If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution
dal 25/9/2008 al 8/11/2008
Segnalato da
Keren Cytter
Jon Mikel Euba
Olivier Foulon
Suchan Kinoshita
Joachim Koester
Sarah Pierce
Stefanie Seibold
Frederique Bergholtz
Annie Fletcher
25/9/2008
If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution
De Appel (old location), Amsterdam
Edition III "Masquerade". The projact aims to investigate, together with artists and other mediators, how we handle ideas about identity and public space today. Artists: Keren Cytter (IL, 1977), Jon Mikel Euba (ES, 1967), Olivier Foulon (BE, 1976), Suchan Kinoshita (JP, 1960), Joachim Koester (DK/US, 1962), Sarah Pierce (US/IE, 1968) and Stefanie Seibold (DE, 1967). Curated by Frederique Bergholtz and Annie Fletcher.
curated by Frederique Bergholtz (NL) and Annie Fletcher (IE/NL)
Artists: Keren Cytter (IL, 1977), Jon Mikel Euba (ES, 1967), Olivier Foulon (BE, 1976), Suchan Kinoshita (JP, 1960), Joachim Koester (DK/US, 1962), Sarah Pierce (US/IE, 1968) and Stefanie Seibold (DE, 1967)
In 2006, de Appel formed a long-term partnership with If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, a travelling platform for performance-related practices in the visual arts. ‘If I Can’t Dance…’, a famous statement attributed to the anarchist Emma Goldman, typifies the unique capacity of art to make political and critical statements about the world while also celebrating that same world.
In 2008-2010 during the third edition If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution embraces the theme of ‘Masquerade’. During this third edition, which consists of a prologue and four episodes, If I Can’t Dance… aims to investigate, together with artists and other mediators, how we handle ideas about identity and public space today.
Following the prologue at the Overgaden arts centre in Copenhagen in August 2008, episode 1 will take place in de Appel in the form of an exhibition, an archival presentation and a performance programme. Artist Stefanie Seibold will present a selection of de Appel’s archive in collaboration with de Appel’s librarian Nell Donkers, showing positions and projects in relation to the notion of the masquerade from de Appel’s legacy (read more).
After November 9 If I Can't Dance... will travel further to Sala Rekalde (Bilbao), Projects Arts Centre (Dublin) and het Van Abbenmuseum (Eindhoven).
Image: Joachim Koester "Tarantism", 2007
Opening: Friday 26 September, from 6 pm onwards
De Appel
Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10 - Amsterdam