Metropolis M in Conversation with Kunstvlaai: Festival of Independents 2012 – “INexactly THIS”
Metropolis M Features an Interview with Curators of “INexactly THIS” Kunstvlaai Festival of Independents 2012. Domeniek Ruyters: Kunstvlaai is changing into a Festival of Independents. Why? I thought Kunstvlaai was quite successful in terms of audience and participation. It had its own ‘Dutch’ character? Natasha Ginwala & Fleur van Muiswinkel: The Kunstvlaai certainly stands as … Continue reading
Museum As… A Fire in My Belly
Delivering Key Note: “Museum As… A Fire in My Belly” at 6th Museum Congress of The Netherlands Museums Association, 4th – 5th October 2012 Photo Credit: Fred Ernst [The Netherlands Museums Association]
INexactly THIS – Kunstvlaai: Festival of Independents 2012
Kunstvlaai: Festival of Independents is a multi-disciplinary arts festival, which—ever since its inception in 1997—has been the largest non-commercial exhibition of Visual Arts in the Netherlands. The festival is a platform for independent art institutions, art schools and artist-led initiatives to present themselves through live arts, exhibitions, film screenings, archival presentations, lectures and workshops. On average … Continue reading
The Museum of Rhythm: A Constellation of Anomaly
The Museum of Rhythm: A Constellation of Anomaly The Greek terminology for a water clock, clepsydra literally means: “to steal water” or “water thief.” As the earliest time-keeping devices, water clocks in different parts of the world assumed contrasting forms yet measured time-flow with a perpetually leaking vessel. Be it an earthen bowl or the … Continue reading
The Museum of Rhythm at Taipei Biennial 2012
“Are there not alternatives to memory and forgetting: periods where the past returns – and periods where the past effaces itself? Perhaps such an alternative would be the rhythm of history…”– Henri Lefebvre1 The imaginative potential of telling time may no longer lie in minor dissections of petrified chronicles, but in reconsidering the entirety of … Continue reading
In Conversation with Grant Watson
Natasha Ginwala: Let us begin by discussing your most recent exhibition: Social Fabric at Iniva, (London). How did this interest in textile history arise? Is it more than coincidence that the location of Iniva in East London was an epicenter of garment factories, textile markets and weavers’ riots in the 18th century? Grant Watson: The concern … Continue reading
There Was A Country Where They Were All Thieves
4 May – 7 June 2012 What might it mean to be overexposed to a land? Such that one is like a glacial striation on bedrock- a pattern of selfness and crystal. The countryside is as much an imagined terrain as it is an assemblage of components: rock, crops, air, people and histories. Hence, the look … Continue reading
Shapes of the Unspeakable
Christoph Schlingensief: Fear at the Core of Things Curated by Kathrin Rhomberg BAK – Basis voor Actuele Kunst 5 February – 29 April 2012 A few weeks prior to the unveiling of the exhibition, Christoph Schlingensief: Fear at the Core of Things at Basis voor Actuele Kunst (BAK) in Utrecht, the right-wing Dutch Freedom Party … Continue reading
Natasha Ginwala: Work and Writing 