André Swagers "Hollandse Week: Rituals"

04–11.06.1976
de Appel, Brouwersgracht 196, Amsterdam

Rituals I
© Annelies Kort

Rituals II
© Annelies Kort

Rituals I
© Annelies Kort

Rituals II
© Annelies Kort

During the Dutch Week, Swagers did several performances which related to the following underlying schema: angst - repressing - sublimating - death - drama - religion. In these performances, he identified with 'Christ, whose passion ended in a masochistic self-sacrifice'.

Swagers: 'I am proof of the general human drama, that is, the repression of death and the refusal to accept an aptitude for illness, both mental and physical. As such, my life is a fruitful agony of doubt, in which hope and fear alternate and in which just one principle is clear: if the world were explainable, my art would no longer exist. (...) I employ attributes and means which are intense in their effect. The symbolic acts I perform have a strongly regressive character, intended to reinstate our normally repressed confrontation with the universal human fate, death.'

(André Swagers, typewritten project description, archive De Appel / file Swagers)

Library Material – Video
Sef Peeters – De Poging, 00:14:15

Library Material – Video
Sef Peeters – The 61 Hours in de Appel – tape I Hollandse Week, 00:13:54

Library Material – Video
Sef Peeters – The 61 Hours in de Appel – tape II, 00:17:53

Library Material – Video
Marjo Schumans – Hollandse Week – Het leven, 00:30:21

André Swagers – Hollandse Week: Rituals

archive, 1976

André Swagers – Hollandse Week: Rituals

archive, 1976

Sef Peeters – De rode spiegel – Dat wat ik achterlaat

collection (unintended), 1976

Marjo Schumans – Hollandse Week – Een fietstocht door Holland en Nog wat rondjes in Amsterdam (A bike tour through Holland and some more rounds in Amsterdam)

collection (unintended), 1976

Marjo Schumans – Hollandse Week – Een fietstocht door Holland en Nog wat rondjes in Amsterdam (A bike tour through Holland and some more rounds in Amsterdam)

collection (unintended), 1976