[Nettime-nl] Open Source Amsterdam: Biennial of Art in Public Space, Amsterdam Zuidoost

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

http://www.bijlmerspinozafestival.org/11lectures/lectures1.html

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> From: e-artnow <info@e-artnow.org>
> Date: 2 May 2009 6:32:55 PM
> To: geert@desk.nl
> Subject: Open Source Amsterdam: Biennial of Art in Public Space,  
> Amsterdam Zuidoost
> e-artnow: 02.05.2009
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> Open Source Amsterdam: Biennial of Art in Public Space, Amsterdam  
> Zuidoost
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> Open Source Amsterdam
> Straat van Sculpturen Foundation
> Kruitberg 1003A
> 1104 CA Amsterdam Zuidoost
> Phone: +31 (0)20 6008610
> Contact: Nienke Vijlbrief
> info@straatvansculpturen.nl
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> www.opensourceamsterdam.nl
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> The event is open to the public from May 9- July 11, 2009
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> The information centre is open daily from 9:30 AM â 5:30 PM
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> Open Source Amsterdam is the first edition of a series of five  
> biennial events dedicated to art in public space organized by the  
> Foundation Straat van Sculpturen.
> Curated by Helga Lasschuijt, this year's project traces a new  
> 'street of sculptures' within an area that has been subject to  
> profound transformations over the past few decades. The Bijlmer is  
> one of the Amsterdam neighbourhoods where several urban and  
> architectural experiments have taken place, which have generated a  
> unique interaction between the corporate culture and its futurist  
> architecture, the community of artists living in the area, and the  
> local inhabitants' colourful mix of identities.
> Open Source is more than just a title; it refers to the principles  
> of accessibility and peer-based collaboration familiar from the  
> world of computer software, while also underlining the curatorial  
> approach both to the invited artists as well as the local context.
> The project's mission is to investigate how the past can be a  
> vitalizing and inspiring force from which we can draw strength in  
> the present, and generate opportunities for the future. The Open  
> Source's 'street of sculptures' consists exclusively of newly  
> commissioned works realized by well known international and Dutch  
> artists:
> Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla (USA/Cuba), James Beckett  
> (Zimbabwe), Michael Beutler (Germany), Hadassah Emmerich (The  
> Netherlands), Thomas Hirschhorn (Switzerland), Sanja Medic (Serbia),  
> Amalia Pica (Argentina), Peter Stel (The Netherlands), Pascale  
> Marthine Tayou (Cameroun), Jennifer Tee (The Netherlands), Rob  
> Voerman (The Netherlands ), Chikako Watanabe (Japan), Nicky Zwaan  
> (Burkina Faso), and the collectives Vinger.nl and Urban Alliance  
> (the Netherlands)
> The exhibited projects reflect upon the various types of relations  
> established within such a hybrid architectural and social context,  
> proposing various interventions that unravel the city grids and  
> subjectively reconstruct the very notion of public space.
> Without a doubt, an unprecedented exchange with the local community  
> is highlighted in Thomas Hirschhorn's project 'The Bijlmer Spinoza  
> Festival'. This 'presence and production' art project offers a new  
> perspective on the very definition of public participation, while at  
> the same time stimulating, as Thomas Hirschhorn has said, the  
> creation of 'non-exclusive audiences', the 'coexistence' and  
> 'cooperation' with the inhabitants of the Bijlmer. A daily program  
> of lectures, seminars and performances will be announced on the  
> project's website: www.thebijlmerspinozafestival.nl
> The event is open to the public from May 9- July 11, 2009. After the  
> closure date, five of the 15 exhibited works will remain on  
> permanent display.
>
> A map describing the route of the event will be available both at  
> the visitor's information centre as well as on flyers that will be  
> distributed during the course of the event, and can also be  
> downloaded from our website: www.opensourceamsterdam.nl
> The visiting route starts from the Parkeergarage Kraaiennest,  
> Kleiburg 1, 1104 EA Amsterdam Zuidoost, where you'll also find also  
> the visitor's information centre, designed by the artist Peter Stel.
> The information centre is open daily from 9:30 AM â 5:30 PM.
>
> Visitors who chose the alternate route from the train station  
> Bijlmer Arena can find a second information centre near the station,  
> which will be open from Tuesday to Saturday, from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
> Every weekend, several guided tours will be organized for groups and  
> individual visitors. For reservations, please contact the organizers  
> by e-mail (rondleidingen@straatvansculpturen.nl), by phone (tel:  
> +31.20.60086100, or by registering at the visitor's information  
> centre.
> For more information: info@straatvansculpturen.nl


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