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Curating: Amsterdam Art/Book Fair 2011. Lecture Series

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Two afternoons of TALKS & LECTURES with international guests.

Saturday 14 May 2011
14:10–15:30 TALK #1 EMERGING PRACTICES
Pecha Kucha, Book, CD and magazine launches by attending publishers, artists and designers.

→ Official Launch Delphine Bedel, Yannick Bouillis
Keynote Speakers:
→ A prelude to Rong—Wrong, the first issue of a magazine concerned with writing on matter.
Scott Joseph, Amsterdam (Editor Rong—Wrong, designer)
→ Launch ‛On Kawara: One Million Years [Past and Future] No. 69 & 70’, Audio CD release Mathieu Copeland, London
→ Launch ‛Community Art: The Politics of Trespassing’, editors Paul De Bruyne & Pascal Gielen (Valiz, 2011)Astrid Vortsermans, Amsterdam (Editor, publisher, founding director Valiz)
→ ‘Clandestine Publishing in the Netherlands’ Emilio Maccia, Ravenna / Maastricht (Designer researcher Jan van Eyck Academie)
→ ManystuffCharlotte Cheetham, Paris (Blogger, curator, publisher)
→ Presentation of the interactive and invisible Click2C, QR-code and print2web printing technology Frank Voskeuil, Culemborg (Director print2web.nl) & Freek Kuin, Amsterdam (Director, Printer Calff & Meischke)
Moderators: Delphine Bedel & Mathieu Copeland

16:00–18:00 Talk #2 MULTIPLE FUTURE
Envisaging what the future of publications may propose invites us to articulate the revitalisation of printing practices over the last few years and the emergence of digital activism.

Kenneth Goldsmith, New York (Founding director of UbuWeb, poet, editor)
Joachim Schmid, Berlin(Artist, member of ABC Artists Books Cooperative)
Metahaven, Amsterdam(Graphic design studio)
Clive Phillpot, London (Writer, curator and former art librarian)
Moderators: Delphine Bedel & Mathieu Copeland

Sunday 15 May 2011
14:00–15:30 TALK #3 IN FOCUS / MIDDLE EAST
Bidoun magazine is a quarterly publication founded in 2004 with the intention of filling a gaping hole in the arts and culture coverage of the Middle East and its Diaspora. Tiffany Malakooti will present the Bidoun UbuWeb Archive and the The Bidoun Library–a peripatetic resource of books, films and periodicals tracing the evolution of Middle Eastern art–(in May/ June at the Centre for Possible Studies, Serpentine Gallery Projects, London). This is the first public presentation of Bidoun Magazine and UbuWeb in the Netherlands.

Tiffany Malakooti / Bidoun Magazine (Bidoun Magazine editorial team, curator
Special Projects and Bidoun’s UbuWeb archive)
Kenneth Goldsmith / UbuWeb, NY (Poet, editor, founding director of UbuWeb)
→ Film screening.
Moderators:Delphine Bedel & Mathieu Copeland

16:00–17:30 Talk #4 IN FOCUS / SWITZERLAND
This talk brings together three among the most promising emerging figures and structures at work in Switzerland. Talk organised by the Head–Geneva University of Art and Design.

David Keshavjee and Julien Tavelli,Lausanne, Zürich, Berlin (Graphic designers)
Dan Solbach, Basel (Graphic designer, publisher, curator)
Ramaya Tegegne, Geneva, Zürich (Graphic designer, publisher)
Moderator: Yann Chateigné Tytelman,(Talk organised by the Head–Geneva University of Art and Design).

 

 

Amsterdam Art/Book Fair 2011
Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 May, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL

Conference curators and moderators:
→ Delphine Bedel, Amsterdam (Artist, curator, publisher)
→ Yannick Bouillis, Amsterdam (Curator, journalist, owner bookshop Shashin)

Guest curators and moderators:
→ Mathieu Copeland, London (co-curator Talk #1) (Curator, writer, publisher)
→ Yann Chateigné Tytelman, Geneva (curator Talk #4) (Curator, writer, publisher)

Amsterdam Art/Book Fair 2011

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The first Amsterdam Art/Book Fair will take place the 14 & 15 of May 2011, presenting a high end international selection of art publications. The fair aims to reflect on the emerging practices and new development in art, through a selection of publishers from 16 countries. Printed matter and digital media edited by independent publishers and artists, magazines and institutions, art schools and graphic design studios are featured in this first edition.

