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In less than three weeks, the 9 th edition of Kunstvlaai: Festival of Independents, titled !INexactly THIS” will open in Amsterdam with the contributions of over 70 independent art institutions, art schools and artist-led initiatives presenting live arts, exhibitions, film screenings, archival presentations, lectures and workshops.

The 2012 edition will be curated by Natasha Ginwala (IND) and Fleur van Muiswinkel (NL) and will take place from 23rd November to 2nd December 2012.

The upcoming edition positions itself amidst the dynamic characteristics of self-organized art initiatives and project structures. As a rejection of the exacting hyper-production that has yielded repeated collapses of global capitalism, it turns toward the fluctuating working methodologies and imaginative propositions of smaller players in the cultural field. As a temporal platform of ideas, collective experimentation and intuitive organizational approaches the visual identity of INexactly THIS draws inspiration from probability principles and subatomic pathways as seen in the Feynman diagrams, which altered the field of particle physics in the mid 20th century.

PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS:

Ephemeral Geometry _Performance, Music & Sound Experiments

Cabaret Night by 98Weeks with special guests

24 – 25th October

Other contributions by:

CEIA, de Service Garage, FLAM, Goleb, Roodkapje & WORM, Society, among others.

Doubling Time _Artists! Cinema

2084, a science fiction show [First Episode]

Festival Premiere, 30th October

Directed by Pelin Tan and Anton Vidokle, Camera: Derek Howard, Edited by Derek Howard and Anton Vidokle, Sound design:

Tisha Mukarji, Special thanks to Julieta Aranda and Hito Steyerl.

Other contributions by:

1646, Atopia, Worm.Filmwerkplaats, The Reading Room, Mumbai Art Room, Britto Arts Trust, Indonesian Visual Art Archive,

Red Shoes, The One Minutes, among others.

Improper Fractions _Lectures, Readings & Workshop Area

Book launch “Self-Organised” Anne Szefer Karlsen in conversation with: Charles Esche and Johan Hartle.

“Self-Organised” edited by Anne Szefer Karlsen and Stine Herbert, OPEN Editions, 2012.

2nd December

Other contributions by: ADA (Area for Debate & Art), Arrow Factory, Arbour Lake Sghool, Arts Initiative Tokyo, Extrapool, PrintRoom, TAAK, The Reading Room, among others

Diagrams in space_

Is a multi-layered showcasing of commissioned works, process-based projects and exhibitions created by participating institutions that present the work of over 350 artists, art students, independent publishers and theorists based in the Netherlands and Abroad.

Participants based in the Netherlands:

1646, ADA (Area for Debate & Art), Amsterdam Dinner Movement, Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier, Apiece For Artists, Attraction of the Opposites, Baracca, Berm Collective / Stichting Berm, Boogbrug Vianen, Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, De Fabriek, De Service Garage, DEFKA, de Appel Curatorial Programme, Dutch Art Institute / MFA ArtEZ in association with If I Can”t Dance, I Don”t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution; Casco; Van Abbemuseum & guests, Extrapool, Fam. Ruim, FLAM, Foam Lab, Frank Mohr Institute, Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Architectural Design Department), Girls Like Us, Goleb, HorizonVerticaal, HMK (HotelMariaKapel), Kees Koomen, Kunsthuis SYB, Kunsttraject, KUS, Location Z, Lost Painters, Lost Property, MaHKU (Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design), KABK (Master Artistic Research, Master ArtScience), Sandberg Instituut (All departments), Piet Zwart Institute (Master of Fine Arts), St. Joost  / AKV (Master of Fine Arts), Metropolis M, MILK, MOIRA, Nest, Nieuwe Vide, NP3, Onomatopee, P.art of Your Life, P/////AKT, Pietmondriaan.com, Plan B, Planet Art, Polly”s Picture Show, PrintRoom, Public Space with a Roof, RC de Ruimte, Rhizomatic, Rongwrong, Roodkapje & WORM, Salon Sur+, San Serriffe, Sign, SMBA, TAAK, Teto Projects & W139, Urban Living Room, The One Minutes, Trendbeheer, Upominki, Werkplaats Typografie, Whatspace, Wild-C, MU with KOP-Breda, Kunstpodium T, CBK “s- Hertogenbosch, and Landkunst (BKKC), WORM.FilmWerkplaats, Zet Foundation.

International Participants:

98Weeks (Beirut), After the Butcher (Berlin), AIT (Tokyo), Amit Charan & Laura Preston (Wellington), Arbour Lake Sghool (Calgary), Atopia (Oslo), Arrow Factory (Beijing), Britto Arts Trust (Dhaka), CEIA (Belo Horizonte), Centre for Visual Introspection (Bucharest), CHIO#C / KIOSK (Chisinau), First Floor Gallery (Harare), Green Papaya Art Projects (Quezon City), Indonesian Visual Art Archive – IVAA (Yogyakarta), JAAGA (Bengaluru), Instituto Buena Bista (Curacao), Komplot (Brussels), Más Arte Más Acción (Bogota), Mumbai Art Room (Mumbai), (Or Nothing), Partizaning (Moscow), Platform Open Place (Kiev), Red Shoes (Paris), Society (Sydney), Taleb Cherche Midi (Marrakesh),The Cube (Taipei), The Institute of Wishful Thinking (New York), The Reading Room (Bangkok). (As on 1st November 2012)

Curators: Natasha Ginwala (IND), Fleur van Muiswinkel (NL)    Producer: Yasser Ballemans

INexactly THIS is generously supported by: #

Gemeente Amsterdam, Dienst Zuidas; Metropolis M; Gemeente Amsterdam, Stadsdeel Zuid; Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam, Masters Rietveld Academie; VSB Fonds; Cultuurfonds BNG; Mondriaan Fonds; Arts Collaboratory; Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten; Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds; Office for Contemporary Art, Norway; NSW Government, Trade & Investment Arts NSW.

For press inquiries or general information please contact: Judith Konz, press[at]kunstvlaai[dot]nl

Download the Announcement Kunstvlaai 2012 here