1. Report

      Report on 'Bete & Deise'

      Amira Gad
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    2. 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.

    3. Downloads:
      1. Visitor account on 'Bete & Deise' (PDF, 105 KB)
    1. 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.

      1. BOOK LAUNCH, PREMIERE AND LECTURE

        3 April 2016, 3pm

        Launch of Wendelien van Oldenborgh's monograph, with Netherlands premiere of From Left to Night and screening of Bete & Deise, and lecture by David Dibosa

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh, David Dibosa
        Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Teijin Auditorium
      2. PRESENTATION

        12 October 2015, 7pm

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh: The Work We Do

        Frédérique Bergholtz and Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        KNAW, Het Trippenhuis, Amsterdam
      3. SCREENING

        5 August – 30 September 2015

        Bete & Deise – Brazilian tour

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        Casa do Povo, São Paulo; Fundaj – Arte Contemporânea, Recife; Capacete, Rio de Janeiro; Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro; Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
      4. FILM

        10 December 2014

        Bete & Deise

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        The Cross Art Projects, Sydney
      5. FILM

        15 July 2014

        Bete & Deise

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        Irish Film Institute, Dublin
      6. symposium

        21 March 2014, 12:30 - 7pm

        Resonance and Transmission: from one voice to another

        Federica Bueti, Sharon Hayes, Alex Martinis Roe, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Francesco Ventrella, Camilla Wills
        De Brakke Grond, Nes 45, Amsterdam
      7. film

        29 September 2013 – 8 December 2013

        Bete & Deise

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        Calvert 22, London
      8. FILM PROGRAMME

        14 May 2013

        Instruction (2009), Supposing I Love You. And You also Love Me (2011), and Bete & Deise (2012)

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        mumok, Vienna
      9. FILM

        26 January – 14 April 2013

        Bete & Deise

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        De Vleeshal, Middelburg
      10. Film

        29 November 2012 – 24 February 2013

        Bete & Deise

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        Museum of Contemporary Art Metalkova, Ljubljana
      11. FILM

        8, 9 and 11 November 2012

        Bete & Deise

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        Playground Festival; Film in M Forum, Leuven
      12. FILM

        26 October 2012, 9pm

        Bete & Deise

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        South London Gallery, London
      13. Film

        22 August 2012

        Bete & Deise

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        Tranzitdisplay, Prague
      14. FILM

        16 August 2012

        Bete & Deise

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin
      15. film

        26 May 2012

        Bete & Deise

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        SCREEN Festival, Barcelona
      16. film

        27 January 2012

        Bete & Deise (world premiere)

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        WORM, International Film Festival Rotterdam
      17. reading group

        24 October 2011

        Reading Group in Toronto Affect #2

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh & Brian Massumi
        Art Metropole, Toronto
      18. presentation

        10 June 2011

        If I Can’t Dance presents artists Edition IV

        Sung Hwan Kim, Hito Steyerl, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Jeremiah Day, Emily Wardill
        Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdańsk
      19. commission

        3 June – 27 November 2011

        Supposing I love you. And you also love me

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh
        Presented at 'Speech Matters' - Danish Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, Italy
      20. symposium

        29 March 2011

        Cinema - this, Television - that

        Wendelien van Oldenborgh in collaboration with If I Can't Dance
        Studium Generale programme, Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
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