Dec 7, 2006

Time
Dec 7, 2006, 11.38 am

The evening of 7 December the Stedelijk is host for the travelling contemporary art project 'If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution’. IICD wants to explore how feminist thinking on all levels (social, artistic, political, theoretical, ideological or structural) may be important in our cultural life. Starts at 19.00h. Free entrance.
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The symposium addresses the apparent growing interest in feminism within contemporary art practice and provides introductions to recent projects by various international curators. They will reflect on their various approaches, and on the way feminist thinking influences their curatorial practice in general. The symposium takes place within the framework of the exhibition ‘Just in Time’ at the Stedelijk Museum CS. 

Programme and speakers

19.00-19.20h:

Mirjam Westen is an art historian, art critic and curator at the Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem (NL). She has shown an ongoing interest in the reflection on art historical, critical and contemporary curatorial production as “representational practices which actively produce definitions of sexual difference and contribute to the configuration of sexual politics and power relations”. Her curatorial projects include shows by Lida Abdul, Lily van der Stokker and Kara Walker. 

19.25-19.45h:

Bettina Steinbrügge is the artistic director of Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, where she just co-curated “Cooling Out - On the paradox of feminism”. This exhibition revolves around the question to what an extent our societies still consider the female body the basis of women's identity, by looking into approaches currently taken by young "post-feminist" artists, such as 3 Hamburger Frauen, Dani Gal, Andrea Geyer/Sharon Hayes, Katrin Mayer, Josephine Meckseper, and Mosh Mosh.

19.45-20.05h:

Heike Munder is based in Zurich where she is director of the Migros Museum for contemporary art. Most recently she curated "It's Time for Action (There´s No Option) - About Feminism". This exhibition has gathered works of various generations of female artists that share a similarity in approach and attitude, including work by Patty Chang, Yoko Ono, Annie Sprinkle and Mathilde der Heijne.

20.05-20.35h:

Katja Kobolt and Dunja Kukovec are curators of the 2007-2009 programme of the international, transdisciplinary festival “City of Women” that takes place annually in Ljubljana focusing on a different thematic.  

21.00-22.30h

Discussion

Q&A and discussion with all speakers as well as Frédérique Bergholtz, co-curator of ‘If I Can’t Dance …’, under moderation of Ann Demeester (artistic director of De Appel). 

This symposium is part of the second edition of “Feminist Legacies and Potentials in Contemporary Art Practice”, the current programme of 'If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution’. Current partners of IICD are Huis aan de Werf, Utrecht; De Appel, Amsterdam; MuHKA, Antwerp. An exhibition is currently on view in De Appel.

More information: www.ificantdance.org