4/7/2012
Two exhibitions
Tent, Rotterdam
A Map of Misreading / Exception Handling. Twenty-two international artists working across a range of media present their graduation projects and a program of performances.
The graduation shows of the Master Fine Art and the Master Media Design and Communication
programmes of the Piet Zwart Institute, the postgraduate institute of the Willem de Kooning
Academy, will open in TENT on 6 July. Twenty-two international artists working across a range of
media present their graduation projects and a program of performances in the exhibition A Map
of Misreading of the master Fine Art and Exception Handling of the master Media Design and
Communication.
A Map of Misreading – Master Fine Art
Lars Brekke (NO), Edward Clive (UK), Edmund Cook (UK), Jane Fawcett (UK), Toon Fibbe (NL),
Frode Markhus (NO), Fran Meana (ES), Anouchka Oler (FR), Catarina de Oliveira (PT), Kirsty
Roberts (UK), Deniz Unal (TR & UK) Curator: Christina Li.
This exhibition, which borrows its title from literary critic Harold Bloom’s book, A Map of
Misreading, is an investigation of the genealogy of poetic influence. Bloom suggested that all
poets struggle (consciously or not) with the influences of their precursors. This graduate
exhibition misreads Bloom’s line of thought and further displaces it into the field of
contemporary art. How does one situate one’s own artistic voice amongst a myriad of influences
and sources, both past and present, which are instrumental to one’s own artistic formation?
Exception Handling – Master Media Design and Communication
Dušan Barok (SK), Daan Bunnik (NL), Sebastian Cimpean (RO & CA), Loes van Dorp (NL), Inge
Hoonte (NL), Danny van der Kleij (NL), Laura Macchini (IT), Laurier Rochon (CA), Luis Soldevilla
(PE), Amy Suo Wu (CN & AU), Zhang Yan (CN) Compiled by: Willie Stehouwer.
It is the recognition of the anomalous and exceptional, and the devising of a 'special processing'
that becomes the theme that threads through the work of the artists exhibited. In each case the
artists seek to create a media language that allows situations ranging from the most personal
and intimate to the most widely political to be researched, explored and embodied in a media
object that addresses the uniqueness of the topic.
EVENTS
Thursday 5 July, 14.00 – 18.00 hrs: Public Discussion about Personal Collecting and Media
Archiving by Dušan Barok Speakers: Florian Cramer, Darko Fritz, Annet Dekker and Sandra
Fauconnier.
http://monoskop.org/Symposium
Friday 6 July, 19.00 hrs: Opening Night TENT, WORM and V2
19:00 Exhibitions opens in TENT and V2
20:00 Performance in TENT: “Welcome Dance” by Toon Fibbe and Kirsty Roberts
Performance in TENT: “Orals live” by Deniz Unal and Olivia Dunbar
21:00 Performance in TENT: “Escape escape! Escape. Escape.” by Jane Fawcett
Performance in TENT: “The Chronicles of The Blue Crab” by Catarina de Oliveira
21.30 Media Cabaret & Afterparty in WORM & V2
The opening will also feature costumes by LIZBOOM! throughout.
Saturday 7 July, 17.00 hrs: The Chronicles of The Blue Crab, Catarina de Oliveira
Saturday 14 July, 17.00 hrs: The Chronicles of The Blue Crab, Catarina de Oliveira
Editorial note, not for publication: for more information please contact Josephine van Kranendonk, communication
and marketing TENT at com.tent@cbk.rotterdam.nl or +31 (0)10 413 54 98
Tent
Witte de Withstraat 50 - 3012BR Rotterdam
Tue - Sun, 11 - 18