Fade In
dal 16/5/2003 al 29/6/2003
Segnalato da
16/5/2003
Fade In
BAK basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht
The first exhibition in Bak's newly renovated building, which presents work by Josef Dabernig, 'Fade In'. Dabernig examines the contemporary world through a slow course of actions, movements and gestures based in routines of the everyday. By exploring the potentials of monotony, emptiness, inertia, order, and repetition, as well as looking at the basic structures of activities, routines and relations among people, the films point towards a general feeling of disillusionment in contemporary reality.
After more than a yearlong pause, during which BAK, basis voor actuele
kunst (former BeganeGrond) made an effort to mentally and physically
rethink the space marked for art, we are happy to invite audiences to join
us for the first exhibition in BAK's newly renovated building, which
presents work by Josef Dabernig, 'Fade In'. Five films, including 'Wisla'
(1996), 'Timau' (1998, in collaboration with Markus Scherer), 'Jogging'
(2000), 'WARS' (2001), and 'automatic' (2002, in collaboration with
G.R.A.M.) will be shown.
Dabernig examines the contemporary world through a slow course of actions,
movements and gestures based in routines of the everyday. By exploring the
potentials of monotony, emptiness, inertia, order, and repetition, as well
as looking at the basic structures of activities, routines and relations
among people, the films point towards a general feeling of disillusionment
in contemporary reality. Subtle understructures of irony, however, often
lead the viewer to experience the absurd as a freeing, cathartic momentum
that creates an occasion to step out of the world we know, and envision it
in another, new way.
On the occasion of the opening, three new BAK publications will also be
presented:
Common Ground (with artists Andre van Bergen, Tomo Savic-Gecan, Michiel
Kluiters, Job Koelewijn, Krijn de Koning, Govinda Mens and Roman Ondak;
Dutch and English)
Becoming Oneself, four conversations on art and institutional creativity
today (with Daniel van der Velden, Nicolas Bourriaud, Boris Veldhuizen van
Zanten, Annie Fletcher, Declan McGonagle, Branislav Dimitrijevic, Andrea
Wiarda, Barbara Vanderlinden, Oladele Ajiboye Bamgboye, Maxine Kopsa,
Charles Esche and Sean Snyder; English)
A Play to Stop to Add a Moment (artist's book by Germaine Kruip).
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