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9/3/2013

Nicoline van Harskamp

New Art Space Amsterdam NASA, Amsterdam

THE STATEMENT SERIES

NASA is proud to present the Statement Exhibition Yours in Solidarity by Nicoline van Harskamp, whose work considers the relation between politics and language. The exhibition is accompanied by Reading Anarchism, a series of events with the artist that examine the anarchist theoretical tradition.

The extensive art project Yours in Solidarity that began in 2010, investigates the contemporary history of anarchism and is presented for the first time at New Art Space Amsterdam (NASA) in its entirety. Nicoline van Harskamp creates a complex and resounding portrait of anarchism’s supporters through analyses of the correspondence archive of the late Dutch anarchist Karl Max Kreuger, now housed in the International Institute for Social History (IISG) in Amsterdam. From 1988 until 1999, Kreuger corresponded by post with approximately 400 fellow anarchists worldwide. Through the study of respective political observations and handwriting analysis of some 60 letter writers, Nicoline van Harskamp re-activated the proponents’ life stories. Using actors of the relevant age and nationality, in a fully staged meeting of international correspondents, the artist suggests what would happen if they were to meet today. The resulting work is a reflective archive of Nicoline van Harskamp’s notes and copied extracts of over 1000 letters including video documentation of individual working sessions with actors and a film.

As in other recent works like New Latin (2010) and Any other Business (2009-2012), Nicoline van Harskampaddresses the power of the spoken word and its ability to shape thought and political ideals. Yours in Solidarity also charts a turning-point in the neo-liberal context following the demise of post-war idealism after 1989, whilst drawing reference to our current anti-authoritarian imperative and mainstream anti-capitalist opposition. The work, named after a much-used anarchist sign-off, directly engages the numerous theories of anarchism that are still critical today and its definition of paradoxical pairs such as scepticism and dogmatism; affinity and identity; direct action and symbolic action.


Reading Anarchism
Reading Anarchism is held on Wednesday evenings throughout the course of the exhibition. In the closing-week of the exhibition a full public reading-day will be held with invited speakers. Guests with an affinity for the subject are invited to prepare a presentation on a book or article from the online archive of anarchist writing www.theanarchistlibrary.org Reading Anarchism encourages audience members to read the same texts and inspire further reading.

13 March
Jan Ritsema, founder of the Performing Arts Forum (PAF) reads
Mario Cutajar - The Crisis of Dialectical Materialism and Libertarian Socialism (1977)
The filmmaker and producer Bea de Visser reads
Amorey Gethin - Language, Thought, and Communicating Rebellious Ideas (1999)

20 March
We hope you will join us on 20 March for the second Reading Anarchism event with Catherine Lord and Kees Hin. Kees Hin is the director of 95 films, many of which take a special interest in the biographies of (groups of) people. Catherine Lord is an academic and artist who produces and publishes in the fields of global media and climate change, ecocriticism, transmedial and performance studies. She appears as the character Pat in Yours in Solidarity.
Kees Hin reads
Voltairine de Cleyre - Why I Am an Anarchist (1897)
Catherine Lord reads
Feral Faun - Feral Revolution (Chapter 2: Nature as spectacle. The image of wilderness vs. wildness (1991))

Reading Anarchism
13, 20 & 27 March | 3, 10, 17 & 24 April | 1 May | All 19.30 – 21.30 | Admission Free
17 May | 12.00 – 18.00 | Admission 7,- EUR

New Art Space Amsterdam - NASA
Arie Biemondstraat 105-113, NL 1054-PD, Amsterdam
Opening hours Exhibition | Daily 12.00 – 22.00
Exhibition Admission 4,50 EUR | Reduced 2,50 EUR.

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