Live reading at RijksakademieRADIO during RijksakademieOPEN, Amsterdam, 27.11.15, 15:00

During RijksakademieOPEN, there will be live radio broadcasting at the Rijksakademie.

RijksakademieRADIO offers a varied program with artist performances, interviews and reporting from various locations in the building. Listen here the  broadcasting live on 27 - 29 November from 15:00 - 17:00 hours.

Rijksakademie Radio is presented by Femke Dekker and Radna Rumping (coordinator), with editing and technical support by Arif Kornweitz.
 
More information: http://www.rijksakademie.nl/ENG/rijksakademieopen/rijksakademieradio/

First 20 minutes:

Small Publishers Fair, Paradiso, Amsterdam, 13 December, 2015

'2 blue cups on two different corners of the table' will be on show at Beurs van Bijzondere Uitgever, a fair for literature and artists’ books that takes place yearly at Paradiso in Amsterdam

Location:

Paradiso,
Weteringschans 6-8, Amsterdam

Hours:
13 December 2015
1 – 5 pmAdmission is €3,-

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Poetry Reading Night, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, Monday, 26.10.15, 20:00-22:00

image: Olivia Dunbar

Poetry Reading Night
26.10.15 (22:00-22:00)
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten

with

Geo Wyeth
Jay Tan
Johann Arens
Josefin Arnell 
Margaret Haines
Mercedes Azpilicueta
Naïmé Perrette
Nickel van Duijvenboden 
Ohad Ben Shimon
Olivia Dunbar
Sam Samiee
Thierry Oussou
& more

limited capacity 
RSVP please 

Follow link for more information.

Documentation:

Reading at Red Light Radio, Amsterdam, Friday, 23.10.15, 12:00-13:00

Reading new unpublished work with some tunes at Red Light Radio in Amsterdam on Friday, 23.10.15, 12:00-13:00 (Local time).

Follow link to tune in: http://redlightradio.net/

The White Arena (De Witte Arena), Nieuw & Meer Art Complex, Amsterdam, 31.5.15

After two successful years, the White Arena presents in 2015 a series of one-day exhibitions. The confined space and the round shape of the arena challenges the artists to try out and demonstrate new ways of working. The short duration and the special shape of the space make the White Arena suitable for various experiments such as work that is created on the spot, work with images, sound work, audience participation and so forth.The focus of the program in 2015 will be on performances and installations.

Voice-over Noord, Framer Framed, Crisis of History#3, Amsterdam North, March 23 - 29, 2015

Voice-over Noord will bring live performances and discussions into a public space and buses in Amsterdam Noord. This program wants to artistically remap and give a voice-over to Amsterdam-Noord. A similar project was done for the first time in Sanandaj, the capital city in the Kurdish part of Iran, initiated by Elham Puriyamehr in 2013. Puriyamehr with an artistic team, including author Özkan Gölpinar and performance artist and filmmaker Ehsan Fardjadniya, will translate this project from Iran to the Dutch situation, making unexpected connections between Amsterdam-Noord and Sanandaj. Topics and questions like: in the search of the voice of “the other”, or how to deal with otherness is given to the artists as a frame for their performances in public space and the bus. During the public bus tour the artists are invited to engage in a process of re-mapping Amsterdam Noord via the medium of voice-over narration of the city landscape.

Part One Performances in public space: Voice-over Noord
Dates: Mon March 23rd to Thu March 26th between 17:00 to 18:30 Location: Public spaces around Buiksloterweg, secret locations, public bus
Artists: Ehsan Fardjadniya, Ohad Ben Shimon, Annasami Karim, Darryl Danchelo Osenga, Ras Motivated, Heidi Lobato, Mercedes Zandwijk, Miguel Peres Dos Santos, Pendar Nabipou.

