re-projecting (Utrecht)

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Re-projecting (Utrecht)
Ricardo Basbaum
Casco (www.cascoprojects.org)
Events 17 – 26 April 2008

A drawing of an abstract shape was applied to the map of Utrecht determining nine locations for collaborative projects. In each location events will be conducted by invited artists, artists’ groups, people from the local communities, thinkers, philosophers, curators, writers, etc, which take a variety of formats and durations, in many cases responding to the specificities of the location.

Events will be realized almost every day, over ten days in April. These include Iratxe Jaio and Klaas van Gorkum’s ‘Overvecht Zombiewalk’, Steve Rushton’s radio play, ‘The Germ,’ a conversation with Simon Sheikh and Renger de Bruin about the public sphere in a private home, Mieke Van de Voort’s game ‘generale staten’ about the spreading of a virus, and Ricardo Basbaum’s ‘Me & You, choreographies, games and exercises.’

The events are linked through conceptual threads that Ricardo Basbaum has been using in his work over the last few years, such as notions of transformation, subliminal contact, the organic line, contact zones, microperception, repetition and the politics of the subject.


Programme of events:

Event 1: ‘Word Play’
Casper Fioole, Bart Bleijerveld, Gijs ter Haar, ACG Vianen
Thursday 17 April, 16.00-18.00
Location: Bankaplein playground, Lombok, Utrecht
Word play with slam poets
In collaboration with Expodium and students from DAI and MaHKU
(who join in the collaboration program Armenia Dreaming)

Event 2: ‘generale staten’
Mieke Van de Voort
Friday, 18 April, 14.00 – 16.00
Location: Former Opel Showroom, Admiraal Helfrichlaan 6-8, Jaarbeurs, Utrecht
A participatory game that imagines the spread of a virulent pandemic

Event 3: Overvecht Zombiewalk
Klaas van Gorkum, Iratxe Jaio
Saturday, 19 April, 14.00
Location: Starts at Buurthuis Transit, Moldaudreef, Overvecht, Utrecht
Zombies will spread from the Buurthuis Transit to the area of the Overvecht shopping centre. This project is part of a residency that the artists are doing as part of 'In Overvecht'. More info: www.zombies.parallelports.org

Event 4: ‘Me & You, choreographies, games and exercises’
Ricardo Basbaum, Christiane de Morais Smith Lehner, Mario Campanella
Sunday, 20 April, 15.00 – 18.00
Location: Giraffedreef, Overvecht, Utrecht
A series of participatory games and choreographies that play with the personal pronouns ‘me’ and ‘you’ that are worn on t-shirts of the participants. Accompanied by talks on diagrams and theorethical physics by Christiane de Morais Smith Lehner, and the movements of people in public spaces by Mario Campanella

Event 5: ‘Would you like to participate in an artistic experience?’
Marian Tang
Location: Volkstuinen Ons Buiten, Voordorp, Utrecht
A painted steel object from Ricardo Basbaum’s project ‘NBP’ is hosted at a community garden by Marian Tang, who will document how it is used over the duration of the project
For more information about Ricardo Basbaum's ongoing project 'would you like to participate in an artistic experience?' see www.nbp.pro.br/

Event 6: ‘The Germ’
Steve Rushton
Tuesday, 22 April, 20.00
Location: Pasteurstraat, Utrecht city centre
A live radio broadcast of Steve Rushton’s radio play, ‘The Germ’, which imagines the meeting of the ghosts of Louis Pasteur and Henriette Roland Holst, who two streets on this site are named after

Event 7: 'Public and Private Spheres'
Mariëtte Eijdems, Simon Sheikh, Renger de Bruin
Wednesday, 23 April, 20.00
Location: Keukenstraat, Utrecht city centre
A discussion about the public sphere with writer/curator Simon Sheikh and historian Renger de Bruin held in the home of Mariëtte Eijdems
Live streamed on: www.cascoprojects.org

Event 8: Exhibition opening and discussion
Saturday 26 April, 15.00
Location: Nieuwekade 213-215, Utrecht city centre
A discussion amongst participants of the project

Event 9: Samba and BBQ
Saturday 26 April, 18.00-21.00
Sportpark Vechtzoom, Rio de Janeirodreef, Overvecht, Utrecht
At the sport park on Rio de Janeirodreef a typical Rio de Janeiro atmosphere will be created with a samba music and BBQ