Curator

Wendelien van Oldenborgh

Wendelien van Oldenborgh (Netherlands) is an artist based in Rotterdam. In her practice she explores social relations through an investigation of gesture in the public sphere. Van Oldenborgh often uses the format of a public film shoot, collaborating with participants on different scenarios, to co-produce a script and orientate the work towards its final outcome, which may be a film or any other form of projection. In the past years her work has been exhibited a.o. at the Generali Foundation, Vienna, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the MuHKA Antwerp, the Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, the Istanbul Biennial 2009 and the Sao Paolo Biennial 2010.

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If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want 
To Be Part Of Your Revolution

produces art projects and thematic programs. Departing from a spirit of open questioning and long term enquiry with artists, If I Can’t Dance is dedicated to exploring the evolution and typology of performance and performativity in contemporary art. If I Can’t Dance has commissioned Wendelien van Oldenborgh to develop a new work. Her contribution to Cinema Clash Continuum is an integral part of the research and production of her new project.

For this program If I Can’t Dance and Wendelien van Oldenborgh have invited:

Guests

Jean Fisher

(UK) is a freelance writer on contemporary art and postcoloniality. She is the former editor of the international quarterly ‘Third Text’. She teaches in the Curating Course at the Royal College of Art, London, and is Professor of Fine Art and Transcultural Studies at Middlesex University.

Sven Lütticken

(Netherlands) teaches art history at VU University Amsterdam. He is the author of ‘Secret Publicity: Essays on Contemporary Art’ (2006) and ‘Idols of the Market: Modern Iconoclasm and the Fundamentalist Spectacle’ (2009).

Snejanka Mihaylova

(Bulgaria) is developing her research as a maker and theoretician at 
Hetveem Theater and advisor at DasArts, Master of Theatre in Amsterdam. Her work is situated between the performing arts and theoretical reflection and has been presented in galleries and festivals internationally.

Ruth Noack

(Germany) is a curator and writer, trained in feminist theory, film theory and audiovisual media and art. She was co-curator of Documenta XII in Kassel, with Roger Bruegel. She is currently finishing a publication on Sanja Iveković.