Part Two Bus Tour: Re-mapping A’dam-Noord with artists and poets
Dates: Friday 27th March at 18:00 hrs and 28th March at 16:00 hrs
Location: Gathering at THT Café-restaurant, departure from the ferry stop across from Tolhuistuin
Artists: Wouter Corduwener, Lino Hellings, Chris Keulemans, Ibrahim Selman, Olfa Ben Ali, Marta Pisco, Dr Ekim Tan, Ivan García-Romero, Jorinde Seijdel, Pendar Nabipour, Ohad Ben Shimon and Ehsan Fardjandiya.

Part Three Panel discussion and screening of the project documentationDate: Sunday 29th March Location: Framer Framed
How to re-map Amsterdam North? What does art in public space can do? What is the re-sponsibility and the role of art and culture during radical urban transformation and gentrifi-cation?
Artists: Elham Puriyamehr, Özkan Gölpinar and Ehsan Fardjadniya and the participating artists and authors.

All events are free of charge. For more information visit this website or call 06 309 596 53
Reserve your spot on the bus tour and during symposium by sending an email to reserveren@framerframed.nl

Geschichte in Geschichten, Helmhaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, Thursday, 26.2.15, 18:30-20:00

hiStory on Thursday

Time to Meet – Performances by Ohad Ben Shimon (IL/FR), Paulien Oltheten (NL) and Ryan Rivadeneyra (US), in collaboration with Goran Galić and Gian-Reto Gredig

(in English)

Thursday, February 26, 18.30 h

With their ongoing video series «Guided Tours», artists Goran Galić/Gian-Reto Gredig collect the oral histories that are being told on guided tours through cities all over Europe. Next Thursday, the duo invites three international artists to tell their very own oral histories in the context of the exhibition «hiStories – Geschichte in Geschichten» at Helmhaus Zürich: For his contribution, Ohad Ben Shimon (IL/FR) spends a number of days in Zurich and will present his «Zurich Memoir», a new chapter in his ongoing «Diary» series: The artist for example tells the story of his attempts to open a Swiss bank account. In «The Artist Speaks» we look over Dutch artist Paulien Oltheten’s shoulders while she is working with her image archive – telling her own stories connected to individual photographs. In «E-Mails Concerning Happenings Considering Photography» Ryan Rivadeneyra (US) concerns himself with the relationship between performance and photography – and with the issue of historicizing live moments.

All artists involved are associated with «Time to Meet», an international platform for artists dedicated to the investigation of the photographic practice.

www.timetomeet.org

www.ohadbenshimon.com

www.paulienoltheten.nl

www.ryanrivadeneyra.com

More information here and here.

Documentation:

Día de los Muertos, Rich Mix Arts Centre, London, Friday, 31.10.14, 20:00

Day of the Deaded

Rich Mix Arts Centre : Friday October 31^st : 8pm : Venue 2

tickets available from http://www.richmix.org.uk/whats-on/event/the-day-of-the-deaded/

Come & spend your Day of the Dead, October Friday 31^st, with the Enemies project at the Rich Mix Arts Centre, for a night of Día de los Muertos in London.

Featuring original performances and poetry from Mark Waldron, Tom Chivers, David Berridge, Ohad Ben Shimon, Mercedes Azpilicueta, Mary Paterson & more, this unique evening is part of Enemigos: the enemies project Mexico and a rare chance to gather your friends to remember the dead in the most imaginative of ways. http://weareenemies.com/dayofthedeaded.html

the Enemies project is about poetry in collaboration - across medium, across culture, across form, style, content - ​a multifarious, multidisciplinary but essentially cogent program of events, exhibitions, tours & publications that provide the grounding to comprehensively explore the notion of collaboration in a contemporary, active, innovative realm of poetry, across the globe.

the Enemies project has featured over 300 poets, artists, photographers and musicians since 2013, in over eighty events, in over twenty cities, in nearly a dozen countries and there is much much more to come. more information here: http://www.weareenemies.com/

FloppyPoppyWIidyMatter, Project launch at Zabriskie Point, Geneve, Switzerland, 3.10.14

On October 3rd, 2014 (16:00) Editions Clinamen will launch the project FloppyPoppyWidyMatter at Zabriskie Point in Geneve, Switzerland.

