sonsbeek20→24 Public Program
8 – 9 October 2022
Events — 8, Oct 9, 2022
On the occasion of the final weeks of the Abstracting Parables exhibition, you are invited to several public program events in the gallery spaces.
- Price
- Valid museum ticket (Adults: €20, (International) Students: €10 - Free for: Children and teens up to 18 years old, Stedelijk Members (waaronder Vrienden), Museumkaart, VriendenLoterij VIP-KAART, I amsterdam City Card, Stadspas, ICOM, Rembrandtkaart, CIMAM)
- Location
- Abstracting Parables exhibition, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
- Time
- Oct 8, 2022, 12 pm until 2 pm
Oct 8, 2022, 3 pm until 5 pm
Oct 9, 2022, 11 am until 1 pm - Main language
- English
- Admission
- Museum ticket
The journey of sonsbeek20→24, the international Arnhem-based art manifestation, at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is coming to an end on the 16th of October. During the final weeks, you are invited to several public programs in relation to the Abstracting Parables exhibition.
Abstracting Parables brings together three historical artistic positions, that of: Dutch-Jewish painter and composer Sedje Hémon, Afro-Brazilian painter, poet, essayist, dramatist and member of Parliament Abdias Nascimento, and Pakistani artist and designer Imran Mir.
PERFORMANCE: ROMY RUËGGER
THE MUSIC, THEY COULDN’T KEEP FROM SOUNDING
Date: 8-10-2022
Time: 12.00 – 14.00 and 15.00 – 17.00
Location: Contextualization room
Admission: Museum ticket,
Please note: the capacity of the space is limited. Stay as long as you wish.
Romy Rüegger is an artist and writer based in Zurich and Berlin. Her research-based artistic work generates images, texts, movements and sounds that take the shape of scripts, writings, audio works, performances, performative spaces and choreographed rooms. Often as collaborative structures and platforms of shared learning and unlearning.
Through feminist lenses, her work focuses on questions of history, shared resources and voices that shape our present and our imaginations. Interested in artistic knowledge production as forms of resistance and survival, she investigates questions of labor and reproductive work, as intersecting with colonial trade structures, worker strikes and feminist movements. She currently focuses on histories of racialized and criminalized non-settled ways of living and working within Europe.
On the invitation of sonsbeek20→24 and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Rüegger will create a performance as a way of listening to the life and the 'secondary aspects' of the artist, musician, composer, educator, member of the Resistance and survivor of the Shoah, Sedje Hémon, through artistic, dialogical and anti-pedagogical means.
The performance will take place in the contextualization room, inside the retrospective exhibition of Hémon at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, during the Saturday program curated on the 8th October.
This program is kindly supported by Pro Helvetia.
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Sedje Hémon. Imran Mir. Abdias Nascimento. Abstracting Parables. Exhibition of sonsbeek20→24 in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2022. Photo: Peter Tijhuis -
Sedje Hémon. Imran Mir. Abdias Nascimento. Abstracting Parables. Exhibition of sonsbeek20→24 in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2022. Photo: Peter Tijhuis -
Sedje Hémon. Imran Mir. Abdias Nascimento. Abstracting Parables. Exhibition of sonsbeek20→24 in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2022. Photo: Peter Tijhuis -
Sedje Hémon. Imran Mir. Abdias Nascimento. Abstracting Parables. Exhibition of sonsbeek20→24 in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2022. Photo: Peter Tijhuis
PARASITE RADIO BROADCAST
Date: 9-10-2022
Time: 11.00 – 13.00
Location: Contextualization room
Admission: Museum ticket
Join us in the Contextualization Room for the final broadcast of Parasite Radio, sonsbeek20→24’s mobile broadcasting program in the (digital) ether, parallel to the Abstracting Parables exhibition, in which artistic fragments of the three artists are interlinked, to show how they are connected through overarching themes such as resistance, cosmos, and sound.
Prior to the last week of the exhibition Abstracting Parables we’ve invited artist and curator Ana Beatriz Almeida to invoke music to amplify the (un)heard sound of the exhibition.
Ana Beatriz extended her invitation by bringing music artist and researcher Raíz to imagine a conversation around music as a revolution tool, building from a residency in which 0101 Art Platform is promoting Marujada with the aim to connect African Brazilian artistic production to African Caribbean in a fusion of art and music.
This Sunday morning, you can join the live Parasite Radio broadcast, or listen in online at: https://www.sonsbeek20-24.org/en/parasite-radio/
Sedje Hemon. Imran Mir. Abdias Nascimento. Abstracting Parables is curated by Amal Alhaag and Aude Christel Mgba with the support of Zippora Elders, Krista Jantowski and Stedelijk curator Claire van Els, under the artistic direction of Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung for sonsbeek20→24 and Rein Wolfs for the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
The exhibition is framed within the quadrennial sonsbeek20→24 “Force Times Distance: On Labour and Its Sonic Ecologies”, Arnhem, the Netherlands. The exhibition is developed in partnership with the Sedje Hémon Foundation, Afro-Brazilian Studies and Research Institute (IPEAFRO) and the Imran Mir Art Foundation. The exhibition is a joint partnership between Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Stichting Sonsbeek.
ON SONSBEEK
By expanding its time frame until 2024 and initiating a deceleration process, sonsbeek20→24 stages a continuous public and educational program choreographed at different scales that will include a series of demonstrations, events, lectures, workshops, performances, and listening sessions. sonsbeek20→24 is committed to establishing long-term relations between artists and their practices, local communities and institutions, as well as different public sites and their everyday visitors.
The curatorial framework of sonsbeek20→24, centered around labor and its sonicities, connects a millenary history crossing times and geographies to the present moment, through a multitude of voices, sounds, and ripples. It invites us to listen to the sounds relegated to the “edges” of the “main” motive, to the whispered stories, to those passed through singing and through storytelling, and embodied narratives. An edition that inhabits the absence from the dominant image. An edition that draws particular attention to that which has been written otherwise—in singing, playing, performing, dancing, caring, in polyphonic rhythms and multiple motherless-tongues thanks to which memories, traditions, spiritualities, entire cosmologies crossed oceans and deserts. This edition aims to reveal the complex labor relations and inequalities that show who is (un)seen, who is (in)dispensable, who is seemingly worth our applause, and who is fawningly silent. www.sonsbeek20-24.org
