Perfomance night by Sissel Marie Tonn and Jonathan Reus, Helena Sanders and Margarita Osipian
Duo exhibition by Helena Sanders and Sissel Marie Tonn
Friday, February 28th, 20:00h 2019
photos: Anke van den Berg
Video impression of the work An Education of Attention by Sissel Marie Tonn
part of the duo exhibition ‘Sentinels’ by Helena Sanders & Sissel Marie Tonn
Made possible with the support of Stroom Den Haag
THE READING ROOM #34
Sissel Marie Tonn and
guest host Victoria Douka-Doukopoulou
OPENING: 1th of March, 17:00h
Texts by:
Anna Tsing:
The Mushroom at the End of the World
More info: facebook
Description: Darwin placed attention as the most basic factor for survival of a species. Attention in an evolutionary perspective is assumed as a capacity that we not only need to have, but that we even have to develop, stimulate and exercise in order to survive. The brain-body constantly filters out, zooms in on, and predicts sensory inputs that are deemed important for our survival. In this context it is interesting that the anthropologist Anna Tsing proposes a necessary practice she calls “arts of noticing” as a survival mechanism opposing the “forward march of progress”. This rhythmical “forward march of progress” includes the systems and technologies developed throughout the previous century which have left our ecosystem at the brink of climate collapse. In a present where environmental change is the single biggest challenge to our species, how must we learn to perceive and react to our surroundings differently? Artist and Reading Room co-organizer Sissel Marie Tonn has invited artist Victoria Douka-Doukopoulou to a discussion of a chapter from Anna Tsing’s book “The Mushroom At The End Of The World”, which has greatly informed both of theirartistic practices. Together with participants we will uncover the possibilities for co-evolving with other species and learning from the logic of mushrooms.
Post-session screening:
Sissel has invited Victoria to screen her film acatalog.allthingsinvisible.online, as part of the current exhibition on show in See Lab Project Space - Sentinels - by Helena Sanders and Sissel Marie Tonn. Read more about Sentinels here.
About the screening:
acatalog.allthingsinvisible.online complies stories of the invisible, the unthinkable and the inappreciable. The three-fold catalog indexes scores for a performative lecture, a documentary and an archive that can never be actualised as their building material is the invisible itself. The catalog is mainly words — technical words, english words motivated by the sensitivity of practicing the art of noticing, of looking for traces and ways of knowing and world making.
Details for participating:
There are a limited number of spaces available for this event. As this is a discussion, you are expected to have read the provided texts before attending and think of a few questions and concerns you have regarding the text, which you would like to address with the group. Please reserve a spot by sending an email to platformtm@gmail.com. We will also provide you with a copy of the texts once you have RSVP’d.
NB:
As we are currently operating outside public funding schemes we ask participants to contribute with 3-5€ for the event. We will serve coffee/tea and a snack!
About The Reading Room:
The Reading Room emerged as an event series taking place bi-monthly at Stroom Den Haag between 2015-2018, and was organized by Jonathan Reus, Sissel Marie Tonn and Flora Reznik - and co-produced by artist initiative iii. Currently it exists as a nomadic format, shape-shifting into new contexts where collective study might provide useful insights. Please check www.platformtm.tumblr.com for our past work!
photos by Sissel Marie Tonn
5 Day exhibition and events series by Sissel Marie Tonn and Helena Sanders
Feb 28 - Mar 3 2020
"An earthly shudder only perceivable by animals. Foreboding dreams, bodily sensations and weather phenomena. Unease at a glimmer of movement at the edge of the forest, hackles raised in response to what can only be perceived at the periphery. Sentinels is a 5-day exhibition of work by the two artists, each dealing with subliminal sensations of environments undergoing change." See Lab is excited to invite you to a 5 day exhibition and events series in the Project Space by artists Helena Sanders and Sissel Marie Tonn.
We will open the doors to SENTINELS with a performance program, drinks in the newly renovated See Lab Cafe, and music/fresh dancing beats by Tweeny! Performance program: A performance by Margarita Osipian and Helena Sanders A musical intervention by Jonathan Reus A reading of “An Education of Attention” essay by Sissel Marie Tonn.
