4/5/2012
Everyone for Themselves
Two venues, Rotterdam
Discussing the Ethics and Economics of Art. Symposium, workshop, screenings. Key topics to be explored during the first edition are the accelerated relationship between the art-market and public funding.
A day-long symposium (Saturday, May 12), a workshop by Burak Arikan (Wednesday, May 9), and Homework screenings of Documenta IV (1967) and V (1972) by Jef Cornelis and of Prisoner’s Dilemma (1974) by the artist Richard Serra (May 9-13) make up the first edition of Everyone for Themselves.
Symposium participants include: Maria Lind (writer and independent curator, Director of Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm), Stefano Baia Curioni (economic historian, director of the Arts, Cultures, Media and Entertainment Master at Bocconi University), Andrea Phillips (writer and curator, and Director of Research Programmes, Goldsmiths College, University of London), Koen Brams (former Director of Jan van Eyck Academy), Adam Kleinman (writer, curator, and dOCUMENTA (13) Agent for Public Programming), Bart van Rosmalen (Associate Lecturer, interdisciplinarity and open innovation at ArtEZ, Arnhem). The sessions are moderated by Huib Haye van der Werf (curator, SKOR).
Key topics to be explored during Everyone for Themselves are the accelerated relationship between the art-market and public funding; the shaping of freedom as an ideological illusion, and the deliberate programming of choices.
Everyone for Themselves is initiated by artists Bik Van der Pol and Jan van de Pavert, and developed in collaboration with Liesbeth Levy (Artistic Director, De Unie) and Defne Ayas(Director, Witte de With, Centre for Contemporary Art). It also marks the first of the series of collaborative events and workshops, dedicated to the research, presentation, and discussion of economic and ethical developments in the contemporary art scene on a larger platform. Everyone for Themselves is ‘adopted’ by AND AND AND, an artist run initiative by Rene Gabri and Ayreen Anastas, which will use the time before dOCUMENTA (13) in 2011 and 2012 to consider with individuals and groups across the world the role art and culture can play today and the constituent publics or communities which could be addressed. The series of interventions, situations, and occurrences entitled AND AND AND are part of dOCUMENTA (13) and will compose a map of emergent positions, concerns, and possible points of solidarity.
Everyone for Themselves takes place at De Unie (www.deunie.nu), a reconstruction of the famous Dutch architect J.J.P. Oud’s café and contemporary platform for debate, art and culture, and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (www.wdw.nl), an international public institution in Rotterdam. Established in 1990, Witte de With explores developments in contemporary art worldwideby means of exhibitions, theoretical and educational programs, public events and publications.
Image: "Network Map of Artists and Political Inclinations", 7th Berlin Biennale. Burak Arikan
The complete programme is on the web site
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