a project with Maaike Bleeker and Catharina Scholten
April-June 2003

This project looked at exhibiting art from the perspective of dramaturgy and staging. Making an exhibition is organising an experience for an audience. This experience already begins with the invitation that that presents a promise to a potential audience. The exhibition itself directs the audience through space, suggesting ways to look and to move from one place to another, from one object to another. The relationships between works and works, and between works and audience as set out by the exhibition together make up the context within which the individual works will be seen and interpreted. The organisation of such an experience was the subject of this project. The participants experimented with ways of showing their work through the use of light, placement and framing (literally and figuratively) and explored the possibilities of directing the attention of the audience and creating and playing with expectations.

Project leaders for this project were dramaturge/cultural theorist Maaike Bleeker (Netherlands) and set designer Catharina Scholten (Netherlands).

The project involved a working period on location and the realisation of the group exhibition Nachtwacht at Locus 010, Rotterdam (June 21-28, 2003).

Jetske de Boer, guided tour for S.T.O.P. (Staatsorgaan voor Toekomst Organisatie en Planning), Locus 010, Rotterdam, 2003

works by Katrijn Verstegen and Clarissa Baldwin, Locus 010, Rotterdam, 2003

Clarissa Baldwin, wallpaper installation, Locus 010, Rotterdam, 2003

Wartan Jiftjian, video projection, Locus 010, Rotterdam, 2003