The exhibition will also host two events, in which invited artists engages with and respond to it's theme.
PERFORMANCE NIGHT
Margarita Osipian and Helena Sanders,
Jonathan Reus and Sissel Marie Tonn
OPENING: Friday, February 28th, 20:00h
PERFORMANCE PROGRAM: 20:00 - 23:00 h
EXHIBITION: 29th of February - 3rd of March
TIME: 17:00 - 19.30 h
Description: In this exhibition Sissel Marie Tonn and Helena will show new iterations of existing/ever-evolving work. Sissel will show a new iteration of her work “An Education of Attention”, which explores sensory perception, attention and embodied memory related to living in an earthquake zone. Based on personal accounts of people living in Istanbul the work traces the different modes of attention enlisted in the sense of ecological awareness that comes with living on a fault line. This weaves together inexplicable bodily sensations, attention to strange animal behavior, dreams, and foreboding weather phenomena preceding an earthquake, mixed with an awareness of domestic space becoming a potential threat, and the increasing encroachment of urban development on public spaces.
Helena Sanders presents new and recent work using natural and synthetic pigments, residues, and folktale as an entry point into uneasy kinships with un-namable or invisible bodies / phenomenon. She has been exploring the potentialities of color to register fleeting effects and intercept barely-audible missives.
In this instance, she looks to the Mine as the folkloric site where the business of extraction is enmeshed with superstition and the language of magic. The Miner tries to coax a temporary geological peace through inefficient ritual and naive offerings at odds with the rhythm of Capital. The Mine speaks back in gold, coal, cobalt, cave-in, noxious gas, fires, and in the thawed glowing pink biological pigments of vanished oceans squashed into shale, or in black and red cannibal pigmented microbes and fungi, eating in the boundaries of prehistoric cave paintings, refreshing these images in perpetuity.
The exhibition will run from the 29th of February - 3rd of March.
//OPENING PERFORMANCE NIGHT//
28-02-20:
20h:
We will open the doors to SENTINELS with a performance program, drinks in the newly renovated See Lab Cafe, and music/fresh dancing beats by Tweeny!
21h-23h:
Performance program:
A performance by Margarita Osipian and Helena Sanders
A musical intervention by Jonathan Reus
A reading of “An Education of Attention” essay by Sissel Marie Tonn.
29-02-20:
Exhibition open from 13h-17hpm.
01-03-20:
Exhibition open from 13h-17h.
01-03-20:
17h - 19h: The Reading Room #34 - The Art of Noticing, Collective reading of a chapter from Anna Tsing’s: “The mushroom at the end of the world”, with guest artist Victoria Douka-Doukopoulou. Read more here.
02-03-2020 - 03-03-2020:
Exhibition open by appointment.
On the 26th and 27th of October, all 22 studios of Scheveningen’s cultural incubator See Lab were open to the public. Artists, inventors, musicians, as well as other creative entrepreneurs were present to show you around and talk about their work.
The weekend was a unique occasion to get to know the artists who use metal, paint, foam, musical scores, and other media to shape their ideas. You were invited to meet the artists who teach lessons from their studios throughout the year, and visit the seven attic studios which host graduates fresh from art school.
The 19th century building at Duinstraat 55 is a former school building though with a little imagination it could easily have been an old monastery, or even the seaside palace of the Oranjes.
In the former chapel/gym, now See Lab’s very own exhibition space, Annabelle Schatteman showed her latest work The Desired State. The installation is the first stopover on her imaginary journey which began with her previous work heading for the purple planet
photography: Anke van den Berg
Solo exhibition by Annabelle Schatteman
mixed media installation with sound
19-27 October 2019
13.00 - 17.00 h
“When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, like a house in a whirlwind. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else.”
Margaret Atwood
The desired state is the first destination of an imaginary journey that started two years ago with an installation of mainly female sculptures, heading for the purple planet, in search of an utopian world where life can be continued
only,
sometimes the world you find is not the one you imagined…
Video impression of The Desired State
video: Mathieu Rynwalt
sound: Yun Ingrid Lee
photos: Anke van den Berg
