Closing event Closing event with Basje Boer and Lukas Rehm 
for Kristina Sedlerova Villanen – MAIN COURSE
Turning to Dust and Bones, part 3

Sunday 16 October, 17 – 19 hrs
17 hrs: bar open
[removed]: reading of a commissioned text by Basje Boer
[removed]: UNO, a reaction on Kristina Sedlerova Villanen’s work in spatial sound by Lukas Rehm

How many zeros are reasonable in future currency, until you melt down a few and move the one to right. Integer arrays partially digested. The (likely scripted) conversation between the waiter and the guest goes: “Is that an UNO reverse card?” ”Yeah, you gotta pay,… you gotta pay the bill now!” “What are you doing? … “Oh, shit! What? No!”

Lukas Rehm is an artist and musician working in the field of new and old timebased media, performative and spatial installation art, documentary and experimental fiction. His artistic works examine conditions and the theatrics of social structures, the impact of technological and immaterial artefacts on psychology and the role of affect.

His work has been presented at institutions such as the Kunsthalle Baden Baden, Stuttgart State Opera, GAMMA Festival St. Petersburg, Doclisboa Lisbon, the Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe and the Future Space New York. Rehm attended the Jan Van Eyck Academy, the Academy for Theatre and Digitality Dortmund, the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, and LMU Munich. He is part of the SVS collective and releases music under the moniker lybes dimem.

Basje Boer is a writer and journalist. She has published three books of fiction in Dutch, including the novel Nulversie (Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 2019). A collection of essays, Pose: Over hoe we kijken en wie we spelen (Nijgh & Van Ditmar), is expected this [removed];She writes about cinema and (pop)culture, for De Groene Amsterdammer and de Filmkrant, among other publications.

Turning to Dust and Bones (April 2022 – April 2023) is a series of six consecutive solo exhibitions loosely dealing with the subconscious, memory and the traces of being uprooted. It is featuring Anders Dickson, Koen Kloosterhuis, Kristina Sedlerova-Villanen, Aslan Goisum, Giulia Cenci and Rodrigo Herná[removed];
The public program is moderated by DIG – the Internet Guide of literature magazine De Gids, with editors Asha Karami, in charge of selecting contributors for additional texts and events, and Fabienne Rachmadiev, who is closely following the program in order to write the central essay for the series.

Our new baby is finally here and will be available at P/////AKT from 16 October onwards! 

Even more than the field of tension or the interaction between body and object, the exhibition series Am I an Object (March 2021 – March 2023) was ultimately dealing with distance and proximity, boundaries and touch, movement and [removed];
Participating artists Christine Moldrickx, Nicola Arthen, June Crespo and Suchan Kinoshita each realised a solo project on location, and David Dale Gallery (Glasgow) curated a group exhibition about intimacy, conceived for the program. The Sandberg Institute’s Critical Studies Department was invited to moderate the contextual public program, consisting of individual text contributions, interventions and workshops and an encompassing Correspondence on the series as a whole. Contributions by Johanna Ekenhorst, Alec Mateo, Abhaya Mistry, Violeta Paez Armando, Benjamin Schoonenberg and Simoni Stergioula have all found their way into this book.

Am I an Object constituted the second part of a trilogy of exhibition series that began in 2020 with The Space Conductors Are Among Us, and which is travelling from the (art)space and its context to the body and eventually the mind; in the Spring of 2023 the series will come to a conclusion with Turning to Dust and Bones. P/////AKT is looking forward to continue the trilogy and would like to thank everybody who contributed to the program and this resulting publication.
 
Graphic design: Dongyoung Lee
Exhibition photography: Charlott Markus
Print: Wilco Art Books, in an edition of 250

Kristina Sedlerova Villanen
MAIN COURSE
Turning to Dust and Bones, part 3

Until 16 October, Thu – Sun, 14 – 18 hrs

horizon is tilting with each propulsion of oars dragging the speculative transformations and arrangements behind. transfer will happen at the deepest if zeros will not bleed too much before.

stone boats, anatomy of numbers, towel, alienation from the present moment and perhaps an attempt to grasp the totality of the matter just a minute later. inert movement of layers (after a splash) are part of the large scale transaction. the subject of orange melts into the purple one.
future currency will corrupt the codes of today, even those covered with sun cream

/ she left for a swim after all

The work of Kristina Sedlerova Villanen (Finland, 1987) can be described as emotionally loaded transitions in perishable matter. She is interested in the inconsistency of human nature, the attraction of humankind towards building unequal systems, creating concepts and the need to believe in them. Working with geological sediments, poorly made degradable materials, immaterial sources and language deposits, she alters these raw materials and the information history they are loaded with, unfolding the structures behind hierarchies and ownership history of natural resources.

With a series of sculptural gestures, MAIN COURSE is examining its own name and internal and external relationships, mingling with the space of P/////AKT.

Sedlerova Villanen is a graduate of the Academy of the Fine Arts Master’s degree program in Sculpture and the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture degree program in Scenography, both in Helsinki Finland. She has been exhibiting at Extra City Kunsthal Antwerp, Oksasenkatu 11 Helsinki, Park Tilburg, Outo Olo Helsinki, Art au Centre #3 Liège, Van Eyck Open Studios Maastricht, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Titanik Gallery Turku, MUU Kaapeli Gallery Helsinki, Eemil Art Museum Lapinlahti, Colombo Art Biennale, Colombo, FISAD 2015 Turin, Exhibition Laboratory Helsinki, Taiga-Space Saint Petersburg and Sorbus Gallery Helsinki among others. She is currently based between Helsinki and Brussels.

Mutter presents Janne Schimmel
Modders and Poachers

Until 16 October, Thu – Sun, 14 – 18 hrs

Until the summer of 2023, and expanding the horizon to the future beyond, P/////AKT will be closely collaborating with some of Amsterdam’s youngest and finest. A celebration of The Initiative, of its dedicated organizers and of the many many talented artists that they (re)present and care for. We will talk, think, share experiences and insights – connive why not – and see what makes The Initiative tick. For starters our former P/////AKTPOOL space is put to new use by hosting initiative-initiated [removed];After Tilde’s kick-off (1934, curated by Masha Domracheva) it’s now Mutter’s turn.
 
Mutter is a newly open contemporary art platform based in Amsterdam set up in the communal event space formerly known as filmhouse De Lange Adem, run by three of the inhabitants of the Ruychstraat 295 t/m 301. They will present the work of Antwerp based artist Janne Schimmel, who deconstructs existing hardware and technological devices to reimagine what technology is and our relationships with it.

Charlott Markus
Some Things Bleak

Until 16 October, Thu – Sun, 14 – 18 hrs

Some Things Bleak is a publication about seeing versus not seeing, about gender, class and climate, a work about representation and [removed];In short, a vehicle for perception and [removed];It is more of an artwork than an actual book. A hardcover that contains loose sheets, which all have been folded into separate folders. Folders that can be democratically taken out and be used as separate artworks. Three colors give the publication its identity, white, black and blue, which are combined in both paper choices and in different layers of ink, transparent and opaque alike.
 
Texts by Charlott Markus and Sophia Seawell
Designed by Hans Gremmen 
Some Things Bleak is published by Fw:Books 
 
This project is made possible with the kind support of AFK – Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, Stichting Stokroos, Tijl Fonds via Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Stichting Jaap Hartenfonds and indirectly via Mondriaan fund.

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P/////AKT would like to thank:

Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and 

Stadsdeel Amsterdam Oost.