Act / OUT
a call for contact - a call for clash
Ann Messner (USA), Karl Philips (B), Anna Witt (AT), Albert Heta (Kos), Pilvi Takala (F/NL), Jan Rothuizen (NL), Filippo Minelli (I), Ahmet Ögüt (TR/NL), Jeroen Erosie (NL), Sebastian Stumpf (D).
10 / 06 – 10 / 07 / 2011
opening: June 10th, 8pm
+++ colour bomb launched by Filippo Minelli +++ drinks & music: Nina Grunenberg + Damien Fagnant 'A primera vista – palmeras para llevar' +++
artist talk: July 10th, 2pm — Sebastian Stumpf, Albert Heta
Act / OUT thematizes a variety of individual artistic acts in public space that evoke a persistent belief in the individual story. As gestures of subjective opposition they insert disconcerting moments into our daily, economically optimised procedures. Sediments on film, photo, in installation or drawing, show how the actions attract and repel, how they take shape in an interplay between beauty and subversion.
Sometimes in danger of being overshadowed by the recent attention for more conspicious urban interventions, there are artistic actions with a rather subtle, ambivalent tone using public space as their point of departure. Recognizing the public sphere as a diverse and agonistic discursive state, the exhibition assembles a varietyof approaches to “act out” that are inspired to intervene by political motives, metaphorical narratives or personal impulses. Aiming to blur the all too obvious imagery that determines our public sphere as well as our collective memory, the works range from playful and touching to the absurd and confronting. Therewith the artists introduce different perspectives on the current state of affairs. They stage exemplary situations that, in the act as well as transported to the exhibition room, both confront and
ensnare their public.
Act / OUT presents thus ten artists renegotiating our public sphere by engaging relationships between people, structures and modes of organization. The exhibition thus aims to broaden our perception of function in our spatial and social environment.
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Poster image: Jan Rothuizen - Curator: Lene ter Haar - Graphic design: Eric de Haas - Exhibition design: Maartje Dros
Onomatopee is an institution for reflection and communication. The foundation aims to question the parameters of our (designed) culture. Each project consists in an exhibition and a publication.
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The Netherlands
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