[Oberlist] Fwd: Project Arts Centre presents Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan

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Subject: Project Arts Centre presents Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan
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 Project Arts Centre, Dublin

*Monument to Another Man's Fatherland*

*Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan*

12 December 2008 – 31 January 2009

*You are warmly invited to the opening and festive celebration on 11
December at **6pm**
*http://www.projectartscentre.ie


*Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, 'Revolt of the Giants', 35mm film
still, 2008 *

Project Arts Centre is proud to present the newly commissioned installation
of two films by Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, in the exhibition *
Monument** to Another Man's Fatherland.*

* *

Triggered by the invitation to make a new work for Dublin, the two
collaborating Dutch artists followed a trail of migrating Celts to Berlin,
where a victory monument commemorates a battle of this ancient people. The
artists' 35mm black and white film slowly follows the surface of the
monument's frieze bringing us into an intimate encounter with a global
treasure. Depicting the gigantomachy, or struggle between gods and giants.
The frieze is also the receptacle of another tale – that of imperialism,
cultural looting and the re-appropriation of national treasures, cultural
heritage and the spoils of war.



Initially they planned to film the sculptural battle scene in the
Pergamonmuseum, however the museum did not want to collaborate with an art
project addressing the fact that the monument originates from somewhere
else. This might 'stir the debate about repatriation', something the museum
was 'not interested in'.



Numerous images of Pergamon's Gigantomachia frieze circulate in academic
books and guides that have been published throughout the years.
Appropriating these existing reproductions, which were printed in different
epochs and different periods, with their diverse grids, qualities and
illumination, the artists reconstructed the entire sculptural battlefield,
and this is what we see on film.



The second element in the *Monument to Another Man's Fatherland* exhibition,
is another tonal interpretation of the sculptural relief , presented this
time not in image but in language. The artists have collaborated with
participants of an integration class in the Goethe-Institut in Istanbul.
Motivated by rising nationalism and in response to integration lagging
behind, many European countries have recently introduced a proficiency
integration exam. Only after passing this exam can applicants obtain their
papers for migration. This prepares new migrants for the difficult task of
learning the language and culture of their new fatherland, in their country
of origin. While on residency with Platform Garanti, van Brummelen & de Haan
asked these prospective Germans, who were preparing themselves for the
integration exam and still knew only very basic German vocabulary, to read
out loud a German art historical description of the sculpted myth that
travelled ahead of them. In front of a 16mm camera, and whilst grappling
with difficult pronunciation and terms that are not taught in the course
(such as serpent's leg) the aspirant migrants describe each of the scenes of
the sculptural battlefield in their fledgling German.



As with many of van Brummelen & de Haan's collaborative works there is a
long and twisting tale behind these films. As the migrants in Istanbul's
Goethe Institut argued about the relevance of them describing a 'Greek'
sculpture, and the Pergamonmuseum denied their request to film the frieze,
the artists' formal trajectory developed into an increasingly layered
illustration of the complex historical subject matter. In an age of
globalization, the relationships we have to language and to national
artistic and academic heritage have becoming increasingly nuanced and
conflicted, creating open spaces for artistic reading and interpretation.
The artworks of van Brummelen and de Haan actively inhabit these disputed
grounds.



Curated by Tessa Giblin



*Saturday 31st January from **1pm***

*Screenings and Dialogue* with Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan**

*The Politics of Landscape** *lecture by Christophe Gallois - curator at
Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean and writer for *Redrawing the Boundaries*
**

*Redrawing the Boundaries**, *book launch with Astrid Vorstermans, Valiz
publisher, Mariska van den Berg, editor, and Louis Lüthi, the book's
designer at 5pm (launched with *Permaculture, Project Press*, edited by
Sarah Pierce and Grant Watson, celebrating the exhibitions presented and
commissioned by Project from 2001 to 2006)

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We are delighted to present a day of screenings and dialogue with the
artists to close the exhibition at Project Arts Centre. Lonnie van Brummelen
& Siebren de Haan will be showing a selection of films on both 16mm and
35mm, accompanied with discussion and a lecture on their work by Christophe
Gallois. This will also be a celebration of the launch of their artists'
monograph* Redrawing the Boundaries*, published by Valiz and edited by
Mariska van den Berg, with texts by Christophe Gallois, Tessa Giblin and
Andréa Picard.



The new films of van Brummelen and de Haan have been supported in their
production by the Dutch Film Fund, The Netherlands Foundation for Visual
Arts, Design and Architecture, Goethe-Institut Istanbul, Platform Garanti,
Kodak: Global Images in Motion and Project Arts Centre.



*Monument to Another Man's Fatherland* has been generously supported by the
Mondriaan Foundation.



*Project Arts Centre* | 39 East Essex Street  | Temple Bar | Dublin 2 |
Ireland

+353 881 9613  gallery la project.ie   www.projectartscentre.ie

Gallery open Monday – Saturday, 11am – 8pm

(Closed for Christmas 21 Dec, Reopening 5 Jan 2009)



Please contact publicist Aisling McGrane for further information:
aisling la project.ie
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