Alongside#

The Objective of 'Alongside' is providing a platform for discourse based events and projects which aim to set out an active dialogue about contemporary art in relation to the political, social or public realm.

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#5

'Open Dialogue'

An interactive information point on the governmental cuts

on art and culture in The Netherlands

Saturday 22 October 2011

'Open Dialogue' an interactive information point on the governmental cuts on art and culture in The Netherlands, this upcoming Saturday 22 October in the gallery from 11.00h to 17.00h. The event gives an inside to current responds on the cuts and invites you to leave a personal statement to help build up an archive that reaches beyond the voice of the crowd.

Facing the consequences due to the 200 million Euro governmental cuts on art and culture announced in June 2011 by State Secretary Zijlstra, we are confronted with many uncertainties and questions regarding the future of our practice. It is certain that in 2013 countless art institutions and other venues are forced to close their doors. Over the past few months protests, marches and debates were the answer of the people directly hit by the announced cuts.

A vibrant discursive engagement with these changes is necessary in order to point out the possible effects and search for suitable solutions. Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art will host the information centre of Platform BK for one day. Platform Beeldende Kunst a collective of artists, critics, curators, cultural producers, designers, museums and other parties created this information centre at the Stedelijk Museum as a respond to the governmental cuts on art and culture.

This Saturday 22 October we invite you to come and visit the interactive information point at the gallery. Additional texts and videos give an inside into the protests and discussions held in over the past months. On the reading table will also be presented to you the issue of MetropolisM “20x Protest” and other art magazines together with the latests news clippings of the past two weeks. ”Open Dialogue” welcomes you to share ideas & comments on the changes whilst enjoying a cup of tea or coffee. 

For essays on the event: Kunstbeeld & Tubelight

#4

Summer Residency

The Living Room(s)

Exhibitions & events

Opening 25 June 2011 17.00 - 19.00

24 June until 11 August 2011

Bojan Fajfric, 5th December 1978. 2 pages of Muki's book (slide show), 2008-2009

The Living Room(s) is a collective of five practitioners living and working in the Amsterdam West. The collective organizes and curates cultural events: art exhibitions, performances, discursive events and community activities. All The Living Room(s) activities evolve from the urgency to question the notions of community, hospitality and identity. These notions have been changing rapidly throughout the last few decades and need to be readdressed and adjusted in light of the constant economical, political and social changes of our times. In order to bring these concepts to a practical investigation, The Living Room(s) collective uncovers these issues on the street level, where people share a common space. This common space is wielded to create, reflect and question our every day reality.

The Livingroom(s) is: a curator (Yael Messer), a performer (Anat Spiegel), a writer (Gilad Reich), a composer (Thomas Myrmel) and a group facilitator (Yonathan Keren). Together with its diverse communities, this peculiar constellation challenges the relation between form and content, theory and practice, politics and poetics.

#3

Feiko Beckers

Making a birthday cake with my mother

30 May until 9 June 2011

Making a birthday cake with my mother

Performance / HD video

7.48 min.

10 day screening of Feiko Beckers' performance video in the window of the gallery.

For more information on Feiko Beckers' work please click here

#2: Screening of Nightcleaners Part I by Mary Kelly and The Berwick Street Film Collective (1972-1975).

Wednesday 22 December 2010 15.00-16.30 and 18.00-19.30

Location: De Clercqstraat 62, Amsterdam (at the gallery)

Nightcleaners Part I (1972-75) by Mary Kelly and the Berwick Street Film Collective

16mm film, video (B&W)- 90 min.

Nightcleaners Part I was a documentary made by members of the Berwick Street Collective (Marc Karlin, Mary Kelly, James Scott and Humphry Trevelyan), about the campaign to unionize the women who cleaned office blocks at night and who were being victimized and underpaid. Intending at the outset to make a campaign film, the Collective was forced to turn to new forms in order to represent the forces at work between the cleaners, the Cleaner's Action Group and the unions - and the complex nature of the campaign itself. The result was an intensely self-reflexive film, which implicated both the filmmakers and the audience in the processes of precarious, invisible labour. It is increasingly recognised as a key work of the 1970s and as an important precursor, in both subject matter and form, to current political art practice.

For a preview of the film please click here

For an interview with Mary Kelly about Nightcleaners Part I please click here

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#1: A screening of two short films by Canadian artist Michael Jones, followed by a discussion

Saturday 13 November 2010 17.00

Location: The Hex

27 Sandgate House - Pembury Road - London E5 8JH - United Kingdom

Broken Window, 2009

16mm film (colour)- 8 min.

The Vancouver Multicultural Society is the subject of Tolerance Time a film set at the 35-year old organization’s offices in Hodson Manor, a Victorian building in Vancouver’s Fairview district. The organization housed in this mansion represents the intersection of the two main trajectories of Canadian identity; a colonial heritage with the multicultural present. Broken Window takes this intersection point as a kind of recent Canadian folklore.

Broken Window is currently on view at the gallery until 18 December as part of the exhibition Tolerance Time.

The Economist, 2006

16mm film (black and white, silent)- 7.50 min

The Economist is a black and white 16mm film shot in and around the Economist Building in central London. The film investigates the Late Brutalist architecture of Peter and Alison Smithson that houses the offices of the Economist magazine through the style of a ‘Newsreel’, the early 20th century documentary tradition of re-enacting news events. On one level the film acts as documentary homage to part of Britain’s modernist heritage, highlighting certain architectural features and re-enacting the daily workings of reportage within the press offices. It also explores the building's representation in Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 film Blow Up, which used the plaza as the setting for a pivotal scene.  The film was originally installed on a continuous loop in the plaza, projected onto a windowpane of the Economist Building itself.