Conferences and talks by keynote speakers, book launches, artist talks and performances will take place during the Amsterdam Art/Book Fair. Guests include Kenneth Goldsmith, Metahaven, Clive Phillpot, Mathieu Copeland. A unique series of curated tables will offer a selection of publications and posters. Book trading and signing, encounters and conversations will take place at ‘Black Market’, an informal meeting place for artists, designers, publishers and collectors.

The Amsterdam Art/Book Fair is initiated and organised by Delphine Bedel (Monospace Press) and Yannick Bouillis( Shashin/Offrpint), and is hosted by the Flemish Cultural Centre De Brakke Grond. The Amsterdam Art/Book Fair aspires to be a meeting place during the Amsterdam Art Week. The entrance to the AA/BF is free.

Amsterdam Art/Book Fair 2011
Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 May
De Brakke Grond
Amsterdam, NL

Teaching & Lectures: Flash Back / Flash Forward

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Lectures Series Studium Generale / Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
Autumn 2007: ‘Are You Alive Or Not? Is There Nothing In Your Head?’
Location: De Appel, Amsterdam, Wednesday at 16.00

‘Flash Back/Flash Forward’
In an intriguing text on the future of anachronism in our media and information based society Jorinde Seijdel starts her argument by explaining: “Regardless of the hegemony of the New and the Now, you only need to cast a superficial glance at the world around you to be confronted with numerous anachronisms, things and ideas that are in fact contradictory to the time in which they exist. They are literally ‘out of time’.

The word ‘anachronism’ stems from the Greek: ‘ana’ (back), and ‘chronos’ (time). Whether it concerns architecture, images, objects, or political or social structures, anachronisms are omnipresent. This does not imply that they are always recognised as anachronistic. The reverse is true; many relicts of the past contribute to the manifestation and the experience of the contemporary, which, in order to be able to profile itself cannot do without the ‘old’. The ‘now’ needs continuous signs from the past to prove that it is ‘new’. In a certain sense these ‘desired’ anachronisms are wilfully produced and cultivated in order to suggest that everything happens as if it happened already”. (‘Het einde van de anachronismen’, Jorinde Seijdel, de Witte Raaf, nov.- dec. 2001).

As an upbeat to ‘The Old Brand New‘, a collaborative project in which the Rietveld Academie, De Appel, as well as several other partners, present an ambitious series of lectures on the New, De Appel will host 6 lecturers who are invited by Studium Generale to present their artistic research projects on anachronisms and other wilful manipulations of past, present and future to a combined audience of Rietveld students and participants in De Appel ‘s Curatorial Program.

The coming weeks 6 speakers will convey their very particular sense of time, place and intellectual space. Seminar and presentations of Flash back / Flash forward will be moderated by artist and curator Delphine Bedel.

24/10
Jürgen Pieters: Still Speaking With The Dead

31/10
Florian Göttke: The ZOO: Enriched Imaginary Environment

07/11
Lisette Smits: RAW (Material)

14/11
John Heijmans: Futuristic Sounds, One Century Later

21/11
Erik Hagoort: St. Petersburg: Cunning Defiance Of Expectations

28/11
Delphine Bedel: All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, Notes On Tourism

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Teaching & Lectures: The Hybrid Muse And The So Called Autonomy Of The Arts

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Spring 2007. Lectures Series and Seminar A World of Nearness
Studium Generale / Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam

The Hybrid Muse And The So Called Autonomy Of The Arts

The idea that art should be pure, free and ‘autonomous’ is precious to many artists and art lovers all over the world, but it seems to be especially dear (and sometimes even sacred) to the Dutch art world. Last November we invited theorists to introduce the concept of post coloniality to the Rietveld community. We then learned that Modernism is based upon an outspoken Euro centric perception of the world. Autonomy is often used to defend Modernism as the last bastion of Enlightenment. But in post modern and post colonial times artists are challenged to cement new alliances with the world. Globalisation urges artists to rethink their role and position. Of course it is dangerous to give up every notion of autonomy. It would be much better – as van Abbemuseum director Charles Esche has been passionately pleading at many occasions – to develop an attitude of “engaged autonomy”. In this lecture series we will meet with artists, researchers and curators who are energetically involved in doing so. With their projects they contest conservative hierarchies in the evaluation of the arts. Continuously stretching and crossing the borders of traditional domains of art and history they introduce us to a hybrid muse. The muse of a world of nearness.

Seminars and lectures will be moderated by Delphine Bedel, a visual artist and free-lance curator based in Amsterdam. She is currently teaching at the Rietveld Academie. Among her recent curatorial projects are the exhibition and Video Lounge ‘Shared History /Decolonising the Image’ (with S. Berrebi) in Amsterdam.

