KLUPKO - room:s: & daily art situations

03/02/2023

Some impressions from the recent encounter with Dito Yuwono & Mira Asriningtyas, retracing the latest edition of 900mdpl / Genealogy of Ghosts and How to Live with Them, Yogyakarta – Indonesia (2022)
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screening the three related artworks:

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Mark Salvatus: Jalan-Jalan (Walking Around), 2019, 10'15'' (images 1 & 2)

Kaliurang in Jogjakarta is located near the active volcano Merapi, where ghosts of memories and history are part of the landscape. [...] They are hiding in the trees – like the trees and forest and the mountain are the bare witnesses of all the history of colonialism, war, and the neoliberal progress of development. A fictional work with no narrative flow. The ghosts are walking amongst us or are we the ghost?

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Dito Yuwono: Sand Run through Your Hand, Flow with the Water, 2022, 9'00'' (images 7 & 8)

[...] The ongoing research is looking into three different types of sand mining, from the traditional one that uses bare hands to the exploitative one that uses excavators. As an extractive activity rooted in the idea of coloniality, the massive sand mining industry operates in contrast to the local wisdom that was circulated throughout different generations.

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Paoletta Holst: What Bungalows Can Tell, 2019, 11’33” (image 10)

The village of Kaliurang (region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia) was built as a health and holiday retreat for the Dutch colonial middle class in the 1920’s. [...] Today, the majority of the colonial bungalows is still intact. Some of them are used for touristic purposes, others are abandoned and considered haunted. [...] The colonial past still haunts the present as the underlaying racial and segregational design principles of the bungalows continue to have an effect on everyday life.

28/01/2023

Our guests, Dito Yuwono & Mira Asriningtyas will guide us through the latest edition of the site-specific 900mdpl project in their hometown of Kaliurang below an active volcano Mount Merapi. In this session, we will show three video works by Mark Salvatus, Paoletta Holst and Dito Yuwono, made within the context of

900mdpl:

Genealogy of Ghosts & How to Live with Them
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talk and screening with Dito & Mira

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29 January 2023 / doors 17:00

If you like to join us on this very short notice please let us know at:
[email protected]

Upon confirmation, we will send the details of klupko’s current situation in Utrecht.

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Every two years, the 900mdpl project consists of an elongated continuum of smaller events such as multiple-sites exhibitions, a transient museum, public programs, and a publication series. It proposes a possibility to create a growing socially-engaged archive of the village and to preserve the collective memories of the community by bringing together local and international artists for a research residency and production of new work.

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In the third iteration, titled “900mdpl: Genealogy of Ghosts and How to Live with Them” (2022); myth, bedtime story, and cautionary tales hold important positions in the discussion. The exhibition was transformed into a process of embodied knowledge transmission: from walking and talking to the tactile experience of being in nature. The process gave a glimpse of ‘laku’ that refers to learnings gained through bodily experiences under specific circumstances, as well as those passed down orally from one generation to another.

images:

Paoleta Holst: "What Bungalows Can Tell", 2019, 11’33”, HD video

Mark Salvatus: “Jalan-Jalan” (Walking Around), 2019, 10'15'', HD video

900mdpl Location #9: Shed by the Gondang River


www.900mdpl.com

www.lirspace.net

www.instagram.com/900mdpl

16/12/2022

Forest Room Variations
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Our new encounter returns home and its edges – a tapestry that encompasses us – as a relation one seeks to re-establish. A ‘forest chamber’ is entered with works and performative acts by:

Marianna Maruyama
Hyun-Suk Seo
Igor Sevcuk
al-yene (sata taas)
Maartje van Denderen
Go-Eun Im with Polina Fenko &
George Dzodzuashvili / Post Industrial Boys

Variations in music alter over the course of repetition. In a cosmic sense, any perturbation in the movement of the planet, or especially the moon, is a variation. A shift for all of us – the orbital creatures. When properly felt, it re-relates and reframes hierarchies of coexistence (included and excluded).

We invite you to the ‘regents chamber’, hung with an expensive forest tapestry – to reopen, reinhabit, and translate it – in a series of variations. The rulers thus choose (not) to care for the unfit, or otherwise strange and homeless. How about those woods between borders, those alienated in peripheries, or plotting stateless constellations?

Our variations will attempt to address these (un)homey issues in the historic guest house and nursing home in the city of Utrecht.

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17 December 2022 / doors 15:00

The event has a limited audience – please book at:
[email protected]

Upon confirmation, we will forward the details of the location – a short walk from CS Utrecht

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Most of the works are newly developed or are still work in the process. A list of titles and summaries will be ready shortly after the event. The documentation and some of the works will be reinstalled in the space of klupko-room at the end of December or the beginning of the new year.

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Cooperation: apparat/us (Jinyoung Shin, Shinjae Kim)
Sound Technician: Nicolas Kliwadenko
Video Documentation: Anastasija Pirozenko
Coordination: Jooyoung Hwang
Production: Go-Eun Im & Igor Sevcuk

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The event is supported by:

ISAC - international partnership in support of art creation,
Arts Council Korea,
Dutch Culture

20/11/2022

Klupko is hosting a selection of works by

GRIGORIS RIZAKIS

based on his long-term research in botany


20 November – 30 November / 15:00-20:00


For an appointment & address e-mail us:
[email protected]

(Klupko is 10 min walk from Utrecht CS)

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The existential displacements along with a botanic sensibility are an integral part of the ongoing conversation. Grigoris Rizakis is invited to join us at Klupko by artist and writer Marianna Maruyama & some of her thoughts on the work will follow shortly. The conversation with Grigoris around his selected montages will be joined by Marianna Takou as well.

31/01/2017

Imressions from belit sağ's talk:

>> a moving picture of a dead cop

24/11/2016

Klupko's exhibition Guests, Ghosts & Gardening will be reopened coming Saturday and Sunday, 2-6pm. We will be a part of A Festival of Project Spaces organised by Kunstvlaai. We are with: belit sağ, Lisa Ann Bart Smithson, Mehraneh Atashi, Teresa Maria Diaz Nerio, Laura Wiedijk & Marianna Maruyama @ Da Costastraat 37-I, Amsterdam.
The works are interrelated in the space and there are a few videos and a sound installation, so only the photographs are not enough to experience it.
The postponed performance with belit sağ is still on its way...
Till then the exhibition is also open on appointment only: 06-24854123

24/11/2016

27/10/2016

A selection of pictures of the Part 2: Guests, Ghosts & Gardening.

The sound and video bites are still being processed - to be posted later.

The postponed performance with belit sağ is still on its way - stay tuned!

06/07/2016