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10/7/2009

Performing Evidence

Smart Project Space, Amsterdam

curated by Anke Bangma

Performing Evidence, guest curated by Anke Bangma, brings together (new) work by contemporary artists and visual documents from the history of psychology. The exhibition explores how the very making of pictures provides the conditions for the enactment of certain social scenarios.

Operating on the basis of the ‘before and after’ logic, historical documents were often demonstrative of a transformation: traumatized soldiers being cured, workers adapting to new roles, the disadvantaged child developed into a worthy citizen. But the making of these documents is not only a means of constructing proof that the subjects in the image were transformed; it becomes in itself part of that transformation, as it engages the soldiers, workers or children in the enactment of a developmental scenario.

It is the effect of such representational practices upon our self-understanding and conduct that is negotiated by the contemporary works in the exhibition. The artists explore how different representational forms – press briefings, virtual reality exposure therapy, roleplay trainings, reality TV – make us feel and act in certain ways. Performing Evidence suggests that such shaping of sentiments, attitudes and actions can be traced back to the early twentieth century.

SMART Project Space is kindly supported by: Mondriaan Foundation; Municipality Amsterdam; Bureau Broedplaatsen; Stichting DOEN; The Netherlands Film Fund; Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds; VSBfonds; Amsterdam Fund for the Arts; Arts Council England; Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture; Municipality Rotterdam; National Academy of the Arts, Bergen (NO); The Research Council of Norway

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"Untitled ( )": an exhibition and publication by Antonis Pittas.
His work is a meditation on the subjective experience of time and the manner in which particular spaces become sites for personal stories or larger histories.

Opening Saturday 11 July 2009, 21.00 hrs
21.00 – 22.00 hrs: live art project by Rod Dickinson in collaboration with Steve Rushton that interrogates the historical form and role of the presidential speech and press briefing.

Smart Project Space
Arie Biemondstraat 105-113 - Amsterdam
Open: Mon-Sat 12.00-22.00; Sun 14.00-22.00
Free admission

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