MARC

18/09/2023

MARC AGORA #1 | INTRODUCING THE SPEAKERS

Prepare to be captivated by Lucia Fernandez Santoro, a trained dancer and performer from Argentina/France. With a background in dance, Lucia's artistry breaks boundaries, reshaping performance norms and captivating audiences in fresh, innovative ways. Holding a BA in Dance from ArtEZ (NL), Lucia quickly delved into collaborative ventures across artistic disciplines.

Her journey led her to an MFA program at Sandberg Instituut, where she not only honed her dance skills but also cultivated a writing practice encompassing poetry, narrative fiction, and bold performative installations. Lucia's artistic repertoire features pseudo-sci-fi short stories, challenging contemporary norms and weaving them into imaginative constellations of new ways of life and love.

Beyond her artistic pursuits, Lucia wears multiple hats as a dance critic, dramaturge, and performer. She advocates for improved working conditions in the performing arts through her reviews and commentary pieces. Lucia is also a vital presence in Amsterdam's nightlife, contributing as a door host, artist handler, and producer.

Her recent accomplishment includes a self-standing performative installation at Q21 in MuseumsQuartier, Vienna. Currently, Lucia is a pivotal member of the core team launching CLUB RAUM, overseeing the Art programme.

Lucia Fernandez Santoro explores multifaceted artistic conceptions, emphasizing horizontal exchanges and non-hierarchical creative processes. Her diverse roles inform and amplify each other, culminating in a critical and comprehensive artistic voice.

Join us on October 4th at LOLA Lieven for an evening with Lucia Fernandez Santoro, a promise of inspiration and boundary-pushing creativity.

Doors open 18:30

Kindly supported by WOW Amsterdam

14/09/2023

MARC AGORA #1 | INTRODUCING THE SPEAKERS

We are happy to introduce Michele Bazzoli (IT, 1996), Italian visual artist based in Amsterdam, who will be joining us at AGORA. With a master’s degree in Visual Arts & Ecology Futures, Michele's work delves deeply into the intricate relationship between humanity and nature, offering a profound visual language to navigate ecological crises and environmental shifts.

His sculptures, videos, and installations serve as a thought-provoking exploration of the convergence of body and environment, growth and decay. Michele's work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions worldwide.

In 2023, he earned the ARTeCHÓ fellowship and currently is an artist-in-residence at Destination Unknown in Roermond (NL), where on September 28 he will show his first video work!

Join us on October 4th at LOLA Lieven for an evening of insightful presentations and artistic discourse, where Michele will talk us about his recent experience working with video and his soon-to-be-published book!

Doors open 18:30

Kindly supported by WOW Amsterdam

14/09/2023

SAVE THE DATE | October 4th 18:30 at LOLA Lieven

Exciting news! MARC is back with its first AGORA event!

Join us for an evening of artistic exploration and idea sharing. AGORA is designed to be a space where artists come together to share, exchange, and refine their ideas.

Throughout the evening, fours emerging artists & curators will captivate you with presentations on their latest projects. This is your chance to be part of the creative process—share your thoughts, spark inspiration, and forge meaningful connections!

Stay tuned as we unveil our lineup over the next week! 🔥

Supported by Amsterdam

13/05/2022

Last three days to apply to our open call "Mythologies of Certainty".

During our second edition we will explore together with 4 selected artists the construction of the various mythologies that surround the concept of certainty. Why is this construct so endemic to our human nature? What are the ways in which we ritualize certainty in our age of hyper-narratives, geopolitical shifts, and 24/7 neoliberal regimes?

What do you need to apply:
-CV
-Application video (around 3 min, phone quality accepted), outlining your specific interest in participating in MARC’s activities, why you are interested in the topic and how your participation in the project will affect your practice
-Portfolio

Check out the complete call on our website and apply: https://bit.ly/MARC2_opencall

25/04/2022

MARC #2 | OPEN CALL: Mythologies of Certainty

We are happy to launch our new open call and the new topic of our upcoming edition: 'Mythologies of Certainty'.

During our second edition we will explore together with 4 selected artists the construction of the various mythologies that surround the concept of certainty. Why is this construct so endemic to our human nature? What are the ways in which we ritualize certainty in our age of hyper-narratives, geopolitical shifts, and 24/7 neoliberal regimes?

During MARC #2 we venture into a creative search around the notion of certainty, and its performative and mytho-political aspects. We welcome researchers, artists, writers, curators, thinkers, musicians, designers, and savvy creatives to join us in our new adventure!

The application deadline is May 16th, more info via: https://bit.ly/MARC2_opencall

21/03/2022

NEW TEAM MEMBER | ANDREA KNEZOVIC

We’re very excited to introduce to you our new team member: Andrea Knezović!

