Festival at Felix Meritis
Nov 24th 2022
presented by
Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
and Bureau Broedplaatsen
Wander through the Felix Meritis on the 24th of November. Fifteen young, talented artists will present their artistic research with fruitful results. The artists represent a great diversity of nationalities and art disciplines. Each talent shows a unique production. You will walk in a cabaret show, watch new documentaries on queer identity, experience bio art, and join dance and music performances. This is your chance to meet outstanding young talents.
The free festival is part of the 3Package Deal, a program for international artistic talent. The program is curated by Bogomir Doringer and produced by Rafael Kozdron. Deputy mayor and alderman of arts and culture and nightlife Touria Meliani will open the event.
Film: Daniel Donato / Fashion: Irene Ha / Theater: Cherella Gessel / Music: Anne Lieke Heusinkveld / Visual art I: Monica Mays / Visual art II: Ghita Skali / Publishing performance: Frédérique Gagnon / Public Realm: Pankaj Tiwari / Dance: Gianine Strang / Engaged Art: Tasha Arlova / Autodidact: Doris Wennekers / Cabaret: Lisa Ostermann / Social Design: Yara Said / Interhistoricity: Ima-Abasi Okon / Bio Art and Design: Philipp Kolmann
Festival at Felix Meritis
Nov 24th 2022
presented by
the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
and Bureau Broedplaatsen
Wander through the Felix Meritis on the 24th of November. Fifteen young, talented artists will present their artistic research with fruitful results. The artists represent a great diversity of nationalities and art disciplines. Each talent shows a unique production. You will walk in a cabaret show, watch new documentaries on queer identity, experience bio art, and join dance and music performances. This is your chance to meet outstanding young talents.
The free festival is part of the 3Package Deal, a program for international artistic talent. The program is curated by Bogomir Doringer and produced by Rafael Kozdron. Deputy mayor and alderman of arts and culture and nightlife Touria Meliani will open the event.
Film: Daniel Donato / Fashion: Irene Ha / Theater: Cherella Gessel / Music: Anne Lieke Heusinkveld / Visual art I: Monica Mays / Visual art II: Ghita Skali / Publishing performance: Frédérique Gagnon / Public Realm: Pankaj Tiwari / Dance: Gianine Strang / Engaged Art: Tasha Arlova / Autodidact: Doris Wennekers / Cabaret: Lisa Ostermann / Social Design: Yara Said / Interhistoricity: Ima-Abasi Okon
Frédérique Gagnon
/PUBLISHING/ PERFORMANCE/Frédérique's work investigates the fullness of the tactile body in relation to the flatness and detachment of the digital. In an effort to depict traces of the human process and its presence, she focuses on the "stupid real" and anticlimactic situations. She uses these self-sabotaging mechanisms in hopes of conveying a desire that the work would become a reality and feel more present. Even if this materiality is just a feeling, similar to the viscosity you feel through certain words in your mouth.
PRESENTING
For my contribution, I would like to look at the intrinsic possibilities of “corporate cocktail parties” as a support for the production and circulation of works — the voided structure offering multiple sites for publishing of visuals, gestures, writings, etc.
By claiming authorship over the different facets, the workings/mechanisms become emphasized and attention is drawn to ways of erecting realities, undermining the implicit illusion. Interventions will include: a finger buffet to hide sculptures; menus, wine labels and napkins to conceal a printed matter; framed images and performers taking cover as DJs and waiters…
The ensemble will attempt to address the body whole, rather than privilege sight [or] hearing [or] taste… the work finding its home within the body of the audience.
Stimulating and facilitating top talent with affordable living and working space, a budget and a network – that is the goal of the 3Package Deal. This successful program of the Amsterdam Fund of the Arts (AFK) and Bureau Broedplaatsen in collaboration with renowned Amsterdam institutions is now regarded as the best practice in the field of talent development.
The Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK) invests in the arts which enrich the experience of life in the city of Amsterdam. The AFK encourages the quality, dynamism and diversity of the arts in Amsterdam, and contributes to the city's strong and richly varied cultural climate. The fund is available to all disciplines within the cultural sector, for cultural organizations and artists. The AFK supports both experimentation and proven quality, established organizations and those that are relatively new, the professional arts and amateur arts - from every district of the city. As a metropolitan cultural fund, the AFK offers support to high-quality cultural activities, it functions as a booster for the arts within the city and is an investor in a sustainable future for the cultural sector.
Bureau Broedplaatsen is part of the municipality of Amsterdam. Its task is to realize more affordable studios and (residential) workspaces for artists and incubator groups. Bureau Broedplaatsen does this in collaboration with target group organisations, city districts, central services, corporations, real estate agents, developers, and banks.
We thank our partners, the renowned Amsterdam cultural institutions listed below who take part in the 15 coalitions that select the participating artists and provide them with guidance and a supportive network. They are of vital importance to the program.
Film: Filmacademie / IDFA / EYE / Fashion: HTNK / Rolien Zonneveld / OSCAM / AMFI / Visual Art I: FOAM / Rietveld Acadamie / De Appel Arts Centre / Visual Art II: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam / Kunstverein / Rijksacademie / Engaged Art: Veem House of Performance / De Balie / De Ateliers / Public Realm: NDSM-Werf / Over het IJ Festival / Das Arts (AHK) / Theater: Academie voor Theater en Dans / Amerpodia / Theater Bellevue / Dance: ICK Artist Space / Frascati Theater / AHK / SNDO (AHK Dans) / Music: Conservatorium Amsterdam / Muziekgebouw aan het IJ / Melkweg / Cabaret: Academie voor Theater en Dans / De Kleine Komedie / Amsterdams Kleinkunst Festival / Interhistoricity: Oude Kerk / Museum van Loon / H401 / Reinwardt Academie / Performance: Werkplaats Typografie (ArtEz) / If I Can’t Dance / Sandberg Instituut – Critical Studies / Social Design: Waag / Hackers&Designers / Framer Framed / Autodidact: Likeminds / Theater Bellevue / Theater De Meervaart / Bio Art and Design: Waag / Mediamatic / VU Amsterdam
Event credits:
Curated by Bogomir Doringer.Event production by Rafael Kozdron.
Felix Meritis production by Rivka van der Berg.
Project leaders: Johanna Brils (AFK) and Naïma Bouchtaoui (Bureau Broedplaatsen).
Press contact: Emma Heinhuis (AFK)