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[Nettime-ro] Mercury in Retrograde(MiR) at De Appel (April 8 - June 4, 2006) |
Immediate Release Media contact: press@deappel.nl Curatorial Program at De Appel proudly presents Mercury in Retrograde (April 8 - June 4, 2006) Y ou are cordially invited to our Press Preview on April 8, 12.30 pm.Kindly RSVP to: press@deappel.nl Opening: April 8, 6 pm (see opening day program) www.mercuryinretrograde.org Mercury in Retrograde is an exhibition of twisted timelines, hallucinated futures, and historical chain reactions. Defying interpretive hierarchies, it is an experiment from which to lift off to expeditions into vanished histories - a momentary repository for new thoughts gleaned from sedimentary deposits in time. Mercury in Retrograde cracks open the notion of authorized collective histories, with examples that explode and decipher the codes of our constructed and mediated reality. In a spirit of exchange with the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, a prized selection of 16th century objects excavated from the ice of Nova Zembla is presented at De Appel. The myth of the collective wintering of Dutch explorers in the severe Polar environment has been subject of study to generations of writers, archaeologists, adventurers, and explorers. Select navigational tools are accompanied by Sven Johne's double images that tell the stories of people whose various endeavors ran around on the tiny Baltic island of Vinta. Many of the new commissions and presented works at Mercury in Retrograde remain haunted by past narratives, connected only by collisions, with unexpected outcomes, coincidences, aliases, ghosts, and disappearances. An untapped history of the building of De Appel is unearthed in an installation by Michael Blum, re-staging the established bank Lippman, Rosenthal & Co., bequeathing a potent, and valuable story back into the Dutch contemporary discourse. Mariana Castillo Deball traces colonial history, and inserts the story of the relocation of the giant stone of the God Tlaloc in an audio piece, as the listeners weaves through the antique shops of Nieuwe Spiegelstraat in Amsterdam. Omer Fast implodes viewer's definition of time with his re-sampled interviews with living-history museum interpreters, while Missingbooks revive the story of the disappearance of radical Argentine intellectual Rodolfo Walsh, and the subsequent eradication of his subversive short story. Aurélien Froment's trompe-l'?il constructions set the stage for a guided tour through a mysterious landscape, while Ohad Meromi proposes the Moon a new set for fiction. David Maljkovic revisits cultural heritage by alighting from the future, and excavating a monument. Exposing production of myth and reality and challenging the re-writable nature of history through time, the lineage of the exhibition ranges from Fernando Sánchez Castillo's operatic saga of an allegorical and ?standardized? coup d'état to Khalil Rabah's investigative re-appropriation of the tulip that traces the origin of the flower to Palestine, and from Dmitry Gutov's poetic criticism of Western art history with the activities of the Lifshitz-Institute to the incongruous mix of authority and popular imagination in Tilmann Meyer-Faje's publication on the occasion of the 400th birth anniversary of Rembrandt. Stephan Dillemuth's explorations of 19th century reform movements look into the archives of Dutch social visionary Frederik van Eeden. Throughout the exhibition emerge the still unopened envelopes from1983/84, of Johan Cornelissen's journey along the ever elusive line of the equator. Artists: Michael Blum / Mariana Castillo Deball / Johan Cornelissen / Stephan Dillemuth / Omer Fast / Aurélien Froment / Dmitry Gutov / Sven Johne / David Maljkovic / Ohad Meromi / Tilmann Meyer-Faje / Missingbooks / Khalil Rabah / Fernando Sánchez Castillo Saturday 8 April, 2006- Opening Day Program 3pm Something About Stolen Film Stills, a lecture by Aurélien Froment 4pm An Afternoon with Joseph Cornell, Chris Kubick and Anne Walsh (Archive) (live stream from 'Again for Tomorrow', RCA, London) 5.30 pm Launch of Tulips in Palestine by Khalil Rabah 6 pm Opening Mercury in Retrograde Sunday 9 April, 2006 12-4 pm Mercury in Retrograde Brunch & Roundtable discussion with JaapJan Zeeberg (explorer / author Into the Ice Sea), Joeri Boom (journalist), Michael Blum (artist), Ohad Meromi (artist), Khalil Rabah (artist), and workshop with IRWIN. Compass Room at Loods 6 - see www.mercuryinretrograde.org for more details This roundtable discussion with visual artists and explorers will examine the ambiguous relationship of contemporary society to history-making. The panel discussion will explore the nexus of myth, history, and fiction through a look at the idea of the museum/ collection, and the role of the artefact as an object of cultural/national identity. IRWIN´s workshop will present alternate ways of joining the dots in the canonical chronologies of Art History through the East Art Map. Thursday 13 April, 2006 8 pm Ricardo Piglia interviews Rodolfo Walsh, Today it is impossible to create literature disconnected from politics, hosted by Missingbooks, at library Rijksmuseum With thanks to Het Nieuwe Rijksmuseum Friday 14 April- Saturday 15 April, 2006 11-5pm Tulips in Palestine campaign by The Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind, Flowermarket, Singel 426/528 Saturday 15 April, 20060 2 pm- Distribution of Rembrandhuis Publication by Tilmann Meyer-Faje at Rembrandtplein For all events, please RSVP: ctp@deappel.nl Mercury in Retrograde is curated by Defne Ayas (Istanbul), Tessa Giblin (Auckland), Stefan Rusu, (Chisinau/Bucharest), Laura Schleussner (Berlin), Angela Serino (Amsterdam), Diana Wiegersma (Barcelona) Mercury in Retrograde is supported by the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst and Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds. The exhibition has also received support from Antenne de La Haye - Institut Français des Pays-Bas, Fonds Roberto Cimetta, Ford Foundation, Maison Descartes, Art School Palestine, Embassy of Israel, Embajada de España, Anything is Possible, Gerritsen Theatercostuums, LOODS 6, and private individuals. The Nova Zembla project is co-commissioned by 'Het Nieuwe Rijksmuseum'. De Appel Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10 1017 DE Amsterdam The Netherlands T +31-20-6255651 Open Tuesday - Sunday 11am - 6pm -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 _______________________________________________ Nettime-ro mailing list Nettime-ro@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ro --> arhiva: http://amsterdam.nettime.org/