Architecture Lecture Denise Hagströmer

Swedish Embassy, New Delhi, 1959 (© Ake Eson Lindman)
Architects: Sune Lindströ and Goran Curman 

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In search of a national vision: Swedish embassies from the mid-20^th century to the present

Lecture by dr. Denise Hagströmer
Tuesday 30^th October
16:00, room 11A-06
VU University Amsterdam

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In her lecture Denise Hagströmer examines how national values are reflected and given solid form in Swedish embassies and residences. Through several case studies – namely the embassies in New Delhi, Madrid, Moscow, Tokyo and Berlin – she explores conceptions of national identity, modernity and progress, and the significance of Swedish national tradition. Although her research is mainly of a design-historical nature, Hagströmer also draws on other disciplines, including architectural history, the history of ideas, European ethnology, social history, political science and sociology. Her research provides an identification and analysis of the political and cultural processes behind Swedish design and architecture in its official representations. It also deconstructs Sweden’s ‘national modernisation’ project and provides an assessment of the social meaning of collectively perceived ‘tradition’.

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Denise Hagströmer is a Swedish design historian, based in London and Stockholm. MA Design History, Royal College of Art/Victoria and Albert Museum. Has curated exhibitions at the Design Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum; publishes and lectures in the UK, US and Europe. Publications include Swedish Design, (Swedish Institute, 2001) and ‘Sweden’ in K. Livingstone ed., International Arts and Crafts, (V&A, 2005). Senior lecturer at Konstfack, National College of Art and Design, Stockholm. Visiting Senior Lecturer at Uppsala University, Department of Art History (Sweden). From January 2013: Senior Curator, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway, in charge of design.

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New Kunstlicht CFP

Our colleagues at Kunstlicht are inviting you once again to collaborate on one of their issues. At the stake in this issue, to be published in June, is the relation between art and the market.

This publication aims to be a platform, for both historical and contemporary case studies, for political and theoretical debate, but also to transcend ideological oppositions: in search of the fundamental problems and sustainable solutions. Doesn’t the time demand a new theoretical approach to the art market?

Those who are interested in contributing should visit our Call for Papers section and sharpen their pens. The deadline is October 22.

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Are you interested in getting your research out there, but Art & Market isn’t really your cup of tea? If you happen to have a paper lying around, you can try your chances at the Rutger’s Art Review – also in our Call for Papers section – just be sure to post it before September 30! If not, take a look at the list of calls on the OSK website!

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Fluxus at Eye

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In the context of the VAMA course Reading Concepts of Intermediality, Sven Lütticken will present an evening of Fluxus films and events at the Filmmuseum Amsterdam (Eye) on September 25. The programme includes a series of Flux Films by various artists and produced by George Maciunas and Sad Movies by Wim T. Schippers and Wim van der Linden (1966/67). In addition, Maciunas’s Piano Piece No. 13 for Nam June Paik (1964) will be re-enacted. Sven Lütticken will give an introduction to the events.

For more information and tickets, please consult http://filmmuseum.nl/en/fluxus-vu-presents?show_id=562164

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Kunstschrift and Teylers Museum on Raphael

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August saw the release of a new theme issue of Kunstschrift titled Rafaël 1483-1520. Schetsen en Studies. The issue is dedicated to the drawings of the Italian Renaissance Master and you can find the table of contents here.

The issue appears in concurrence with the exhibition Rafaël en zijn school at the Teylers Museum in Haarlem (28/09/2012 – 06/01/2013), which includes 90 drawings and several paintings by Raphael. The exhibition was realized in collaboration with the Albertina in Vienna. More information on the exhibition is available at the Teylers Museum website.

In addition, a public event will be organized on the occasion of the exhibition. On October 8, the Teylers Museum, OSK and the Werkgroep Italië Studies will host a series of lectures in Haarlem. Speakers will include Michiel Plomp (Teylers Museum), Paul van den Akker (OU/VU), Henk van Veen (RUG), David Rijser (UvA), Bram de Klerck (RUN) and Jeroen Stumpel (UU). The exact programme and location still need to be confirmed, but those who are interested in attending this public event are kindly requested to register beforehand. You can do so by sending an email to Martijn van Beek at OSK (gw.gkg.osk@uu.nl).

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A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture

Poster for the 1983 version of Louise Lawler’s A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture

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On June 12, a new version of Louise Lawler‘s 1979 work A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture will be presented in Amsterdam. It is presented by Sven Lütticken as part of a “Performance in Residence” project at the curatorial platform If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution and in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum. Following the piece, Sven Lütticken, Andrea Fraser, Eric de Bruyn will engage in a public discussion. Louise Lawler will be present as “fact checker.

Coordinates: The Movies, Haarlemmerdijk 161-163, June 12, 19:00 (doors: 18:30). Tickets: €10 (reservations via bookings@ificantdance.org or available at the ticket office).

Update:

The If I Can’t Dance site now has a section with a report on and photographs of the event. A publication is in preparation, featuring an extensive essay by Sven as well as short texts by a number of (former) students, including VAMA alumnus Daniël van der Poel.

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Save the Arts!

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Our blog might have been a tad silent this past month, but all around us people have been speaking up. Speaking up, primarily, about the dire faith that seems to be coming down on the arts and art education. Sometimes, as in VAMA student Angela Bartholomew’s lecture, the message was crystal-clear; other points were made more implicitly. A short overview of what’s gone down this past month around VU University.

From May 16 to 19, artist and researcher Jeremiah Day celebrated the 50th anniversary of Hannah Arendt’s Crisis for Culture. The 2011 50th anniversary had served as an occasion to take up Arendt’s text and elaborate upon it through a series of reading-sessions and talks held in London, Berlin and Amsterdam. This commemorative jubileum culminated in May with a gathering of participants and speakers from the previous sessions, including VAMA students Angela Bartholomew, Roel Griffioen, Svea Juergenson and Vincent van Velsen. The four-day conference/working session was aimed to break open new lines of thought in the relatively under-researched terrain connecting Hannah Arendt’s work and contemporary cultural practice. It was structured around three reading sessions, accompanied by discussions, two roundtables and several other tours and projects. If you want to know more about the specific themes and projects, you can check out the full programme on Goleb’s website.

Update: On May 21, Angela Bartholomew added a post-script event to the conference. Her lecture, entitled Save the Arts: They’re inherently valuable…and they’re also what’s going to get us out of this economic problem we’re in came as an explicit response to the dire status of arts funding in the Netherlands and intended to bring the delusive expectations put on contemporary art into context. Taking the audience on an art odyssey, the lecture looked at various works of contemporary art in terms of their ‘benefit to society’ – benefits derived from claims made by the U.S. to defend arts funding in 1957 – and modified with arguments from recent discourse around ‘what art is’ and ‘who art is for’. The lecture aimed to spur discussion about what exactly it is about art that we want to save, and what we have already lost. The evening further coincided with the presentation of short publications from other VAMA students. Check out the original invitation to the event here or some of Angela’s photos in our Gallery.

The next week, on May 29 and May 30, two esteemed members of our academic staff – Wouter Davidts and Jonneke Jobse – presented their respective farewell lectures. Both Davidts and Jobse will leave the VU at the end of this academic year and they thought it best to say goodbye to students, colleagues and alumni by presenting some of their personal research. We wish them all the best and hope to have some photographs of their lectures soon. Some pictures of this event can also be found in our gallery.

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