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Tougher times are ahead for art and culture with the new government now captaining the country and the first protests are already popping up in Amsterdam. This uncertain future is without doubt something that keeps the minds of students from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie busy, but in the immediate future they have something that demands their attention a bit more: they are preparing their installations for this weekend’s Rietveld UnCut show at Flemish art centre De Brakke Grond.
Rietveld UnCut is one of the major occasions where the academy presents itself to the outside world. Supervised by the inspirational visual artist Maze de Boer (1976) and Flemish moral philosopher and journalist Ann Meskens (1965), Rietveld UnCut is unlike any other Rietveld event. The theme for this year’s event is: ‘Past, Present, Future’. This means that the students seeks interaction with the audience. They will reflect on their own position as up-and-coming artists, on the specific discipline they have chosen, on their predecessors at the Rietveld Academie and on their future prospects.
A sneak peek into the installations on show
The Cube Intervention of Architectural Design:
Memories and mental visualisations are the starting point of an experience that we want to capture within a space. We invite visitors to enter a white cube that is built up in the middle of a large space. Inside the cube there is an audio connection with an interviewer. During the interview about a personal memory or fantasy, film, images and drawings will be beamed on the inside walls of the cube. Likewise, a personal imagination will be visualised by us.
In the diffusion of computer technology, we have the intuition that we belong to an in-between generation:
When we (Balthazar and Sæmundur) decided to work together, we knew that Sæmundur was going for an exchange of 4 months to the University of Xiamen, on the south-east coast of China. Naturally came the idea of making a long-distance collaboration, where we would work together on the same virtual sculptures within the same software, sharing digital files online. For the Uncut exhibition, we will basically perform the action of computing. Balthazar will be physically present at the Brakke Grond, Sæmundur in China, both sitting at a desk in front of a laptop. The machines will be connected to beamers and our working screens projected on the wall. Connected via Skype we will be working inside a virtual Brakke Grond.
Ceramic department tea ceremony:
We will organize a Chinese ceremonial tea party and art speed date. The guests will be invited to sit down with one of our students and talk about art in a speed date setting. The discussion will take as long as a cup of tea lasts. Different subjects will be provided by the students in form of an object or image of a piece of art or design. When the ‘date’ is successful and asks for more time, the student might ask the visitor to join a group discussion in a relaxed atmosphere and of course with more tea!
Additional information
Date: 12/13 November 2010
Opening: 12 November, 19.00
Location: De Brakke Grond, Nes 45, Amsterdam
Opening times: November 12th: 19.00 to 23.00, November 13th: 13.00 to 23.00
Free Entrance
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