This exhibition is open Wednesdays to Sundays, 12-5pm.

Emotion Recognition from an algorithmic point of view is a collaboration between visual artist Coralie Vogelaar choreographer Marjolein Vogels and actress Marina Miller Dessau.

Together they explored and trained deconstructed facial expressions according to the Facial Action Coding System, developed by prof. Paul Ekman in 1978. This system forms the basis of contemporary emotion recognition software and shows us a computer way of looking at our emotions.

By combining these collaborative performative experiments with algorithmic compositions and image blending as a method, these studies have resulted in – amongst other – two video installations and a live performance exploring the complexities and unknown expressions of the face.

This exhibition is generously supported by the Stimuleringsfonds voor Creative Industrie, 
by European Media Artist in Residence Exchange (EMARE) at Werkleitz and the ministry of culture Saxony-Anhalt.

The emotion software is FaceReader, with the help of the Usability Lab, Communication and Multimedia Design, Amsterdam University of Applied Science

Inverting the Archive brings together the filmic works of Henderson and Peres dos Santos, generating a space in which to critically meditate on the parallel histories of Dutch and British colonialism and to question the applicability of the ‘post’ status of our assumed ‘post-colonial’ era.

In recent years, the research of Henderson and Peres dos Santos has been underpinned by their by their engagement with archival materials sourced from the National Council of Civil Liberties (UK) and the Beeld en Geluid Archief (NL) respectively. Mediating archival threads of colonial history from the position of being an entity who embodies such political inheritance often prompts the haphazard task of second-guessing the vocabulary with which the past has been framed, the narrative laced with bias and scattered with gaps. How, however, can the lens of an artwork invert silence and materialise presence out of absence?

Events: 

Being, in a State of Erasure
Reading & Screening by Hannah Dawn Henderson
10 November 2018 @ 18:30 - 20:00

The publication Being, in a State of Erasure recollects a period of research undertaken by Henderson in the archives of the National Council of Civil Liberties. Overlaying this excavation into the history of Commonwealth migration to the UK with an autobiographical perspective, Henderson seeks to illuminate the political factors that catalysed a social trauma, as well as articulate the embodied experience of inheriting such a legacy, thereby questioning its contemporary significance.

Henderson will read from and elaborate on the process of developing the publication, followed by a screening of Philip Donnellan's documentary The Colony (1964). Set in Birmingham, the film gives a voice to West Indian immigrants who movingly describe their experiences of trying to integrate into a surprisingly unwelcoming ‘mother country’. Shot in 1964 the film provides an important snapshot of Britain in the early stages of momentous social change and first-generation Afro-Caribbean immigration.

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The Toxicity of Art Institutions in the Netherlands
Talk & Screening: An Open Talk with Miguel Peres dos Santos 
17 November 2018 @ 18:30 - 20:00

In the Dutch artistic landscape there remains little reflection exerted towards the capacities through which art institutions fail to integrate their professed ethos into the reality of their institutional practice. Yet still the archetype of the white male phallic figure remains the most centralised and powerful entity in this landscape, in that it is this figure who still largely retains the authority to sanction, negotiate or censor Other voices.

In this talk, Peres dos Santos will dissect recent case studies that expose the underlying sociological fear of power-loss, impotence and cognitive dissonance, and will further exemplify fallacies in institutional policies concerned with addressing issues of de-colonialism, race, and white privilege.

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Envisioning Opaque Futurities
Film Screening & Roundtable with Miguel Peres dos Santos and Hannah Dawn Henderson 
22 November 2018 @ 18:30 — 21:30

Envisioning Opaque Futurities presents Manthia Diawara’s film One World in Relation, a biopic on the Martinician writer Édouard Glissant, who wrote that ‘if we examine the process of understanding people and ideas from the perspective of Western thought, we discover that its basis is this requirement for transparency […] Perhaps we need to bring an end to the very notion of scale. Displace all reduction.’ Three speakers invited by Henderson and Peres dos Santos will examine the potential for such displacement.

