Rotterdam Art Writing

NEW TEXT: In ‘Comforts’ Lili Huston-Herterich shares her response to Sophie Bates' video work 'South West to South East (London)'—originally installed last year and currently part of the online series that Salim Bayri has curated. Moving through the scenes Huston-Herterich reflects on: familial polyphony, dissociation, performances of courtesy, and finding space to be a self.

Available on our website now!
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*UPCOMING ON ROTTERDAM ART WRITING*
NEXT WEEK:

This March and April Rotterdam’s Het Nieuwe Instituut hosts an online screening by the . Every couple of months, the foundation works with a new guest curator, often an artist, to investigate how we perceive and engage with moving image. This spring they collaborated with Artist Salim Bayri to present Comfort and Vision, a composition of one-minute videos by twenty-one artists selected from an open call.

One minute of Sophie Bates' (30’45”) work 'South West to South East (London)' (2020) was included in Salim Bayri’s recently curated 'Comfort and Vision'. In her text ‘Comforts’ Lili Huston-Herterich will respond to the whole of Bates' video—writing about familial polyphony, dissociation, performances of courtesy, and finding space to be a self.

Come and read it on our website after the long Easter weekend
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THIS WEEK: Book your IRL appointment to see Elisa Berrara's show 'Firefly' at Rotterdam south project space Peach. 'Firefly' is part of the series of exhibitions and projects 'Center for the Mumble' that begun in 2019. Peach prefer morning appointments. Contact details here: https://mailchi.mp/8fd92e14391b/peach-mailing-list-4741674

THIS MONTH IRL(!): Book your slot to see 'Unbound Anthologies' at Rotterdam south project space: Available & The Rat & at7 - a show by Katrina Niebergal and Ayo.

More details at the event page here: https://fb.me/e/6ks2qesyw

THIS WEEK: ONLINE Screening of Larry Achiampong + David Blandy's new film 'A Lament for Power', which explores "the ethics of scientific discovery and the complex relationship between science, politics and race in our age of avatars, video gaming and DNA Ancestry testing."

http://www.wysingartscentre.org/whats_on/events/a_lament_for_power_screening_and_in_conversation

NEXT WEEK: 2/2 TUESDAY 7PM

Online Artist talk

Artist Katia Kameli will present her project 'Stream of Stories'. This online event accompanies the exhibition: 'A Sequence of Events in the Lives of the Dormant', at

Read more:
https://www.facebook.com/events/141797134342366/

THIS MONTH: 'democracies?' A limited screening series presenting an international selection of artists’ experiments with video at MOMA magazine. Revealing the ceremony of official ritual, the performance of politics in public space and the evolution of persuasive televisual languages. Featuring: Bani Abidi’s RESERVED (2006), Artur Żmijewski’s Democracies (2009) and Political Advertisement X: 1952–2020 (2020) by Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese.

"Together, the videos echo the question posed by the title of this series—democracies?—exploring the endlessly multiple and fractured publics within which we now live." - Lina Kavaliunas and Simon Wu, screening organizers.

democracies? | Magazine | MoMA In our inauguration moment, a trio of moving-image works exposes the ways in which video dominates—even determines—politics today.

THIS WEEK: Kadist Online Seminar - Frequencies of Tradition
27 JAN 2021–29 JAN 2021

The Times Museum and KADIST present three online sessions that consider tradition as a contested space, where one can critically reflect on Asian modernisation and the Western canon.

Session I: The Kyoto School and its Convoluted Philosophical Conjunction (10am CET)

Introduction by curator Hyunjin Kim, followed by a conversation between artist Ho Tzu Nyen and scholar and philosopher, Yuk Hui in which they discuss the Kyoto School’s philosophy of the void, violence, and technology concerning Zen Buddhism, Taoism, Samurai culture, and the wartime repercussions of this school of thought.

Session II: Spirituality, Community and the Memory Sphere (10am CET)

Presentations by artists Ayoung Kim, Chia Wei Hsu, and Jane Jin Kaisen, followed by a conversation moderated by curator Anselm Franke. With ideas of animism and shamanism that go beyond modern boundaries, these artists approach 'the ungovernable Indigenous spirits as a medium' summoning a 'ruptured past and a future memory sphere' through technological devices.

This year we've published texts by Isabelle Sully, Anastasia Shin, Maike Hemmers & Golnar Abbasi and this week, Ulufer Çelik.

At www.rotterdamartwriting.org you can read all our 'Practice Reflections', 'In-Conversation' or 'Reviews', by a growing body of artist contributors.

NEW TEXT: Ulufer Çelik reflects on anonymity and the notion of the ‘figure’ in the context of pandemic statistics and the work of Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme. This new text includes personal reflections and Çelik‘s own ‘Reference-Cloud’ collages.

https://rotterdamartwriting.org/Ulufer-Celik-No-Matter-How-Deeply-Buried-That-Rhythm-Could-Not-Bb