[Nettime-nl] Marc Bijl, Jakob Boeskov and Erik van Lieshout SMCS11

["Esther Deen" <e.deen@rietveldacademie.nl>]

SMCS on 11
Marc Bijl, Jakob Boeskov and Erik van Lieshout

Thursday May 11
Marc Bijl, Jakob Boeskov and Erik van Lieshout
new videos and discussion
Starts at 8.00 p.m.
Free entrance
Reservation: desk@stedelijk.nl


On the occasion of the international symposium ?Art and 
the City: A symposium on Postwar Interactions with the 
Urban Realm? on May 11 and 12, the Professorship Art and 
Public Space (Gerrit Rietveld Academie) organizes an 
accompanying event featuring contemporary artists Marc 
Bijl, Jakob Boeskov and Erik van Lieshout. These artists 
interfere with the public using strategies such as 
interventions and activism, by addressing indirect or 
direct political issues, or simply by creating images or 
counter images that reflect contemporary culture. They 
will show recent video work and will be interviewed by 
Patricia Pulles, curator at the Boijmans Van Beuningen 
Museum.

Jakob Boeskov confronts the mechanisms of governmental and 
commercial power systems. His strategies involve using 
fictional characters, companies and products to intervene 
in various structures, such as the American election and a 
Chinese weapons fair. He has a background in architecture 
and comics.
Boeskov will give a lecture about "Magical art vs. 
political art"
addressing questions like: how does art affect the world 
and your own personal life?
Marc Bijl is interested in social structures and their 
(ab)use of slogans, logo's, symbols and codes. His 
counter-cultural performances and (illegal) interventions, 
recorded on video, play with our perception of what takes 
place in public space while his installations, texts and 
objects are icons of temporarily fanaticism ? the kind of 
fanaticism that can lead to nationalism, terrorism, 
religious fundamentalism and finally death. But, according 
to the artist, human nature is attracted to these 
simplifying structure methods (logos, symbols, political 
slogans, prayers, or even advertisements) more than it 
needs freedom to do without all that information. There is 
a romantic desire hidden in his attempt to understand the 
world we live in.
Marc Bijl will show his recent film: ?lest we forget? of 
2006, among others.
Erik van Lieshout has increasingly manifested himself as 
an artist interested in installations. In his video 
productions he questions his own position with regard to 
other cultures in an often playful manner. And in 
approaching the question of what is politically correct or 
incorrect, he juggles with the established values. Van 
Lieshout?s will show his film ??Rotterdam-Rostock?? (2006) 
about his journey through Germany on his bicycle in order 
to get to know his neighboring country. The resulting 
video will be displayed inside a container on 
Auguststrasse as part of the current 4th Berlin Biennial.


?Art and the City: A symposium on Postwar Interactions 
with the Urban Realm?
May 11 & 12.
Info: www.artandthecity.nl

Organization: Professorship Art and Public Space (Gerrit 
Rietveld Academie) together with Universiteit van 
Amsterdam (ASCA, Institute of Culture and History) and 
SMCS on 11.

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