8-11 October, 2018
Morning sessions: Jacuzzi 1e. Helmerstraat 104, 1054EG Amsterdam
Afternoon sessions: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Museumplein 10, 1071 DJ Amsterdam
About
Curated by the the Material Master's Programme Radical Cut-Up at Sandberg Instituut in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum and Jacuzzi Dance Art, the "Radical Cut-Up Muscle-and-Mind Week: Disruptive Narratives" serves as public kick-off event for the new semester and the cultural season in Amsterdam.
The four-day event is organized in daily physical body-and-mind exercises in the morning at Jacuzzi Dance Art and theoretical discussions in the afternoon at Stedelijk Museum. Whilst the morning practice sessions focus on the relationship between body, space and movement, the afternoon lectures invite renown writers, artists, curators and researchers to share their work and approach with a wider audience. The event’s programm is inspired by Radical Cut-Up’s approach of reconfiguring, combining and reassembling of pre-existing motifs and fragments, images and ideas from diverse and disconnected origins into novel synthetic entities. With this is mind, the symposium examines the cut-up as cultural narrative that extends and reinterprets preceding narratives with such prolific figures as Gloria Wekker, Shumon Basar, Bart van der Heide, Margriet Schavemaker, Sara Blokland, Gianluigi Ricuperati, Robert Shore and many more.
The Radical Cut-Up Muscle-and-Mind Week: Disruptive Narratives is curated and moderated by Lukas Feireiss, director of Radical Cut-Up, and is open to the public and free of entry.
All photos by Hugo Faustino.
Program:
Date: Monday, 8th October, 2018
Time: 9 -12 AM
Location: Jacuzzi Dance Art
Title: Multidimensional Presence
Tutor: Tomislav Feller
Tomislav Feller is a choreographer and performer based in Amsterdam. He graduated from the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in 2010, and since then has been making collaborative projects, giving workshops, and exploring states of body through movement. Tomislav works between Amsterdam, Zagreb, and Los Angeles and has performed for for many influential international choreographers and artists such as Steve Paxton, Deborah Hay, Tino Sehgal, Jeanine Durning, Ame Henderson, Mala Kline, Matija Ferlin and Martin Nachbar.
Date: Monday, 8th October, 2018
Time: 2 -5 PM
Location: Stedelijk Museum,
Title: Stedelijk Base. Remix the Collection
Lecturer: Margriet Schavemaker
Margriet Schavemaker is art historian, philosopher and media specialist. After a career as lecturer and assistant professor at the art history and media studies departments at the University of Amsterdam, she currently holds the position of head of collections and research at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Schavemaker has written extensively on contemporary art and theory, (co)edited several edited volumes (for example Now is the Time: Art and Theory in the 21st Century (2009) en Vincent Everywhere: Van Gogh’s (Inter) National Identities (2010)) and is an acclaimed curator of discursive events and public programs.
Title: Beg, Steal & Borrow. Artists Against Originality
Lecturer: Robert Shore
Robert Shore is the creative director of Elephant magazine. He has worked as an arts journalist for the past 20 years, writing for the likes of the Guardian and working as a theatre critic for Time Out and Metro. He has made a series of programmes for BBC radio, including one about the noseless poet laureate Sir William Davenant. He is the author of Beg, Steal and Borrow, a book about the uses and abuses of copying and appropriation in the history of art; Post-Photography, a survey of contemporary artists-working-with-photography; and Bang in the Middle, a study of Midland history, ritual and folklore.
Date: Tuesday, 9th October, 2018
Time: 9 -12 AM
Location: Jacuzzi Dance Art
Title: The Anastasia Method
Tutor: Natasha Papadopoulo
The Anastasia Method by Greek artist Natasha Papadopoulou is a project of anatomy and words. Anastasia is a pilates instructor and a physiology specialist. With a background in photography and Haitian dancing, Natasha graduated from Master of Voice at the Sandberg Institute. Her work investigates the cusp between social interactions, verbal associations and fictional appropriations, and looks for a space where both the artist and the artistic practice function as a tangible art piece.
Date: Tuesday, 9th October, 2018
Time: 2-5 PM
Location: Stedelijk Museum
Title: Cross-Notes. From Islands Between Disciplines
Lecturer: Gianluigi Ricuperati
Gianluigi Ricuperati is an writer, essayist, and curator based in Turin, Italy. Amongst his recent publications are for example 100 minds (2016) and Mind Game (2017). He serves as as director of Domus Academy, Milan and ‘Cross-disciplinary curator’ for the cultural program of MIA Fair since 2015. He is also the founder and director of the Institute for Production of Wonder, based in Torino and London, which is consulting, producing research and communication projects for public and private institutions and companies. Furthermore he’s the creator and founder of Faust, the first center for the resurrection of books and aggregator of creative communities in Turin.