Friday 30 November Live Event : Lecture Performance & Installation
Saturday 1 & Sunday 2 December: Installation Exhibit

Camera and the Mirror is part of long term artistic research project WHAT DO YOU SEE? - mechanisms of the seen, which investigates the relationship between camera, performer, operator, image capture, and viewer experience.

Via the staging of a visual essay and a performative lecture, Maria Lalou will establish the role of the camera as an independent actor, demonstrating its contemporary engagement and function as opposed to seeing it as a tool to mediate the subjective view of the person behind the camera.

The camera is a remote sensing device as it senses subject without any contact. The functioning of the camera is very similar to the functioning of the human eye. History as the camera, or rather as cinema, records it, gives a relentless account of facts, moving objects, and persons, of situations, distances, light, and dark, thus recording reactions, behavior, attitudes of people in a situation. 

The cinema thus also records the visions people have, their actual and virtual at the same time. Using material from her recent research on the role of the camera, Lalou will perform a live essay around the camera apparatus and its transverse point from a device to its intersubjective role in societies today, looking at the functions of cinematic mechanisms. 

The material compound will include both diagrammatic drawings and video footage extracted from the research on three flms by Jean Luc Godard, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, and Harun Farocki, alongside her own recent flm The Dialogue (2018).

The opening event will celebrate the publication The Camera, 2018, alongside a performance element and an installation comprised of short video essays, completed as part of her residency at ISCP in New York and her on going research on ‘mechanism of the seen’. 

Yutaka Makino has undertaken several projects in the past years that provide acoustically and visually conditioned environments in which processes of perception are made tangible to the perceivers and reflections on the acts of perception are provoked. All the elements employed in a space are intertwined and interact with each other, so that the interdependence of behavior and counter-behavior of the elements sets the visitors’ perceptual transformations in perpetual motion.

The setup of Makino’s new piece, Displacement, functions like an experimental setup that consists of multiple components including the physical presence of the visitor in the space. There is auditory stimulation that masks almost all the acoustic features of the space. Additionally, an optokinetic stimulator is used to produce an unstable visual environment in which spatial references are constantly disrupted. Commonly used as a rehabilitation apparatus to reduce the visual dependencies of subjects for example with balance disorders or vertigo, here optokinetic stimuli are used in such a way that instabilities in orientation are induced and our dependency on visual references is put to a test. For the visitor, any gesture of other visitors becomes another spatial reference that conflicts with the output from the optokinetic device. The individual experiences of the visitors will emerge from this interference of the conflicting references.

Leaving the House is a Performance, an exhibition of prints and performances, is a collaboration between artist Sara Campos and writer Renate Stalman, who are showing work together for the first time.

The prints are images and texts. The performances relate to the prints.

The idea for the exhibition originated from being a mother. Raising a child in the western world is a pretty solitary activity; in a way most individualism tends to promote isolation. The modern search for perfection and obsessions with self-image conflict sharply with the messy business of motherhood. In a way, society has created an urban environment where being social no longer refers to meeting in public spaces but to digital networks. In this setting leaving your house is like performing a courageous act.

For this exhibition the artists will be seeking to ask how we can get a grip on experiences of motherhood through artworks and vice versa; and, what can we do with images and words?

The title of the project is used here as a working tool, in order to associate different ideas and form possibilities. 

The exhibition will bring together printed images, texts and the translations of these into performed actions. Campos and  Stalman will explore the spaces between image and text, and how these can be manifested in the performers, in gesture, speech, motion, and repetition.

The performances will be a combination of actions and spoken stories by Renate Stalman.

The prints, operating between being promotional tools and instructions, draw inspiration from advertisements, particularly their boldness of statements, scale and general language. 

During the course of three weeks, the exhibition will change its form. Different elements such as images, sound recordings and performance instructions will be generated. The artists will use the exhibition format as a way to develop new works, so that it can travel into a different space or venue.

This project is kindly supported by the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst and Stichting Stokroos.

