Winner(s)
The winner of the TAA ’08 is Yael Assaf (Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam) with her film Everyone has to get over his biography. Yael Assaf wins an artist-in-residency at Hangar, Centre de producció d’arts visuals in Barcelona (www.hangar.org). The Public Choice Award ’08 goes to the film Best in Town by Edward Cook (Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam). This year is conspicuous in that the technology employed by the artists is of an increasingly high quality. The artists have also chosen to make relatively long films and documentaries.
Exhibition
The exhibition of the TAA ’08 will be open from July 18 to August 24, 2008 in TENT. This year, the nominated films will be exhibited in an installation by the artist Jasper Niens. A recurrent element in the work of Jasper Niens is the feeling of disorientation. Niens has implemented an architectural intervention in TENT that allows the visitor to experience the space in a totally different way. Towards the end of August the TAA ’08 embark on an (inter)national tour. The following screening dates and places are already known:
28.08, 2008, [20.00h]: during ‘Paraat #4’ at ‘de Veemvloer’, Amsterdam.
Nominees
Yael Assaf (Gerrit Rietveld Academie)
Daphne Rosenthal (Gerrit Rietveld Academie)
Erik Klaassen (ArtEz Arnhem)
Rick Altena (CABK ArtEz Zwolle)
Erik Schoteldraaijer (CABK ArtEz Zwolle)
Kay Schuttel (KABK Den Haag)
Fieke Jägers (HKU Utrecht)
Edward Cook (Willem de Kooning Academy)
Jeff Metz (Willem de Kooning Academy)
Jan-Dirk Franzen (ABK Maastricht)
Loes Jongerling (Academie Minerva)
Jasper Teerling (AKI, ArtEz Enschede)
Roy de Haan (AKV/St. Joost Den Bosch)
Bianca Ansems (AKV/St. Joost Breda)
In the past months, experts from the world of film, visual arts and art criticism were approached to scout for the TAA. They visited all the graduation exhibitions held by Dutch art academies.
TAA scouts for 2008:
Bart Rutten (curator Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch), Peter Lindhout (director and producer), Binna Choi (artistic leader Casco Utrecht), Petra Heck (curator Dutch Institute for Media Art), Manon Bovenkerk (visual artist), Arno van Roosmalen (director of Stroom The Hague), Matthijs Ronner (graphic designer), Kees de Groot (artistic leader Gogbot Festival Enschede), Douwe Dijkstra (animator), Karel Doing (film maker), Radek Vana (artistic leader De Veemvloer Amsterdam)