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exhibition

Of Gaia and Ouranos

Radical Reversibility and Looiersgracht 60 are pleased to invite you to Of Gaia and Ouranos, a new exhibition by Roger Cremers and Doina Kraal, curated by Frank van der Stok and Taco Hidde Bakker.

The exhibition works from a transhistorical approach to materiality, ideas, and media, questioning how the past, present, and future can illuminate each other. Borrowing historical techniques, investigative strategies, and exhibition formats, such as the peepshow box (or rarekiek), the diafanorama, and 17th-century tapestry weaving, the works consider the obsolescence of media and its effect on knowledge and storytelling. The work of Cremers and Kraal reanimates these lost objects and their ability to communicate the questions of material, imaginative and cosmic knowledge.

Of Gaia and Ouranos displays immersive installations and sculptures, in textile, wood, and glass, as well as a ‘living archive’ of inspirational imagery. The installations are a careful balance of found and repurposed materials along with uniquely crafted objects inspired by their research. On view in Looiersgracht 60’s ground floor gallery is the centerpiece Perpetual Light, a large installation made from a set of custom jacquard woven and embroidered tapestries: a portable universe for looking at ourselves amidst a mesmerizing world of plants, animals, and celestial phenomena, turning anthropocentric perspective on its head and inspiring cosmic modesty. Of Ouranos and Kronos is an installation adapted for the basement of Looiersgracht 60 and contains a collection of custom-cast uranium glass, exploring how visualisations of time and space can be brought together.

The works brought together for Of Gaia and Ouranos touch on transhistorical imagination, time travel, primordial imagery, speculative visions of extra-terrestrial life, and the sense and nonsense of cosmic knowledge. Exploring different ways of materializing and activating Gaia’s relation to Ouranos, the exhibition invites the spiritual, Ouranos, to meet the material, Gaia, in the hopes of merging into one.

In the summer of 2022 Cremers and Kraal were invited by Looiersgracht 60 and Radical Reversibility as the first participants of the Public Research Residency, an initiative from Looiersgracht 60 aiming to expand dialogues surrounding research-based practice through public programming and community conversation. Spiritus: Archiving the (Un)imaginable, was the title of Kraal and Cremers’ time in residence and the genesis for many of the installations that make up Of Gaia and Ouranos.

The exhibition is supported by the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten (AFK), Mondriaan Fund and Looiersgracht 60. The installation Perpetual Light is co-sponsored by TextielLab, Tilburg.

Looiersgracht 60
1016 VT Amsterdam
www.looiersgracht60.org
Opening hours: Wednesday–Sunday 12:00–20:00 (during scheduled exhibitions)
Admission free
Disabled access

Roger Cremers (1972) studied at the Academie Beeldende Kunsten in Maastricht and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Cremers works with historical images, such as archival imagery, magazines, and more recently the representation of images in science-fiction which emphasize a collective striving towards progress. This process leads his research into a distinct juxtaposition of historical reference and narratives, which interweave both past and present. Cremers’ work has been exhibited at AKINCI (Amsterdam), Batabgianni Gallery (Athens), Bonnefantenmuseum (Maastricht), Institut Neerlandais (Paris), and Tate Modern (London), among others.

Doina Kraal (1980) studied Fine Art at Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam (BA) and at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London (MA). From 2020 to 2022 Kraal was a PhD candidate at PhDArts, a practice-lead doctoral study program at ACPA (Academy of Creative and Performing Arts), Leiden University. Kraal works through installation and performance, and investigates how intimate and multisensory encounters imprint between object and viewer. In 2018 Onomatopee published Touche-à-Tout, a comprehensive collection of writings, images and documentation around Kraal’s research. Kraal’s work and publications have been presented at Foam (Amsterdam), MAMA, (Rotterdam), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Flora, Bogota, and Soledad Senlle Art Foundation, among others.

Doina Kraal
Doina Kraal works through installation and performance, and investigates how intimate and multisensory encounters imprint between object and viewer.

