Institute of Network Cultures and Waag Society present:
Screening of Stefan Römer’s Conceptual Paradise (Dutch premiere)
With an introduction by Geert Lovink
During three years of research, the German artist Stefan Römer interviewed a range of artists that are usually associated with the ‘conceptual art’ label. Engaging in intellectual exchanges before the camera, Stefan Römer developed a special filmic mode of reflecting on the state of international contemporary art. The 100 minutes »Conceptual Paradise: There Is a Place for Sophistication« is a personal film essay and not a historical documentary. It traces debates that allowed the intellectual art movement of Conceptual art to emerge in the 1960s, which led to the most relevant questions in art today. A wide range of artists speak about their own artistic practices and the socio-historical development of the various conceptual movements. In so doing, it becomes clear that there can be no one valid definition of conceptual art, since a permanent engagement also makes up its theoretical and philosophical complexity, including for example the question of whether there can be art without an object. Recommended for those who like intellectual films. Amongst the artists interviewed are Art & Language, Daniel Buren, Valie Export, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Yvonne Rainer, Lawrence Weiner and many many more.
Theatrum Anatonicum, Waag Society
Nieuwmarkt 4, 1013CR, Amsterdam
April 4, 2007, 8 PM
Admission free