Three Artists Walk into a Bar...
13 Apr - 13 May 2012
THREE ARTISTS WALK INTO A BAR...
13 April - 13 May, 2012
Using the quality of humour to test the potential of art as a critical instrument for the analysis of social, political and cultural issues, this project aims to build a community of peers, professionals and a variety of publics.
Curated by The Black Swan
de Appel Curatorial Programme 2011-2012
"Quite apart from making us laugh, it [humour] has been employed to activate repressed impulses, embody alienation or displacement, disrupt convention, and to explore power relations in terms of gender, sexuality, class, taste or racial and cultural identities." - Jennifer Higgie
Three Artists Walk into a Bar... is a series of works and interventions, which take place outside of the premises of the exhibition space, channelled through discussion, dialogue, and public gatherings at de Appel Boys’ School and on the project website. The commitment to humour, stems from a belief in its social quality; in its capacity to bring subversive voices and unexpected perspectives to mainstream awareness.
What happens when three artists walk into a bar? Between April 13 and May 13, 2012, more than fifty new works of art are produced - the result of an open invitation to students and residents of every graduate and post-academic fine art programme in the Netherlands. The decision to work with peers has been motivated by the urge to gather a generation of young people who are directly affected by the impact of the current political climate towards culture. Three Artists Walk into a Bar... aims to produce a fertile ground for an unexpected multitude of voices, speaking out from and to the conditions of the present time.
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While the ‘show’ takes place in the social fabric of everyday life, the function of de Appel Boys’ School is altered for the duration of the project, shifting its use from production site to auditorium, from bar to information point. On Saturdays, the Boys’ School opens its doors to the public to give hints and plant rumors of the public and semi-public works and performances made by participating artists. Saturday gatherings also includes a programme of lectures and workshops by internationally renowned practictioners from the field of art, theory and comedy. Visitors also have a chance to explore the filmic character of humour in the temporary cinema through film and video works selected by the participants in the exhibition.
Three Artists Walk into a Bar... tests the multitude of possibilites and strategies for the distribution of art: whether the art works develop a one-on-one encounter, reach an unsuspecting public, or are visible to a mass, there will always be someone who ‘chances upon the joke’, with or without consent.
ARTISTS
Haseeb Ahmed, Roi Alter, Yosuke Amemiya, Andreas Arndt and Fritz Bornstück, Marwa Lamia Arsanios, David Bernstein, Daniela Bershan, Clifford Borress, Mitchel Breed, Chad Burt, Jaiyoung Cho, Steven Chodoriwsky, Simeon Cieslinski, Valentina Desideri, Efrat Gal, Ceemin Golshan, Sergei Inja, Adrià Julià, Kroot Juurak, Hyemin Kim, Jihyun Kim, Géraldine Longueville, Pernille Lonstrup, Aapo Nikkanen, Irene O’Callaghan, Joyce Overheul, Jurgis Paškevičius, Enrico Piras, Doris Prlic, Nathania Rubin, Sarah Stein, Diego Tonus, Janneke van der Putten, Timmy van Zoelen, Amanda Wasielewski, Jeff Weber, Christoph Westermeier, Robert Wittendorp and others.
DE APPEL CURATORIAL PROGRAMME 2011-2012
This year the participants of de Appel Curatorial Programme decided to form an international curatorial collective, The Black Swan, to create a platform for future collaboration. The Black Swan is: Antonia Alampi, Katia Krupennikova, Qinyi Lim, Sanne Oorthuizen, Alec Steadman, Ivana Vaseva.
PUBLIC PROGRAMME
Lectures and workshops by Joost de Bloois, Lee Campbell, Simon Critchley, Dora Garcia, Giselinde Kuipers, VOINA and others.
In collaboration with De Ateliers, Amsterdam; Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht; maHKU - Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design | Fine Art department; Master Artistic Research, The Hague | Royal Academy of Art and the Royal Conservatoire; Sandberg Institute | Fine Arts department, Amsterdam and others.
Three Artists Walk into a Bar... by de Appel Curatorial Programme 2011-2012, is supported by SKOR | Foundation for Art and Public Domain within the framework of the institutional alliance between SKOR and de Appel.
