TALKS, BOOKS, THINGS PUBLIC

The fact that he had a note-book full of such things, written by himself, leaked out through his own carelessness and injured him no little with the masters as well as among his fellows. On the one hand, Consul Kröger's son found their attitude both cheap and silly, and despised his schoolmates and his masters as well, and in his turn (with extraordinary penetration) saw through and disliked their personal weaknesses and bad breeding. But then, on the other hand, he himself felt his verse-making extravagant and out of place and to a certain extent agreed with those who considered it an unpleasing occupation. But that did not enable him to leave off.

Thomas Mann, Tonio Kroger


HERE DEPICTED THE SMALLNESS OF OUR PUBLIC PROGRAM ROOM ~ WHEN RSVP MAKES SENSE ~

2018 PUBLIC PROGRAM


~ Ludic Gardens, a book celebration ~



~ ANEDUCATION-DOCUMENTA 14~



~ Whispering-Catastrophe ~

PAST ENCOUNTERS :

2017 ALL HEAL (VALERIAN) SUNDAYS' PROGRAM :

Sunday February 19.02.17, 3-6 pm
Cultivating the unexpected, Views from an artist’s garden, talk by Jonny Bruce
Pink piss turned to amethysts, talk by Amelia Groom

Sunday 12.03.17, 12.30 at De Hortus
Herbal Healing: The garden as a pharmacopoiea

Sunday 19.03.17, 3-6 pm
The Garden of Refusal, with Alhena Katsof

Sunday 26.03.17, 3-6 pm
Moyra Davey’s Notes on Blue, screening


2015 _ RONGWRONG'S CAVE SESSIONS :

~ HOW TO CURATE AN ARTIST IN REAL ~


~ Screen Play: an evening with Takahiko Iimura ~


~ This Rabbit looks to the left: Chocolate Scrying by Milena Bonila and Luisa Ungar ~



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MASTER CLASSES with Rabih Mroué, Sung Hwan Kim and Hito Steyerl

A cooperation between RONGWRONG and the Stedelijk Museum. Three master classes with Rabih Mroué, Sung Hwan Kim and Hito Steyerl at RONGWRONG, Amsterdam. Each master class was accompanied by a stedelijk|forum-lecture at the Stedelijk Museum. Working artists living in the Netherlands are invited to participate in the master classes and enter in a discussion with the three artists in relation to their own practice.
The master classes focus on experimental performative strategies within contemporary art. Coming from different generations, geographical and cultural backgrounds, in their work, Mroué and Sung explore the complexities of performativity within their personal political contexts. While actively scrutinizing and incorporating new technologies in their artistic practice, they constantly challenge the borders and the vocabulary of performance art. How can the conflicts in the Middle East, feminist resistance and transnational local histories be inscribed in the body and in the personal narratives?

The series of master classes is kindly supported by Mondriaan Fund.

~ Hito Steyerl - 27 Novembre 2014 ~


~ Rabih Mroué - 7 September 2013 ~


~ Sung Hwan Kim - 7 October 2013 ~


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2012 - 2103 | SCHOOL OF LIFE - things we don't learn in school

A series of intimate discussions with artists, writers and special guests. We have wished to address the intrinsic relations between the quotidian, the inner self and more abstract realms as ethics, politics and aesthetics. Our recurrent questions have often concerned the constant friction between the inner self and the theoretical, professional and artistic practices that describe and inscribe us in daily life. In a concealed veil the everyday embraces an ever-changing map of one’s life – with its detours, mountains and rivers, memories and historical developments.
How does it feel like to navigate within those?
Throughout the years many attempts have been made to connect the pleasures and frustrations of the quotidian to the practice of intellectual and artistic thinking. We have come together at Rongwrong to explore topics as diverse as: facing the coming of old age, visually representing one’s own life, struggling between fiction and reality…
We discuss these matters together with you in a modest attempt to approach the quotidian within the political, the poetical and the performative aspects of life.

~ An evening with Esther Leslie ~


~ A talk with Övül Ö. Durmusoglu ~


~ Lisa Robertson & Lytle Shaw ~


~ Jennifer Teets & Paolo Thorsen-Nagel ~


~ Banu Cennetoglu & Philippine Hoegen ~


~ Louwrien Wijers ~


~ Cathy Haynes ~


~ Vincenzo Latronico ~


~ A.A.Bronson ~


~ Franco Bifo Berardi ~


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‘The School of Life: Things We Do Not Learn in School’ is made possible with the generous support of the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten and in collaboration with The Gerrit Rietveld Academie Studium Generale.




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For Fans and Scholars Alike was the title of a book composed in 1988 by Mexican, Amsterdam-based artist Ulises Carrion, during an artist-in-residency program at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY. We are then reminded of the amazing avantgarde days and talks at Other Books and so, the artist's bookshop and gallery operated by Ulisses Carrion on the Herengracht through the 1970s and 1980s.... those were the days, they say.