US: There, There
Uncertainty Seminars
Edition of 'Uncertainty Seminars' about bridging physical, figurative and metaphorical distances. With Open Weather, Shannon Mattern, Eline Benjaminsen & Elias Kimaiyo, Tabita Rezaire, Claudio Ritfeld, KABK alumni, Slutty Urbanism, Katarina Petrovic and more.
>> check out photo album of the event
* In accordance with RIVM mandates a valid Covid QR code will be checked prior to entry
* In accordance with RIVM mandates a valid Covid QR code will be checked prior to entry
Friday 8 October 2021, 15:00-18:00
Experimental walking tour through The Hague
With contributions by Slutty Urbanism & Katarina Petrovic
With contributions by Slutty Urbanism & Katarina Petrovic
RSVP: the walk is FULL
Saturday 9 October 2021, 16:00 - 19:30
Public program: performance, talks, screenings
* In accordance with RIVM mandates a valid Covid QR code will be checked prior to entry.
Saturday 9 October 2021, 20:00-00.00
Location: Stroom, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
This event requires a Museum Night ticket + valid Covid QR code
SOLD OUT
* In accordance with RIVM mandates a valid Covid QR code will be checked prior to entry
During the Uncertainty Seminars we look at the world around us in an intuitive and unconventional way. US: There, There presents unusual methods to bridge physical, figurative, and metaphorical distances. Artists have long challenged representations of distance depicting the
world. Feminist cartographies, speculative mapping, challenge these
rational, instrumental representations and can contribute to seeing the
world differently. US: There, There features contributions by a.o.: Open Weather, Shannon Mattern, Eline Benjaminsen and Elias Kimaiyo, Tabita Rezaire, Claudio Ritfeld, and various KABK alumni.
Over the past years, previously conventional notions of distance have been significantly distorted, transformed, and overhauled. The sudden rise of video conferencing apps have attempted to bring about an affective retreat into screens over physical presence. This edition of US takes its title from Gertrude Stein's exclamation on her return to Oakland in 1933: "There is no there, there...." The place that existed in memory, which is still factually there, is in such a state of transformation that the place thought of is in fact no longer in existence. Distance can be felt, a subjective and affective dimension; over and above, the measurement of distance that has long been hailed as the most ‘objective' - the Mercator projection - is an effective distortion of distance that centers and magnifies Europe on any image of the globe.
Friday 8 October, 15:00-18:00
PROGRAM
Friday 8 October, 15:00-18:00
WALK
Saturday 9 October, 16:00-19:30
This day we will take an experimental walking tour through The Hague. With contributions by Slutty Urbanism & Katarina Petrovic.
>> More information and to sign up (the walk is FULL)
>> More information and to sign up (the walk is FULL)
Saturday 9 October, 16:00-19:30
Tickets: 7,50 euro (incl. dinner) via Eventbrite
SOLD OUT
or online via Youtube live stream (free)
15.45: Youtube live stream open
16:00: Welcome
16:10: Open Weather - Satellite Seance (screening)
16:15: Shannon Mattern - How to Map Nothing (talk)
16:15: Shannon Mattern - How to Map Nothing (talk)
17:00: Intermission
17:15: Eline Benjaminsen & Elias Kimaiyo - Footprints in the Valley (presentation)
18:00: Tabita Rezaire - Deep Down Tidal (screening)
18:00: Tabita Rezaire - Deep Down Tidal (screening)
18:20: Intermission
18:40: Claudio Ritfeld - Identification Obligation pt 2 (performance artwork)
19:10: DinnerSOLD OUT
Afterwards, during Museum Night The Hague, there is a special film program with work by artists from The Hague centered around the theme of distance. The works were selected through an open call aimed at KABK alumni. Contributions by: Natalia Sliwinska, Sophie Czich, Cristina Lavosi, Petra Eros, Hattie Wade, Vera Yijun Zhou.
This event requires a Museumnacht ticket (Sold Out).
MORE INFORMATION
Open Weather
Satellite Séance
Screening, 4 mins
The video Satellite Séance by Open Weather (Sophie Dyer and Sasha Engelmann), documents electromagnetic experiments and the process of decoding images of weather systems.
