Open 3th June from  14 till 18 hours. Performance Sensorial Explorations’   from 17 till  19 hours.

The exhibition of Phil Bosch and Pernille Lonstrup is based around the juxtaposition of their different works in which they explore the state/status of civilization. Leading question for the artists is whether the works can be placed before civilization or after its collapse?

In addition to the exhibition, the two artists will continue to explore this notion of knowledge and civilization, as an imaginary construction. By setting up three public events, where artists, philosophers and scientists are invited to investigate how the western mind has been shaped into our current notion of what civilization is and how it might be de-conditioned.

Photo documentation by Ilya Rabinovich

PUBLIC PROGRAM:

Event three:  Performance - Sensorial Explorations
3 June 17-19:00
Guests:
Phil Bosch
Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen

The exhibition and public program is supported by:

AFK

Stichting Stokroos

Australian Government Regional Arts Fund, Regional Arts Victoria.

On the artists

Phil Bosch works with sensorial explorations through video, she explores a space that exists between image and language, reflecting upon established meanings and what is left when these meanings are abandoned. Bosch works as an archaeologist in her video, digging out the invisible evidence, that history will not be able categorize.

Pernille Lonstrup’s work makes blind spots/gaps visible in communication, that a system of language would neglect. She focuses in her work on a societal system’s ability to listen and understand, what is not a common norm within the system itself. Lonstrup works as a linguist, where her work leads to an absurd drama in which codes and sign of a common regime constantly transform.          

Language and image are said to be at the basis of human civilization. Bosch and Lonstrup want to explore how this idea has shaped the status of our current civilization, if this status is an imaginary construction. They wish do so through their different approaches and working methodology; Bosch’s working is rooted in image and Lonstrup’s working is rooted in language.

The two artists are planning the exhibition around their two most recent video works ‘Telluric 0’ en ‘Constructions’. 

past:

First event: ‘Culture < >Nature’

PLACE:            Punt WG, WG Plein 80, 1054 DM Amsterdam

DATE:             19 May

TIME:             17:00 – 19:00

GUEST SPEAKERS:   Sissel Marie Tonn (artist), Eva Meijer (philosopher/artist) and

Niek Speetjens (earth scientist)

MODERATOR:       Bernice Bovenkerk (philosopher)

In the first event 'Culture < >Nature’ we are considering the question; what is culture and what is natural? This first event is a presentation and panel talk to create a dialogue between art, animal ethics, philosophy and geology to explore alternative visions to the scientific notion of the ‘Anthropocene’: the idea where the human being is the dominant and overall decisive factor on all processes on the earth and its atmosphere. Guest speakers are Sissel Marie Tonn (artist), Eva Meijer (philosopher and artist) and Niek Speetjens (earth scientist), moderator Bernice Bovenkerk (philosopher).

*Sissel Marie Tonn (Denmark)
Tonn’s practice focuses and reflects up on sensory and perceptual structures of attention within environments undergoing change.

*Bernice Bovenkerk (The Netherlands)
Her research interests concern issues in animal and environmental ethics and political philosophy. Current topics are animal agency, animal domestication, the moral status of animals and other natural entities, climate ethics, and deliberative democracy.

* Eva Meijer (The Netherlands)
With use of different media and new strategies, artist, philosopher, writer and singer-songwriter Eva Meijer opens up fresh perceptions and sensibilities concerning the political status of animals, radically including them in contemporary discourses.

* Niek Speetjens (The Netherlands) is an Earth Scientist specialized in hydrology. Currently he focuses on arctic permafrost research, which falls within the context of understanding the effects of climate change on local and global scale.

Het Tweede Event: ‘Black Holes & The Notion of the Self’

PLAATS: Punt WG, WG Plein 80, 1054 DM Amsterdam

DATUM: 26 MEI 2018

TIJD: 17:00 – 19:00

 Gasten:

Koen Aartsen (psycholoog)Simon Fisher(kunstenaar), Emilio Moreno (kunstenaar), Renée van Trier (kunstenaar)
Moderator:
Pernille Lonstrup

Aan de hand van het kunstenaarsgenre ‘zelfportret’ onderzoeken wij ‘a black hole’ met behulp van diverse kennislichamen zoals kunst, wetenschap, psychiatrie en film. Gedachten, impressies en expressies over donkere materie, verdwijningen en verschijningen van betekenissen in psychoses, tijdreizen en zwarte gaten worden in verband gebracht met het concept van het ‘zelf’. Zij worden vanuit verschillende disciplines en in verschillende hoedanigheden in dit event naast elkaar geplaatst.