Totems van Stilte

Totems van Stilte

Solo exhibition with steel sculptures
by Chris de Vis.

OPEN:
31/10/20 - 01/11/20 - 13.00 - 17.00 H
20/11/20 - 22/11/20 - 13.00 - 17.00 H

photos: Anke van den Berg

“Tien stalen beelden.
Mat zwart.
Ze maken je stil.
Ik hunker naar stilte.
Om het leven te voelen.
De dood gewaar te worden.
En daaraan voorbij te gaan.
Echo’s uit een ver verleden.
Buigen zich over de toekomst.
Krachtige aanwezigheid.
Van iets dat meer is
en verder reikt.”

— Chris de Vis

“I crave for silence.
To feel life.
To sense death.
And beyond.
Echoes of an ancient past.
Dawning of the future.
Powerful presence.
Of something more.
Something beyond.”

— Chris de Vis

WALKING WITH UNIMALS

HOOGTIJ #61

Special edition of Contemporary Art Tour The Hague#61 online! With the work:

WALKING WITH UNIMALS by Studio Pointer*
Asya Sukhorukova & Jakob Schlötter

WWW.HOOGTIJ.NET
OPENING: FRIDAY, 29TH MAY, 19:00 H

More info: facebook

Description: Studio Pointer* (Asya Sukhorukova & Jakob Schlötter) creates media art and interactive installations. Currently their work "Walking with Unimals", which was created in 2019 for the Cinekid festival in Amsterdam, is situated at the project space of See Lab, which Asya and Jakob are members of.

""Walking with Unimals" (2019) is an ever-evolving digital ecosystem populated by fantastic creatures, which live, die and reproduce with the help of Generative Adversarial Networks. Consisting of multiple different universes and inhabited by crossbreeds of animated gifs found on the Internet, it is a world in which the evolution process is unpredictable and never-ending. Initially enclosed and inhabited by a specific family of creatures, the universes can be connected with cables which allow the unimals to migrate, meet foreign species as well as protect their own kinds from extinction by mating with their new encounters.

About Hoogtij #61:
Special edition of Hoogtij! On Friday 29 May you can visit Hoogtij online from 7 p.m. On the website of www.hoogtij.net you will find a map with all participating locations. Each participant will make a video especially for this evening. You can view them by clicking on the appropriate location on the map.

Concept, programming and installation design: Studio Pointer*
Commissioned by Cinekid Festival
Photos & Video: Jonathan Hielkema (Touchy Studios)

POSTPONED PROGRAM

Nothing beats the importance of the health and safety of our community!!! Our Project Space programme till July 2020 will be postponed. The following program will be moved to another due date to the coronavirus.

POSTPONED PROGRAM:
- There’s a rhythm in a rush these Day’s - Ryan Lim
- Totems van de Stilte - Chris de Vis
- Getting things done (that's preliminary) - Douwe Mulder
- Morimaru, North Sea Thinkers - curated by Natalie McIlroy

SENTINELS

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 - THE ART OF NOTICING

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