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Tarih: 10 Eylül - 24 Ekim 2004
Yer: Witte de With Art - Rotterdam, Hollanda

Is the heart of Rotterdam’s art world beating in the right place and to the right rhythm? Tracer is an exhibition project by TENT. in celebration of its fifth anniversary that is being organized in association with Witte de With. The title of the exhibition, Tracer, is the isotope used in physics and chemistry used to precisely follow metabolic processes. Here it is six curators who act as “tracers”, briefly shedding light on the contemporary art scene in Rotterdam and revealing the actual state of affairs.

The curators
Six curators from various countries have been invited to study the prevailing cultural climate in Rotterdam and to share their thoughts and reactions to it. The central concerns are artistic production, the municipal arts policy, and also the local and (inter)national position of TENT. and Witte de With.

Andreas Broeckmann (Germany), Ritsaert ten Cate (the Netherlands), Annie Fletcher (Ireland), Thomas Michelon (France), Pelin Tan (Turkey), and <waanja> (Czech Republic) present their personal responses in various subsections of the exhibition, in a series of debates, and in music, film, and video programs, to be held throughout the building and beyond.

The projects
While carrying out research in Rotterdam’s port area, Andreas Broeckmann discovered an oil stockpile large enough to supply oil for 90 days in the case of an international crisis. Broeckmann used this fact as the starting point for his project Neuralgic, 90 Days to Shake the World.

Ritsaert ten Cate has taken his love-hate relationship with Rotterdam as his point of departure. He brings together works by Rotterdam-based artists in the presentation Stad zonder hart (“City without a Heart”), addressing the present-day politics of the city council, its artistic policy, and reactions to it from the art world.

The curator Annie Fletcher and artist Sarah Pierce (Ireland) are working as a duo in The Paraeducation Department. Bearing in mind the issue of the role of education in art, they are studying the “need” to establish a critical and activist space within TENT. and Witte de With.

Proceeding from the fact that Rotterdam is a city where there is a continuous process of cultural and social change, Thomas Michelon has invited the artists Bojan Šarèeviæ, Matti Braun, and Melvin Moti to reflect on this theme in Cultural Transfers: Histories and Sharings.

In Luggage From Another Climate, Pelin Tan brings together a group of artists to jointly create a new work.

Lastly, <waanja> is preparing a presentation of legal and illegal public art in Rotterdam – and the level of engagement of them both. He will show artists’ projects which focus on offering (small-scale) solutions for local problems in the city’s various districts.

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