Roger Cremers
Roger Cremers works with historical images, such as archival imagery, magazines, and more recently the representation of images in social media, which emphasize a collective striving towards progress.

from

26 November 2023

untill

22 December 2023

location

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

[summary] Looiersgracht 60 and arts collective Radical Reversibility are pleased to invite you to Of Gaia and Ouranos, a new exhibition by Roger Cremers and Doina Kraal.

showing

In This Program

Doina Kraal Roger Cremers Boele Weemhoff Sylvian Kloens

25 November 2023 7:30 pm

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Of Gaia and Ouranos

exhibition

Roger Cremers & Doina Kraal, Of Gaia and Ouranos … Exhibition at Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam: 26.11—22.12.2023 … Public opening: 25.11.2023, 7:30–10 PM (performance at 8 PM) Performance Of Rheia and Kronos in collaboration with musicians Boele Weemhoff and Sylvian Kloens …

Doina Kraal, Guido Beekman,

Doina Kraal

[person_type] participant | [person_role] artist

Doina Kraal works through installation and performance, and investigates how intimate and multisensory encounters imprint between object and viewer.

Roger Cremers

[person_type] participant | [person_role] artist

Roger Cremers works with historical images, such as archival imagery, magazines, and more recently the representation of images in social media, which emphasize a collective striving towards progress.

Frank van der Stok, Natascha Libbert, 2008

Frank Van Der Stok

[person_type] member | [person_role] curator, editor, co-founder

Frank van der Stok (b. 1967) is a curator, editor, essayist and intermediary for artists and art institutions. He also works as an editor and producer of artists’ books.

Taco Hidde Bakker, Marina Caneve, 2018

Taco Hidde Bakker

[person_type] member | [person_role] curator, writer

Taco Hidde Bakker is a writer, teacher, translator, and curator in the field of the arts, specializing in photography. Bakker is the author of the text collection The Photograph That Took the Place of a Mountain (Fw:Books, 2018).

events

Other Radical Events

Doina Kraal Roger Cremers Boele Weemhoff Sylvian Kloens

25 November 2023 7:30 pm

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Of Gaia and Ouranos

exhibition

Doina Kraal Roger Cremers Boele Weemhoff Sylvian Kloens

10 September 2022 8:00 pm

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Spiritus - Archive Event V - Oumuamua

finissage

Archive Event V at Looiersgracht 60 concludes the first Public Research Residency with artists Doina Kraal and Roger Cremers, who will perform Oumuamua, a transhistorical sound play in collaboration with musicians Boele Weemhoff and Sylvian Kloens.

Spiritus (work in progress), LNDW Studio, 2022

Taede A. Smedes Philippe Ailleris Doina Kraal Roger Cremers Taco Hidde Bakker Frank van der Stok

3 September 2022 4:00 pm

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Spiritus - Speculations on Cosmic Modesty

lecture

A talk and public discussion about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, the imagination and speculations about extraterrestrial life and intelligence, with guests Philippe Ailleris and Taede A. Smedes and moderators Doina Kraal and Taco Hidde Bakker.

Spiritus (work in progress), Frank van der Stok, 2022

Doina Kraal Roger Cremers Frank van der Stok Taco Hidde Bakker

27 August 2022 4:00 pm

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Spiritus - Storytelling Event

work in progress

For the second event in the context of the Public Research Residency at Looiersgracht we invite guests for a storytelling event (a miniature time travel through objects and live stories).

Bram Roza Frank van der Stok Taco Hidde Bakker Doina Kraal Roger Cremers

20 August 2022 7:30 pm

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Spiritus - UFO Film Screening with Bram Roza

film screening

Film screening of The Phenomenon (James Fox, 2020) with an introduction by UFO-researcher Bram Roza about the film and his own documentary-in-progress, De UFO’s van Soesterberg.

Doina Kraal Roger Cremers Frank van der Stok Taco Hidde Bakker

8 August 2022 - 10 September 2022

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Spiritus - Public Research Residency with Doina Kraal & Roger Cremers

exhibition

Looiersgracht 60 and Radical Reversibility are welcoming Amsterdam-based artists Doina Kraal (1980) and Roger Cremers (1972) as the first participants of the Public Research Residency.

Julian Ross

3 October 2021 1:30 pm

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam.

All and Nothing (Film Program)

film screening

Sunday 3 October the exhibition will close with a film program curated by Julian Ross (Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS)).

Yoichi Kamimura

3 October 2021 4:30 pm

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Ecotherapy

performance

Ecotherapy is a sound performance by the artist Yoichi Kamimura, whose installation Phantom Power is part of From Seeing to Acting.

