pastor, Laetitia Queyranne, Manami Yoshimoto, Marina Tomic, Raymond Huizinga, Suzanne van Rest, Veridiana Zurita
On Sunday July 5th from 14:00-15:00 Julio Pastor and Jimini Hignett will present their projects at an artists talk (bij wijze van SPREKEN) at Projectbureau Poptahof, Poptahof Noord 1.
Julio Pastor’s residency in apartment 603 focused on collecting ‘Evidence’ from the previous inhabitants. Combining watercolour paintings, Polaroids and printed digital photographs Pastor created a map that serves as an investigation into the personalities of these people, their ways of living and how their daily lives might have been affected by the environment of the neighbourhood. All of the work that was produced during his stay was left in the flat, in this way becoming ‘evidence’ of his own living experience in Delft.
When Jimini Hignett heard she would have an empty apartment to work in for 4 months she knew straight away what she should do. Upon receipt of the key to the apartment she would offer it to a family of refugees so that they could live there! Unfortunately, logistically none of this worked out. Instead Hignett met Barbara, a homeless woman from Washington D.C. who left everything behind and came to the Netherlands because God sent her a message through a dream! In apartment 636 she talks (and talks) about her life in the video ‘Godsend’.
From 15:00-17:00, as part of the exposition tour _galerij_loop_02_, Raymond Huizinga, Suzanne van Rest and Julio Pastor will present their installations in 598, 636 and 603.
Suzanne van Rest’s installations combine sculptures and photographs that address the subject of light. In ‘Overexposed II’ one installation incorporates sculptures and photographs that capture a certain moment and quality of ‘Delft’ light. The second work consists of a photograph, taken of an ‘overexposed’ apartment. In this way van Rest makes her presence visible in Delft through the use of strong, artificial light.
In contrast to light Raymond Huizinga explores aspects of darkness, mentally as well as physically, through his use of a blackened plastic apartment. No light enters and only foreboding sound emanates as one approaches. In his installation ‘The Shape’, Huizinga constructs plastic, blow-up figures that he manipulates, flagellates and terminates during a series of performances in this closed-off and sealed apartment. The audience is offered the opportunity to experience another side of life.
In apartment 603 Julio Pastor will show the remnants of ‘Evidence’.
Please see http://negotiatingequity.net for further information.
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