FOUR EXHIBITIONS

Episode 1: arrangement experiment: Presence
Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten - d'Eendt, Amsterdam
Invited artists: Voebe de Gruyter, Sjaak Langenberg, Suchan Kinoshita, Henk Visch, Wineke van Muiswinkel
Parallel project: Symposium in co-operation with the University of Amsterdam about the present experience of time. For the panel will be invited a philosopher (Herman Parett, Catholic University of Louvain / Columbia University New York); a curator (Lex ter Braak, De Vleeshal in Middelburg) and an art historian (Camiel van Winkel)


Episode 2: The Direction of time
The Art Basel presentation
Artists of the gallery relevant to the above stated theme are selected. Central to the exhibition are sculptural works by Henk Visch. These works represent in their apparent transparency the ephemeral qualities of life in general and dramatize them purposefully. Peter Archer emphasizes in his paintings the archeological nature of theatrical landscapes which refer to Proust's "temps perdu", while A.C. Kiesewetter's archives find a hand-hold to temporal conjunctions. Conversely Noritoshi Hirakawa demonstrates explicitly Roland Barthes' thesis that the essence of photography is connected with a consciousness of finiteness. A consciousness which William Engelen expresses constructively in the stave metaphor: stressing the short duration of art works which fit the contemporary gaze of the spectator.

In the context of the gallery presentation and the project, uchan Kinoshita developed a meta-statement with regard to the infrastructure of the art fair as an institution. She worked out an installation exceeding the dimension of the 30m2 'white cube'. Since she intends to make a number of theatrical annotations at various unexpected places in the interstitial space of the art fair. Places such as corridors, of minor importance at first sight, but in reality vital to how art fairs function, because of their highly interactive and relocational quality; these are the spaces where Suchan Kinoshita specifically locates her activities. Works that always will bring us to our senses of time. (Cf. Kinoshita's work for This is the show (Gent 1994), Venice Biennial (1995), Manifesta (Rotterdam 1996).


Episode 3: Work in progress
Presentation of the project with Dutch artists (see Episode 1) in public spaces of the university complex and conference centre Ljubjlana (Slovene) in the context of the once in five years Conference of the International Association of Aesthetics. Dutch speakers (members of the Dutch of Society of Aesthetics) will refer to this presentation in their lecture.

Episode 4: Artist Space Kunstruimte, Berlin.
In addition to A.C. Kiesewetter's work, the final presentation rearranges the various dimensions and constitutive elements from the three previous projects. Henk Visch's rhizomatic universe without a center from the first exhibition is being shown again. Suchan Kinoshita developed a metaphoric model of the experience of flexibility and viscosity in space and time: a life-size hourglass filled with syrup as measure of time in a space. Finally, William Engelen developed one of his event-spaces: a temporal architecture which aligns itself according to the various temporal successions of the interactive media.