Bulletin #4 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝐴 𝑄𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑂𝑓 𝑃𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟, 𝐼𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝐼𝑡?
Image: Sylvia Wynter
sonsbeek 20 →24
force times distance
on labour and its sonic ecologies
a mixtape for darker days
A powerful mixtape in times of lockdown, solitude and riots. A shared feeling of togetherness. A cacophony of voices, silences, whispers, thoughts, laughter and cries that question how gendered and racialized capitalism shape our understanding of contemporary labour conditions. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑎 𝑄𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑃𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟, 𝐼𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝐼𝑡? is not a call to action, it’s an invitation to listen caringly in the lower registers. To listen between the breaks. Including an accompanying text by co-curator Amal Alhaag to get all senses involved.
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my learning is affected by the condition of my life
Last week, our partner ArtEZ Studium Generale and co-curator Aude Mgba launched 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒, a critical reflection centered around the future of art schools. As part of this project, Aude wrote an essay in which she connects her own experiences as a learner to structures that more keenly encourage collective and collaborative thinking.
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lessons from Issa Samb
The films that were shown during 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 remain available for everyone’s pleasure. We recommend 𝐿𝑎 𝐶𝑜𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒 by Antje Majewski. The film features a conversation between the artist and Issa Samb (1945-2017), a Senegalese artist, actor, philosopher, author, critic and co-founder of the interdisciplinary initiative Laboratoire Agit-Art.
Issa Samb talks about a questioning method that teaches us about our responsibility to view even the tiniest object made in China as artists, as beings, while respecting their history and origin. The charge that objects carry derives ultimately from the same force that also fills us.
Throwback to Sonsbeek '93
On Thursday last week CuratorLab organized a panel discussion on social responsibilities and the desire to reinvent relations between art, culture and politics. Relating to the past while looking to the future, sonsbeek co-curator Zippora Elders and assistant curator and programme coordinator Krista Jantowski alongside artists Mark Dion, Mel Ziegler (of Ericson & Ziegler) and Christian Phillippe Müller critically reflected on the asymmetries of these challenging exhibitions whose legacy is regenerated largely by their curators.
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