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Dak’Art 2010: Tous Ensemble
Curator: Stef Van Bellingen Dates: May 8 - 9, 2010 Venues: City of Dakar: (performances from May 5th on) Ferry to the Island of Gorée Island of Gorée: (opening festivities May 8th at 4.30 p.m.) Tous ensemble is an exhibition by ArtAids for Dak’art Off, part of the Dakar Biennale. African and European artists will work together, inspired by the subject of AIDS – the North and South joining forces to tackle a subject that affects us all. Tous ensemble will be held in Senegal, as part of the Dakar Biennale’s Off-program, on the volcanic Island of Gorée, with its painful past of slavery and liberation ...
Pratchaya Phinthong
]Born 1974, Bangkok (TH) / Works in TH Phinthong has recently gained a significant international reputation and was included in the 2006 Singapore Biennale. Curious, intelligent and socially aware, his projects include using art venues to raise funds for a small library in Thailand’s Ubonratchatanee province. He is currently sharing and developing ideas with art students from several Thai provinces. Pratchaya Phinthong is a participant in the 2008 More to Love project.
Access for All
2004/2006 - Bangkok/The Netherlands ABOUT THE PROJECT ‘Access for All’ was the theme of the biennial International Aids Conference held in Bangkok in 2004. In conjunction with the conference, Han Nefkens and Hilde Teerlinck, then director of the CRAC Alsace in Altkirch (FR), asked each of ten artists from different countries to design a work based on this theme. The results were ten special works of art, each reflecting the artist’s personal view of the Aids problem. These high-quality pieces were produced by the Ecole Supérieure d’Art Le Quai in Mulhouse and Imprimerie Bieler in Huningue in a limited edition of fifty ...
Núria Güell
Born 1981, Girona (ES) / Works in CU Núria Güell is participating in the ArtAids project On the Outside Looking In, which is to be held in Barcelona in 2009.
MORE TO LOVE: THE ART OF LIVING TOGETHER
ABOUT THE PROJECT This ArtAids project brings together twenty visual artists from Thailand and Europe, a curator, people living with HIV and those involved in the fight against Aids. The project More to Love: The Art of Living Together, which takes the Thai expression ‘Putting their heart into your heart’ as its central inspiration, aims to raise awareness of HIV and Aids in Thailand and seeks to change prevailing attitudes. The works created for this project draw attention to the exclusion and stigmatisation experienced by those suffering from HIV and Aids. A programme of exhibitions and other public events – some of ...
Gerald Van Der Kaap
Born 1959, Enschede (NL) / Works in NL The Dutch artist Van Der Kaap uses photography and video in an experimental manner and also works as a DJ and VJ. His works are well represented in Han Nefkens’ H+F Collection – several of which were included in exhibitions of works from the H+F Collection, such as The Suspended Moment (2005-07), Whisper Not! (2006) and Parts and the Whole (2007-08). Gerald Van Der Kaap also participated in H+F Collection’s exhibition Choix d’Artistes, which was shown at the Institut Néerlandais in Paris in 2007. As his ‘guest’ in that exhibition, he invited Jean ...
ACCESS FOR ALL – THAILAND – FRANCE – THE NETHERLANDS 2004 -2006
ABOUT THE PROJECT ‘Access for All’ was the theme of the biennial International Aids Conference held in Bangkok in 2004. In conjunction with the conference, Han Nefkens and Hilde Teerlinck, then director of the CRAC Alsace in Altkirch (FR), asked each of ten artists from different countries to design a work based on this theme. The results were ten special works of art, each reflecting the artist’s personal view of the Aids problem. These high-quality pieces were produced by the Ecole Supérieure d’Art Le Quai in Mulhouse and Imprimerie Bieler in Huningue in a limited edition of fifty sets. During the ...
Lawrence Weiner
Born 1942, New York (US) / Works in US Lawrence Weiner was born in New York. In the late 1960s he was one of the most important exponents of Conceptual Art. Conceptual artists rebelled against the commercialisation of art and the recognition paid to the unique art object. They shifted their attention from the outward appearance of the work to the idea, which usually took definite form only as a written text. Weiner’s work consists mainly of concise texts and short ‘statements’ that describe a movement, action or process. He presents the works on walls in galleries and museums, in public ...
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Born 1961, Buenos Aires (AR) / Works in TH/US/DE Rirkrit Tiravanija, born in Buenos Aires to Thai parents, currently lives and works in Thailand, New York and Berlin. He gained a reputation in the early 1990s with his interactive performances, which involved placing everyday activities in an artistic context. In one performance he appeared as a cook and prepared a meal for his audience. He also installed a recording studio in a museum and transformed his own apartment into a gallery. Tiravanija consciously creates situations in which the visitor is invited to participate, not only to influence his working method but ...
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