07/02
Tion Ang: Belonging And Alienation
14/02
Marianne Brouwer: Global Feminism And The Avant Garde
21/02
Frederikke Hansen: Rethinking Nordic Colonialism. A Postcolonial Exhibition Project In Five Acts
07/03
Annie Fletcher: Be(com)ing Dutch In The Age Of Global Democracy
14/03
Kitty Zijlmans: Windows On The World: Contemporary Art Exhibitions As ‘Exploratory Operations’. The Case Of Ni Haifeng
21/03
Kodwo Eshun: The Ghosts Of Songs

Teaching & Lectures: Decolonising The Image

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Autumn 2006. Lectures Series and Seminar A World of Nearness
Studium Generale / Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam

Decolonising The Image

How is decolonisation (process by which colonies and the colonizing country ‘divorce’) represented through images, in popular culture, film, photography and art? Where are the images of decolonisation? What is the legacy of those images in our culture? What does it mean to ‘decolonise’ an image? These are some of the questions that the wonderful project ‘Shared History/Decolonising the Image’ was seeking to raise and put forward for discussion.

International and interdisciplinary in its scope, it consisted of four parts; an academic conference, a film programme, an art exhibition and a video lounge, presented in four different venues from W139, Arti and Maison Descartes to the University of Amsterdam from 6 May to 4 June 2006. We are delighted that the conference organisers Sophie Berrebi and Julia Noordegraaf, responded so enthusiastically to our request for a ‘revival’ of 6 highlight lectures from their programme, this time in the context of World of Nearness and specifically adressing young artists at the Rietveld Academie.

This selection of 6 lectures from the conference Shared History/Decolonising the Image takes a look at the images (photographs, documentaries, films) that have shaped the general imagination of decolonisation, in particular in Algeria and France and in Indonesia and the Netherlands. While there are many publications that investigate the role of literature in these processes, little is known about the role of images. Various topics can be addressed: What is the specific role of the image? Who ‘speaks’ through it? How can images be (re)appropriated? What do we talk about when we say ‘images or representations of decolonisation’?

Decolonising the Image and its corresponding seminar will be moderated by Delphine Bedel, who together with Sophie Berrebi curated the Shared History / Decolonising the Image exhibition. Delphine Bedel is an artist and curator who also teaches at the Rietveld Academie.

Launch 18/10/2006
Delphine Bedel: Shared History / Decolonising the Image

Seminar and Lectures ‘Decolonising the Image’ 06/11-13/12/2006
01/11
Emmanuelle Radar: Ceci n’est pas une petite tonkinoise. On ‘decolonising’ Josephine Baker
08/11
John Kleinen: Framing Decolonization. A Review Of French And Vietnamese Cinema Of The First Indochina War
15/11
Pamela Pattynama: [Post]Colonial Memories And Decolonisation In Dutch Cinema
22/11
Patricia Pisters: The Battle Of Algiers And Other Perspectives On The Algerian Independence War
29/11
Lizzy van Leeuwen: Imagery Of The ‘Indies Girl’ As A Blind Spot Of Decolonization
06/12
Désirée Schyns: The Hidden Algerian Independence War In Michael Haneke’s ‘Caché’

Teaching: DOGtime

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Programma 2006-2007.  Basis Communicatie / New media
Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam

DOGtime is een vijf jaar durende avondopleiding in Beeldende Kunst en Interaction Design-Instabiele Media. Het DOGtime-programma vindt plaats in de Gerrit Rietveld Academie te Amsterdam en biedt alle faciliteiten en expertise van de voltijdopleiding.

DOGtime werd in 2003 op verzoek van het college van bestuur Gerrit Rietveld Academie door beeldend kunstenaar en docent Manel Esparbé i Gasca ontwikkeld en samengesteld. DOGtime bestaat uit een heterogeen team van kunstenaars, vormgevers, culturele ondernemers en theoretici, die geselecteerd zijn om een intensief en veeleisend curriculum te leveren. De brug tussen theorie en praktijk vormt de basis van het curriculum van het DOGtime studieprogramma. Het programma omvat uiteenlopende meningen, ideëen en, denkmethodes en verschilende manieren van werken en presenteren. Dit gebeurt door middel van theoretische en praktische opdrachten, individueel of in samenwerkingsverbanden. Het DOGtime-programma functioneert als een gestructureerd fundament voor de toekomstige praktijk in de beeldende kunst of interaction design/instabiele media.