May 08, 2007
If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution
Feminist Movement: Constant Action + Restless Criticality
Huis & Festival a/d Werf presents If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution: Edition II: ‘Feminist Legacies and Potentials in Contemporary Art Practice’ :: Episode III at Festival a/d Werf, Utrecht May 17 – May 26 2007.
bel hooks talks about ‘feminist movement’, reactivating the term in a transitive way - as a verb almost - so that it becomes this notion of constant action and a kind of restless criticality. – Connie Butler 2007
If I Can’t Dance… is a rolling curatorial project based on performative practices, which departs from a spirit of open questioning and a long term enquiry with artists. Currently it focuses on the legacies and potentials of feminism(s) in relation to art today. Inspired by the quote of Emma Goldman, “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution”, the project explores the critical and celebratory implications of this statement in artists’ work.
This edition of If I Can’t Dance… explores how feminist thinking on all levels (social, artistic, political, theoretical, ideological or structural) may be important in our cultural life. The project has explored these tendencies as inquisitively and openly as possible over the last year and a half by repeatedly working with an expanding group of over thirty artists and mounting exhibitions, organising symposia and performance events, and running an on-going reading group.
This May for Festival a/d Werf in Utrecht a new programme of performances by Jutta Koether, Jon Mikel Euba, Itziar Okariz and planningtorock will take place. If I Can’t Dance… will also premiere the newly commissioned film of The Otolith Group, “Otolith II’”, at Casco in Utrecht.
Programme
The Otolith Group - “Otolith II”
Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory, Nieuwenkade 213-215
Dutch premiere on Thursday May 17, 20:00 with an introduction by the artists Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun; further screenings on Friday May 18, Saturday May 19 & Sunday May 20 15:00, 16:00, 17:00, 18:00, 19:00, 20:00 (45 min)
“Otolith II” is coproduced by Huis & Festival a/d Werf, If I Can’t Dance..., KunstenFestivalDesArts & Argos, Centre for Media and Art
Jutta Koether - “Touch and Resist”
Huis a/d Werf, Studio 2 and 3
Monday May 21 & Tuesday May 22 19:30 hrs (30 min)
“Touch and Resist” is coproduced by Huis & Festival a/d Werf
Jon Mikel Euba – “Re: HORSE” & “RGB Horse”
Cartesiusweg
“Re: Horse”: Tuesday May 22 & Wednesday May 23 17:00 (60 min)
“RGB Horse”: Friday May 25 & Saturday May 26 19:30 (30 min)
Itziar Okariz - “Climbing Buildings”
De Neude
Friday May 25 & Saturday May 26 in the afteroon
planningtorock - “Show me what you got”
Huis a/d Werf, Koepelzaal
Friday May 25 & Saturday May 26 22:15 (45 min)
Curators: Frederique Bergholtz and Annie Fletcher.
Partners & Episodes: Edition II of If I Can’t Dance…is staged in 4 episodes: Huis & Festival a/d Werf, Utrecht, May 2006 & May 2007 | de Appel, Amsterdam, November 2006 – January 2007 | MuHKA, Antwerp, October 2007 – January 2008
Financial Support: Edition II of If I Can’t Dance... is financially supported by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, British Council, Stichting Cultuurfonds van de Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten, The Netherlands Fund for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Mondriaan Foundation, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.
Information: For updated information on the programme and addresses of the venues, times and entrance fees check: http://www.festivalaandewerf.nl.
Contact: info[at]ificantdance.org
Posted by jo at May 8, 2007 11:45 AM
