Screening and talk with Pedro Barateiro and Monika Szewczyk
19:00–21:00
de Appel, Schipluidenlaan 12, Amsterdam
Screening en talk met Pedro Barateiro en Monika Szewczyk
Georganiseerd door P/////AKT en De Appel
Dinsdag 14 May, 19-21
Deuren open van 18.30
De Portuguese kunstenaar Pedro Barateiro, wiens solotentoonstelling bij
P/////AKT nog te zien is t/m zondag 12 mei, presenteert en bespreekt zijn
praktijk naar aanleiding van twee van zijn meer recente videowerken:
'The Current Situation' (2015, 12
min) en 'The Opening Monologue' (2018, 15 min). Vervolgens gaan Monika
Szewczyk en Barateiro een informeel (vraag)gesprek aan met elkaar en het
publiek. Vooraf en na afloop is er gelegenheid voor een drankje en een
bezoek aan Landscape with Bear, De Appels huidige tentoonstelling die tot
21 uur openblijft voor de gelegenheid.
Beide films reflecteren Barateiros doorlopende onderzoek met betrekking tot
het binaire Westerse narratief en de kolonialiserende potentie en erfenis
van beeld- en taalproductie. Door tekst in te zetten als een middel om deze
structuren om te vormen en doorbreken, bediscussiëren de films de valkuilen
van het laat-kapitalisme, neoliberalisme en algoritmische fascisme, gevormd
door wetenschappelijke moderne logica en economische modellen van een
decadente en gedateerde notie van vooruitgang.
'The Current Situation' (2015), by courtesy of the artist
'The Opening Monologue' (2018), by courtesy of the artist
Pedro Barateiro (b. Almada, 1979) is a London-based artist with a background in drawing, sculpture, video and writing, who studied at the Malmö Art Academy, Lund University (Sweden) and at the Independent Study Program in Visual Arts at Maumaus – School of Visual Arts (Lisbon). He further developed his practice in residencies at Air Antwerpen (Antwerp), Pavillon – Palais de Tokyo (Paris), ISCP (New York), Sítio das Artes, CAM – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon), Spike Island (Bristol) and Galeria Zé dos Bois (Lisbon). Among others, he has been showing solo at Netwerk, (Aalst); Basement Roma (Rome); Néon (Lyon); REDCAT (Los Angeles); Museu Colecção Berardo (Lisbon); Kettle’s Yard (Cambridge); Parkour (Lisbon); Kunsthalle Lissabon (Lisbon); Kunsthalle Basel. His work was included among others at the Sharjah Biennial 13, 29th Bienal de São Paulo; 16th Sydney Biennale; 5th Berlin Biennale; Palais de Tokyo (Paris); Fondazione Guiliani (Rome); Firstsite (Colchester); ngbk (Berlin); M HKA (Antwerp); SESC Pompeia and Videobrasil (São Paulo); Crac Alsace (Altkirch). Barateiro runs the artist space Spirit Shop and was one of the members of Parkour. Among his many collaborations, he edited, with Ricardo Valentim, the books Temporary Collaborations and ACTIVITY.
Monika Szewczyk is director of De Appel in Amsterdam. She was previously curator for documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel (2015-2017); Visual Arts Program Curator at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago (2012-2014); Head of Publications at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam (2008–2011); all these following formative years in Vancouver, Canada where she studied International Relations and Art History at the University of British Columbia and held positions at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and the Vancouver Art Gallery as well Emily Carr University. Along this path, she has lectured, led seminars, organized exhibitions, published writing, as well as undertaken editing collaborations, most recently for the 10th issue of the Athens-based magazine South as a State of Mind (Maintenance), with founding director and editor-in-chief, Marina Fokidis. She is a member of the Artistic Advisory Board for Fogo Island Arts.