On demand. Gallery
Tegenboschvanvreden Amsterdam is showing video work by 24
artists. Participating artists: Yael Bartana, Sema Bekirovic, Martha Colburn,
Helmut Dick, Elspeth Diederix, Willehad Eilers, Alicia Framis,
Wannes Goetschalckx, Witte van Hulzen, Witte van Hulzen & Sander Breure, Sina Khani, Emi Kodama, Gabriel Lester, Kristjan Lodmfjord, Cristina Lucas,
Marjolijn van der Meij &
Arianne Olthaar, Erkka Nisinnen, Paulien Oltheten, Bradley Pitts,
Muzi Quawson, Frederik van Simaey, Jennifer Tee, Erik Wesselo & Nina Yuen.
Open: 27.02 — 3.04.2010

continue reading...Press Release: ON DEMAND
Includes work by Yael Bartana, Sema Bekirovic, Martha Colburn, Helmut
Dick, Elspeth Diederix, Willehad Eilers, Alicia Framis, Wannes Goetschalckx,
Witte van Hulzen, Witte van Hulzen & Sander Breure, Sina Khani, Emi
Kodama, Gabriel Lester, Kristjan Lodmfjord, Cristina Lucas, Marjolijn van
der Meij & Arianna Olthaar, Erkka Nisinnen, Paulien Oltheten, Bradley Pitts,
Muzi Quawson, Frederik van Simaey, Jennifer Tee, Erik Wesselo, Nina Yuen.
From 27 February through 3 April tegenboschvanvreden will be showing a
video program involving the work of twenty-four artists. ON DEMAND has
developed from the idea that, although the moving image has now acquired
a substantial position in the art world, a large segment of the public has
many questions about how to 'deal with' the moving image. How does one
look at a video work? What does its aspect of time imply for the viewer?
What does it mean to purchase a video work? How can video works be shown
in a collection? What exactly is the stance taken by video art, or media art in
general, with respect to today's concern for 'open source' access, for
YouTube, Twittering and blogging, for social networks and interactivity?
Throughout the exhibition, we will be focusing on the significance of video
art today by way of several lectures to be given by specialists and collectors
of video art.
The exhibition is, of course, primarily about looking. Visitors can make their
own selections from a wide variety of individual artworks and then see that
choice displayed on a large screen. Never had the opportunity to view a work
by Helmut Dick or Gabriel Lester? Always wanted to watch a film by Erik
Wesselo, Frederik van Simaey, Nina Yuen, Sina Khani or Sema Bekirovic?
Well, here's your chance...ON DEMAND.
By way of this exhibition, tegenboschvanvreden is pursuing the aim to hold
collaborative projects with other galleries. For ON DEMAND we invited six
galleries—all of them having earned a reputation for creating a platform for
video art/new media—to select a number of video works by artists from
their own galleries and to show these in conjunction with the work being
presented at tegenboschvanvreden. We should therefore like to thank Annet
Gelink Gallery, galerie Fons Welters, galerie Sign, galerie Diana Stigter,
galerie Juliette Jongma and galerie West for their contributions to this
exhibition!