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Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art is delighted to invite you to the opening of Prompts & Triggers: Surplus Authors on Wednesday 5 September 2012, 5 pm.
GROUP EXHIBITION Surplus Authors 6 September - 28 October 2012 Opening: 5 September 2012, 5 - 11 pm Public events: Artist Talk on Saturday 6 October, 5 pm: Work by Marianne Flotron, in discussion with Philippe Pirotte (co-curator of Surplus Authors) Artist Talk on Thursday 25 October, 7 pm: Assemblages (2010) by Angela Melitopoulos
Outside of personal romance, collaboration is perhaps the most elemental form of politics - just consider how the term plays a hand 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, incentivism, 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. Read more
The opening of Surplus Authors will be jointly hosted with TENT, which is opening its show Between The Map and The Territory during the same evening, from 8 to 11 pm. This group show presents new works by Bik Van der Pol, Karin Hueber, Maaike Gouwenberg & Joris Lindhout, Anna Okrasko, Elian Somers and Emily Whitebread and is curated by Mariette Dölle. The show is on view until 4 November 2012. Read more
11th Baltic Triennial co-curated by Defne Ayas Witte de With Director Defne Ayas is co-curating the 11th edition of the Baltic Triennial of International Art, which opened on August 24th, and consists of a 12 day event focused exclusively on performance and film. Countering the general tendency of biennials to be pluralist, all-encompassing multi-platforms, the curators chose to channel the contributions of artists through a radically minimized vessel – one human being. Read more
SYMPOSIUM The Treasure Chests of Mnemosyne Die Schatzkammern der Mnemosyne Les Trésors de la Mnémosyne Saturday 1 September 2012, 4 pm
Taking its title from the book published in 1995 by visual artist Sarkis and art historian Uwe Fleckner, this symposium explores the influence of renowned art historian and cultural theorist  Aby Warburg on the artistic practice of Sarkis. Key-note speaker Prof. Dr. Fleckner was the first to draw a connection between Sarkis’ work and Warburg’s theory of memory. Participants include: Uwe Fleckner (Prof. Dr. Art History, Hamburg University), Liesbeth Levy (Artistic Director, De Unie), Sven Lütticken (Prof. Dr. Art History, VU University Amsterdam), Sarkis (visual artist) and Alexandre Singh (visual artist). Presented on the occasion of Sarkis’ installation Ballads, on view from June 2 until September 30 in the Submarine Wharf (organized by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and the Port of Rotterdam). Read more
PATRONAGE Benefit Evening We are very pleased to inform you that Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, and de Appel arts centre will organize a benefit evening to take place on Thursday 6 September 2012, at Atelier van Lieshout in Rotterdam. Keynote speaker of the evening will be Chris Dercon, director of Tate Modern and Witte de With’s first director.  Joep van Lieshout, renowned Rotterdam-based artist and the evening’s host, will give a special tour of his studio.  In benefit of both institutions select art works will be auctioned. All funds raised go directly to a joint Witte de With – de Appel private income fund, that will support the national and international programs of our two institutions. Read more
CAUSERIE Aristophanes Thursday 13 September 2012, 12 - 6 pm
The Greek playwright Aristophanes (ca. 446 BC – ca. 386 BC) was feared for his social commentary on the society of Athens during his time. In his plays, of which only eleven survived up to today, he ridicules the political situation of Athens and his contemporaries by means of a vast amount of satirical jokes and puns. As part of his ongoing project The Humans, visual artist Alexandre Singh explores the rich satirical legacy of Aristophanes, ‘the Prince of Comedy’. The fourth in the series of Causeries marks Aristophanes as a source of inspiration to the artist and brings together several experts to explore a wide range of subjects – from the chorus, costumes and staging to the social and political context of ancient Greece, amidst of which the plays were written. Participants include: Edith Hall (Professor of Classics, King’s College, London) on the political and social context James Robson ( Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of Classical Studies, The Open University, London) on textual analysis of Aristophanes’ plays. Alexa Piqueux (Lecturer department of Greek Culture, University Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense) on Artistophanes’ costumes and staging. Adriaan Rademaker (Professor Classical Language and Culture, University of Leiden) on textual analysis of Aristophanes’ plays. Read more
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