a project with Bik Van der Pol
April – July 2004
Maaike Gottschal, Soccer Match and Workshop, 2004
The art piece is claimed to be disappearing from the triangle of artist – art piece – viewer (Rutger Pontzen), but what if the art piece has become art + piece + viewer? What does or could this generate or activate? Through presentations and talks by various guest contributors, this project explored and challenged different ways of mediating interactive, conceptual, time- and research based works, by investigating examples of precise approaches concerning mediation and presentation by artists and art institutes.
The project looked at historical examples of artists such as Gordon Matta Clark and Robert Smithson and at contemporary practices. Guest for the project were artists Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri from Sixteen Beaver & Radioactive (USA), Ryan Gander (UK), Jan Kopp (France), Germaine Kruip (Netherlands) and Apolonija Sustersic (Slovenia/Sweden); artist/neurologist Warren Neidich (USA); curators Maria Lind (Kunstverein München) and Raimundas Malasauskas (CCA Vilnius); and publisher Christoph Keller (Revolver Archiv für Aktuelle Kunst).
Public presentations within the framework of the project included “Loose Associations”, a lecture/performance by Ryan Gander (Rotterdam: TENT., June 9, 2004); and “Low Profile presents: an introduction”, a performance by Low Profile (Rachel Dobbs & Hannah Jones) (Rotterdam: TENT., June 10, 2004). Results from the project were published in Looking, Encountering, Staging.
Deric Carner, Egg Breakfast, 2004
Bik Van der Pol are an artist’s collective based in Rotterdam. Their working method is based on employing collaboration and networks as a platform for communication and mediation; the meetings and events they initiate focus on the exchange of ideas and are often deliberately of an informal and casual nature. Bik van der Pol projects include Nomads & Residents (2000-present) and ‘Absolut Stockholm, label or life, city on a platform’, Moderna Museet Projekt, Stockholm (2000-02).