Current Practice

A documentation of Unfair Amsterdam their Art talks held at Pakhuis de Zwijger. Please press pictures for info.

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At 07/09/2017, 21:31.40 on 52.37685 x 4.922111 Tim Hollander stated: “Did you know that our walls are temporal and made out of mdf? And that our paint is about as white as our visitors?

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At 07/09/2017, 21:31.40 on 52.37685 x 4.922111 Tim Hollander stated: “Someone once told me that 20 unopened storage boxes are the new museums.

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At 07/09/2017, 21:31.40 on 52.37685 x 4.922111 Tim Hollander stated: “Museums are generally slow institutions, so should they also behave slowly?”

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At 07/09/2017, 21:12.15 on 52.37685 x 4.922111 Alexis Blake stated: “If i present my work in a white cube space, are a museum space like the British museum you’re gonna walk away with something different from it.

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At 07/09/2017, 21:16.20 on 52.37685 x 4.922111 Vincent van Velsen stated: “The most average work would be by a male painter, dutch, around 40 years old, work 90x90, made just before the financial crisis so 2008ish and also bought around that time

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At 07/09/2017, 21:12.15 on 52.37685 x 4.922111 Alexis Blake stated: “We occupy that space, and by occupying that space; it was a political gesture in itself. because representation is so important, and it matters.

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At 07/09/2017, 21:10.45 on 52.37685 x 4.922111 Alexis Blake stated: “Women’s, trans, and queer narratives, specifically of colour, are excluded from history and our museums are continuing to perpetuate this white hetero normative patriarchal history.”

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At 07/09/2017, 20:48.03 on 52.37685 x 4.922111 Steven Ten Thije stated: "People need to, trough lets say an embodied act, take on this propaganda machine of the museum.

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At 07/09/2017, 20:47.20 on 52.37685 x 4.922111 Steven Ten Thije stated: “You come in, you buy a ticket, and you need to perform an act to be able to appreciate the art thats there available to you.

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At 07/09/2017, 20:38.40 on 52.37685 x 4.922111 Steven Ten Thije stated: “The question is not so much how can the maker serve the museum, the question should be turned around; it should more be: in what way can the maker occupy, intervene, use the museum for his or her work?

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At 07/09/2017, 20:38.00 on 52.37685 x 4.922111 Steven Ten Thije stated: “The maker has been there before the museum, and the maker will be there after the museum.”

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At 07/09/2017, 20:37.40 on 52.37685 x 4.922111 Steven Ten Thije stated: “The museum is relatively young institution, that lets say lives and prospered with the rise of, but maybe also a bit with the fall, of modern society and modernity.  

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At 07/09/2017, 20:37.00 on 52.37685 x 4.922111 Steven Ten Thije stated: “I want to take a step back; and have today be a day to really think about what could the relationship be between museum and maker.

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At 07/09/2017, 20:36.10 on 52.37685 x 4.922111 Steven Ten Thije stated: “I think the first question i ask myself when you talk about the relationship between the maker and the museum is, maybe its a bit of a painful question, but its more or less: who is in charge?

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At 07/09/2017, 20:35.45 on 52.37685 x 4.922111 Steven Ten Thije stated: “I like this term; “the maker”. I won’t work with artists anymore, only with “makers”.”

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At 07/09/2017, 20:35.10 on 52.37685 x 4.922111 Steven Ten Thije stated: “For this evening i wanted to try to be more specific and address more the relationship between the museum as an institution and the relationship it has with its most important partner: the maker.”

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At 01/06/2017, 20:57.50 on 52.37685 x 4.922111 Ludwig Bindervoet stated: “[EXPLORER/Prometheus Ontketend] was about the promise and the possibility of the internet.”