Publieksprogramma 'Positions: Situated' (2)

Locatie: Stroom, Hogewal 1-9, Den Haag
Wanneer: 31 maart 2022, 19:30 - 21:30 uur
Toegang: gratis

Positions: Situated zijn twee evenementen in samenhang met de tentoonstelling Positions: Time-Based, die context, referenties of archiefmateriaal presenteren met betrekking tot het werk van de kunstenaars in de tentoonstelling. Tijdens deze evenementen krijgt elke kunstenaar de gelegenheid om een 'situated context' te bieden voor het werk dat hij/zij toont, in de vorm van performances, lezingen door gastsprekers, en screenings.

Deze avond organiseren we 'Positions' naar aanleiding van Eliane Esther Bots' film In Flow of Words en Tineke van Veen & Barbara Prezelj's film Unsettling Dust. Beide werken belichten de impact van grotere sociale systemen het menselijk lichaam van het individu: waar van Veen & Prezelj's film focust op de onzichtbaarheid van radioactieve besmetting, legt Bots' film de spanning bloot tussen de neutraliteit en ervaring van tolken in het juridische systeem.

Behnam Taebi - Fukushima and Radioactive Contamination (lezing)
In response to Tineke van Veen and Barbara Prezelj's film Unsettling Dust, Professor Behnam Taebi will give a lecture that shares his perspective on radioactive waste, the way in which radioactive contamination is visually communicated in Fukushima, and the notion of ‘informed consent' when it comes to the dangers of radioactive contamination. Behnam Taebi is associate professor in ethics of technology at Delft University of Technology, who researches energy ethics, nuclear ethics, responsible innovation and engineering ethics. He is a co-editor of a volume on The Ethics of Nuclear Energy, published with Cambridge University Press in 2015.

Eliane Esther Bots - The Channel (presentation / performance)
Eliane Esther Bots presents a new version of her performance The Channel, in collaboration with Alma and Nenad, interpreters for the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia. In the courtrooms and offices of the Tribunal, the interpreters worked in cabins that stood almost literally on the side lines, in the wings of the theatre of justice. In their roles as interpreters, Alma and Nenad had to stay neutral. Simultaneously present and absent, intimately engaged and remote, they translated testimony about shocking and traumatic events, without ever allowing their own feelings to be seen.
In this performance, the essential work of interpreting for the court is placed centre stage. In the space of the installation at Stroom, interpreters Alma and Nenad talk about their work for the Tribunal. Video documentation is used to augment their stories. The performance revolves around the role of the voice in testimony, and the experience of interpreters, essential cogs in the judicial machine.

Positions: Time-Based
De tentoonstelling Positions: Time-Based toont videowerken van vijf kunstenaars die in een internationale context actief zijn: Eliane Esther Bots, Hannah Dawn Henderson, Karel van Laere, Tineke van Veen & Barbara Prezelj, en Annemarie Wadlow. De kunstenaars reageren op uiteenlopende kwesties, op zowel nationaal als internationaal niveau, en nodigen het publiek uit om hun eigen positie ten opzichte van deze actuele onderwerpen te onderzoeken.