WHAT’S THE USE? & TOUCH is the second event of an experimental programme created by Simulacrum Magazine that invites visual artists, performers, artists, and visitors to explore trans-disciplinary forms of doing and knowing that exist beyond a magazine's page.
Program
15:00 | Doors open
15:30-15:40 | Opening performance by Alvaro Ugarte
15:40-16:00 | Introduction to WHAT’S THE USE? & TOUCH by Simulacrum Magazine and Alvaro Ugarte
16:00- 16:20| Reading 1: WHAT'S THE USE? Liesl Braat You, Us, and I in a Museum: The use of Suffering in Art Exhibitions
16:20 - 16:40 | Reading 2: TOUCH Ellen-Rose Wallace a nest of white curls
16:40 - 19:00 ongoing performances by:
- Jonghwan Jeong BEYOND UTOPIA (2024-), Mould casting/wax.
- Mike Moonen + LosDQ Shoe Boiling (2024-), shoes and water.
- Alvaro Ugarte Curing the Institution (2021 -), Happening.
19:00 | Doors close
Ongoing exhibition by artists:
Anna Rogneby The Corner of a Circle (2023), Inkjet prints and site-specific video installation.
AvoidCode Imprints (2024), Coding / ArdruinoESP-8266 12E , Fingerprint sensor JM-101, Display.
Lisa Premke Traffic Orchestra (2019-2021); video installation.
Artists
Anna Rogneby
Anna Rogneby is a photographer based between Norway and the Netherlands. Her practice centers around observation, bringing mundane and seemingly unnoticed objects to the forefront. By contexualizing these observations within societal structures and their inner mindsets, her work takes on a trivially existential quality.
Alvaro Ugarte
Alvaro Ugarte is a visual artist based between Mexico City and Amsterdam. His research-driven practice explores cognitive processes and human behavior. Through installations, actions, sounds and experiences, Ugarte's work evokes reactions and fosters interaction, transforming exhibition spaces into environments that activate visitor's minds, encouraging them to explore and engage with the work.
Joris Vos
Joris Vos is a former professional ballet and contemporary dancer who has transitioned into the tech world. At AvoidCode, he integrates coding into his artistic pratice, creating interactive digital art. His work explores the intersection of movement and technology, pushing the boundaries of creative expression through software and digital media.
Jonghwan Jeong
Jonghwan Jeong uses the body to convey ideas, exploring ways to transcend the human condition through actions, which he views as the most fundamental way to affect environments. His work examines power through subjects like time, fate and systems, focusing on the beauty found in struggle.
Mike Moonen, LosDQ
Mike Moonen enjoys subverting common sense. With a focus on what is wrong, improper, messy and irregular, he questions what value brings quality and what quality bring value. He is also a member of LosDQ, an artwork in band form that has been active for over 30 years, with ever-changing composition of memories.
Lisa Premke
Lisa Premke studied architecture and Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam before earning her Master of Sound for the Moving Image at the Glasgow School of Art. In her work, she searches for traces of collective systems in objects and materials and gives them an independent voice and narration. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, including the Kochi Muziris Biennale in India, Studio 1 Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, and Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam.
Ellen-Rose Wallace
Ellen-Rose Wallace is an Irish visual artist working primarily with lens-based media. Developing from an early fascination with folklore and oral tradition, her practice is concerned with how we conceptualise time, history, and narrative. She is currently pursuing her MFA at the Piet Zwart Institute of Fine Art, Rotterdam.
Liesl Braat
Liesl Braat is a writer and a philosophy student at the University of Amsterdam. She is interested in the phenomenology of race, empathy, and film philosophy.
Doka Lab
With the special participation of DokaLab. DokaLab brings the magic of darkroom photography, offering an entry-level experience that lets you easily develop black-and-white photos at home
Simulacrum
Simulacrum is a magazine that reflects on arts and culture, and serves as a high-quality publication platform for students and experts from the field. Four issues are published each year, each time with a specific theme. The subjects are always approached from different disciplines which relate to arts and culture, and placed in both historical and contemporary perspective.
Information
Sunday 13th of October
15:00 - 19:00
Free entrance - Open door policy