In het voorjaar van 2024 nam ik deel aan een expositie met de titel Nieuw New Babylon in NDSM Fuse, gecureerd door Ellen Klijzing. Ik hing er een schilderslinnen op, een collage van geprinte iphonefoto's die ik naam gedurende mijn kantoorbaan aan de Zuidas. Een ervaring die voor mij als autonoom een behoorlijk vervreemdende ervaring was. Door de Zuidas en het kantoor als setting te zien, te fotograferen en die foto's te printen op de kantoorprinter, kreeg ik grip op de setting, om er ook achter te komen dat een kantoor niet mijn omgeving is. OOO, betekent in kantoortaal: out of office. Die melding stelde ik in uiteindelijk;)
Videowork Paradise Lost part of the Labour's of Love expo
Setpicture by Margot van Ham/ actress: Wynn Heliczer / artwork/ idea/ script/ video and installation by me.
My short film Paradise Lost is featured at this expo. It aims to show what could happen if Eva was in charge right from the start: in paradise. Would Paradise then be lost? Feel welcome!
The opening is on 2nd of November/ Opening program
18:30 Introduction of the exhibition by the curator Rachel Walker-Konno19:00 Performance Embodied Reverence: Weaving Feminism, Spirituality and Earth by Ocean Gezina and Daria Fedorchenko
20:00 Performance I will eat your HATRED by Tomoni Shintaku
20:30 Spoken word performance Softer.. no.. softer! by Divine Nonbinary
21:00 Artists’s tour
22:00 Performance the Witch’s Interrogation of Rachel Walker-Konno
More about the work:
Welcome in Paradise is a videowork and installation that adresses the importance of welcoming (climate crisis) asylum seekers instead of being hostile and focussing on the refusal of refugees in the Netherlands. Lies Aris rewrote the Genesis story, giving Eva the power. Eva, as the archetypal mother figure wants to take care of human race and nature. Instead of sending p[eoplke away: her style of leadeship is welcoming and kind. She represents a new style of leadership. Matriarchy above Patriarchy.
NEW DAY/ NEW SCULPTURE / #NEW EXPO
Treehouse is excited to invite you to the opening of our upcoming exhibition Hear All Voices this Thursday June 22nd at 18h.
In connection with Over Het Ij Festival's theme for this year, this 4-week long exhibition seeks to interrogate how (or if) our democracy supports or does not support the participation of every citizen in it. The 19 participating artists will invite you to reflect on stagnant forms of government and the flaws our democracies have shown in terms of inclusivity, accountability, transparency, environmental responsibility, and social and climate justice. After all, exploration and experimentation through art can bring new imaginaries that may serve as a starting point to build better systems.
Hear All Voices will also include a series of workshops and side-activities organised by the participating artists in relation to their featured pieces and/or their practice.
SIDE-ACTIVITIES AND WORKSHOPS
- June 29th (exhibition open until 22h) | NDSM Get Lost + concert by Alpa Orchestra
- July 1st, 12h - 14h | Can we save the world with memes? - Workshop by Kiril Zakomoldin
- July 6th , 19h - 21h | Video screening night on the subject of democracy + artist talk
- July 15th, 15h - 18h | Voicecatcher - Workshop by Lies Aries and Helga van Stralen
- July 14th and 15th, 20h | Transperceneige by Flock Theatre – improvisation theatre
- July 18th, 20h - 22h | Evening exhibition tour with the artists for Over Het Ij festival’s audience
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Ornela Alia, Lies Aris, Olga Butenop, Flock Theatre, Antoni Hidalgo, Leslie Lawrence, Rucha Kulkarni, Jennie E. Park, Marcella Perrusquia, Gina Peyran Tan, Ana Pinho, Jean-Michel Rolland, Judith Segers, Sophia Simensky, Helga van Stralen, Mathias Vico Persson, Irene Bruns, Kirill Zakomoldin & Lova Yu.
'Hear all Voices' exhibition was supported by AFK (Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst).
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We look forward to seeing you there!
Treehouse NDSM Team
BARBAPOLPA as a high quality print on dibond - now for sale at NDSM FUSE gallery
From thursday to sunday the exhibition Zeitgeist is still open from 12.00-18.00. Take a peak, and now you can also take one of my 'creatures' home and glance at her at your walls, as this print is now for sale. Only three prints are being sold worldwide. Yeah!
