Author: Quartair

An online exhibition presented by iii in collaboration with Quartair.

In the hit single from 1981 Mick Jones of UK band The Clash infects us with an ear-worm: “If I go there will be trouble, if I stay it will be double”. Is the song really about an unhappy love story, or is the question pressed by the punk rocker hinting to something else?

This exhibition starts as an anthropological investigation and ends in a series of playful rituals engaging with our senses through song and food. Questions around identity and migration are viewed through the individual experiences of members of the international artist community in The Hague. Tensions experienced while living in transition between places and cultures serve as fuel for three new works.

With works by: Wen Chin Fu, Matteo Marangoni, Daniël Siegersma, Davide Tidoni

ONLINE exhibition from 29th May 2020 to 14th June, 2020
Opening on Friday, May 29th with Hoogtij #61 – the online edition

Visit the exhibition on: stay-go.nl. 

Special events:
29 May | 21:00 – 23:00 online Karaoke party with Matteo Marangoni + Davide Tidoni
10 June | 19:00 online cooking workshop with Wen Chin Fu

Davide Tidoni and Matteo Marangoni in Strangers in Karaoke address the challenge of becoming familiar with a foreign culture while confronting negative stereotypes. In Tune of the Hamlets Daniël Siegersma channels his attachment to the native language of his ancestors by joining in song the different dialects of Low Saxon. Wen Chin Fu in Nederlands Gastronomisch Inburgeringsexamen responds to her experience with the process of acquiring Dutch nationality by imagining an immigration test over food culture in The Netherlands.

Should I Stay Or Should I Go is a project commissioned by Tetem and developed by iii with the participation of: Erfan Abdi, Marije Baalman, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Wen Chin Fu, Ji Kang, Gábor Kerekes, Lars Kynde,  Sebastiaan van ‘t Holt, Hanna Ijäs, Matteo Marangoni, Marit Mihklepp, Farah Rahman, Flora Reznik, Jonathan Reus, Ludmila Rodrigues, Daniël Siegersma, Davide Tidoni, Gabey Tjon a Tham, Sissel Marie Tonn and Philip Vermeulen.

Tune of the Hamlets by Daniël Siegersma is realised with Giovanni Salice, Isidor ten Hooven, Lester Kamstra, Willy Weerman, Herman Loning, Angela Siegersma, Reitze Brouwer, Douwe Gnodde, Herman Telgenkamp, Janny Veltman and Trijnie Groeneveld.

This exhibition is presented by iii with financial support from The Municipality of The Hague, Stroom Den Haag and The Creative Industries Fund NL.

June 7-9 2019
Performances and installations by first year masters of the ArtScience Interfaculty, KABK/KonCon.

Participants: Felix Bodin, Gabriela Acha, Timoteo Carbone, Alexander Heil, Ian Ouros, Berk Özdemir, Mint Park, Lianne van Roekel, Daan Westerheide, Iva Berkovic.

May 17-18, 2019

QUARTAIR proudly presents the first edition of InTake – Interdisciplinary Art Forms – bringing together works that stimulate all the human senses (vision, hearing, smell, touch, and taste) with the goal of enhancing the impact of the experience for the audience.

InTake seeks to create a space of opportunity for artists to present art pieces/performances that question the role of the audience and that explore the possibilities of interdisciplinary collaboration, with hope that simultaneously stimulating various human senses (vision, hearing, etc.) will enhance the impact of the experience and will challenge the audience to take an active stance in the absorption of perceived information.

Through the span of two days InTake combines artistic performances and an exhibition, joining together visual arts, electronic music, classical music, video art, physical theatre, contemporary dance and poetry. Each live performance includes an after talk by the artists, followed questions and answers. By creating different focus points throughout the space, we invite the audience to explore it, thus offering a dynamic experience.

Interaction is a permanent aspect of our existence. It continuously shapes the way we perceive ourselves and the world we live in. However, when it comes to the audience and their interaction with art, there seems to be a kind of communication gap. When watching a concert or going to an exhibition, humans seem to have become passive creatures; they have alienated themselves from the process. We have grown comfortably accustomed to performances and/or exhibitions that do not request much from us, allowing us to be passive in the perception of information. This is especially true in my field of expertise, classical music.

www.intakesenses.nl