open PS days with the new work-in-progress by Igor Sevcuk:
the installation ID Officials & video My Frenchness at The Third Table
19, 25 & 26 May, 14:00 – 19:30
or by an appointment in between the dedicated weekend days
@
Goleb PS
About:
In short, it is about music, literature, politics, everyday life & other arts.
In more words by the artist:
The
2018 novel Van
elk waarheen bevrijd*
reconnects fragments of repressed collective guilt through the
intimate encounters with an artistic personality. Hereby, the novel
dramatises the main ideological coordinates of its author, Thierry
Baudet – the rising reactionary of the Dutch political
arena.
Surprisingly I could relate to Baudet’s literary
attempt to reframe political issues through micro-personal
dimensions. However, his manipulative psychoanalytical approach is
disturbing right on the surface of the text. For my new
work-in-progress I attempt to get closer to the symptomatic and
antithetical grounds of Baudet’s megalomania, identitarianism and
retro-victimhood perspectives.
Consequently, I have brought
together the three historical events in the following semi-monumental
procedures:
a.
(Recasting)
During the Dutch Golden Age, the new class of
merchants was ordering expensive ‘selfies’ – as ID paintings to
enter history. I am aware of Rembrandt’s newest & ongoing
anniversary while ‘recasting’ his last group portrait with the six
men. The men appointed to assess the quality of textiles in the city
of Amsterdam are still gazing back at the viewer or an intruder of
their meeting.
b. (Dissection)
The photographed ID
officers are at work at the improvised location in the occupied
Netherlands in 1941. Some officials are facing the camera – as
collaborators and/or common bureaucrats. One of the six gazers is at
the other end of the work tables – to be or not to be prosecuted
after receiving the new ID. This scene is now ‘dissected’ and
re-edited in time and space.
c. (Confession)
A
voice-video of an identity crisis – My Frenchness @ The Third Table –
teases around following dilemmas: who are (self)employed
collaborators of current ‘states of exception’? – how to meet the
requirements of ID officials managing the elimination of ‘states of
care’? – a few other issues as well… This ‘confession’ is
supposedly a case of dialectical montage, for now still in progress.
* In a free translation: Liberated from any Destination,
the title of the book is derived from a late Rilke poem Ode to
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Posted on June 8, 2019