Exhibition: Meeting Points 7 – Ten Thousand Wiles and a Hundred Thousand Tricks
M HKA, Antwerpen
25 October 2013 - 16 February 2014
©Rajkamal Kahlon
Meeting Points is a multidisciplinary contemporary arts festival aimed at the contextualised presentation of art from the Arab world, organised by the Young Arab Theatre Fund in cooperation with regional and international partners. The 7th edition of Meeting Points was a series of successive exhibitions that took place from September 2013 until June 2014 in various cities of Europe, Asia and the Arab world: Zagreb, Antwerp, Hong Kong, Moscow, Beirut, Cairo and Vienna.
This edition was provided by the WHW. What, How and for Whom is a curatorial collective founded in 1999 and based in Zagreb and Berlin. The members are curators Ivet Curlin, Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović and designer and publicist Dejan Kršić. WHW organizes a range of production, exhibition and publication projects and manages the Gallery Nova in Zagreb.
Meeting Points 7 was organised during the often ambiguous aftermath of the popular uprisings that shook the Arab world to its foundations in 2011, at a time when several social movements around the world fuelled the public debate on the existing social and economic order.
The title Ten thousand ploys and ten thousand tricks is a quote from the book De verworpenen der aarde (1961) by the revolutionary philosopher Franz Fanon (born 1925 - died in 1971). His book places the power and violence of the settlers in their historical and political perspectives.
By exploring the levels of identity and the difference between the past and the present, Ten thousand ploys and ten thousand tricks tuned into specific regions and histories in which it was written. It confronted more recent works by contemporary artists and filmmakers with historical views. At the M HKA, these two aspects of the exhibition were clarified by a selection of works from the museum collection.
Artists: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Marwa Arsanios, Kianoush Ayari, Filipa César, Céline Condorelli, Alice Creischer, DAAR, Paul De Vree, Simone Fattal, Robert Filliou, Simohammed Fettaka, Karpo Aćimović Godina, Sharon Hayes, Adelita Husni-Bey, Sanja Iveković, Iman Issa,Maryam Jafri, Rajkamal Kahlon, Anton Kannemeyer, Kayfa ta & Haytham El-Wardany, Runo Lagomarsino, Maha Maamoun, Jumana Manna, Azzeddine Meddour, Tom Nicholson & Andrew Byrne, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Artavazd Peleshian, Marta Popivoda, Kerim Ragimov, C K Rajan,Alexander Rodchenko, Edgar Morin & Jean Rouch, Luc Tuymans and Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor
Media
>Rajkamal Kahlon, Ain’t I a Woman?, 2012, (130x130x20cm)
>Click here to view the opening performance of Marwa Arsianos.
>Click here to view the lecture of Lawrence Abu Hamdan.
WorksShow artists
> Alexander Rodchenko, The Live Badge (sport parade on the Red Square), 1936. Photography, 29 x 19 cm.
> Edgar Morin & Jean Rouch, Chronicle of a Summer, 1961. Film, black-and-white film transferred to dvd , 01:30:00.
> Artavazd Peleshian, Beginning, 1967. Film, black-and-white film transferred to dvd , 00:09:00.
> Robert Filliou, Dieter Roth, Dick Higgins, George Brecht, Steve Mc Caffery , B.P. Nichol , 14 chansons et 1 charade / 14 songs and 1 riddle / 14 chansons und 1 rätsel, 1967. Book, ink, paper, 16 x 12 cm, 154 p..
> Robert Filliou, Optimistic Box N°1, 1968. Object, wood (beech), lock, labels, 1 stone, 11 x 11 x 11 cm.
> Paul De Vree, Revolutie, 1968. Print, ink, paper, 450 x 450 mm.
> Robert Filliou, Galerie Légitime, 1969. Print, ink, paper, 65 x 88 cm.
> Karpo Godina, Litany of Happy People, 1971. Film, 35mm film transferred to dvd, 00:14:00.
> Paul De Vree, Revolutie II, 1972. Photography, photo emulsion, canvas, 60 x 70 cm.
> Paul De Vree, People, 1974. Photography, photo emulsion, canvas, 35 x 89.5 cm.
> Robert Filliou, Do as you Like, 1976-2003. Print, ink, paper, 10.5 x 14.5 cm.
> Kianoush Ayari, The Newborns, 1979. Video, 00:45:00.
> Paul De Vree, Ook oppervlak ik , 1981. Photography, b&w photos, linnen folder, 40 x 30 cm.