13 April - 13 May, 2012
Using the quality of humour to test the potential of art as a critical instrument for the analysis of social, political and cultural issues, this project aims to build a community of peers, professionals and a variety of publics.
Curated by The Black Swan
de Appel Curatorial Programme 2011-2012
"Quite apart from making us laugh, it [humour] has been employed to activate repressed impulses, embody alienation or displacement, disrupt convention, and to explore power relations in terms of gender, sexuality, class, taste or racial and cultural identities." - Jennifer Higgie
Three Artists Walk into a Bar... is a series of works and interventions, which take place outside of the premises of the exhibition space, channelled through discussion, dialogue, and public gatherings at de Appel Boys’ School and on the project website. The commitment to humour, stems from a belief in its social quality; in its capacity to bring subversive voices and unexpected perspectives to mainstream awareness.
What happens when three artists walk into a bar? Between April 13 and May 13, 2012, more than fifty new works of art are produced - the result of an open invitation to students and residents of every graduate and post-academic fine art programme in the Netherlands. The decision to work with peers has been motivated by the urge to gather a generation of young people who are directly affected by the impact of the current political climate towards culture. Three Artists Walk into a Bar... aims to produce a fertile ground for an unexpected multitude of voices, speaking out from and to the conditions of the present time.
read more
While the ‘show’ takes place in the social fabric of everyday life, the function of de Appel Boys’ School is altered for the duration of the project, shifting its use from production site to auditorium, from bar to information point. On Saturdays, the Boys’ School opens its doors to the public to give hints and plant rumors of the public and semi-public works and performances made by participating artists. Saturday gatherings also includes a programme of lectures and workshops by internationally renowned practictioners from the field of art, theory and comedy. Visitors also have a chance to explore the filmic character of humour in the temporary cinema through film and video works selected by the participants in the exhibition.
Three Artists Walk into a Bar... tests the multitude of possibilites and strategies for the distribution of art: whether the art works develop a one-on-one encounter, reach an unsuspecting public, or are visible to a mass, there will always be someone who ‘chances upon the joke’, with or without consent.
ARTISTS
Haseeb Ahmed, Roi Alter, Yosuke Amemiya, Andreas Arndt and Fritz Bornstück, Marwa Lamia Arsanios, David Bernstein, Daniela Bershan, Clifford Borress, Mitchel Breed, Chad Burt, Jaiyoung Cho, Steven Chodoriwsky, Simeon Cieslinski, Valentina Desideri, Efrat Gal, Ceemin Golshan, Sergei Inja, Adrià Julià, Kroot Juurak, Hyemin Kim, Jihyun Kim, Géraldine Longueville, Pernille Lonstrup, Aapo Nikkanen, Irene O’Callaghan, Joyce Overheul, Jurgis Paškevičius, Enrico Piras, Doris Prlic, Nathania Rubin, Sarah Stein, Diego Tonus, Janneke van der Putten, Timmy van Zoelen, Amanda Wasielewski, Jeff Weber, Christoph Westermeier, Robert Wittendorp and others.
DE APPEL CURATORIAL PROGRAMME 2011-2012
This year the participants of de Appel Curatorial Programme decided to form an international curatorial collective, The Black Swan, to create a platform for future collaboration. The Black Swan is: Antonia Alampi, Katia Krupennikova, Qinyi Lim, Sanne Oorthuizen, Alec Steadman, Ivana Vaseva.
PUBLIC PROGRAMME
Lectures and workshops by Joost de Bloois, Lee Campbell, Simon Critchley, Dora Garcia, Giselinde Kuipers, VOINA and others.
In collaboration with De Ateliers, Amsterdam; Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht; maHKU - Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design | Fine Art department; Master Artistic Research, The Hague | Royal Academy of Art and the Royal Conservatoire; Sandberg Institute | Fine Arts department, Amsterdam and others.
Three Artists Walk into a Bar... by de Appel Curatorial Programme 2011-2012, is supported by SKOR | Foundation for Art and Public Domain within the framework of the institutional alliance between SKOR and de Appel.