Title: Reproduction of Family
Lecturer: Sara Blokland
Sara Blokland is a visual artist, independant researcher and curator of photography. She lives and works in Amsterdam. She studied at the Rietveld Academy (BA in photography) and graduated at the Sandberg Institute (MFA photography and video) in the Netherlands and receives a MA in Film and Photographic Studies from the Leiden University.As a visual artist, curator and reseacher she is predominately working with photography and film. Her work reflects on the complicated role of this medium in relation to (postcolonial) cultural heritages
Date: Wednesday, 10th October, 2018
Time: 9 -12 AM
Location: Jacuzzi Dance Art
Title: Build Your Choreography
Tutor: Elisa Giuliano
Elisa Giuliano is an architect, contemporary dancer and exhibition designer based between Matera and Berlin. She is currently a fellow of the Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam and a member of the Open Design School, directed by Joseph Grima in Matera. Among previous experiences she performed in a staging of Anna Halprin’s “Blank Placard Dance” at the 29th festival Tanz im August in Berlin and she worked as a dancer in the production by Virgilio Sieni for the 10th Venice Dance Biennale. After training as a dancer for more than fifteen years experimenting with different movement techniques and choreographers, she went to study architecture obtaining a Master Degree at the Polytechnic School of Genoa.
Date: Wednesday, 10th October, 2018
Time: 2-5 PM
Location: Stedelijk Museum
Title: Scavenging the Cultural Archive
Lecturer: Gloria Wekker
Gloria Wekker is an educator and writer who has focused on gender studies and sexuality in the Afro-Caribbean region and diaspora. She’s Emeritus Professor of Gender and Ethnicity at Utrecht University in The Netherlands. She has also worked as a policy advisor and consultant to various Dutch government ministries on topics related to ethnic minority, women's emancipation and health policy. Her publications include White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race (Duke University Press, 2016) and The Politics of Passion: Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro‐ Surinamese Diaspora (Columbia University Press, 2006).
Title: New Narratives for the Museum
Lecturer: Imara Limon
Imara Limon is curator and public programmer at the Amsterdam Museum, where she curated the exhibition ‘Zwart Amsterdam’ (Black Amsterdam) in 2016. With a background in Contemporary Art, Museology and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, her focus is on legacies of the Dutch colonial past in the Netherlands. She curated an exhibition programme with The Black Archives, as well as setting up New Narratives; interactive museum tours from diverse perspectives that reconsider the narratives told by the institution. Limon was part of the New World summit team founded by artist Jonas Staal, and she was the manager of Frontier Imaginaries, founded by curator Vivian Ziherl, with international exhibitions and publications.
Date: Thursday, 11th October, 2018
Time: 9 -12 AM
Location: Jacuzzi Dance Art
Title: Landscapes of Figures
Tutor: Matthew Day
Matthew Day is interested in the potential of dance and choreography to generate unorthodox relations and to rehearse and perform new modes of existence. Utilising a minimalist approach Day often works with duration and repetition approaching the body as a site of infinite potential and choreography as a field of energetic intensity and exchange. Matthews work is characterized by it’s migration across artistic disciplines, cultural contexts and performance formats. His new work Figures for Landscapes is a durational choreography for seven dancers and will premiere in the context of FLAM live art festival, Amsterdam, September 2018.
Date: Thursday, 11th October, 2018
Time: 2-5 PM
Location: Stedelijk Museum
Title: Surgeon, Seamster, Sorcerer. The Embodied Practice of Collage
Lecturer: Tamar Shafrir
Rotterdam-based Tamar Shafrir is a writer and researcher in the extended field of design (including architecture, visual culture, technology, and fashion). Shafrir was born in Israel and grew up near Washington, D.C. I studied architecture at the University of Virginia and contextual design at the Design Academy Eindhoven. She currently works at Het Nieuwe Instituut as a design researcher in the R&D department and teaches at the Design Academy Eindhoven as a thesis advisor in the Contextual Design and Social Design master’s programmes.
Title: Paperback OS: The Book as Resilient Technology
Lecturer: Shumon Basar
Shumon Basar is a writer, thinker and cultural critic. He is co-author of The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present with Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist. His edited books include Translated By, Cities from Zero and Hans Ulrich Obrist Interviews Volume 2. He is Commissioner of the Global Art Forum in Dubai, Editor-at-large of Tank magazine and Contributing Editorat Bidoun magazine, Director of the Format program at the AA School, a member of Fondazione Prada’s “Thought Council” and Art Jameel’s Curatorial Council.
