features 13.04.09 Hendrik Folkerts
Haarlem
Body Double at Nieuwe Vide
21/03/09 - 25/04/09
Every year art space Nieuwe Vide in Haarlem (near Amsterdam) appoints a new curator to give shape to its exhibition program. This year's curator is Emilie Oursel, founding director of Violet Bureau and editor of the publication .doc//m.
01/10/07 Michał Woliński
The Polish artist Artur Żmijewski recently published a manifesto calling upon us to become aware of the politicization of our actions and choices. Artists should use their art to effect social change. His film Them (2007), shown at documenta 12, gives a foretaste for now.
01/10/07 Anselm Franke
Using the example of the Madrid Trial at the art fair ARCO 07, a mock trial in which a number of prominent people in the art world debated the position of art, Anselm Franke considers the political potential of art in a world that has incorporated everything within its all-embracing liberal economy.
Dead Against Consensus The Thinking of Chantal Mouffe
01/10/07 Erik Hagoort
She has become a sought-after speaker in the art world. The ideas of Chantal Mouffe, a French-speaking Belgian political philosopher working in London, do not reveal her as being much of a proponent of the Dutch ‘polder model’. Her position is that people must dare to have passionately different opinions, for this is the best building block for democracy. Mouffe’s theory is increasingly being seen as a universally ap-plicable model for liberating politics from the stranglehold of consensus thinking. The issue is whether art can do justice to her intentions.
At the invitation of artist Nasrin Tabatabai, architects Niloufar Niksar, Kianoosh Vahabi and film maker Poutia Jahanshad from Tehran discuss the state of artistic production in their country. In Iran, visual art is still seen as opponent of the system unless it conforms to the gevernment's ideological principles.
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Scarcely a week goes by without an exhibition of his work opening somewhere in the world and virtually every exhibition is devised and drawn by him on the spot. The Romanian artist and cartoonist Dan Perjovschi is having the busiest years of his career. American artist Otto Berchem is a big fan of drawing and cartoons and managed to entice Perjovschi into a conversation about his oeuvre which is just as taciturn as it is boisterous.
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