On Friday 27 January 2012, as part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, If I Can’t Dance presented the world premiere of Wendelien van Oldenborgh’s film Bete & Deise at WORM in Rotterdam. If I Can’t Dance invited Amira Gad to note down her impressions. Download her text below.
Amira Gad (FR/EG) is Associate Curator at Witte de With, where she has worked since mid-2009. She received her M.A. in Contemporary Art from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London (U.K.) and her B.A. from University College Utrecht (The Netherlands). Outside of Witte de With, she was assistant curator for a solo exhibition by Miki Kratsman titled All about us at the Ursula Blickle Foundation in Kraichtal (Germany). Gad is also a Contributing Editor for Ibraaz, an online publishing forum dedicated to contemporary visual culture in the Middle-East & North Africa.
Wendelien van Oldenborgh is one of five artists commissioned by If I Can’t Dance to make a new work as part of Edition IV – Affect (2010–2012).
A prologue to the new work, Supposing I love you. And you also love me, will be presented at the 54th Venice Biennale in the exhibition Speech Matters of the Danish Pavilion. This work is co-commissioned by If I Can’t Dance. As part of the research for the new commission, Wendelien van Oldenborgh curated Cinema – this, Television – that in collaboration with If I Can’t Dance, on 29 March 2011 at the Rietveld Academie.
Van Oldenborgh’s new work will be further developing themes she explored in the recent works Après La Reprise, la Prise (2009) and Pertinho de Alphaville (2010). Her research is guided by the current changes in feelings of collective strength, the loss and gain of a public voice, as well as the role of cultural production in relation to this.
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