Our memories are quite similar but pickled alive in a poison which accompanies objects too as a part of this [removed];
Exhibition on view until: Sunday 18 December, Thu – Sun, 14 – 18 hrs
Closing event: Sunday 18 December, 17 – 19 hrs
Bar open: 17 hrs
Reading and performance: [removed] hrs
For the closing event of the exhibition Asha Karami will read a commissioned text work, followed by Seven Memories: a short musical performance by Samuel Vriezen making the rounds of the objects and involving the passing around of [removed];
Samuel Vriezen is a composer, poet and essayist living and working in Amsterdam;
Asha Karami writes poetry, prose, plays and essays, and collaborates on poetry films with Johan van Dijke. Her debut Godface (De Bezige Bij, 2019), a poetry collection, received three nominations for poetry awards and the Dutch foundation for literature grant. She was writer in residence at the Jan van Eyck academy in 2020-21. She is currently conducting research into people and communities who live or try to live outside the social structures. In addition to writing, she works as a doctor in Amsterdam;
Aslan Goisum (b. 1991 in Grozny, Chechnya) employs various artistic media, mainly the moving image, sculptural installation and paper-based techniques. Recent exhibitions include: A War in the Distance, steirischer herbst (Graz, AT, 2022); The Invented History, KINDL (Berlin, DE, 2020); Blood and Soul: Dark Arts for Dark Times, Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius, LT, 2019); Beautiful World, Where Are You?, 10th Liverpool Biennial (Liverpool, UK, 2018); How To Live Together, Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna, AT, 2017) and People of No Consequence, Museum of Contemporary Art (Antwerp, BE, 2016).