Esper Postma - Por algo será

Opening The Principle Rules I

28 Apr 2012
27 May 2012
  • 20:00
  • PAKT
  • Zeeburgerpad 53, 1019 AB Amsterdam

At P/AKT Postma is presenting a new work dealing with the complexities of reconstructing a personal history. Por algo será (there must be a reason) is a two channel video projection based on one person’s experience from the Dirty War, the state terrorism during the military dictatorship in Argentina from 1976 until 1983.

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Esper Postma

Esper Postma poses questions about the idea of objectivity and the way we organise our environment according to rigorous judgement and strict ways of thinking. Which values and meanings are being attributed to elements in our environment? How are these conditioned by the context that they are placed in? This can be a physical context, like architecture, or a conceptual one, in the form of for instance knowledge.

Por algo será

Actress Paula Juan Lima was invited to write a script based on her memories of the night of the military coup, when her mother was arrested, and to take on the role as a director for their reenactment. The resulting installation considers the way that memories and stories are constructed and become mediated, by showing on and off stage footage and interweaving images and events into an associative composition.

Opening

Saturday April 28th, 20-24hrs