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Group exhibition Surplus Authors Thursday 6 September until Sunday 28 October Opening: Wednesday 5 September, 5 - 8 pm Public events Artist Talk: Work by Marianne Flotron, in discussion with Philippe Pirotte on Saturday 6 October, 5 pm A lecture-performance: Assemblages (2010) by Angela Melitopoulos and Maurizio Lazzarato on Thursday 25 October, 7pm
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art is proud to present Surplus Authors, a group exhibition exploring the psychological, intellectual, and political dynamics of the term "collaboration." Outside of personal romance, collaboration is perhaps the most elemental form of politics—just consider how the term plays a hand in ideas as basic as "two heads are better than one" as well as in issues as large as international alliances. To crack open this power relation Surplus Authors looks at a group of artists whose work traces and delineates several fault lines inherent in the act of collaboration from (art) historical and social indebtedness, to trust, generosity, incentives, antagonism, and even cooption.  Without laying claim to any illustrative narratives, Surplus Authors presents itself at a time of a growing call for institutions to work together as a promised means to alleviate the reasons for austerity. As a possible retort, Surplus Authors begs another question: is collaboration an end in and of itself, or is it a tenuous and unfolding process in which psychological, intellectual, and political dynamics are contested and reconstituted? Participating artists: Michael Blum & Damir Nikšić, AA Bronson & Ryan Brewer,  Club Moral, Maya Deren, Song Dong & Yin Xiuzhen, Haris Epaminonda & Daniel Gustav Cramer, Chris Evans, Dora Garcia, Luis Jacob & Chris Curreri, Alicja Kwade, Annaïk Lou Pitteloud & Steve Van den Bosch, MadeIn Company,  Karen Mirza & Brad Butler,  Ana Roldán & Falke Pisano, Wu Shanzhuan & Inga S. Thorsdottir, Hito Steyerl, Jalal Toufic, Oscar Tuazon, and Ho Tzu Nyen. Curated by Defne Ayas, together with Philippe Pirotte. For more information about the artists, .
About Prompts & Triggers While talk is thick these days about crisis, be they economical, ecological, cultural, or even spiritual, a larger question looms: how and where to situate value, especially in a context as diverse as the European continent?  Already riddled with moving-target projections and contradictory positions—such as the game of keeping a rising China or a potent Turkey at bay, while attempting to capitalize on them at the same time, or the conscious and subconscious anxieties produced when personal religiosity is expected to be surrendered in favor of a secular public body— it would seem that different and differing interests are not easily encompassed in neat packages. Prompts & Triggers is a series of propositions by artists who call attention to certain conditions, which spur social anxieties—and in so doing, ponder if such defense mechanisms actually betray underlying divides which must be first unpacked and examined.   Meriç Algün Ringborg’s Prompts & Triggers: Line no. 2 (Holy Bible), which was on view at Witte de With from 26 April – 17 June 2012, transformed the Bible itself into an inescapable datum.   From 28 June– 19 August 2012, Qiu Zhijie’s Blueprints mapped complex and anachronistic universes in which various histories of thought were enmeshed so as to question cultural origin myths, and related assumptions, and expectations. On 5 September 2012, Prompts & Triggers continues with Surplus Authors, on view until 28 October 2012.
The opening will be jointly hosted with TENT, who is opening the show Between The Map and The Territory on the same day, from 8 pm to midnight. This group show presents new works by Bik Van der Pol, Karin Hueber, Maaike Gouwenberg & Joris Lindhout, Anna Okrasko, Elian Somers and Emily Whitebread. The show is on view until 4 November 2012 and is curated by Mariette Dölle.
Consensus Bar Opening: Wednesday 5 September, 5 – 8 pm On the first floor lies the Consensus Bar, a temporal dark space that functions as a shared space for social gatherings and events. Furnished with simple wood bench structures and a white fading smoke ceiling that rejuvenates every hour, the space echoes the structure of a hidden apse. The Consensus Bar, designed by Studio Miessen, will be shared for use with Rotterdam-based TENT. Markus Miessen will be giving a lecture on Tuesday 9 October 2012, 7 pm.
Upcoming Public Program: For our additional line-up of exciting public programs this Fall featuring key artists, art historians, critics, and educators, including Bik van der Pol, Sarkis, Prof Dr Uwe Fleckner, Liesbeth Levy, Sven Lütticken, Joep van Lieshout, Vivian Sky Rehberg, Erik van Lieshout, as well as self-publishing giants AND Publishing, Lemon/Melon, and Fucking Good Art, please contact marjolein@wdw.nl or see our website.
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