"The idea is to get a certain number of texts by artists, philosophers, researchers, and create a kind of data base with it. The purpose is then for people to be able to make choices within these texts and compile and create their own book as they like (which Clinamen will print and bind). So every book will be unique and will have its own characteristics by its specific content."

Contributions by: Jérôme Baccaglio, Ulises Carrion, Mikhaïl Bakhtine, Antoine Bertin, Ceel Mogami de Haas, Ani Eloyaan, Claire de Ribaupierre, Ohad Ben Shimon and many others.

More info on the project and contributors here.
Info on launch event at Zabriskie Point here.

Grain, Wood, Flax, Turf, Time To Meet, Voorkamer Kunstenaars Initiatief, Lier, Belgium, 27.9-19.10, 2014

GRAIN, WOOD, FLAX, TURF Time to Meet in Voorkamer Opening: Saturday 27 Sept. - 8pm Paulien Barbas (NL) Ohad Ben Shimon (IS/FR/NL) Chris Clarke (IE/CA) Oscar Hugal (BE) G. Leddington (UK/BE) Katja Mater (NL) Taiyo Onorato/Nico Krebs (CH) Ryan Rivadeneyra (ES/US) Anu Vahtra (EE) Ruth van Beek (NL) Ben Van den Berghe (BE) Moritz Wegwerth (DE) Matthias Wollgast (DE) brought together by Glenn Geerinck (BE) Time to Meet is an international platform for artists dedicated to the investigation of the photographic practice. On an irregular basis, with different initiators and in various locations throughout Europe, Time to Meet brings together artists to jointly set up artistic, critical and/or curatorial projects. This collaborative and nomadic approach encourages and injects new ideas about photography into a wider artistic praxis of both the participating artists and the public. For Time to Meet, photography functions not merely as an objective but as a tool to activate the inherent stillness of the medium. The free and open exchange of positions is imperative, demonstrating a continuing adaptability to a progressive and ever-shifting medium. At the invitation of the artists initiative Voorkamer, Time to Meet lands in the provincial town of Lier and brings together 13 artists from different artistic and geographical backgrounds for the exhibition‚ Grain, Wood, Flax, Turf’. Since all of the contributors in this edition have participated in one or more previous projects with Time to Meet, this exhibition is also a reunion of artists whom been following each other for several years. More info here & here.

What begins and ends within our own edges (excerpts), Mercedes Azpilicueta & Ohad Ben Shimon, Printroom, Rotterdam, 2014

Het is begonnen (It Has Begun), Printroom, Rotterdam, 14.3.14

Het is begonnen (It Has Begun) by Sander Uitdehaag, published by the Lectorate Art Theory & Practice of the Royal Academy The Hague

-Introduction by Janneke Wesseling, head of the Lectorate Art Theory & Practice and art critic.

-Contributions by Paul Bogaers, Mercedes Azpilicueta and Ohad Ben Shimon.

Passing through the corridors of their private idiom, artists and writers Mercedes Azpilicueta and Ohad Ben Shimon will perform 'what begins and ends within our own edges', a work swirling around the glycerin currents of their shared snow-globe. 

more info: www.printroom.org

Video documentation excerpt from Book Launch of '2 blue cups on two different corners of the table' - Ohad Ben Shimon & David Berridge (Verysmallkitchen), Printroom, Rotterdam, 13.12.13

Book Launch, 2 blue cups on two different corners of the table, Printroom, Rotterdam, Friday, December 13, 20:00

'2 blue cups on two different corners of the table' (Published by Verysmallkitchen) will be launched at Printroom, Rotterdam on Friday, December 13, 20:00.

More information here.

Ohad Ben Shimon’s 2 Blue Cups on Two Different Corners of the Table is a collection of diary-like writings that explores the meeting place of autobiography and fiction, introspection and performance, experience and commentary, through unfolding processes of attention and its notation in words. Recalling classic texts like Joe Brainard’s I Remember, it finds its own forms and attitudes for the things, people and places of which, implicated, it tells.

