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Installationview, works by Roger Cremers, Elke Krystufek & Anne Wenzel Installationview, works by Roger Cremers
Installationview, Teun Castelijn & Coralie Vogelaar, My Polar Ice, 2010 Installationview, works by Moyna Flannigan & Elke Krystufek Installationview, works by Stephan Balkenhol & Moyna Flannigan Installationview, works by Juul Hondius Installationview, works by Gluklya
Installationview, works by Roger Cremers, Elke Krystufek & Anne Wenzel
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The melting point of a solid is the temperature at which it changes
state from solid to liquid. Ice turns into water.
The exhibition ‘Melting Point’ at AKINCI during the warm days of May and
June involves a project by the young Dutch artist duo Teun Castelein
(b.1980, Roelofarendsveen, NL) and Coralie Vogelaar (b. 1981 Delft, NL)
who shipped over a block of ice of a melting glacier from Greenland to
the Netherlands. With this project titled “My Polar Ice”, Castelein and
Vogelaar make a statement about the importance and at the same time
pointlessness of trying to save nature. This project first presented at
the Rijksakademie Amsterdam last year, will be re-installed at AKINCI.
The momentum of change and transformation is the leading theme of this
exhibition and describes the specific works selected for this show by
Stephan Balkenhol (b. 1957, Fritzlar, DE) Roger Cremers (1972, Susteren,
NL) Moyna Flannigan (b. 1963, Kirkcaldy, UK), Juul Hondius (b. 1970 Ens,
NL), Elke Krystufek (1970, Vienna, AT) and Anne Wenzel (b. 1972 in
Schlüttorf, DE).
In the Attachment Space we introduce a film registration of the
Utopian Unemployment Union, a project by the Russian artist Gluklya
(full name: Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya).
Together with Olga Egorova (Tsaplya), Gluklya is the co-founder of ‘The
Factory of Found Clothes’. She works in a frame work of different
collective and research projects combining performance, environmental
works, situationist action and video. Since 2003 Gluklya is member of
the famous artist group “Chto delat? Group/”What has to be done?”, who
a.o. recently exhibited at the ICA London (2010), Istanbul Biennial
(2009), Van Abbe Museum Eindhoven (2009).
The film ‘Utopian Unemployment Union’ which is being presented at AKINCI
relates to a performance, which took place in 2009, a dance of migrant
workers together with ballet dancers of the Vaganovskoe Ballet school in
St. Petersburg. It is a performance with a structure: first the ballet
dancers teach the migrants how to dance, then the roles change.
Though being a member of the group “Chto delat?”, Gluklya has refined
her identity within her projects, using installation, performance,
video, text and ’social research’ to develop an operational logic of
‘fragility’ as subjectivity antagonistic to that which is the state of
things – be that the repressive social and political climate of Russia
or the reflexive futilities of international art scenes. Gluklya’s work
refers to the tradition of the Russian avant-garde with a close
connection to the theatre of Berthold Brecht.
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