Nina Yuen / Asco
dal 6/2/2014 al 12/4/2014
Segnalato da
6/2/2014
Nina Yuen / Asco
De Appel arts centre, Amsterdam
Magic and nature, her father and her adolescent students, the painter Joe Andoe and the feminist author Simone de Beauvoir play a role in the recent work of Nina Yuen. "Asco No Movies" is a project revolving around the Chicano collective Asco, who from 1972 through 1987 realized numerous interventions in public spaces.
ASCO NO MOVIES
8 February — 13 April 2014
A project revolving around the Chicano collective Asco, who from 1972 through 1987 realized numerous interventions in public spaces. Asco’s performances in and around East LA resembled scenes from movies that were never made – or fashion shoots, or promotional images of rock bands. They called some of these No Movies. Their actions were done without notice or permission in a public spaces fraught with political and racial tensions, and sometimes under police curfews; the imagery they used was linked to fantasy and fiction. Asco always remained on a dangerous political edge. Realized in cooperation with Nottingham Contemporary and CAPC Bordeaux.
This spring director Ann Demeester says goodbye to de Appel arts centre with two exhibitions that mark the end of het tenure: Asco No Movies and Nina Yuen. Performance is central for each exhibition.
On the ground floor photos and videos let one experience the guerilla performances of the Mexican-American artists collective Asco, active in the 1970s. One floor above, Nina Yuen (US, 1981) presents a series of new performative works in which autobiography and world history ‘contaminate’ each other. The video productions Hermione, Lea and Raymond will have their international premiere in de Appel arts centre, and Yuen is also showing drawings and photos related to them here for the first time.
Asco was founded in the early 1970s by four artist friends, Harry Gamboa Jr., Gronk, Willie F. Herrón III and Patssi Valdez. Between 1972 and 1987 this collective, involved in the Chicano civil rights movement which rebelled against the marginalization of Latinos, carried out performances and theatrical actions on the streets of East Los Angeles, the centre of the Mexican-American community. They responded (the Spanish word 'asco' means revulsion or nausea) to their environment and the social actuality, which was characterized by social and political unrest. Asco employed a hit-and-run strategy. They often conducted unannounced actions in places where there had recently been a shooting, riot or protest against the Vietnam War or social inequality which had been violently broken up by the police.
Asco’s low budget and kitschy aesthetic reminds one of B films and glam rock, but their political agenda was radical. Their eccentric costumes, carnivalesque parades, startling actions and staged photos directed attention to the social inequality that ethnic minorities encountered daily in the US in the 1970s.
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NINA YUEN
8 February - 13 April 2014
Magic and nature, her father and her adolescent students, the painter Joe Andoe and the feminist author Simone de Beauvoir play a role in the recent work of Nina Yuen (USA, 1981). In the exhibition she presents a constellation of new video work, and for the first time sculpture and photography as well. Drawing on domestic rituals and personal memories (sometimes fictionalized), mixed with historical facts and factoids, Yuen creates an alternative dream world.
This spring director Ann Demeester says goodbye to de Appel arts centre with two exhibitions that mark the end of het tenure: Asco No Movies and Nina Yuen. Performance is central for each exhibition.
On the ground floor photos and videos let one experience the guerilla performances of the Mexican-American artists collective Asco, active in the 1970s. One floor above, Nina Yuen (US, 1981) presents a series of new performative works in which autobiography and world history ‘contaminate’ each other. The video productions Hermione, Lea and Raymond will have their international premiere in de Appel arts centre, and Yuen is also showing drawings and photos related to them here for the first time.
Nina Yuen (USA, 1981) presents a series of new performative works in which autobiography and world history ‘contaminate’ each other. The video productions Hermione, Lea and Raymond will have their international premiere in de Appel arts centre, and Yuen is also showing drawings and photos related to them here for the first time.
In her videos Nina Yuen (USA, 1981) circumspectly creates an intimate world in which the ultrapersonal comes together with the general human condition. Yuen threads together reflections that might be committed to a diary, childhood memories, references to forgotten figures from art and general history and philosophic speculations on great themes such as death, love, beauty and creativity to produce films in which the boundaries between fiction and reality are tissue thin. They draw from a range of sources: magic and nature, events from the lives of her father and mother, the painter Joe Andoe and the feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir, or the adventures of the adolescent students she teaches. The results are videos that are dreamy, hypnotic, and sometimes enchanting.
http://ninayuen.com
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Image: Instant Mural, 1974, printed 2011, Colour photograph by Harry Gamboa Jr., Pictured: Gronk, Patssi Valdez, Courtesy Harry Gamboa Jr.
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Opening: Friday February 7, 6-9 pm
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Students, CJP, 65+ children aged 13-18 € 4,50
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