Launch Event The Remote Archivist 03 at mistral
with Emma van Meyeren
Friday April 15
6-9pm
Image: Mary Beth Edelson, Your 5000 Years Are Up, 1977,
Invitation card by The White Gallery, Tel Aviv, 1978,
de Appel Archive (documentation folder EDE-1)
The Remote Archivist 03
This issue of The Remote Archivist has been compiled by Emma van Meyeren, a writer and DJ based in Amsterdam. Emma’s eyes fell on the work of Mary Beth Edelson, a member of the American feminist network Heresies, who sadly passed away on the 20th April 2021. Edelson’s work took the form of performative rituals as a way to honour the ‘feminist foremother’,
or ‘goddess’. For this issue Emma has taken the draft for the performance work ‘Sacred Ritual’ as a starting point to script her own contemporary ritual. A registration of this work was screened for the 1978 exhibition Feministische Kunst Internationaal which was co-presented by de Appel and played an important role in reigniting a contemporary feminist discourse in the Netherlands and abroad, especially for including a comprehensive list of participating international, female- only artists.
The Remote Archivist 03 Launch at mistral
A special launch of this issue will be held on the 15th of April (6:00-9:00pm) at mistral in Amsterdam. Currently the exhibition Proxy Gaze is taking place there which is an ongoing film-screening programme in the window of their space hosting different works of moving image from de Appel Archive made by some of the other female artists which had taken part in Feministische Kunst Internationaal: Martha Wilson, Laurie Anderson, Joan Jonas, and Lynda Benglis.
The celebratory coming together of these two projects is because of how they highlight how language, imagination and reception of the works still affect contemporary feminism, feminist art, and our collective memory through archiving. The encounters with these artists and their works call for a necessary awareness to the practices of ‘labeling’ within the archive itself. This all being part of an accelerated and (self) corrective movement, one which has become increasingly nuanced, yet no less in motion.
mistral
Groenhoedenveem 2
1019 BL Amsterdam
The Netherlands