The Impakt Festival 2001 will be organized from October 2-7 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Please find below a short introduction to the programme. The complete programme will be online (www.impakt.nl) next week. Please let us know if you would like to receive the complete programme earlier. It can be send to you immediately as a MS word 6.0 document (184 K).
It will be our pleasure to welcome you at Impakt 2001.
The 12th Impakt Festival will be special in many respects. For Impakt 2001, we have entered into a unique collaboration with the Centraal Museum. With its multidisciplinary and temporary character, Impakt will explore the borders of what is possible within the museum walls.
An important part of Impakt 2001 is Group Show, a specially compiled exhibition in which work is brought together by artists who pay special attention to group behavior and group processes. Group identity is taking on an ever more important role: collapsing nations on one hand and the advancing process of globalization on the other makes people reconsider the culture they form a part of. We are exposed to smaller-scale manifestations of group processes every day in terms of fashion, styling, and social traffic, in which we all participate. In the Group Show exhibition collective identity is set against individual identity in the form of installations, performances, and workshops, and humans are exposed as herd animals.
The artists participating in Group Show are Annika Larsson (S), Jeroen Kooijmans (NL), Patricia Piccinini (AU), Maria Pask (NL), Arturas Raila (LT), Julika Rudelius (NL) and Klaar van der Lippe (NL). This year Impakt is paying special attention to the American artist Doug Aitken. Various Dutch museums have been trying for some time to organize an exhibition of his work. We are especially pleased that we can present a program compiled by Aitken himself, with film versions of his installations.
With the annual Panorama program, Impakt once again offers an overview of recent developments within innovative visual culture. Panorama consists of a current selection of installations, the most intriguing productions from film and video art, as well as cd-roms and websites.
In the Panorama exhibition Christoph Draeger (CH/USA), Magnus Wallin (S), Femke Schaap (NL), Jose Restrepo (CO) en Ryoji Ikeda (JP) will show new pieces.
The Panorama new media programme includes cd-roms and websites by: Stanza (UK), Miroslav Nicic & Borjana Ventzislavova (AU), Michael Brynntrup (D), squid s o u p (UK), Gustav Deutsch & Hanna Schimek (AU), Melinda Rackham (AUS), Mia Makela (S/FIN), and many others. In the new-media "couch.clubs" the artists themselves present their own websites and CD-Roms.
Finally we have selected 147 films and videos by artists like William Wegman (USA), Kristin Lucas (USA), Phyllis Baldino (USA), Salla Tykkä (FIN), Sam Easterson (USA), Dominic Gagnon (CAN), Donigan Cumming (CAN), Guillaume Graux (B), Nelson Henricks (CAN), Steve Reinke (CAN), Jay Rosenblatt (USA). The music program is filled with concerts and DJ sets given by leading artists from electronic music and dance culture. Influences from hip-hop, techno, surf music, and other genres come together in various performances that offer an overview of the latest trends in music. DJ Olive (USA), Christian Fennesz (AU), Mouse on Mars (D), Funkstörung (D), Luke Vibert (UK) and others will give concerts and DJ-sets.
With a single entry ticket, you can visit all of the programs in the museum every day, from 11am to 11:30 pm . Furthermore, until 5pm you can visit the Pipilotti Rist exhibition in the Centraal Museum's project spaces. Because people cannot live on good art alone, Impakt is also offering a delicious meal every day in the Centraal Museum's Refectory, and you can drink to your heart's content in the stylish bar. In our opinion, all the ingredients for an exciting week are at hand.
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Arjon Dunnewind,
Impakt Festival
P.O. Box 735
3500 AS Utrecht
The Netherlands
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Impakt Festival, Damstraat 19, 3531 BP Utrecht, The Netherlands