On Thursday 30 May at around 19:30 hrs, as part of If I Can’t Dance’s project Occupation Evacuation Transmission, artist Matthew Lutz-Kinoy will give a presentation of his work at the Dutch Art Institute in Arnhem. His presentation takes the form of a live directors commentary over the video BACKSANDEDBYLUTZKINOY in which issues of pantomime, biography and generative reacting are addressed.

The following day, Lutz-Kinoy meets with students of Occupation Evacuation Transmission for a workshop that starts from an exercise of reading and giving voice to a series of poems by the poet Essex Hemphill. The students are encouraged to consider presence, duration and verbalization with voice and sounds. Inherent to this performance of enacting a voice will be the participation in the visibility and realization of minoritarian positions.

Over the day together the focus will be on movement and the physicalization of response / reaction, and on occupying a space of influence where movements function as symbols and position us in a space that is riddled with the language of experience, judgment and recognition.

Matthew Lutz-Kinoy (1984) is a New York artist currently working out of Berlin. His studio method is interdisciplinary and recent projects take the form of dance, sculpture installation, printmaking, publications, video, and painting. He collaborates with many artists, most recently with Natsuko Uchino in functional and decorative ceramics and meal planning. In 2012 Lutz-Kinoy’s work has been shown at Elaine MGK, Basel, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Villa Romana, Florence, W139, Amsterdam, Kunsterhaus Stuttgart and Deweer gallery, Belgium. His digital artist book is being released by Version House on May 25th 2013 and available for iPad download at versionhouse.com.

Occupation Evacuation Transmission is a project conceived by Ian White in collaboration with Emma Hedditch and Jimmy Robert, and curated by If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution. Coordinated by Tanja Baudoin.