Performances:

“Transitions”-------Instruction for 5 performers, 8th september at 17:30
“Transitions”---------Instruction for 5 performers, (Fernissage) 23 september at 17.00

Performance directed by Sara Campos, with short stories by Renate Stalman
Performers: to be announced

Anti-Mass is a new body of work from Hughes, extending her ongoing preoccupation with the boundaries between sculptural installation, musical composition and performance. Presenting a series of works on gessoed board, Hughes presents a series of image clusters that function as compositional devices both within themselves, their collective groupings and the exhibition space. Hughes has been investigating the delicate interrelated languages between different forms of composition for a number of years, focusing on key compositional strategies such as placement, interrelation, and arrangement, often transposing the linguistic tropes of musical notation and instruction into the language of collage and sculpture.

In Anti-Mass the images are stripped back, almost to the point where they function like transparencies, embracing crossovers between figure / ground, sound / silence.

The work is pseudo-linguistic, diagrammatic, painterly, and makes reference to Hughes’ longstanding use of collage. The images contain fragments of line and noise, coalesced ‘phrases’, or representations, and use methods of erasure and re-application to hollow out brushstrokes in order to capture how forms of sound occupy duration, space, and surface.

Sarah Hughes is a British artist, composer and performer with a long standing interest in alternative modes of living, creative agency, and acts of resistance. Her work explores the boundaries of interdisciplinary practice, often moving between sculpture, installation, composition and music. Hughes is a co-founder of Compost and Height, a curatorial platform that focuses on new music and composition. She is also co-editor of the new music journal Wolf Notes, and co-founder of BORE, a publication dedicated to experimental text-based and graphic scores.

Hughes’s work has been exhibited and performed internationally, including at South London Gallery, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Supplement, London; V22, London; Sydney Non Objective, Australia, and Oriel Davies, Wales. Her compositions have been performed by Apartment House, Dog Star Orchestra, a.pe.ri.od.ic ensemble, The Set Ensemble, as well as festivals including the London Contemporary Music Festival and Music We'd Like To Hear, London. Realisations of her compositions have been published by Another Timbre Records, Suppedaneum, Consumer Waste Records and Reductive Music.

As a performer Hughes has played at various venues including the Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes; The Wulf, Los Angeles; Cafe Oto, London; Parasol Unit, London; Holywell Music Hall, Oxford, and with a number of musicians including Angharad Davies, Tim Parkinson, Jürg Frey, Michael Pisaro, Antoine Beuger, Patrick Farmer, Stephen Cornford, Ryoko Akama, David Stent, and Dominic Lash.

Hughes was the Sound and Music Embedded composer-in-residence at South London Gallery 2015-16.

www.sarahhughes.org

DNK Days 2018 is supported by AFK, FPK and Mondriaan Fonds

Open daily until 21 July – 13:00 – 18:00

With:
Seamus Cater – Concertina
Anne La Berge – Fluit
Koen Nutters – Bas
Germaine Sijstermans - Clarinet
Leo Svirsky - Accordion
Samuel Vriezen – Melodica

one site, counting is an experimental setting fusing aspects of Martijn Tellinga’s earlier investigations into self evolving durational pieces and resonance tuning. The piece is the result of his pondering over questions of the musicality of space and spatial animation of musical matter, as well as his ongoing interest in how experience of place and surrounding comes about through resonance. one site, counting attempts to explore resonance of site as an oscillation caused between acoustic properties, narrative structure and musical interpretation.

Following a partly poetic, partly scientific reading of the acoustic signature of a given space, resonances are made palpable as an extension of its architecture. Carefully mounted speaker drivers projecting electronic pure waves at resonant frequencies, cause the room to naturally amplify the tones and hum at its intrinsic pitches in response. In this slowly shifting acoustical space, highly position-specific occurrences are situated.

The installation seeks to make the sensorial traversable as a performative plane as well, including the resonant frequencies into a score as reference points for acoustic musicians that visit the gallery on a daily basis, unscheduled and unannounced. Guided by the specific harmonic bearing of their instrument, they will perform open geometries of quiet sustained pitches hovering around the resonant tones, drawing spatial musical gestures that instill body and location into the inching sounding space.

Following a similar self-organising routine, the unfolding of the installation is captured on video. Fragments selected from an expanding archive of documentation are played back into the space, expanding the visual and acoustic narrative of the piece as it takes place.

