Nora

Garage Rotterdam will start the new cultural season by opening Nora, a group exhibition. We want to extend to you our warmest welcome to attend the preview of this exhibition on Friday 1 September at 19:00 hours. During the same evening we would also like to introduce you to our new curator, Sjoerd Kloosterhuis.

Nora is the main character in Henrik Ibsen’s play ‘A doll’s house’ dating from 1879. She had the courage to go in search of her own identity, and dared to pursue her own individual liberty. The search for identity is, however, timeless, and not restricted solely to women. In a contemporary performance of ‘A doll’s house’, a man or someone with a less traditional gender identity could just as easily play the role of Nora.

The group exhibition Nora criticises the current belief that identity is unalterable. Recent years have seen increasing openness surrounding various forms of sexuality. Nevertheless, a lot of ignorance on this matter still prevails among the public at large. It is the exhibition’s ambition to contribute, by displaying videos and installations, to increasing the visibility of gender diversity.

We cordially invite you to come and see the exhibition during the opening on Friday 1 September at 20:00 hours. Some of the artists who are participating – and our new curator Sjoerd Kloosthuis – will also be present and they will be happy to discuss their work with you. During the opening, the curator will explain the idea behind the exhibition and there will be music from Celestial Terrestrial & Nelson (Club von Westen).

Garage Café #5 will open its doors again on the 26th of October, for 6 presentations and performances of 10 minutes, food, drinks, and time to discuss.

Thursday 26th of October 2017
entrance free

Doors open & soup: 18.30h
Start presentations: 19.30h

Soup by Lonneke Jonker

Speakers:
Andreea Peterfi
Arthur Cordier
Eleanor Zurowski
Nolwenn Salaün
Sander Coers
Hugo Rocci

Garage Café is a test-site-with-audience for experimenting, presenting research projects, new collaborations, performances and all other types of artistic work. This event is a joined force of the WdKA, Garage Rotterdam and CBK to collaboratively work on creating more stages in Rotterdam for anybody with an interesting story.

Wat is de link tussen het liefdesleven van premier Mark Rutte en individuele vrijheid? Kunstenaarscollectief J&B legt in hun nieuwe film Question mark een opvallend verband tussen beiden. Luiz Roque laat in zijn film Modern (2014) zien wat de voordelen zijn van meer genderdiversiteit. Hij toont een mix van stilte en dans, hoge en lage cultuur, geschiedenis en toekomst.

Op uitnodiging van curator Sjoerd Kloosterhuis tonen J&B en Luiz Roque tijdens deze editie van Brandstof twee films binnen het thema van de tentoonstelling Nora. Na de wereldpremière van de film Question mark gaat kunstcriticus Edo Dijksterhuis in gesprek met J&B na wat hen drijft. Waarom zijn ze bijvoorbeeld zo geïnteresseerd in de schoonheid van vanitas?

Op haar beurt plaatst Risk Hazekamp de recente aandacht voor genderdiversiteit in historisch perspectief. Hazekamp geldt als een van de pioniers op het gebied van identiteit, gender, representatie en massamedia. In haar fotografie speelt ze met iconische beelden van mannelijkheid en vrouwelijkheid. Ze laat gender zien als constructie die ontstaat door hem te spelen.