Shannon Mattern
How to Map Nothing
Talk, 45 mins
Shannon Mattern draws from feminist geography, critical race studies, and critical disability studies to make the case for retreat or refusal as an act of resistance to capitalist productivity in her talk, How to Map Nothing.
Eline Benjaminsen and Elias Kimaiyo
Footprints in the Valley
Presentation
In Footprints in the Valley, Eline Benjaminsen and Elias Kimaiyo relay their observations about the financialization of trees within the emissions market, and its effects on nature and people, while tracing imperialist legacies of conservation.
Tabita Rezaire
Deep Down Tidal
Screening, 21 mins
In the video essay Deep Down Tidal, Tabita Rezaire weaves together cosmological, spiritual, political and technological narratives about water and its role in communication, then and now, through tracing the ocean-dwelling 880,000 kilometers of fiber-optic cables.
Claudio Ritfeld
Identification Obligation pt 2
Performance artwork
Identification Obligation pt 2 is the second instalment of an explorational journey by Claudio Ritfeld. Ritfeld nitpicks at notions of assumed cultural identity and his personal aesthetic preferences, - combining this with color therapy by reclaiming the color orange as he displaces its Dutch nationalistic connotation. For part 2, a 30 minute soundscape was recorded in Ritfeld's place of birth.
Satellite Séance
Screening, 4 mins
The video Satellite Séance by Open Weather (Sophie Dyer and Sasha Engelmann), documents electromagnetic experiments and the process of decoding images of weather systems.
Shannon Mattern
How to Map Nothing
Talk, 45 mins
Shannon Mattern draws from feminist geography, critical race studies, and critical disability studies to make the case for retreat or refusal as an act of resistance to capitalist productivity in her talk, How to Map Nothing.
Eline Benjaminsen and Elias Kimaiyo
Footprints in the Valley
Presentation
In Footprints in the Valley, Eline Benjaminsen and Elias Kimaiyo relay their observations about the financialization of trees within the emissions market, and its effects on nature and people, while tracing imperialist legacies of conservation.
Tabita Rezaire
Deep Down Tidal
Screening, 21 mins
In the video essay Deep Down Tidal, Tabita Rezaire weaves together cosmological, spiritual, political and technological narratives about water and its role in communication, then and now, through tracing the ocean-dwelling 880,000 kilometers of fiber-optic cables.
Claudio Ritfeld
Identification Obligation pt 2
Performance artwork
Identification Obligation pt 2 is the second instalment of an explorational journey by Claudio Ritfeld. Ritfeld nitpicks at notions of assumed cultural identity and his personal aesthetic preferences, - combining this with color therapy by reclaiming the color orange as he displaces its Dutch nationalistic connotation. For part 2, a 30 minute soundscape was recorded in Ritfeld's place of birth.
* Concession tickets are available for those who cannot afford the ticket price, by emailing lvollaard@stroom.nl
WORK BY KABK alumni
Natalia Sliwinska, Beyond taxonomic narratives (2021), 20:49 min
Sophie Czich, Where the façade bends (2021), 06:47min
Cristina Lavosi, And it looks to me like the end of an era (2020), 11:06 min
Petra Eros, Terraforming (2020), 03:57 min
Hattie Wade, Thy Cities Shall With Commerce Shine—Part I (2021), 09:03 min
Vera Yijun Zhou, Bubble (2019/2020), 12:56 min
Natalia Sliwinska, Beyond taxonomic narratives (2021), 20:49 min
Sophie Czich, Where the façade bends (2021), 06:47min
Cristina Lavosi, And it looks to me like the end of an era (2020), 11:06 min
Petra Eros, Terraforming (2020), 03:57 min
Hattie Wade, Thy Cities Shall With Commerce Shine—Part I (2021), 09:03 min
Vera Yijun Zhou, Bubble (2019/2020), 12:56 min
Uncertainty Seminars
Uncertainty Seminars are hybrid events embracing doubt and hesitation as cultural strategy.
Graphic and spatial design:
The Rodina
The Rodina
Acknowledgements:
This edition of Uncertainty Seminars is made possible by Mondriaan Fund and City of The Hague.
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