> Azzedine Meddour, How Much I Love You, 1985. Film, beta sp, 01:45:00.
> Kerala Radicals, C K Rajan, Untitled, 1992-1996. Collage, collage, paper, 25 x (210 x 290 mm).
> Kerim Ragimov, Human Project: Painting n°3 , 1994. Painting, oil on canvas, 60 x 90 cm.
> Luc Tuymans, Le Verdict, 1995. Print, wallpaper, variable dimensions.
> Alice Creischer, The Greatest Happiness Principle Party, 2001. Installation, 7 life-sized wooden silhouettes, 1 textile banner, 9 drawings, some textile - clothed in various costumes , 50 x 900 cm, 300 x 80 cm.
> Anatoly Osmolovsky, Dusty Phrases / Пыльные фразы , 2003. Installation, dust.
> Mona Vǎtǎmanu & Florin Tudor, Appointment with History, 2007. Installation, installation, paintings, sound, dimensions variable.
> Sharon Hayes, I March In The Parade Of Liberty But As Long As I Love You I'm Not Free, 2007-2008. Installation, single-channel audio installation with framed silkscreen poster.
> Adelita Husni-Bey, Postcards from the Desert Island , 2010-2011. Video, sd video transferred to dvd, painted backdrop, 00:22:23.
> Sanja Iveković, The Right One: Pearls of Revolution, 2010. Multiple, ink, paper, 10 x (112 x 112 cm).
> Iman Issa, Colours, Lines, Numbers, Symbols, Shapes, and Images, 2010. Print, ink, paper, 6 x (68.5 x 48 cm).
> Iman Issa, The Revolutionary, 2010. Installation, 00:05:58.
> Anton Kannemeyer, A Black Woman, 2011. Print, 9 colour lithograph, edition of 25, 48.7 x 76 cm.
> DAAR / Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency, Common Assembly, 2011. Video, 00:15.
> Céline Condorelli, Something Stronger Than Skepticism, 2011. Print, five framed overprint risographs, vegetable dye on newsprint, 29.7 x 42 cm.
> Runo Lagomarsino, More Delicate Than the Historian's Are the Map Maker's Colours, 2012-2013. Installation, hd video, 2 egg trays and wooden shelf, 00:06:18.
> Maryam Jafri, Getty vs. Ghana, 2012. Mixed Media, archival ink jet, black and white photos and frames texts.
> Simohammed Fettaka, The Greatest Show on Earth, 2012. Installation, video installation, collage animation, 00:05:12.
> Simone Fattal, Autoportrait , 2012. Video, 00:46:00.
> Tom Nicholson, Comparative Monument (Palestine), 2012. Installation.
> Rajkamal Kahlon, Did You Kiss the Dead Body?, 2012. Drawing, 2 drawings in 19 pages on 2 autopsy reports.
> Rajkamal Kahlon, Ain't I a Woman?, 2012. Mixed Media, oil on wooden panel paintings, wall painting, 130 x 130 x 20 cm.
> Filipa César, Conakry, 2012. Video, 16 mm film transferred to hd video, colour, sound, 00:10:20.
> Meeting Points 7 - ten thousand wiles and a hundred thousand tricks / tienduizend listen en honderdduizend trucs / dix mille artifices et cent mille ruses, 2013. Book, ink, paper, 18.5 x 13.5 cm, 105 p., language : English, Dutch, French, publisher : Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen & Young Arab Theatre Fund (YATF), Brussel, ISBN : 9789072828484.
> Runo Lagomarsino, EntreMundos, 2013. Print, wallpaper.
> Marta Popivoda, Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body, 2013. Video, colour and black-and-white video, 01:02:00.
> Kayfa ta and Haytham El-Wardany, How to Disappear, 2013. Book, ink, paper, 17 x 11.5 cm.
> Marwa Arsanios, Olga's Notes, 2013. Installation, mdf wood, 400 x 400 cm.
> Jumana Manna, A Sketch of Manners (Alfred Roch's Last Masquerade), 2013. Video, hd video, sound, 00:12:00.
> Maha Maamoun, Shooting Stars Remind Me of Eavesdroppers, 2013. Video.
> Rajkamal Kahlon, Untitled, 2013. Other, 200 x 90 x 10 cm.
> Rajkamal Kahlon, The Three Graces, 2013. Other, 210 x 130 x 10 cm.
> Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Language Gulf In the Shouting Valley, 2013. Installation.