*V2_Newsletter September 2011*
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*Blowup: Every Artist, a Journalist*
August 25, 20:00 -- 23:00
V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10
Admission: 5 EUR, Students: Free
http://www.v2.nl/events/blowup-every-artist-a-journalist
Featuring: Lino Hellings
<http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/lino-hellings> (NL), Alfredo Cramerotti
<http://www.v2.nl/events/Alfredo%20Cramerotti> (UK), Gair Dunlop
<http://www.v2.nl/events/Gair%20Dunlop> (UK)
This edition of Blowup will examine the tension between documentary
methods and artistic expression, and address where notions of truth and
beauty fit in this mix. In an era of a massive data onslaught that
individuals struggle to cope with, the documentary image continues to
offer us a human face on information, sometimes elegantly summarising a
complex situation. But what balance needs to be struck between honest
portrayals of reality and artistic license?
The next edition of Blowup, entitled The Era of Objects will take place
at September 29 with special guests Julian Bleecker (US), Alexandra
Deschamps-Sonsino (UK), Anab Jain (IN/UK).
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*Test_Lab: Summer Sessions 2011*
September 1, 20:00 -- 23:00
V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10
Admission: Free
http://www.v2.nl/events/test_lab-summer-sessions-2011
Demonstrations: Kasia Molga
<http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/kasia-molga> (PL) | Julie Legault
<http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/julie-legault> (CA) | Jelle Valk
<http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/jelle-valk> andOlav Huizer
<http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/olav-huizer> of artist collective WERC
(NL) | Xiaowen Zhu
<http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/xiaowen-zhu-6731665395fb> (CH) |
E-Textile Workspace represented by Ricardo O'Nascimento
<http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/ricardo-nascimento> (BR), Meg Grant
<http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/meg-grant> (NZ/NL),Leonie Urff
<http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/leonie-urff>(NL), and Anja Hertenberger
<http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/anja-hertenberger> (DE/NL) Critical
respondent: Hicham Khalidi
<http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/hicham-khalidi> (artistic director,
TAG) Music: AFTA-1 <http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/afta-1>
Every year, V2_ invites a small group of up-and-coming artists to spend
their summer at V2_Lab for an intense short-term residency. Check out
the wonderful projects made this summer in V2_'s Lab! The evening will
be closed with summer cocktails and live music by acclaimed Los Angeles
based producer AFTA-1.
After the show in Rotterdam the Lab team will travel to Istanbul for a
second Test_Lab presentation at ISEA2011 at September 17.
http://www.v2.nl/events/summer-sessions-isea-2011
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*Protei: Preview and Exhibition*
Exhibition: Festival Wereld van Witte de With, September 9,10,11
V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10
http://www.v2.nl/events/protei-exhibition
This summer, V2_ hosted an international team of designers and engineers
on the development of Protei_006, the first full-scale version of the
autonomous sailing robot that will clean oil spills in the oceans. The
exhibition as part of Festival Wereld van Witte de With will feature all
early prototypes and a documentary about the working process. Initiator
Cesar Harada will give a tour through the exhibition for participants of
the 24 uur cultuur program at Sunday September 11 at 15:00.
*Preview: Wereldhavendagen September 2*
Marconistraat 85, Rotterdam
RSVP: [email protected]
Press and visitors of "Wereldhavendagen" are welcome to come to the
preview and press conference of Protei in the harbor of Rotterdam
September 2, 17:00. Location: Projectruimte Hofman & Zonen
(Marconistraat 85, Rotterdam).
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*The Sympathy of Things*
New publication by Lars Spuybroek
29,50 EUR Now Available!
http://www.v2.nl/publishing/the-sympathy-of-things
"We have to find our way back to beauty," writes Lars Spuybroek in the
introduction to The Sympathy of Things. In this book Spuybroek argues
that we must "undo" the twentieth century -- the age in which the
sublime turned from an art category into a technical reality. This leads
him to the aesthetical insight of the nineteenth-century English art
critic John Ruskin, from which he distils pointers for our time.
Steven Shaviro on The Sympathy of Things: "The Sympathy of Things is a
stirring call to action; an amazing reconstruction of the ideas of the
Victorian sage John Ruskin; and, above all, a visionary look at the
inner life of things. Lars Spuybroek makes the case that aesthetics is
first philosophy, and proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital
age."?
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