Ilse van Rijn

2 October 2021 4:00 pm

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Fire, or How to Get Rid of Those Embarrassing Graphic Markers

lecture

Performative lecture 'Fire, or how to get rid of those embarrassing graphic markers’ by Ilse van Rijn. On living/writing with a more-than-human world. Followed by a conversation with Ilse van Rijn and Martine Stig about their collaboration and respective works ‘Fire’ and 'The Reflection of the Man'.

Frank Bloem

1 October 2021 5:00 pm

Looiersgracht 60

‘On Representation and Polyphony of the North Sea’ & Artist Talk.

talk

Artist talk + Q&A by olfactory artist Frank Bloem and ‘On Representation and Polyphony of the North Sea’, a presentation by Harpo ‘t Hart, The Embassy of the North Sea.

Mustapha Azeroual

26 September 2021 2:00 pm

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Artist Talk: Mustapha Azeroual

lecture

Artist talk + Q&A by artist Mustapha Azeroual about his Echo and Radiance series, in which he explores the materiality and conditions of light through experimental photography and sculpture.

Hiryczuk / Van Oevelen

26 September 2021 3:00 pm

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Artist Talk: Hiryczuk/ Van Oevelen

lecture

Artist talk by Hiryczuk/ Van Oevelen about their current (visual) research about what seeing can mean for our relation with the environment.

Murat Yildiz

16 September 2021 - 24 September 2021

Looiersgracht 60 (Wed-Sun 12-6PM)

Non-Eye Centric Drawings - Performative

performance

Non-Eye Centric Drawings - performative part. Artist Murat Yildiz will draw live in the exhibition space.

Radiance of Sensible Heat, Sema Bekirovic, 2016

Radical Reversibility

16 September 2021 - 3 October 2021

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam (Wed-Sun 12-8PM)

From Seeing to Acting

exhibition

The exhibition From Seeing to Acting invites us to (re)consider the mutual relationships between seeing and acting.

Seeing Without a Seer, radicalreversibility, 2018

30 September 2018 - 30 September 2018

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Seeing without a Seer

finissage

The art cooperative Radical Reversibility and Looiersgracht 60 cordially invite you to the finissage of the exhibition Seeing without a Seer this Sunday 30 September at 14 h. For this occasion Radical Reversibility (RR) has invited two highly original authors, Peter Delpeut and Taco Hidde Bakker …

Radical Reversibility

29 September 2018 - 29 September 2018

Ocularcentrism

lecture

Lecture by Agnieszka Wolodzko about ocularcentrism during the workshop Seeing without a Seer for students of the Master Institute AKV St. Joost and honours programme of Artez Hogeschool.

Radical Reversibility

29 September 2018 - 29 September 2018

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Seeing without a Seer

masterclass

Masterclass Seeing without a Seer with honours programme Artez and Master Insitute St. Joost.

Visual case study by Sjoerd van Oevelen, 2018

Radical Reversibility

21 September 2018 - 21 September 2018

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Seeing without a Seer

symposium

In the context of an ongoing research programme the art cooperative Radical Reversibility organizes, in collaboration with Looiersgracht 60, the exhibition and symposium Seeing without a Seer.

Exhibition view with works by Hans Gremmen and Hiryczuk/ van Oevelen, 2018

Radical Reversibility

20 September 2018 - 30 September 2018

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Seeing without a Seer

exhibition

Seeing without a Seer explores alternative ways of looking, thinking and image-making that evade the central position of the viewer.

Elodie Hiryczuk

29 November 2017 - 29 November 2017

UniArts, Helsinki

Prognostics - On the Entanglement of Image and Gaze

lecture

The Prognostics lecture series at UniArts inquires into the future of art by taking a closer look at the new languages, models and forms that the latest generation of artists are creating in response to the urgent questions arising today in the domains of art, politics and sociology.

Radical Reversibility

24 September 2017 - 24 September 2017

The Living Room, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam

CO-OP Talk

talk

Talk with Martine Stig and Sjoerd van Oevelen, with an introduction by Lars Willumeit, curator of the Unseen CO-OP.

Radical Reversibility

21 September 2017 - 24 September 2017

UNSEEN Amsterdam, Westergasfabriek

Unseen CO-OP

exhibition

For Unseen CO-OP – the new addition to Unseen, the international platform for contemporary photography – curator Lars Willumeit has selected RR together with 12 international art collectives to present themselves.

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