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Flying Boxes etc.
Lecture/Performance by Christoph Westermeier
Date: Sunday, 12 August 2012
Time: 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Free admittance
This Sunday ‘The Memories Are Present’ exhibition at Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam closes with Flying Boxes etc., a lecture/performance by Christoph Westermeier. During the event Westermeier illustrates and comments on the development of object photography over the past 60 years. Absurd image compositions, errant shadows and flying objects will be the focus of the event.
Flying Boxes etc. illuminates the artistic work process that informs and precedes Westermeier’s final works, one of which is presented in ‘The Memories Are Present’. The artist contributed the installation Barbarian & Classics to this exhibition, consisting of photographs he made of postcards and other image resources depicting objects from diverse museum collections. Westermeier re-photographed these resources according to his own, overtly subjective, standards. Generally speaking, Westermeier’s work emphasizes exactly those technical mistakes which professional object photographers try to avoid or conceal through manipulation.
Sunday afternoon will also be the last chance to see Westermeier’s Barbarian & Classics in this exhibition, which further features an installation by Artun Alaska Arasli and a selection of works by Pauline M’barek.
The lecture performance will be in English.
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Next exhibition:
TIME, TRADE & TRAVEL
25 August - 21 October 2012
Opening: 25 August, 5 – 7 p.m.
With works by:
Bernard Akoi-Jackson, Dorothy Akpene Amenuke, Serge Clottey, Zachary Formwalt, Iris Kensmil, Aukje Koks, Navid Nuur, Jeremiah Quarshie, kari-kacha seid’ou and Katarina Zdjelar
In collaboration with the Nubuke Foundation in Accra, Ghana, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam presents the exhibition Time, Trade & Travel. The point of departure for the show is an exchange between artists from Ghana and The Netherlands.
 
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