Works and Words + Afterthoughts 1979-2023
Online discussie

de Appel's YouTube kanaal: https://www.youtube.com/@de_appel

13 september, 18:00

Met: onderzoeker en curator Zsuzsa László die uitgebreid onderzoek heeft gedaan naar de tentoonstelling Works and Words en kunsthistoricus Marga van Mechelen, auteur van het boek De Appel. Performances, Installaties, Video, Projecten, 1975-1983.

Welkomstwoord door de Appel artistiek directeur Lara Khaldi

Gehost door curator Eszter Szakács

Het meeste archiefmateriaal uit de jaren 1960-1980 dat in de tentoonstelling Dóra Maurer-SUMUS-We Are Together te zien is, komt uit het archief van de Appel. Dóra Maurer en Tibor Gáyor hebben op verschillende manieren bijgedragen aan de tentoongestelde tentoonstellingscatalogi en publicaties: soms als deelnemende kunstenaars, soms ook als achtergrondorganisatoren of als mede-initiatiefnemers. Deze belangrijke publicaties bevinden zich in het archief van de Appel dankzij de verzameling en het onderzoek van de Appel voorafgaand aan de Works and Words "internationale kunstmanifestatie" van 1979, waaraan Dóra Maurer een van de deelnemende kunstenaars was.

De tiendaagse Works and Words manifestatie presenteerde kunstenaars, kunsthistorici en critici uit Tsjecho-Slowakije, Hongarije, Nederland, Polen en voormalig Joegoslavië. Een belangrijke doelstelling was het stimuleren van contact tussen de kunstenaars. In 2018 werd met het project Footnotes #3 Works and Words in de Appel de manifestatie van 1979 opnieuw bezocht, waarbij ook de oorspronkelijke catalogus werd herdrukt.

Het evenement draait om Works and Words, om de paradoxen, moeilijkheden en de betekenis die dit project vandaag de dag heeft, vooral in Oost-Europa. De online discussie wil ook een begin maken met de herwaardering van de geopolitieke dynamiek van de "Oost-West" Koude Oorlog en de gevolgen daarvan voor vandaag.

Zsuzsa László is a researcher and curator at the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI), Budapest. She is a member of the editorial team of ARTMargins Online, tranzit/hu’s board, and the Hungarian section of AICA. Her forthcoming dissertation discusses the emergence and critique of the concept of East European Art through exhibitions. Recent projects and publications she has co-curated, co-authored, and co-edited explore transnational exhibition histories, artist archives, progressive pedagogies, cultural transfers, and decentralized understanding of conceptualism and neo-avant-gardes in Cold War Eastern Europe, including Resonances: Regional and Transregional Cultural Transfer in the Art of the 1970s (2021‒23), What Will Be Already Exists: Temporalities of Cold War Archives in East-Central Europe and Beyond (2021), 1971: Parallel Nonsynchronism (2018/22), Creativity Exercises (2014/15/16/20), Sitting Together (2016), and Parallel Chronologies (2009–23).

Marga van Mechelen studied art history and philosophy of language at the Universities of Nijmegen and Groningen. During her studies she taught briefly methodology and philosophy of art at the Catholic University of Nijmegen. From 1978 to 1980 she was a lecturer in art history at the teacher training programme of the Stichting Lerarenopleiding in Utrecht, after which she was appointed to a research position at the University van Amsterdam with special study commissioned art theoretical developments from the year 1970. She specialized early on in the field of conceptual, performance and installation art. In addition, she did historiographical and semiotic research. She published several publications on theoretical concepts of the French psycho-semiotician Julia Kristeva. These investigations resulted in 1993 in her dissertation Form and Signifying Process. Art History, Semiotics, Semanalysis. In 2006 she published a comprehensive monograph on the legendary history of the De Appel Foundation. (De Appel. Performances, Installations, Video, Projects, 1975-1983). Other books followed as the first monograph (2011) about the founder of the NUL group, Henk Peeters and Art at Large. Through Performance and Installation Art (2013). In 2015 she curated Zero squaredfor the Textile Museum in Tilburg. Her latest book with Sanneke Huisman as co-writer and editor was published in 2019 and is entitled: A Critical History of Media Art. Platforms, Policies, Technologies. She was a member of the board of AICA Nederland, the Visual Arts and Design committee of the Council for Culture, the Visual Arts and Design committee of the Prince Bernard Culture Fund and advisor of NWO (Dutch Research Council) and the Mondrian Fund. She is a.o. a member of ASCA (Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis), ASCH (Amsterdam School of Historical Studies) and the Executive Committee of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS/AISS).