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Date(s) - 03/09/2013 - 05/19/2013
9:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location
New Art Space Amsterdam
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Opening Sat., March 9 at 9pm
Exhibition: Sun., March 10 to May 19, 2013
Reading Anarchism: March 13, 20, 27; April 3, 10, 17, 24; and May 1 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm and May 17 from 12pm to 6pm
Join us on Saturday 9 March from 21.00 hrs for the preview of the next Statement exhibition Yours in Solidarity by Nicoline van Harskamp, whose work considers the relation between politics and language. The exhibition is accompanied by Reading Anarchism, a series of events with the artist that examine the heightened interest of art in the anarchist theoretical tradition.
The extensive art project Yours in Solidarity that began in 2010, investigates the contemporary history of anarchism and is presented for the first time at New Art Space Amsterdam (NASA) in its entirety. Van Harskamp creates a complex and resounding portrait of anarchism’s supporters through analyses of the correspondence archive of the late Dutch anarchist Karl Max Kreuger, now housed in the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam. From 1988 until 1999, Kreuger corresponded by post with approximately 400 fellow anarchists worldwide. Through the study of respective political observations and handwriting analysis of some 60 letter writers, Van Harskamp re-activated the proponents’ life stories. Using actors of the relevant age and nationality, in a fully staged meeting of international correspondents, the artist suggests what would happen if they were to meet today. The resulting work is a reflective archive of Van Harskamp’s notes and copied extracts of over 1000 letters including video documentation of individual working sessions with actors and a film.