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
Supporting actors:
Frank van der Burg, Iris van Elshuis, Maureen van Elshuis, Karin Toole, Bojan Fajfric, Patrick Teixeira, Maritte Joseph, Misty Super-De-Luxe, Lizzy, Zazi Creijghton.
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

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.

Fricatives, Mute and Fugue - A Prelude wordt ondersteund door Hong Kong Arts Development Council en Mondriaan Fonds

photography by Ilya Rabinovich

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

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 Rabinovich

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):

• Full name
• Studio and pavilion number.
• A proposal (max. 250 words) that includes a description of your exhibition and the public programme. Please be concise.
• A maximum of ten images or links to moving image, sound, or performance pieces, (max. 5 min’s each) for each participating artist. Please do not send websites.
• Please indicate your preferred time slots for the exhibition (in order of preference). If there are any that you cannot do, please state.

Time slots 2024:

• 16th - 29th January
• 11th - 26th February
• 27th February - 11th March
• 4th - 10th June (1 week)
• 23rd July - 12th August (3 weeks)
• 24th September - 7th October
• 3rd December - 12th December (1 week)

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

Part of the airWG Series

More info:
https://airwg.nl/ryotaro-fuyuki
https://ryotarofuyuki.tumblr.com/

puntWG will be open 16-24 December 14:00-18:00 each day, except Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays

Photography by Ilya Rabinovich

There is no opening for this exhibition, but rather a finissage:

Finissage: Sunday 10 December 2023, 14:00 tot 18:00

Part of the atelierWG Series

Maarten Welbergen, www.mwelbergen.nl

Time came to a halt

This project I specially present in puntWG is about light and stillness.
How do you catch the moment to suggest timelessness?
An object exists by the grace of light who creates its shadow.
When there is only darkness, you distinguish nothing,
but if there is only light, you don’t observe anything.
Because of this interplay we learn and experience the world around us.
My fascination with this phenomenon started when my eye was caught by
the shadows on walls and doors.
These shadows tell you something about the time of day,
but it also calls the emotions into action.
At the same time, it is an almost tactile experience of warm and cold,
of melancholy and lust for life, of positive and negative.

Open 18, 19, 25, 26 November

Part of the puntWG Open Call Series

For the series of performances Moving Shadows, Jae Pil Eun and Tao Yang propose a miniature landscape within the walls of PuntWG. The piece is inspired by a traditional form of Chinese outdoor theater, where garden arts and landscape techniques are deployed to make what is small look large, and what is dense feel sparse. These theatrical techniques are a way of implying the presence of the visitor, who encounters different scenes and vistas with each next step, contributing to a spatial understanding of a narrative. At PuntWG, the landscape is fragmented into solely the appearance of structures of roofs, informed by Chinese traditional crafts and knowledge. Wearing objects of ceramics as garments, the accompanying sounds of the performance are in tune with the body languages of the performers, allowing for echoes and variations of rhythm and tones. While the performers move, the architectural context transforms to suggest a passing of viewpoints. Together, the performative instruments are used to propose an alternative gesture of how a narrative can be experienced through sounds and shadows.

Credits:
Artist: Jae Pil Eun, Tao Yang
Performers: Jae Pil Eun, Tao Yang, Valeryia Le
Producer, text: Helena Julian
Poster designer: Junhyeok Shin
Textile technician: Riun Jo
Supported by: Arts Council Korea, Mondriaan Fonds
With thanks to: the team at puntWG

The performances will take place on:
Saturday 18 November 14:00
Sunday 19 November 14:00
Saturday 25 November 14:00
Sunday 26 November 14:00

Duration: 40 minutes 

To attend the performance, we kindly ask to send an email to the address movingshadowsatpuntwg@gmail.com with your preferred date and amount of visitors. Due to the limited number of audience members, please sign up before Monday 13 November. You will receive a response via email to confirm your reservation.

Photography by Ilya Rabinovic