Multiplayer - Softenings and Inquiries into Matters of Toxoplasmatic Ectoplasm
(2024)
author(s): Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard
published in: Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen
This project investigates Western musical instruments as being critical and even dangerous sites, which should be approached with the greatest of caution.
Approached as liminal interfaces between the living and the dead, suspended between past(s) and present(s), turning these instruments into both paranormal and parasitic sites, which should be treated as such.
Instruments as pathological contaminated bodies of parasitic discourse ready to jump at you and embed themselves in you, sedimenting within you and, subsequently, playing you.
Instruments as haunted sites saturated with ghostlike matters of toxoplasmatic ectoplasm, fostering ghosts with the capacity to possess and inflict pain on to other bodies, active in the past as well in the present.
With an interest in the notion of instrumentalization and what instruments can mean, control, and do to bodies, instruments are approached from a safe(r) distance through different (group) interventions, raising questions on how best to emolliate and soften the instrumental body?
How to soften the big silent? How to soften the sedimented?
The Archeologist's Gaze
(2024)
author(s): Jehanne Paternostre
published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
The Archeologist’s Gaze presents and reflects on a project on the restoration of ancient tapestries, following the award of a research grant to TAMAT (Museum of Tapestry and Textile Arts, Tournai, Belgium) in 2020-2021. After immersing herself in the museum's restoration workshop, looking for images, words, materials and gestures, Paternostre turned her attention to the reverse side of the tapestry. Studying the scraps of thread that had fallen to the floor, her vision of the tapestry was turned upside down, and the little bits of thread that gradually was picked up from the ground became the focus of the research. These details bore traces of many hands that had restored and repaired the tapestry over the centuries and told a story of care and attention, the inseparable opposite of monumental tapestries and mythical tales.
PROVENIR DEL PORVENIR
(2024)
author(s): Paula Urbano
published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
In Provenir del porvenir Urbano hovers through the fields of sociology, archaeology and philosophy while reflecting on the different mediations of the work: the guided tour, the performance lecture and the video essay. The exposition is based on a speculative artistic-historiographic project where the artist, in the context and aesthetics of the Museum of History, connects her own genealogy with the North. The investigation is a response to recurrent question to people of color living in Scandinavia: “Where do you come from?” This question leads to an epistemological enquire, discussing the limits of knowledge production on a scientific basis versus knowledge production on an artistic basis.
The Invisible Women & the myth of the photographic truth
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Henriëtte Maria Giovanna Siemons
This exposition is in review and its share status is: visible to all.
Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2023-BA Photography
This is the search for what is left of the myth of the Witte Wieven, in the landscapes of the Netherlands.
Historically there are theories about who the witte wieven were, and still are. One of them is that they once were wise female herbalists and healers. It was said they had the gift for looking into the future. Another theory is that they stem from forest spirits and goddesses, something our neighbouring countries still believe. In the Netherlands the collective memory of the women is based on the image of scary ghosts, witches or mist figures. History tells us something different.
I use the folktales as a guide and travel to the places mentioned. Strongly intertwined with the history of the Dutch landscapes, ancient nature and the east of the Netherlands, the witte wieven show the magical side of this ‘rational’ country. As the search continues, some themes keep recurring: the memory of the landscapes, the importance of female voices in storytelling and their structural silencing throughout history.
Clues, maps and the original folktales guide me to fairy tale- like encounters and push me to reflect on fact, fiction and the space in between. Using the camera to document the remnants of this myth, another world is created where the borders of what is ‘real’ fade. A new narrative where they are being remembered in a way they still have their magic. To keep the witte wieven close, I started to collect materials from the places where the witte wieven live: pebbles, twigs and water. Trying to conserve and protect the memories they have in them.
The spirits of the women are still there to be found in flowers, trees and rocks. It is important for us to remember, for the women and their story will not fade away over time.
PANCH Lupe Luzern
(last edited: 2022)
author(s): Jan Schacher, Margarit von Büren, Zita zb Bucher, Judith Huber
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Wir sind auf (Innerschweizer) Spurensuche und beleuchten die Performanceszene der letzten 40 Jahre: Eine Karte – eine «Performance Archäologie» ist am Entstehen. Wer hat wann, wo, mit wem performt? Wir interviewen Veranstalter_innen und Performer_innen und recherchieren im Stadtarchiv Luzern.
...Wir sind eine (ergänzende) online Plattform: Snapshots berichtet über laufende Veranstaltungen; im Archiv wird vergangenes dokumentiert. ...Wir machen Innerschweizer Akteur_innen sichtbar.
The Archeologist’s Gaze presents and reflects on a project on the restoration of ancient tapestries, following the award of a research grant to TAMAT (Museum of Tapestry and Textile Arts, Tournai, Belgium) in 2020-2021. After immersing herself in the museum's restoration workshop, looking for images, words, materials and gestures, Paternostre turned her attention to the reverse side of the tapestry. Studying the scraps of thread that had fallen to the floor, her vision of the tapestry was turned upside down, and the little bits of thread that gradually was picked up from the ground became the focus of the research. These details bore traces of many hands that had restored and repaired the tapestry over the centuries and told a story of care and attention, the inseparable opposite of monumental tapestries and mythical tales.open exposition comments (0)
In Provenir del porvenir Urbano hovers through the fields of sociology, archaeology and philosophy while reflecting on the different mediations of the work: the guided tour, the performance lecture and the video essay. The exposition is based on a speculative artistic-historiographic project where the artist, in the context and aesthetics of the Museum of History, connects her own genealogy with the North. The investigation is a response to recurrent question to people of color living in Scandinavia: “Where do you come from?” This question leads to an epistemological enquire, discussing the limits of knowledge production on a scientific basis versus knowledge production on an artistic basis.open exposition comments (0)
Wir sind auf (Innerschweizer) Spurensuche und beleuchten die Performanceszene der letzten 40 Jahre: Eine Karte – eine «Performance Archäologie» ist am Entstehen. Wer hat wann, wo, mit wem performt? Wir interviewen Veranstalter_innen und Performer_innen und recherchieren im Stadtarchiv Luzern. ...Wir sind eine (ergänzende) online Plattform: Snapshots berichtet über laufende Veranstaltungen; im Archiv wird vergangenes dokumentiert. ...Wir machen Innerschweizer Akteur_innen sichtbar.open exposition comments (0)