DIETER ROTH VISITS MAASTRICHT Monday, October 31, 2011 10:00 - 17:00 Jan van Eyck Academie Maastricht
On October 31, 1986 the artist Dieter Roth visited Maastricht and the Jan van Eyck Academie where he had an exhibition of his work. Roth was to be the first receiver of the Charles Nypels Prize, a new bi-annual award of 25.000 Guilders for innovation "in any area of design from a typographical and conceptual perspective". The symposium DIETER ROTH VISITS MAASTRICHT sets out to research and reconstruct a constellation that lead to the rather unorthodox decision to give the inaugural prize to the internationally renowned artist. Established in honor of the dutch typographer Charles Nypels (1895 – 1952) the prize aimed to give recognition to Roth for his "epoch-making book objects". Nevertheless it created quite a scandal across the dutch design scene. Exactly 25 years later, to the very day, the design department at the Jan van Eyck Academie has decided to revisit that peculiar moment. DIETER ROTH VISITS MAASTRICHT will discuss certain aspects in the work of Dieter Roth that might shed light to a specific understanding of the very notion of "design". It refuses to be reduced to an industry, it is rather characterized by a deep disappointment with the options available within a discipline and the irresistible attempt to blur the boundaries between performance and sculpture, theater and visual art, high culture and low. The symposium will discuss the potential of revisiting Roths work from a today's perspective: Decay and deterioration are by no means exclusive properties of a seemingly past analog aera, industrial production or the welfare state; just as ephemerality, fugitive materials and precarity do not belong solely to the realm of the digital. The work of Dieter Roth may be well situated on the passage from analog to digital, from concrete to evasive, from experiment to obsession, and vice versa. Here one might encounter the unexpected perspective of a materialism of the precarious state of things and minds, an anticynical, open source approach to reverse engineer reality, the emancipatory power of pessimism. The symposium DIETER ROTH VISITS MAASTRICHT will feature contributions by Corinne Diserens, Olaf Nicolai and Jan Voss. It is organized by the advising researchers David Bennewith, John Palmesino and Florian Schneider. Corinne Diserens is a curator based in Paris, and Berlin. She is the former director of Musées de Marseille, Musée des beaux arts de Nantes, and Museion, Bozen/Bolzano. Currently she serves as president of the jury of Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. Since September 2011 Corinne Diserens is the new director of the Ecole de recherche graphique (ERG), Brussels. In Marseille she has curated one of the last exhibitions of Dieter Roth before he died on June 5th, 1998. Olaf Nicolai is an artist based in Berlin. His work has been shown at museums and galleries worldwide, including documenta X in 1997 and the 49th and 51st Venice Biennale in 2001 and 2005. Currently he is teaching as professor for sculpture and the basic principles of three-dimensional design at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. Jan Voss is one of the founders and owners of the Boekie Woekie bookshop established as an artist-run initiative in 1986 in Amsterdam. He was a close friend and collaborator of Dieter Roth. Jan Voss accompanied him on his trip from Basel to Maastricht at the end of October 1986. Jan Voss is one of the initiators of the Dieter Roth Academy. Attendance is free but RVSP is kindly requested. Jan van Eyck Academie Academieplein 1 6211 KM Maastricht The Netherlands http://www.janvaneyck.nl
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