The art historian Menno Vuister will introduce this evening. He compares his theoretical research on the role and position of the artist in the neoliberal economy to his experiences in the artistic city of Rotterdam, which was also the subject of his Cultural Analysis thesis for the University of Amsterdam.
The Spanish curator Manuel Segade talks about curatorial labour. Manuel Segade is an independent curator. He curated amongst others for CA2M Madrid, MUSAC León, Foundation Joan Miró Barcelona, Pavillon Vendôme Paris, the Young Galleries Section for ARCOmadrid and Solo Show Zurich for ArteBA 2015. He teaches curatorial practice in Grenoble and in Cape Town. Segade currently lives in Rotterdam. Segade co-curated the group exhibition Motion /Labour /Machinery, currently on show until 10 January at TENT.
Artists Doris Denekamp and Geert van Mil (Informal Strategies), present their reader If You Work It, You Own It! The reader is available to the visitors for free in the exhibition Motion /Labour /Machinery. It is composed by Informal Strategies from a collection of books ordered at Amazon.de. The books were shipped from Amazon’s distribution centre in Leipzig, which is the focal point of Informal Strategies’ installation Your Order is Built on Sand in TENT. The depot’s employees walk an average of twenty kilometres per day, navigating a vast network of storage shelves to prepare books for delivery. Denekamp and Van Mil contrast this with the botanical interests of Rosa Luxemburg, the German revolutionary economist who fought for an international labour movement. Walking in the landscape surrounding the fenced depot, the artists attempt to echo the warehouse workers’ routines and, like Luxemburg, collect plants for a herbarium.
Admission: 3 euro, language: English