An initiative of Parachutartists Foundation in collaboration with De Service Garage and other international art initiatives, art magazines, writers and curators.
Exhibition: 14 May – 6 June 2009
Opening: Saturday 16 May, 20.00 p.m.
Event & Finissage: Saturday 6 June, 13.00 p.m.
Location: De Service Garage, Stephensonstraat 16, Amsterdam. Open from Wednesday – Sunday, 12.00 – 18.00 p.m.
Parachutartists Foundation and De Service Garage are proud to present UNFAIR PROJECT, an international group exhibition with performances, lectures and discussions exploring the value and function of art in ‘the age of the art fair’.
Intentionally coinciding with Amsterdam’s annual art fair Art Amsterdam, UNFAIR PROJECT draws onexperimental, non-commercial and socially engaged art.Installation, performance and interactive works challenge the conventions of commercial art often shown in art fairs. With this exhibition, UNFAIR PROJECT addresses the delicate correlations between the artist, the intermediary and the public.
UNFAIR PROJECT’s one day event/ finissage on June 6 will include a lecture and debate program that strives to provoke stimulating and intellectual discussion around art, cultural value and the free market.Together with writers, critics, politicians, art initiatives and other intermediaries, we can all brainstorm new directions for the arts.
Participating Artists: Camilo Barreto (VE), Jorge Cabieses Valdes (CHL), Francisco Camacho (CO), Bas de Boer (NL), Maroan el Sani (D), Ehsan Fardjadniya (NL/IR), Zoro Feigl (NL), Nina Fischer (D), Maartje Fliervoet (NL), Francesca Grilli (IT), Idan Hayosh (IL), Maria Karantzi (GR), Schirin Kretschmann (D), Matthieu Laurette (F), Kay Patru (FR/RO), Dan Shaw-Town (GB), Edwin Stolk (NL), Raymond Taudin Chabot (NL), Conrad Ventur (USA), Dmitry Vilensky (RUS)
Participating Magazines:Useless Magazine (NYC, London), Chto delat? What is to be done? (St. Petersburg), HTV de IJsberg (Amsterdam)
Curators: Ehsan Fardjadniya (Parachutartists Foundation, Amsterdam), Frank Ammerlaan and Thijs Rhijnsburger (De Service Garage, Amsterdam), Nazli Gurlek (Independent curator, Istanbul), Sonia Dermience (Komplot, Brussels), Caterina Riva (FormContent, London), Maartje Fliervoet (NL), Johan Gustavsson (1646, Den Haag)
During UNFAIR PROJECT, De Serice Garage will also take part in the art manifestation Het Tijdelijk Museum (The Temporary Museum). More information is available on the website: www.tijdelijkmuseumamsterdam.nl.
Events:
Opening 16 May
20.00 p.m.: Introduction by Donna Wolf, founder of Déiska & the Collection, an art fund bringing together emerging artists and emerging collectors. Wolf will highlight historical examples and future potential of alternative forms for financing art, addressing contemporary issues in today’s society.
Performance: Komplot’s share launch; a curator collective based in Brussels
00.00 a.m.: Enduring Midnight, a performance by Francesca Grilli – Soprano/ Lina Vasta & Pianist/ Dott. Diego Mattiello
Music: DJ Lonely & Baba Electronica
No entrance fee
Finissage Saturday 6 June
13.00 p.m.: UNFAIR PROJECT Catalogue launch
13.30 p.m.: The Rise, a short film by Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani.
Discussion program
Language: Dutch
How do artists and art survive in a new political and economic era?
Moderator: Tiers Bakker (HTV de IJsberg, de Groene Amsterdammer, SP)
14.00 p.m.: Lecture Arnold Heertje, author of the bookEchte economie (Real economy)
14.30 p.m.: Lecture Pim van Klink, author of the bookKunsteconomie (Art economy)
15.00 p.m.: Short break
15.15 p.m.: Pim van Klink and Arnold Heertje will discuss cultural value and the free market economy
16.00 p.m.: Short break
16.15 p.m.: Anne Berk, member of Platform ZonderKunstenaarsGeenKunst(Platform WithoutArtistsNoArt), will address results of neoliberal art policy: Is there less money available for art production today?
16.30 p.m.: Panel discussion: How is the intrinsic value of art recognized in government art policy? With Han ten Broeke (VVD) and Hans van Leeuwen (SP)
17.15 p.m.: Q&A session including a brainstorm with the participating speakers on innovative survival strategies
17.45 p.m.: Short break
18.00 p.m.: Presentation by Susan Jones about a-n: The Artists Information Company(UK). Jones will reflect in what ways a-n has worked effectively for artists over the last twenty-eight years within changing political climates and cultural environments. Language: English.
18.45 p.m.: Dinner / organic BBQ snacks
20.00 p.m.: Walk the line, a performance by Camilo Barreto and Kay Patru. Two bodies investigate a territory, leaving traces of their journey in sound and drawings.
20.30 p.m.: Party!
Location: De Service Garage
No entrance fee
Websites
www.tijdelijkmuseumamsterdam.nl/2009/
sponsored by: Amsterdamse fonds voor Kunsten, Mondriaan Stichting, Prince Bernhard Cultuur Fonds, Instituto Italiano De Cultura.
Media Partners: De Groene Amsterdammer, Usless Magazine.
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