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24/5/2001

dai dai dai

Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam

where do we go from here?

Carmen Freudenthal & Elle Verhagen (NL), Jasper Joffe (GB), Keupr/van Bentm (NL), Daniel Pflumm (D), Ugo Rondinone (CH), Georgina Starr (GB), Jennifer Tee (NL) & Jonas Ohlsson (S), Nicky Zwaan (NL)

Reclining clown figures, a mini mirror catwalk, ambient barrel-organ music, video-registered paintings, magnified bracket fungi, advertising logos without any message, cut-copy-paste fashion photography, minimal sounds, light boxes, and text samples. With dai dai dai, where do we go from here?, the Netherlands Media Art Institute is flirting with all kinds of disciplines. The exhibition features a huge variety of colours and artistic forms in which various media are stripped of their isolation. They come together in a new total environment of settings infused with atmosphere and totally devoid of categorization. In this mixture of media, the no-man's-land of the in-between is being investigated.

The exhibition links up with a time and a visual culture in which various media are becoming ever more tightly interwoven, and this poses the question of whether the definitions of, and classifications into, different media are still valid. Moreover, the exhibition goes along with an international tendency in contemporary art to create 'environment art', or 'atmospheres' as they are also being characterized. Spaces imbued with atmosphere, transporting the viewer into a different reality and activating our senses as much as possible. Artists such as Doug Aitken, Jonathan Meese, Aernout Mik, John Bock and Pierre Huyghe design spaces in order to give visitors a lasting experience. They do not so much exhibit their works as transform the space, so that rather than being isolated within the architectural area, these works become part of it. The artists take complete control of the space. At this exhibition, a number of international artists are attempting to create a new environment, both organic and colourful. With this 'over-all' approach, the exhibition becomes a place where the viewer does not find himself opposite the works of art - as with the so-called 'white cube', with its distance between work of art and visitor - but rather, among them. The title dai dai dai, where do we go from here? combines the names of two works that can be seen at the exhibition. On the opening Jasper Joffe and Jonas Ohlsson will give a live-performance.

Opening 25 May from 5:00 - 7:00 pm

Opening hours gallery Tuesday - Saturday from 1 - 6 pm. Free entrance

Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Montevideo/Time Based Arts, Keizersgracht 264, NL 1016 EV Amsterdam, Nederland, T.31(0)20 6237101 F.31(0)20 6244423
For more information contact: Marieke Istha (communication), Marieke van Hal (exhibitions)

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