Closing event: video by Johan van Dijke and commissioned text by Nadia de Vries

 

Sunday 19 February, 17 – 19 hrs
Bar open: 17 hrs
Video/audio presentation: 17.30 hrs

Amsterdam based artist Johan van Dijke has a background in painting and recently started working with digital videos, often collaborating with poets. Five Songs is a response to Cenci’s exhibition, envisioning an alternative gallery show. Boxed-in figures mechanically tune in to the scrambled sentences of the waste land. In approaching them we see them from within, in disorienting proximity.

Nadia de Vries is a poet and cultural scholar from Amsterdam. She is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Know Thy Audience (Moist Books, 2023), and also writes in Dutch. She holds a PhD in Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam, and is an editor at Flemish cultural journal nY.

The public program with our current exhibition series Turning to Dust and Bones is moderated by DIG – the Internet Guide of literature magazine De Gids, with editors Asha Karami, in charge of selecting contributors for additional texts and events, and Fabienne Rachmadiev, who is closely following the program in order to write the central essay for the series.

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