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27 January - 11 March 2012: Back to the Future, Exhibition, CBKU, NL
Louis de Cordier, Golden Sun Disk
Location: CBKU, Plompetorengracht 4, Utrecht, NL
Curated by: Wout Hoogendijk & Enough Room for Space
Participating artists: Kristina Benjocki, Louis de Cordier, Edhv., Michael Johansson, Anton Ginzburg, Bruno Mouron & Pascal Rostain, Toine Klaassen, Frank Koolen, Fleur Thio, Leonid Tsvetkov, Maarten Vanden Eynde
Supported by: Province of Utrecht, City of Utrecht, J.E. Jurriaanse Foundation
"This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours." - Jimmy Carter (Voyager Golden Record)
In 1977 the ‘Voyager Golden Records’ were send into space. The LP’s contain sound and image material that reveal the variety of life and culture on earth that could become exposed to any form of alien life. How will others in the future look back at our times? What will remain for future generations? To what extend does the past influence the present? These are questions that deal with the construction and manipulation of history writing. The exhibition ‘Back to the Future’ presents the artist researcher, who interprets history according to his/her own point of view and who constructs a possible future or imaginary past. Archeology and archaeological sites are an inspiring world for artists. The conclusions made by archaeologists and artists responding to the current state of affairs with fragmented knowledge allow space for interpretation and speculation. By connecting elements of the past with the present the artists develop the heritage of the future and are to a certain extend excavating the future past.
2011 - 2013: Present Perfect!, publications, residencies and exhibitions
Moussa / Vanden Eynde: IN_DÉPENDANCE, off-program/SUD 2010, Douala
Curator: Annette Schemmel
Coordination: Annette Schemmel, Marjolijn Dijkman and Pauline Doutreluingne
Partners: Enough Room for Space, Brussels BE / Gueststudio DCR, The Hague, NL / ArtBakery, Douala Cameroon, CM / diARTgonale, CM / Doual'Art, Douala, CM / NEST, The Hague, NL / SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin DE / IWALEWA-Haus, Universität Bayreuth, DE
Support: Arts Collaboratory, Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, NL / Stroom, The Hague NL / IFA, DE
Artists: Marjolijn Dijkman, Beate Engl, Justine Ngaga, Christian Hanussek, Achillekà Komguem, Salifou Lindou, Vincent Meessen, Alioum Moussa, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Nicolas & Rosa Eyidi
Critics: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Dominique Malaquais, Lionel Manga, Ruth Afane Belinga, amongst others
“Present Perfect!” explores current and historic relations between Europe and Cameroon from five intercultural perspectives from within the visual arts. The art journal diARTgonale will be repositioned during an editorial residency of Ruth Afane Belinga, Achillekà Komguem and Salifou Lindou in The Hague at Gueststudio DCR in Sept/Oct 2011. Throughout 2012 and 2013, a sequence of special editions will present the research projects of mixed artist teams from Cameroon and Europe (Moussa/Vanden Eynde, Dijkman/Eyidi, Meessen/n.n., Lindou/Hanussek, Ngaga/Engl). A critical, contextualising section will comment on these projects. These journals will be distributed in The Hague, NL, Bayreuth, Berlin, DE, Brussels, BE, Bonendale/Douala, CM, and in artist initiatives, art schools, foreign cultural institutes throughout Cameroon. A travelling group exhibition will show the artistic research projects in full size and in the context of recent work made on the same geographic axis. The exhibition will open in October 2013 in NEST in The Hague.
“Present Perfect!” challenges “otherising” practices (Stuart Hall) of the global art world and highlights what the lately deceased artist and visionary Goddy Leye (CM) stated: “Art is universal (…) although the means of presentation and production or even the character of the works changes with the localities, we’re united in the same quest.”
2 - 21 December 2011: Present Perfect!, 3rd working period in Cameroon
Salifou Lindou: Face à l’Eau, 2010, produced for the SUD 2010
Annette Schemmel, Beate Engl, Christian Hannusek, Marjolijn Dijkman and Eelco van der Lingen will travel to Cameroon in December 2011. They will be working amongst others with Salifou Lindou, Ruth Belinga, Nicolas & Rosa Eyidi, Achilleka Komguem and Lionel Manga on the further development of Present Perfect!. They will be working in Douala, Yaounde, M'Balmayo, Foumban and Maroua.