Framer Framed at Art Rotterdam
This year Framer Framed will be part of the international art fair Art Rotterdam.
From Thursday February 11th til Sunday February 14th .
We are part of the special Intersections program, a space for non-commercial presentation spaces, showcasing young talents in contemporary art. Our program Water No Get Enemy is twofold – it consists of an installation and a live interactive program.
Installation: El Órgano Oriental
Artist Antonio Jose Guzman presents his installation El Órgano Oriental (ELOO), a unique combination of genetics and art. The project features punch card piano rolls of music for the organ created from Guzman’s own genetic DNA, which is indigenous, African and Spanish Sephardic. The project was first presented at the 2015 Havana Biennale, and is now adapted to the Dutch context, including a classic Dutch organ.
Interactive live program
In dialogue with ELOO, we present a live interactive program with daily performances, curated by Amal Alhaag. The program offers a stage to alternative art practices and practitioners who dissect and question the current global conditions around the representation of passport, gender, borders and body politics.
Throughout the four days, Water No Get Enemy showcases artistic perspectives, practices and conversations that experiment with alternative construction of histories, biographies, futures, identities and memories with a special emphasize on Donna Haraway's concept "elsewhere".
Artist and curator Barby Asante presents in collaboration with the collective sorryyoufeeluncomfortable and Teresa Cisneros the project Baldwin's Nigger RELOADED II. Baldwin's Nigger RELOADED II begins with Horace Ove's 1969 film Baldwin's Nigger, which records a speech and conversation with James Baldwin and Dick Gregory at the West Indian Student Centre in London in 1968. In his speech, Baldwin gives his answer to the provocative question 'where will black man be in 50 years time'. The performative work of Baldwin's Nigger RELOADED II reflects on the relevance of this question today, nearly 50 years since the original speech.
On Friday, artist Urok Shiran, offers thoughts on the intersection of mediatization, violence, imagination and possible futures, in conversation with Léon Kruijswijk. Next to their performances throughout the fair, the collective sorryyoufeeluncomfortable will be in dialogue with artist Maria Guggenbichler on Saturday, to look at the borders of Queer Color of Critique, and how its theoretical framework offers space(s) for other ways of being oneself in Europe as Step-fatherland. In a performance on Sunday, artist Helen Zeru departs from personal experiences that touche on issues of memory, time, physicality, and identity.