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P/////AKTPOOL: Boo 2 presents JANEY’S ROOM

JANEY’S ROOM

Opening: Saturday 10 December, 18 – 22 hrs
Performance by Niklas Büscher and Sara Milio: 20 hrs
Until: Sunday 18 December, Thu – Sun, 14 -18 hrs

Janey is at home. She was just dreaming. She reaches for her phone but decides against it. She creeps towards the mirror instead. She rubs her eyes awake, another day, still no freckles. Humming under her breath, she falls backwards, “…I wish I had a boyfriend…I wish I had a father. Maybe then I would have turned out right…”

Boo 2 is an artist-run project space which started in January 2022 in a vacant store at the Boven’t Y shopping centre. Currently spaceless, it is looking for a new home. Each exhibition of the programme is created by proposing an artist to invite peers and organise a group show themselves. The aim is to give space for public presentations organised collaboratively and independently by the artists. Boo 2 restricts its role to facilitating a space and offering a communication platform. The presentations at P/////AKT will follow this energetic rhythm that is at the core of
Boo 2.

JANEY’S ROOM, Boo 2’s second exhibition at P/////AKT, is organised by Niklas Büscher and Sara Milio.

MAIN SPACE: Aslan Goisum – last chance and closing event

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).

P/////AKTSALON: Stephan Blumenschein

A stain inside a paper, a whisper

Presentation on view until: Sunday 18 December, Thu – Sun, 14 – 18 hrs

Inspired by Felicity Callard’s “The Intimate Geographies of Panic Disorder”, which analyzes events that took place at Hillside Hospital/New York during 1959-62 and would become the origin story of panic disorder as a new medical category.
Thinking together (the disregard) of both, the specific architectural conditions and the role of care work in the tale of the birth of panic disorder A stain inside a paper, a whisper explores processes of (dis)appearance, withdrawal and traces of (in)visibilities the artist encountered in the archives and during his research period in New York in spring 2022.

The research was made possible with the financial support of Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, Stichting Gerbrandy and BMKOES Austria.

A stain inside a paper, a whisper is the latest addition to the P/////AKT-collection of limited edition works by alumni artists.

On 13 December Blumenschein’s related project Still, moving walls will open at mistral.

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

Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and 

Stadsdeel Amsterdam Oost.

P/////AKT
Zeeburgerpad 53
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