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WdW XXV
During this 25th anniversary year, Witte de With set out to examine its history, dedicating its ground-floor gallery to a series of commissioned presentations by a select group of international contemporary artists, including Özlem Altin, Wineke Gartz, Camille Henrot, Germaine Kruip, Mahony, Raimundas Malasauskas, Zin Taylor, Freek Wambacq, and Xu Zhen. Each participant created a new work that analysed certain sediments of contemporary art history. Presented on a large-scale double-sided light box these anniversary commissions were visible to the city day and night. The publication WDW XXV: In Light Of 25 Years documents these newly commissioned works which respond in varied ways to developments in contemporary art, its landscape and possibilities today, departing from Witte de With's quarter century of exhibition history. Alongside the reproduced individual works and introductions by Director Defne Ayas and Curator Samuel Saelemakers, the publication reintroduces the element of space, prominent in the In Light Of 25 Years project.00Exhibition: Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (27.01.2015-17.01.2016).
Para Fictions
What kind of a reader does an artist make?This publication marks the conclusion of Para Fictions, a two-year commissioning series in which ten artists -Dineo Seshee Bopape, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Mark Geffriaud, Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, Laure Prouvost (2013 Turner Prize winner), Oscar Santillan, Lucy Skaer, and Rayyane Tabet- responded to works of literary fiction.Deploying strategies of allusion, vandalism, mistranslation and appropriation, the participating artists approached texts by writers such as Bessie Head, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, and Virginia Woolf.In the publication, invited writers and curators respond to each work, completing a circle between text and object...
Works
A major influence on 20th-century contemporary art, the sound and performance artist Charlemagne Palestine (b. 1947) works from a highly personal universe of ritual, intoxication and shamanism. Part exhibition document and artist book, this oversized publication is both electrifying and an assault to the senses exploding with images of rooms overflowing with the stuffed animals the artist calls divinities. A sampling from 40 years of Charlemagnes extensive experimental musical compositions, performances and installations is complemented by Kunstalle Wein curator Luca Lo Pintos interview with the artist and an essay by Whitney performance curator Jay Sanders. Also included are Palestines extraordinary music and sound annotations and a large collection of works on paper translating sound into image. Besides Palestine being a force of his own, few recognize the powerful influence Charlemagne had on young artists such as Mike Kelly while he was teaching at Cal Arts in the 1970s. Exhibited and collected by major institutions throughout Europe and the US.
Congoville
One hundred years after the founding of the École Coloniale Supérieure in Antwerp, the adjacent Middelheim Museum invites Sandrine Colard, researcher and curator, to conceive an exhibition that probes silenced histories of colonialism in a site-specific way. For Colard, the term Congoville encompasses the tangible and intangible urban traces of the colony, not on the African continent but in 21st-century Belgium: a school building, a park, imperial myths, and citizens of African descent. In the exhibition and this adjoining publication, the concept Congoville is the starting point for 15 contemporary artists to address colonial history and ponder its aftereffects as black flâneurs walking...
It Takes a Storyteller to Know a Storyteller
Exposing capital for the con artist and storyteller it is, the book shows how the post-millennial novels of William Gibson, Douglas Coupland, and Dave Eggers work to dismantle the fictions (or illusions) capitalist globalization spurs and continues to rely on.
Dai Hanzhi: 5000 Artists
Dai Hanzhi: 5000 Artistsis dedicated to the life and work of Hans van Dijk (1946-2002) and outlines his seminal role in Chinese contemporary art. Van Dijk (or Dai Hanzhi, as he was affectionately called by his Chinese friends) was both a witness and a catalyst in the development of Chinese contemporary art; he was active as a curator, art historian and gallerist in China from the late 1980s until his death in 2002. This richly illustrated publication documents the recent history of Chinese contemporary art through the lens of Van Dijk's extraordinary life and work. The book includes never-before-published correspondence between Hans van Dijk and artists such as Ding Yi, Wang Xingwei and Huang Yong Ping, historical photographs and documents as well as a full-length scholarly essay about the history of Chinese modern and contemporary art by Van Dijk.
Bit Rot
Douglas Coupland's new book Bit Rot is published on the occasion of his eponymous exhibition at Witte de With, Rotterdam in autumn/winter 2015/16 (11 September 2015 - 3 January 2016).The book combines fictional short stories with essays, and creates a parallel narrative to the exhibition itself: pieces in the exhibition become materializations of words, and some of the words in this book are a dematerialization of objects in the show.Bit Rot addresses subjects such as the death of the middle class, the rise of the Internet and its impact on our lives, and in short, evinces a shedding of twentieth-century notions of what the future is and could be.The book is named after a phenomenon in digital archiving that describes the way digital files of any sort spontaneously (and quickly) decompose. It also describes, Coupland explains, the way his brain has been feeling since 2000.
Speculative Art Histories
First full-scale thematic analysis of Pina Bausch's Tanztheater, critically evaluating the impact of modernist theatre on her choreographic method
