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29/5/2015

(Re)enacting the Welfare State

Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen M HKA, Antwerp

Re)enacting the Welfare State is a one-day forum with performances, screenings and conversations on how art can enact and re-enact politics.

Programme:

09:30 – Registration and coffee
10:00 – Welcome
10:10 – Performance
Eenvoudige Mensen (Simple People) – Artūras Raila

In the late 1990s, Artūras Raila started a collaboration of sorts with Mindaugas Murza, an aspiring politician from Lithuania’s fourth-largest city, notorious for his anti-Semitic statements. In 2000, Raila showed video footage of everyday scenes in Austria to Murza and his closest followers as they sat under the flag of the now-defunct Lithuanian National Democratic Party (Under the Flag, 2000). In Eenvoudige Mensen, Raila stages a Dutch-language reenactment of the transcript of this work. Eenvoudige Mensen is a translation of Paprasti žmonės, the title of a similar reenactment in Vilnius in 2009.

Performance in Dutch, a transcript and translation in English will be provided. Performed by Bart Huygens, Koen Van Hout, Paul Jansen, Raf Jansen, Jonas Stalmans and Youri De Bondt.

Artūras Raila lives in Vilnius, Lithuania.

11:15 – Coversation
Donna Kukama in conversation with Anders Kreuger, followed by Q&A

In her performances in public space, Donna Kukama brings an established situation out of balance by occupying it as a ‘foreign body’, unmaking the rules that determine it but are not supposed to be acknowledged as such. In conversation with M HKA curator Anders Kreuger, she will also talk about her involvement, together with Gabi Ngcobo and Kemang Wa-Lehulere, in the Centre for Historical Reenactments in Johannesburg in 2010—12. Their activities (events, seminars, exhibitions, residencies, interventions, etc.) engaged local and international practitioners and raised questions about the political potential of artistic interpretations of histories.

Donna Kukama lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.

12:15 – Exhibition
Visit to the exhibition The Welfare State at M HKA together with artists in the exhibition.

Lunch at the M HKAFE

14:00 – Performance
Some Use For Your Broken Claypots – Christophe Meierhans

Works of science fiction give us an insight into a future civilisation by telling the adventures of one of its individual inhabitants.Christophe Meierhans, on the contrary, provides us with the code that rules the life of the society it imagines. The future is apprehended the other way around: it is up to us to picture what the adventures of our individual lives would be like under a defined set of new conditions. Developed in collaboration with a team of experts from different Belgian universities, Some use for your broken clay pots is a theatre piece whose script is the constitutional text for a democratic state that does not yet exist.


Christophe Meierhans lives in Brussels.

15:15 – Scrrening
Fifty Minutes in Half An Hour – Kajsa Dahlberg

The video reflects how attitudes towards work have changed over time. It is based on radio broadcasts about Haustrups Fabrikker (Haustrup’s Factories) in Odense, Denmark, founded as a family-run business in 1914 and later going through a series of mergers and buy-ups. Kajsa Dahlberg collaborated with the consulting company Dacapo and actors to stage a history of manual labour by re-enacting some of the broadcasts. Since 1995 Dacapo uses Forum theatre techniques to improve communication between management and employees in both private and public companies. Originally developed by Brazilian theatre director, writer and politician Augusto Boal, Forum theatre encourages audiences to perform and transform their own lives.

Kajsa Dahlberg lives in Berlin.

16:15 – Panel
Concluding panel with Kajsa Dahlberg, Christophe Meierhans, Artūras Raila and Donna Kukama.


PRACTICALITIES

The forum will be in English (except for the performance of Artūras Raila in Dutch) and is free of charge. Reservations via info@cahf.be

Cinema Zuid is located at the Waalsekaai 47 in Antwerp, a 2 minute walk from M HKA. From the train station Antwerpen Zuid, Cinema Zuid is a 15 min walk. From the Central Station, take the tram, line 12, to the stop ‘Pacificatie’. From Antwerp Berchem Station, Bus 30 takes you to the stop ‘Waterpoort’.

SERIES

The forum is the second in a series of forums jointly organized by M HKA and Contemporary Art Heritage Flanders (CAHF) during which an encounter between discursive and artistic positions is set up in order to address and understand current transformations in society.

Contemporary Art Heritage Flanders (CAHF) is a collaborative knowledge platform initiated by and built around the collections of four contemporary art museums in Flanders, Belgium: S.M.A.K. (Ghent), Mu.ZEE (Ostend), M HKA (Antwerp) & Middelheimmuseum (Antwerp).

Through research and knowledge trajectories, public programs and publications, CAHF strengthens and provokes the practice of collecting in its partnering museums, while thinking through these collections as a means to address and understand broader museological and societal concerns, in dialogue with colleagues and audiences.

Saturday 30 May 2015

Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA)
Leuvenstraat 32 Antwerp Belgium

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