ZANDBANK presents: COMING UP: !!! SIGN Y2K (year 2000s) !!!
About this activity.
ZANDBANK presents:
COMING UP: !!! SIGN Y2K (year 2000s) !!!
Sunday the 13th of April
12:30-17:30
SIGN, Winschoterkade 10, 9711 EA Groningen
As part of Zandbanks’ new Research Fellows programme, writers Olivia Niuman, Joshua Miller, Aura Baltrušaitytė, Khashayar Najafi and Rebecca Mangan are researching texts from the SIGN archive of 2000-2009. In this conference, which will be held at SIGN, they will share the results of their research, through performance, talks, video/audio and installations.
Come by on April 13! A wide selection of artists from that period will be discussed.
What does their work mean in the present time, what connections and associations are there, seen from the eyes of these young writers with different backgrounds?
It is not a history lesson or retrospective but rather an activation of the archive and shows the current relevance of Sign's projects from Y2K in a broader perspective.
Zandbank are Dinnis van Dijken and Michiel Teeuw, is an arts criticism platform rooted in Groningen, NL. We believe in slow reflection, in sustainable criticism, and the power of extensive contemplations and considerations - and wish to move away from "actuality" and rushed writings. Currently, we are facilitating the production and spreading of art texts and entering several archives for republications https://www.zandbank.org/
Earlier on February 4, 2024, Zandbank organized the first activation of SIGN's archive 1988-1999 (the first 10 years) and the launch of their new website of Zandbank in SIGN.
See: https://sign2.nl/websign/events/zandbank-archives-sign-archive-1988-1999/
SIGN.
SIGN is een levendige en experimentele projectruimte voor actuele interdisciplinaire kunst op nationaal niveau. Zij biedt jonge kunstenaars een podium voor verdere profilering, ontwikkeling en intensivering van hun kunstenaarschap. Daarbij wordt nieuw werk geïnitieerd in bijzondere contexten en wordt de nodige reflectie gegeven. Presentaties zijn er in SIGN, op allerlei locaties, en in openbare ruimte met een variatie aan omstandigheden, invalshoeken, disciplines.
SIGN wordt ondersteund door Mondriaan Fonds Kunstpodium Basis 2025-2028 en door de Gemeente Groningen voor dezelfde periode.
Location.
SIGN
Winschoterkade 10
9711 EA Groningen
tel 050-3132651 of 0623631796
www.sign2.nl