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Tuesday,
October 9
Admission: $5, $10 minimum
Showtimes: 7:30 and 10pm
reservations
are recommended
Living Catalogue
with screenings of THE GO-BETWEEN, a Documentary by Jeffrey
Croese,
ACRONYM FEVER: Portrait of an Artist by Diego
Fernández and Ian
Szydlowski,
and Generosity Television by Frank Koolen.
If you write a story down, do you kill it?
Putting something to print means giving it permanence, available
to everyone (who can get their hands on it, and who can read)
in duplicated form over time. The printed word still has an authority,
difficult to dispute. More commanding and reliable than hearsay,
a printed document is seemingly robust, traveling through the
future, while constantly telling of its past.
With The Living Catalogue, the participants of the 2006 - 2007
de Appel Curatorial Programme challenge this notion by choosing
to communicate their collaborative project THE
GO-BETWEEN via
the medium of presentations, talks, events, film screenings,
interviews, food give-aways and discussions, in as many locations
that show interest to host this choice of format.
THE GO-BETWEEN is a series of nine ephemeral art projects exploring
process-based ways of working, developed since the beginning
of 2007 in and around an apartment in one of the characteristic
blocks of the Bijlmer, a suburb in the South-East of Amsterdam.
Aware of the negative impacts of short-lived cultural projects
in local neighborhoods, the curators of the THE GO-BETWEEN decided
on not giving a 'full stop' to their activities by either limiting
the art projects to the short term (both artists' Mark Hosking
and Frank Koolen's works live beyond the time frame of THE GO-BETWEEN),
or delivering a printed publication retrospectively summarizing
the project as a reference document.
The idea of a tale, taken on the road and woven in a variety
of locations, echoes the actions of the first traveling bards,
poets and minstrel bands and reminds us of the root of storytelling
- the predecessor of the printed word. The organizers of the
Living Catalogue, enthusiastic about the potential of a morphing
portrayal of THE GO-BETWEEN are testing how long the story can
avoid being 'set in stone' and with this approach, extend both
the life and possibilities of the project and summon up a new
cultural tool at the same time.
The Living Catalogue Tour:
September 2007
Curating Degree Zero, Bergen, Norway
October 2007
de Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Monkey Town, New York, USA with special screenings of THE
GO-BETWEEN, a Documentary” by Jeffrey Croese,
A Portrait of an Artist by Diego Fernández and Ian
Szydlowski, and Generosity Television by Frank
Koolen.
November 2007
Your Space, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Curators:
Andrew Cannon
Maaike Gouwenberg
Camila Marambio
Annette Schemmel
Karolin Tampere
Magda Ziolkowska
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