Charlène Dannancier, Cecilie Fang, Karin Iturralde Nurnberg, Ahmad Mallah and Okki Poortvliet display their work at Kunsthuis Syb in a group exhibition titled Act Like You Still Know Me, curated by Titus Nouwens. The exhibition gives visitors in Beetsterzwaag a cross-sectional view of contemporary art in the Netherlands today. Through their work and research, the participating artists look at mechanisms of power, control and profit that influence our daily lives.
For the evening at ROZENSTRAAT the exhibition travels through images and words from Beetsterzwaag in Fryslân to Rozenstraat in Amsterdam. Additionally, each artist presents a live intervention as an extension of their work at Kunsthuis Syb.
The evening unfolds within the environment of ROZENSTRAAT’s current exhibition by Mikołaj Sobczak, which focuses on the Anabaptists, a radical 16th century commune that opposed private property and challenged the political and economic order of its time.
Program
18:00 Walk-in and soup
18:30 Introductory words
18:45 Performances by Charlène Dannancier, Ahmad Mallah and Cecilie Fang, in collaboration with Roc Montariol, a sound intervention by Karin Iturralde Nurnberg, and a short screening by Okki Poortvliet.
19:45 End
Okki Poortvliet presents excerpts from Doden in Rood which is currently on view at Kunsthuis Syb, together with new footage she recently filmed while closely following a hunter during her research about the killing of animals.
Cecilie Fang presents in collaboration with Roc Montariol their performance Plants, magnets, foil, transducers, cassette recorders, and bluetooth speakers, tuning into the magnetic properties of minerals, metals, and cassette tape to explore the asemic patterns produced by rust and the decay of analog media.
Ahmad Mallah re-enacts a new version of ”Yalla Tnam” (يالله تنام), a ritual performance about grief, protest, and survival. Through voice, sound, and movement, Ahmad will present an improvised and adapted version of the piece that was originally developed in collaboration with Rebecca Lillich // Krüger.
Charlène Dannancier performs a live activation of her sound installation Excess, integrating text drawn from the Excess publication with performative elements of her performance Someone Could Actually Die Here Tonight, currently on view at Kunsthuis Syb.
Karin Iturralde Nurnberg participates with a poem as voice memo. Titled Convince Me, it is an invitation, or a dare, to convince and be convinced.
