E.C.C.

11/17/09

Cultuur Taxi/Culture Taxi - Hoogtij Den Haag

Cultuur Taxi/Culture Taxi was an intervention at Hoogtij The Hague on Friday 13 Nov.

For this intervention we thought to tour audiences, who would normally have less chance and possibility to visit museums and cultural institutions.
With a van for eight passengers we went to Wassenaar/ Duinrell. A Attraction park used as a refuge camp. On the gate we had a conversation with workers of the Coa onganization and security and few refugees.

sound/video/photography by Mathilde Jansen

Cultuur Taxi/Culture Taxi (Left to right: Mirko Lazovic, Thijs Rhijnsburger, Dmitry, Isa, Ehsan Fardjadniya)

At Gemak in the exhibition Ostalgie & Paranoia (by Dora García (b. in Valladolid, Spain, 1965) and part of the work of Maix Mayer (b. in Leipzig, former GDR, 1960) focuses on life in East Germany before and after the Wende. )

At 1646 The Hague ( By Ton Schuttelaar)

11/10/09

Museum Night Intervention (Museumnacht Interventie)

The idea of this intervention at museum night (Museumnacht Interventie) occurred to us by reading few recently published books and articles, which tried to open a new chapter of the critical practice and institutional critique. We found the museum night a right moment to comment on this neo-liberal cultural policies, demonstrated by the museums in an even like n8.

By thinking about those artistic practices from late 1960s and early 1970s, when artists practiced critically towards the institutions, which by that time were museums mainly but not only, this movement has moved to a second weave from 1980's. When critical art and practice has become part of the institution itself. In both ways as Simon Sheikh notes : " institutional critique was a practice mainly, if not exclusively, conducted by artists, and directed against the (art) institutions, as a critique of their ideological and representative social function(s)."

But now what does it mean when the critical practice of artists against the museums has been changed to the practice of the curator of director of the institution itself?

Internalizing the critique can be seen as a way of controlling the critique in the space of the white cube designed for it.

The Museum Night Intervention is an start of an experiment of self-organized interventions, exhibitions and performances that are consciously decided to take place outside the art institutions or rather the "white cube". An experiment and a try to argue a new wave of Institutional Critique as artists practice. A method of critique that can criticize the Institutionalized Critique or as S. Sheik said: " A machine of control within new modes of governmentality- politics and education"

This Intervention was a collaboration work of :