Part of the puntWG Open Call Series
The film project "Am I, an object" explores the blurred boundaries between the body and object, using satire and humor to question concepts of authorship, originality, and value within the context of funeral rituals.
Part of the puntWG Open Call Series
With the film project "Am I, an object," artist Benjamin Francis delves into the blurring boundaries between the body and the object. The project takes place place in a funeral home wherin he explores subjects such as funeral care, death rituals, and the hierarchical relationship between the artist and his sculpture. The film employs satire, humorously questioning concepts such as authorship, originality, and value.
During the film, two performers are presented as sculptures, their bodies manipulated and moved by the artists. But conflict arises when discussions emerge about who is the most original - the artist or his creation?
While performing as art sculptures, the performers will present texts based on lyrics of funeral hymns. The lyrics are constructed through errors occurring in mistranslations to English and through disparities between English and non-English language hymns. Francis found this process of lyric-making significant as it questions meaning-making and authenticity. What does it mean for something to be original? When we think of mourning processes and discussions of death, we often insist on stressing the departed’s individuality, what makes them special, one of a kind.
Performers
Myself
@mattricule
@billymoregone
@loganhonmua
Video DOP: @nvisible.studio
Photographer/Light assistant: @gingerhorn
Sound recording: @ossip_blits
Runner/Producer: @beyondtheblinds
Production: @ewan_mcsorley
Make up: @carmelitasart
Hair: @zynwalahair
Special thanks @abcndstore for the Jewelry
and @museumtotzover for lending me an art piece
Colorist: @jacob.creach
Sound Design: @dennis.wav
Editor: kdanielwalwin
Graphic design: @createbylaw
Voiceover: @_sarjon_
Introduction text @stefhulskamp
Part of the airWG Series
Serene Hui, artist in residence at atelierWG, will present her new work, Fricatives, Mute and Fugue - A Prelude, produced during her stay at the airWG residency.
Live music performance at 8:30 PM by Francisco Garrido
Part of the airWG Series
Serene Hui, artist in residence at atelierWG, will present her new work, Fricatives, Mute and Fugue - A Prelude, produced during her stay at the airWG residency.
Fricatives, Mute and Fugue - A Prelude
Serene's research practice is often eclectic, involving a discursive, artistic and political exploration of her own context, using the geographical distance from personal lived experiences.
The project took inspiration from the text written by poet Eric Yip, Fricatives, through the productions of the body, voice and language to anticipate the problems of much larger social, cultural and political processes. The works on display aptly echo the poem’s title – how movements of the mouth and teeth are of the essence – to play with the allegory from ontology and linguistics. Taking the teeth as a physical embodiment of identity, both physically and conceptually, conveys ambiguity and ambivalence about cultural imperialism and displacement.
Taking double entendre for the word Fugue, the project extends to thinking of ways of comprehending that which escapes translation. While we hear repetition, ellipsis, foreign-ness and the untranslatable, almost fugue-like motifs, they are simultaneously language soaring in flight, like a Baroque composition Fugue – an attempt to emphasise the diverse and nuanced identity of the self and the constant redefinition of the subject.
puntWG will be open 21-25 March, 2-7 PM each day.
Supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council and Mondriaan Fonds.
Part of the atelierWG Series
Ciska Brugemann presents some of her sketches and paintings, inspired by the WG-premises and surroundings.
Part of the atelierWG Series
Ciska Brugemann presents some of her sketches and paintings, inspired by the WG-premises and surroundings.
Part of the atelierWG Series
To be dissolved in the water of memory is a series of performances dedicated to material imagination, sonic and spatial sensibilities, further contemplating upon life and death, being and becoming.
Part of the atelierWG Series
within and without,
whose form is elemental,
whose form is internal.
flowing, falling
A BEING IN FLUX,
A HYMN OF DEATH,
to be dissolved in the water of memory
A series of performances dedicated to material imagination, sonic and spatial sensibilities, further contemplating upon life and death, being and becoming.
Performance at 14:00 and 16:00, 10 February
Finissage Performance at 15:00 and 19:00, and Performance by Qihang Li at 20:00, 11 February
Phototgraphy by Ilya Rabonovich
CALL: Artists of atelierWG to present at puntWG in 2024
Part of the atelierWG Series
Dear artists of atelierWG,
We, the atelierWG team (Jacob, Ciska and Hans), invite you to submit proposals to organise an exhibition or presentation at puntWG, in the period of February - December 2024.
Exhibitions/presentations can last for either one or two weeks. We have limited time slots but will try our utmost to accommodate as many as possible. Please be aware that atelierWG's time slots are reserved for tenants of studio’s on the WG-premises. However, you can present your event together with artists from within or outside the WG-Community. We’re especially interested in internal collaborations.
We encourage proposals with an active public program or moment beyond the opening. This could take any form: talk, performance, workshop, ceremony, a garden lecture, a tour walk in the surrounding area, an exhibition inspired by the WG-energy transition with tour, you name it. This is not a requirement but we hope it will nurture a social aspect to our program and the studios in general.
Because atelierWG will celebrate it’s 40th birthday in 2024, we would like to make a special group exhibition with works that respond in some way, shape or form to the premises or the history of atelierWG. If you’re specifically interested to participate in this exhibition, please specify by stating “WG-PREMISES 2024” in the subject line of your email.
Guidelines
Please send ONE pdf (max 10 mb) (Please do not include text in the body of your email):
Time slots 2024:
The submission deadline is 31st December 2023.
All recipients will be notified before 14th January 2024.
Support
The organisation of both puntWG and Foundation atelierWG almost fully depends on volunteers, atelierWG Foundation provides artists with an open platform to realise their projects at puntWG. This includes the use of the space and basic equipment. Additionally all exhibitions and side programmes will be shared on our website and Instagram page. To further aid the realisation of each exhibition, puntWG’s team will issue acceptance letters to support their applications for external funding.
For general information and questions regarding puntWG, contact the atelierWG team: atelierwg@puntwg.nl
Organisation and programming team atelierWG Series,
Jacob Dwyer, Ciska Brugemann, Hans den Hartog Jager