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IN SEARCH
OF NEW ALLIANCES™
22 January till 4 March 2012
Developed in close collaboration with P.art of your life in Zwolle,
curator Pim Trooster and participating artists: Sean Hannan, Isabelle
Schiltz, Robbert Weide, Emile Zile, Marijke Uittenbroek and Hristina
Tasheva.
"For
a stable future for culture we have to arrange that culture is getting
its resources from a broader source: private funding by individuals
or companies and so on" Halbe Zijlstra as State Secretary of
Culture and Education in the Netherlands, 2012.
This
text inspired me to achieve respectful working conditions for the artists in this group exhibition. I invited
six emerging artists working in different media who appear themselves
as a visual 'tool' in their work. Artworks which are dealing with social, political and
economical issues. At the opening event composer Merlijn Twaalfhoven
was invited to give a critical reflection on the 'white cube', taking
his publication 'Art in the world' as point of departure.
To realise
the right means for this show I contacted all the available companies in the industrial area around the exhibition venue to join forces.
#theorganisation helped to edit and distribute more than 60 letters to companies within this specific area. The letters were all signed
and numbered in the ORiGi 2copy/number series and contained the polite
but urgent request to help realizing this exhibition.
None
of these letters returned or were answered. The copies were exhibited in a clean
installation as part of the groupshow: In search of new alliances.
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