For the project ‘Temporary Art Souvenirs’ which is being set up as a parallel event in Manifesta-8, one of my souvenirs is already causing trouble… The plaster busts of Manifesta director, for which the molds were completed this very afternoon have already been banished form the press-pack… Here’s a bootleg copy of the banned poster [...]
Been invited to participate in Post Dordt 2010 with a performance at the opening and an installation made up from The Detroit Diary along with a video of the ‘Special Attention’ presentation – great!
Opens Saturday 28th August at 17hrs in the CBK in Doordrecht, runs until September 29th.
Here’s the invite with more details.
The Detroit Diary is here at last!
There’s going to be a launch of all this year’s DAI publications on Saturday July 3rd, at The Ateliers in Amsterdam.
‘PERFORMING REALITY’ Saturday 3 July 16.00 – 19.00
Exhibition Werkplaats Typografie, De Ateliers, Stadhouderskade 86, 1073 AT Amsterdam
BOOK LAUNCH
12 Artist’s books, 16.00
PUBLIC LECTURES, 17.00 Seth Siegelaub will speak [...]
An evening of ideas, discussions, presentations and more, on the topic of, The breakdown of control and surveillance situations – Detroit, The Netherlands and Karachi for example. From the viewpoints of technology, art and self-organising.
On Thursday June 3rd 2010, OT301, Overtoom 301, Amsterdam, at 20.00u
Rob van Kranenburg will discuss ‘The breakdown of control [...]
In Barcelona visiting my good friend Maribel Perpiñá. She has just published a great book – ‘Se Busca Curator’, an overview of the curatorial practice in contemporary art. Wrapped around the cover is a poster mapping the topography of verbs used to describe the activities and responsibilities of curators by 99 respondents to questionnaires.
Whilst looking for something else, I came across this news item made by Anne-Marie van Oosteren for an exhibition I took part in last year…
ReadyMade Magazine published a piece about art in Detroit which includes photos of my work and of Tyree Gruyton’s Heidelberg project – entitled Hands Up For Detroit – I feel honoured to be sandwiched between him and old friend Philip Petit.
There’s actually a second version of the Speramus Meliora work on a house already [...]
Reading through this pile of books by Loïc Wacquant for the upcoming publication – I couldn’t help be reminded of Céline… here’s a quote – this is written in 1932:
“…We have got into the habit of admiring colossal bandits, whose opulence is revered by the entire world, yet whose existence, once we stop to examine [...]
Wednesday, May 26th (2010), in the Waag, Amsterdam, Rob van Kranenburg’s arranging an evening to juxtapose some stuff – probably bits of my abandoned police station, Detroit project, ‘Special Attention’ – Rob’s rant ‘The end of the Netherlands in twelve steps’ – and something to do with somewhere beginning with a ‘K’ in India [...]