About the Artist

Martijn Tellinga (1974, Netherlands) is an artist, composer and occasional performer. His practice enfolds elements of concert, installation and performance art. Drawn from a reduced formalist-seeming vocabulary, his work centers on the exploration of sound & listening to express ideas of space, place and process: their reciprocal production, contextual intertwining, and potential as a perceptual, performative and social medium. It includes a wide variety of conceptual actions and chance operations, probing the emergent field between intended and accidental occurrences.

Recently he has been producing performance installations explorative of extreme duration, sound installation work investigating the practice of resonance tuning, and documentary pieces utilising principles of acoustic measurement and intervention style negotiations of site.

Engaged with the formative principles of music, his instrumental scores commonly propose intuitive bending of (music) systems through open-ended and rule-based instructions that provide performers with a template for listening, acting and interacting.

He performs and exhibits his work worldwide, lectures and works in residence. Over the past 3 years, he has articulated his artistic research through the development of courses focussing on the spatial, processual and environmental modalities of sound informed practices. This led to a visiting professorship at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and ArtEZ Academy in Arnhem, and intensive courses at the Modern Academy in Hong Kong and Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual in Mexico City.

With DNK ensemble he interprets and re-enacts seminal pieces from the likes of Cornelius Cardew, David Dunn, Dick Raaijmakers, Anthony McCall and David Tudor.

He is currently a Fiosraigh PhD candidate at the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media in Dublin.

www.martijntellinga.nl

DNK Days 2018 is supported by AFK, FPK and Mondriaan Fonds

atelierWG Foundation invites visual artists to organize a two-person exhibition accompanied by a series of events to be presented at puntWG, an exhibition space located in the centre of Amsterdam.

Based on a successful program of duo exhibitions in 2018, we are motivated to continue this format for 2019. We invite proposals for two-person exhibitions in any form that encourage dialogue  between the artists and their work. We look for proposals that combine a rich public program that include events such as performances, screenings, lectures, artist talks, dinners etc. Each exhibition will last four weeks (including installation and de-installation times).

Artists will be selected on the basis of the quality of their proposal and their considered approach to using the space.

Support: 
atelierWG foundation provides selected artists with an open platform to realize their projects at puntWG. This includes the space and basic equipment, professional photo documentation and the production of printed matter to accompany each exhibition. As a small organization, we unfortunately cannot provide financial support for production. puntWG’s team will issue acceptance letters for successful applicants to support their applications for external funding.

You can find the puntWG floorplan HERE.

Application guidelines: 
Please include the following documents in your on-line submission:

• A PDF with the following information: full name, date and place of birth, postal address, phone number, e-mail and website

• CV, max two A4 pages of participating artists

• A proposal (max. 250 words) that includes a description of your exhibition and the public programme.

• A short motivation for showing at puntWG.

• A maximum of five images in jpg format, 2MB all together

• Please indicate your preferable months for the exhibition and the times when you are not available. The more accurate you are, the better we can organise the calendar.

All applications with attachments to be sent via email to: opencall@atelierwg.nl

The submission deadline is July 15th 2018.

All recipients will be notified before October 1st 2018.

For general information and questions regarding puntWG, contact team puntWG: opencall@atelierwg.nl 

Organization and programming of puntWG: Noa Giniger, Frank Mandersloot, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, Michelle Son and Maaike Anne Stevens.

www.puntwg.nl 

About
Following the relocation of the hospital Wilhelmina Gasthuis in 1984, now the AMC – Academic Medical Center – artists, small business owners and residents have shaped and preserved the unique character and special site of WG in Amsterdam. Today a large number of artists are living and working on the grounds, including those who are part of atelierWG (in Pavilions 18 and 19).

AtelierWG Foundation, established in 1989, houses 120 artists' studios as well as initiating projects in the fields of art and culture, including international exchanges and Open Studio routes.

In 2006 puntWG was created as an interdisciplinary exhibition space and platform for the arts, with a lively program of exhibitions, performances, concerts, lectures and discussions with the aim of initiating an open and broad discourse between artists and the public. PuntWG was initiated by the artists of atelierWG, who finance the space and organize its programming.

airWG, an artist-in-residence, opened in September 2015, hosting a guest studio for national and international artists with an emphasis on research and collaboration.