Andrea is a visual artist, researcher, cultural programmer and educator with a MARes in Artistic Research from the University of Amsterdam and a BA from the AVA-Academy of Visual Arts Ljubljana. Her artistic practice plays with semiotics and dialectics of value by examining — through poetic gesturing — correlations between institutional and identity politics. Knezović’s discursive research interests center around topics of liminality, value production, future mythologies of the cultural institutional practices and consequently their strategies of institutional care. Her practice can be understood as a close reading of subversive, liminal landscapes in which the individual negotiates the ideological mechanisms of cognitive capitalism within wider socio-political scopes. She investigates various identity protocols by probing different systems of self-care, strategies of re-imagining institutional mythologies and futures of collective psycho-cultural health. She uses speculative fiction as a forensic method to excavate and design research narratives.
Knezović is a board member of Salwa Foundation. She contributed to various discursive journals including MIT - Thresholds Journal, Lish Journal, University of Amsterdam Simulacrum Jurnal- Tijdschrift voor kunst en cultuur and Biennale of Young Artists of Europe and Mediterranean (Young Slovenian Artists). Her artwork has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the world and is part of the SCCA-DIVA Archive collection. In 2013 and 2015, she was nominated for the Essl Art Award.

21/03/2022

UPCOMING | Get involved with MARC

On Thursday March 24h, MARC’s team is taking the opportunity offered by ‘W139 Hosts’ to reflect on its first year of activities, and to talk about the future!

After a short presentation about the first edition of MARC, we are very excited to launch the Open Call for our second edition: ‘Ritualisation and Mythologies of Certainty’

Then we will open up the floor to discuss together with the audience about collectives as a form of creative entity, what are the strengths of creating together, but also what are the challenges that we face.

More details to be announced soon!

W139

23/06/2021

Introducing our guests for this Saturday CURATED REALITIES | Special Performance.

In occasion of the last day of our exhibition we invited pianist Marta Warelis, cornetist Eric Boeren and double bass player Jonathan Nagel as guests for a very special performance!

𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗮 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘀 is a vibrant performer with a strong preference for improvisation and experimentation in all genres. She continually aims for instant composing on the basis of new sounds and influences.

𝗘𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗕𝗼𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻's compositions and musical games are designed to facilitate focused collective improvisations.

𝗝𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗡𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗹 continuously seeks to abandon the borders between genres, striving to merely rely on whatever means it takes to create a certain image or feeling. His artistic practice includes music, poetry, improvisation, physical theater, performance art, and dance.

Don't forget to reserve your tickets here: https://bit.ly/CuratedRealities_LastPerformance

Doors open at 21:00 and the performance will start around 21:30!

22/06/2021

In case you missed our performance last week, this Saturday we are opening up our exhibition for one last event: CURATED REALITIES | Special Performance with pianist Marta Warelis and cornetist and composer Eric Boeren as guests!

Join us to celebrate the closing of our exhibition. Don't forget to reserve your spot here:

Saturday 26th of June is the last chance to visit our exhibition. For the occasion we are organising a special performance!

17/06/2021

INTRODUCING TONIGHT'S GUEST | Miriam Den Boer Salmón

Miriam is a violinist and creator based in Amsterdam. Her multicultural background reflects in a love for diversity, for ever-changing perspectives on society and reality which shows in her musical ventures.
With improvisation at its core, she is constantly exploring folk and world music, combining different musical worlds together in her own unique language through both written and improvised music, including influences of new contemporary music and curious collaborations with visual artists, searching for the sounds physicality, shape and colour.
www.miriamdenboersalmon.com

Don't forget to reserve your spot here: https://curatedrealities_performance.eventbrite.com

Doors will open at 20:30! See you later!

17/06/2021

INTRODUCING TONIGHT'S GUESTS | Maya Felixbrodt

Maya is a Violist, an experimental musician, performer and artist based in Amsterdam and Tel-aviv.
She is the founder and member in companies such as: "Moving strings" - ensemble of moving musicians , "Zvov" - dada/cabaret duo, "Synzine" - magazine for musical games and "Street View Collective". She recently curated together with Luke Deane of "Screen Dive" for Gaudeamus Muziekweek.
Maya holds a BA in Viola from The Academy for Music and Dance, Jerusalem, a second BA and an MA in Composition at The Royal Conservatory in The Hague, NL and has written her MA thesis during an Erasmus semester at MIAM, ITU, Istanbul. Currently she is studying at LBMS Certification Program of EMOVE, Rotterdam, to become a Laban Bartenieff Movement Analyst. More on: www.pninax.com

Don't forget to reserve your spot: https://curatedrealities_performance.eventbrite.com

Doors will be open from 20:30! See you later!

15/06/2021

In case you missed our exhibition the first time we were open, this Thursday you get a second chance: join us for Curated Realities | Performance with a very special guest composer and violist Maya Felixbrodt!

Don't forget to reserve your spot via this link:

On the occasion of Amsterdam Art Week, MARC's first exhibition Curated Realities is reopening with a special performance.