Events — Apr 1, 2022

The Stedelijk Museum is pleased to present Video Club x Kate Cooper: Performing Image, a screening program of single-channel video works from the museum’s time-based media collection organized by the artist Kate Cooper.

Price
Museum entry and event surcharge
Location
Teijin Auditorium
Time
Apr 1, 2022, 7 pm until 9.30 pm
Main language
Engels
Admission
Tickets

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is pleased to present Video Club x Kate Cooper: Performing Image, a screening of works by Liverpool-born, Amsterdam-based artist Kate Cooper and a selection of works from the Stedelijk’s single-channel video collection.

Cooper’s dynamic video practice explores how computer-generated images complicate our relationship to ourselves and the world around us. Throughout her practice, Cooper has approached the digitally-rendered body as an entry point for examining themes of gender, performativity, and the aesthetic language of what she terms hypercapitalism. Her earlier work Infection Drivers (2018, acquired by the Stedelijk Museum in 2019) explores the body’s fragility and its vulnerability to commercial standards.

Kate Cooper, Infection Drivers, 2018, Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. © Kate Cooper
Kate Cooper, Infection Drivers, 2018, Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. © Kate Cooper
Kate Cooper, Somatic Aliasing, 2021. Image courtesy the artist.
Kate Cooper, Somatic Aliasing, 2021. Image courtesy the artist.
Kate Cooper, Somatic Aliasing, 2021. Image courtesy the artist.
Kate Cooper, Somatic Aliasing, 2021. Image courtesy the artist.

In her new work Somatic Aliasing (2021), which recently premiered at the New Museum Triennial, Cooper investigates what lies beneath the skin’s surface, reflecting on the rhythms of bodily organs and neurodivergence. Expanding upon these themes, Video Club x Kate Cooper: Performing Image presents a selection of works from the collection which form a compelling conversation with Cooper’s singular perspective.

On April 1, please join us as we launch the new program with a live screening, followed by a special conversation with the artist in the Teijin Auditorium. 

ABOUT KATE COOPER

Kate Cooper (b. 1984, Liverpool, UK) lives and works in Amsterdam. Her current and upcoming exhibitions include the New Museum Triennial, New York (2021); Sonje Art Center, Seoul (2021); Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan (2021); Arken in Copenhagen (2022) and the 5th Aichi Triennial, Japan (2022). Recent solo exhibitions of her work include Symptom Machine, SCAD Museum of Art, Georgia; Screens Series: Kate Cooper, New Museum, New York (2020); Symptom Machine, Hayward Gallery, London (2019); and Sensory Primer, Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam (2019). Cooper’s work has been shown in group exhibitions at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2021); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2020); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2020); University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor (2019); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2018); Artspace, Sydney (2018); Riga Photography Biennial, Riga, Latvia (2018); and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2018). Cooper received the BEN Prize for Emerging Talent from B3 Biennial of the Moving Images in 2015 and the Schering Stiftung Art Award in 2014.

ABOUT VIDEO CLUB

Video Club is a rotating screening series that highlights the Stedelijk Museum’s renowned time-based media collection. In thematically organized selections, the program presents artworks spanning diverse eras, regions, and artistic movements.

ACCESSIBILITY

Video Club is presented in the Stedelijk’s Teijin Auditorium with barrier-free elevator access. Seats with backs are provided, and early access can be arranged. For questions or requests regarding accessibility, please contact publicprogram@stedelijk.nl.

Please note that by attending the program you could potentially be filmed and photographed for archival, commercial and/or journalistic purposes. If you do not wish to be filmed or photographed, please contact our staff prior to the program. If you would like us to delete your images, please send an e-mail to info@stedelijk.nl.