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27/10/2006

Watch This Hand

De Appel (old location), Amsterdam

A one night event at the Shadow Cabinet organized by the curators of the Curatorial Training Programme

Artists: Marina Abramovic, Diego Ferna'ndez, Tijmen Hauer & Taatske Pieterson, Paul Huf, Regina Kelaita, Egill Sebjornsson and Stefanie Trojan

Since 1994 junior exhibition makers can attend De Appel’s Curatorial Training Programme (CTP) that aims to bridge the huge gap between the day to day practice of making exhibitions and the theoretical background that is offered during academic art history studies for a period of 8 months. On October 28 the 'how and why’ of the programme will be illustrated by some members of the tutorial team followed by the first output, a one night event entitled Watch This Hand organized by the six participants of the CTP of this year.

The Shadow Cabinet acted previously as the headquarters of De Appel as it functioned as the director’s office. Recently this year, the room was opened to the CTP (past and present). Curators Andrew Cannon (GB), Maaike Gouwenberg (NL), Camila Marambio (CL), Annette Schemmel (DE), Karolin Tampere (NO) and Magdalena Zio'lkowska (PL) have combined forces to activate the space with a one evening event that involves the visitor with ideas of fakery, fact, invisibility and 'the double' and through which is offered up their alternative position, set against the backdrop of performance, a medium inherent in De Appel's history.

A chief element that lies under almost all magic and illusion, is the principle of guiding the audience's attention to one location, while in another location the magician performs a manipulation that goes unnoticed. By drawing attention to a distracting prop, or by literally announcing " Watch This Hand", the performer can force spectators to look, even briefly, in a particular direction.

Camila Marambio, enters into collaboration with artist Diego Ferna'ndez to present The Impossible Adventure of Summing up a History (of Chilean Contemporary Art). The pair's performance-lecture will be an exercise in inventing history. As a satellite of her ongoing 'I LoveYour Work’ series, Karolin Tampere, invites Egill Sebjornsson to perform An Idear For Thwoo Feet & Two Hands & 4 Corners. Here, a sort of cabaret takes place in the gallery with projected and cut-out figures that speak and sing and even interact. Annette Schemmel invites two artists to engage with questions on art-world conventions: using her body as a tool, Stefanie Trojan will question routines and taboos of human behaviour by interacting with the visitors to the Shadow Cabinet. Artist Paul Huf displays Correspondence of a Curator, a set of artist’s gifts, mail and miniatures collected by the famous curator Vladimir Endsor Jacobi, who disappeared from the art-world. In Long and Short Shadows Andrew Cannon curates two detectives who investigate the behaviour patterns and characteristics of personnel connected to the De Appel. The detectives' findings will be displayed during the evening. Magdalena Zio'lkowska focuses on the finding of original film material from Marina Abramovic legendary performance Exchanging The Roles / Role Exchange, originally performed at De Appel in 1975 but never seen, since the documented material has remained lost over time. Zio'lkowska proposes this situation as a reflection about private tensions between the artist and the institution. Finally, Maaike Gouwenberg presents works by Tijmen Hauer & Taatske Pieterson and Regina Kelaita. Though comic, they possess disjunctions in their structure or edit. They could be an additive for the show at De Appel but also act as destructive or dissonant.

Watch This Hand is followed by an aftershow party.
2006/2007 Saturday October 28, 2006 Starts 5 pm.

De Appel
Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10 1017 DE Amsterdam

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