Wednesday 11 May – Sunday 15 May Wed, Thu, Sat: 12 – 18 hrs Fri, Sun: 12 – 19 hrs
Anders Dickson’s multifaceted practice invites intimate encounters with an obscure, weird mirror of the ubiquitous [removed]; Themes ranging from spirituality, memory, and ‘high strangeness’ are coloured by traces of Americana as the artist implements them into his [removed]; Hallucinatory paintings bleed into space in the form of sculptural objects, photography and video, assembled in immersive installations. At P/////AKT Dickson is presenting an immersive installation consisting of new works. The projects marks the first episode of Turning to Dust and Bones.
Anders Dickson (USA) exhibited his work at The Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2022); Kayoko Yuki Gallery, Tokyo (2021); Wschod Gallery, War-saw (2021); Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2021); 15 Orient Gallery, Paris (2020); The Oracle, Berlin (2018); Vleeshal, Middelburg (2018); Gisela Capitain Gallery, Cologne (2017); The Beach Office, Berlin (2017), and Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin (2017). He attended the De Ateliers (2017-2019), The Staedelschule in Frankfurt am Main, and the Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Kuenste, Karlsruhe. Dickson is also member and co-founder of the netherlands-based artist initiative Root Canal ([removed]).
A Seat & A Dance – performance duringHet Hem and Friends
Friday 13 May, 22:00 – 22:20 Dexter Room, Het Hem, Zaandam
A cacophony of memories bleed into each other across oceans and [removed];Brechje Krahand Alec Mateo bring close the stories of Cyrilio and the grandmother to find comfort in the chaos of narrative, its finality [removed];A performance in reading and sound.
Alec Mateo is a Dominican Writer and performer from New York working with poetry, sound, and movement to explore fugitive subjectivities and modes of [removed];He is a participant at the Sandberg Institute Critical Studies Department and will be graduating in June this [removed]; Brechje Krah is a writer and designer from Amsterdam, graduated from the Royal Academy in The Hague, researching liquid modernity. She likes to work with clay and movement and is interested in the capacities and limitations of time.
PERFORMANCE – Sunday 15 May 17-19 hrs
Root Canal – I’ll Never Be a Star, I’ve Always Been the Moon Mixtape launch and bingo
Live performance by echo + seashell Sunday 15 May, 17 – 19 hrs Bar open from 17 hrs, start performance at 17:15 hrs
echo + seashell are artists Henna Hyvarinen (Finland) and Susan Kooi (Netherlands). Their collaboration consists out of live music performances, videos and exhibitions. The music is often produced in collaboration with different musicians, resulting in variations in both style and genre. The lyrics and way of speaking form the core, the ‘baby soul’ of echo + seashell.
echo + seashell have performed amongst others at Paradiso, de Appel Arts Centre, de Ateliers, OT301 and for Girls Like Us at Butchers Tears in Amsterdam, 1646 in the Hague, showroom MAMA and Worm in Rotterdam, Flutgraben in Berlin, Sorbus and Bombshelter in Helsinki, UP STATE in Zurich, the Others in Turin, the Antagon Festival and Tehdas Theater in Turku, Fokidos in Athens, the Legion in Calgary, the Banff Centre in Banff and Selectors in Vancouver.
Fourteen artists, musicians and writers were invited to contribute to the mix tape I’ll Never be a Star I’ve Always Been the Moon, initiated by the artist collective Root Canal. As a constructive answer to the difficulties of organizing physical exhibitions in the past year, the mix tape is recorded on classic tape cassettes, which are sent out to potential listeners and bring a group exhibition to their homes. Every contributor received carte blanche for the content of their recording, with the sole restriction that it could not be longer than 5 minutes. The resulting mix tape – an eclectic amalgam of contributions ranging from spoken word to noise poetry to dream interpretations, alternated among others with Finnish rap, garage punk and cover songs – will be presented in the P/////AKTSALON for the duration of the Art Weekend. Read more here.
CAPITAL C – It’s Your Birthday 11 May – 13 August
It’s Your Birthday, Capital C
11 May – 13 August 2022, Thu (17 – 21), Fri – Sat (12 – 18), Sun (12 – 17) Amsterdam Art Gallery, Capital C
“This year, Amsterdam Art Week celebrates its 10th anniversary and the best way to celebrate is with a party. Together with our participants we have put together an exhibition with artworks that represent different phases of a party: from the preparations and the party itself to the afterparty and the subsequent hangover. All works in the exhibition are for sale. Who will you surprise with a birthday present?”
Anders Dickson will present a work for sale: innocent pinata, 2021 (photography, plexiglass, foamboard, wood, 40 x 50 x 10 cm)