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lecture

Spiritus - Speculations on Cosmic Modesty

Please join us for a talk and discussion on Saturday afternoon 3 September, 4–6 PM at Looiersgracht 60 in the context of Spiritus - Archiving the (un)Imaginable, a project-in-progress by Doina Kraal & Roger Cremers (who have been invited by Radical Reversibility and Looiersgracht 60 as the first artists-in-residence of the newly installed Public Research Residency). 

We have invited theologian and writer Taede A. Smedes and Philippe Ailleris (ESTEC), to discuss UFO's and UAP's, the possibilities of extraterrestrial lifeforms and what this means for the human imagination, cosmological awareness and attitudes of modesty. If nature perhaps is more imaginative than we are, should we not look for life and intelligence beyond our planet without prejudice? 

In 2022 Taede A. Smedes published 'We zijn misschien niet alleen. UFO's toen en nu' (Perhaps we're not alone. UFOs then and now). 
Philippe Ailleris is the founder of the Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (UAP) Reporting Scheme and The UFO Data Project

Saturday 3 September, 4–6 PM (Welcome from 3 PM onward if you want to see the work-in-progress in the exhibition space)
Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam
Free admission
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Taede A. Smedes
Dr. Taede A. Smedes is a philosopher of religion, theologian, journalist, writer, and musician.

Philippe Ailleris
Philippe Ailleris is a project controller at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) and the founder of the Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (UAP) Reporting Scheme and The UFODATA Project.

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.

Taco Hidde Bakker
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).

Frank van der Stok
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.

date/time

3 September 2022 4:00 pm

location

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

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showing

In This Program

Doina Kraal Roger Cremers Frank van der Stok Taco Hidde Bakker

8 August 2022 - 10 September 2022

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

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.

events

Other Radical Events

Doina Kraal Roger Cremers

26 November 2023 - 22 December 2023

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

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

Doina Kraal Roger Cremers Boele Weemhoff Sylvian Kloens

25 November 2023 7:30 pm

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

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 Roger Cremers Boele Weemhoff Sylvian Kloens

10 September 2022 8:00 pm

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

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)Frank van der Stok2022

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 + 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 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 part. Artist Murat Yildiz will draw live in the exhibition space.

Radiance of Sensible HeatSema Bekirovic2016

Radiance of Sensible Heat, Sema Bekirovic, 2016

Radical Reversibility

16 September 2021 - 3 October 2021

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

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

Seeing Without a Seerradicalreversibility2018

Seeing Without a Seer, radicalreversibility, 2018

30 September 2018 - 30 September 2018

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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

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

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

Visual case study by Sjoerd van Oevelen2018

Visual case study by Sjoerd van Oevelen, 2018

Radical Reversibility

21 September 2018 - 21 September 2018

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

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 Oevelen2018

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 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

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

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.