Is This a Good Painting? – Reading Group #2
de Appel, Prins Hendrikkade 142, Amsterdam
Painting by Wout Schram, Still Life with Bottle, unknown date, oil on canvas. Photo by Peter Cox. Collection Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
The Stedelijk Museum and the de Appel Curatorial Programme present the second session of the Bourgeois Leftovers reading group. This evening at de Appel arts centre features reading or text-based performances from four writers and artists (Olivia Dunbar, Moosje Goosen, Tamara Kuselman, and Arnisa Zeqo), who will each read beside or in relation to a chosen painting on display.
With Olivia Dunbar, Moosje Goosen, Tamara Kuselman, and Arnisa Zeqo.
The Stedelijk Museum and the de Appel Curatorial Programme present the second session of the Bourgeois Leftovers reading group. This evening at de Appel arts centre features reading or text-based performances from four writers and artists (Olivia Dunbar, Moosje Goosen, Tamara Kuselman, and Arnisa Zeqo), who will each read beside or in relation to a chosen painting on display.
The event proposes reading as a way of establishing personal and intuitive relationships with the historical art object, without seeking to “recuperate” or interpret. Taking inspiration from Susan Sontag and Donald Barthelme's call for subjective and sensuous responses to works of art, we invite guests to join us in considering new ways of reading (to the) paintings.
Drinks will be served.
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No prior reading is required, but the following texts motivated this iteration of the reading group (please send a message to receive a PDF):
Donald Barthelme, “Not-Knowing,” in Not Knowing: The Essays and Interviews of Donald Barthelme, ed. Kim Herzinger, New York: Random House, 1997.
Susan Sontag, “Against Interpretation” in Against Interpretation, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966.
RSVP: reservation [at] deappel.nl
Normal entrance fee de Appel arts centre
Jota Castro – part of "Polvo y Ceniza" – poster
collection (unintended), 2013
Bourgeois Leftovers
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