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Mad Tea Party

Place: Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne

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Artists: Yuri Albert, Beth Collar, Isabella Fürnkäs, Ramon Haze (Andreas Grahl, Holmer Feldmann), Jan G. Lee (Sebastian Cichocki, Łukasz Jastrubczak), Alexander Nagel, Aneta Rostkowska, Ghalya Saadawi, Amelia Saul, Jakub Woynarowski

Curated by: Aneta Rostkowska

Works: Dislocated Headquarters

In the performance by Isabella Fürnkäs two people interact by means of their voices trying to establish a “conversation”. Using different techniques of singing/fighting and communicating through sound, they move through the space sometimes chasing each other. The unusual encounter produces sometimes harmonious, sometimes cacophonic results. Slowly undressing, the performers present layers of clothes revealing different aspects of culture and forms of disguises.

The Dutch Art Institute’s Roaming Assembly is a recurring public symposium. It takes place once a month during a traveling seven-day-long program for students, tutors, and invited guests. The current edition of the Roaming Assembly has been organized in close collaboration with the Academy of the Arts of the World. “Mad Tea Party: Gonzo Curating and Beyond” is an afternoon of lectures, discussions, and performances inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. What happens when you – like Alice – were not invited to the table but still relentlessly want to participate in the conversation? Curators Aneta Rostkowska and Jakub Woynarowski set up a sequence of unpredictable cultural exchanges following the method of gonzo curating, a site-specific practice of constructing semi-fictional narratives inspired by Hunter S. Thompson’s digressive journalism. This time, gonzo curating will unfold at Cologne’s Christuskirche. Departing from the similarity between the purified and minimalist interior of the Protestant church and the white cube of contemporary art, the event will result in imaginary takeovers and reimaginings of the location ranging from an unusual guided tour, prepared in collaboration with the students of the Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem, to an exhibition created solely in the minds of the audience.

- Text by Aneta Rostkowska

In cooperation with Dutch Art Institute [DAI] and Christuskirche, Cologne

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