2 blue cups on two different corners of the table - book release, September, 2013

'2 blue cups on two different corners of the table' will be released in September 2013. If you would like a copy please contact by email and send me your address. At the same time books will be available through my editor and publisher Very Small Kitchen in the U.K. Independent bookstores will join slightly later.

Book excerpt and interview with editor David Berridge here.

P.E. in collaboration with Mercedes Azpilicueta, TodaysArt, UHM, The Hague, 27 September, 2013, 19:00 - 24:00

"Everything I learned in life I learned in P.E."

The new collaborative reading-performance titled P.E. by Mercedes Azpilicueta & Ohad Ben Shimon will explore the physical aspects of the acts of writing and reading. 

Artists
Mercedes Azpilicueta en Ohad Ben Shimon | Dóra Benyó | Tjeerd Oudehand | Pia Louwerens | Amir Tirandaz | Lisanne Ackermann | Saskia Burggraaf | Sandra Walusimbi Nanteza | Iris Donker | Veniamin Kazachenko | Josje Hattink

More info: 

http://todaysart.nl/2013/
http://uhm-initiatives.com/

Documentation:

Making Use - Dutch Art Institute at the Van Abbemuseum, 22 June - 15 September, 2013

We cordially invite you to the opening of Making Use on Saturday 22 June. For the past three years the Van Abbemuseum has been teaching at the Dutch Art Institute (DAI / MFA ArtEZ) in Arnhem. Together with the students, the museum tackles a range of contemporary themes such as autonomy and the place of art in society. For the first time the course ends with an exhibition in the museum.

For the presentation the museum reversed the roles and asked the students to 'use' the museum, drawing on elements of the institution to inform their practice, from the collection, the spaces, people or limitations of the museum. The group tackled this challenge in different and surprising ways. The show will include works by Mercedes Azpilicueta and Ohad Ben Shimon, Anna Dasovic, Yoeri Guepin, Fotini Gouseti, Rei Kakiuchi, Eden Mitsenmacher, Pendar Nabipour, Fraser Stewart, Katja van Driel and Susan van Hengstum.

More info here

MetropolisM review here

Book Excerpt and Interview with Editor David Berridge

Excerpt from upcoming book 2 blue cups on two different corners of the table (to be published by Verysmallkitchen in June, 2013) + an interview with editor David Berridge:

http://verysmallkitchen.com/2013/05/05/vsk-project-ohad-ben-shimon-2-blue-cups-on-two-different-corners-of-the-table/

#CareerChange at Kunstvlaai festival - INexactly THIS, Amsterdam, 23 November - 2 December, 2012

#CareerChange by Ohad Ben Shimon and Mercedes Azpilicueta offers a critical and empathetic framework to think anew the cultural values, personal trajectories and professional practicalities involved in being an artist today.

The collaborative participatory format #CareerChange will take part in the Kunstvlaai festival INexactly THIS in Amsterdam, 23 November - 2 December, 2012. 

See link for more information.

http://www.kunstvlaai.nl/2012/

Documentation:

The Secret Diaries of Anne 'Lets Be' Frank, Diary Performance, dOCUMENTA (13), Winning Hearts And Minds, Critical Art Ensemble Public Program, Kassel, Germany, 28 June, 2012

Ohad Ben Shimon will give a Diary Performance at dOCUMENTA (13) on 28 of June (12:00-13:00) titled The Secret Diaries of Anne 'Lets Be' Frank, as part of the public program organized by Critical Art Ensemble in The Railway Lecture Hall, Hauptbahnhof (Location 1 : See map), North Wing, Kassel, Germany.

Documentation:

More information:

http://d13.documenta.de/
http://d13.documenta.de/#programs/events-and-education/programs-details
http://www.critical-art.net/
http://metropolism.com/fresh-signals/the-secret-diaries-of-anne-lets/
http://nordhessen-rundschau.de/spezial-documenta-13/winning-hearts-and-minds/

A Drunken Lesson, Symposium, dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany, 29-30 June, 2012

Ohad Ben Shimon will take part in In vino veritates, A drunken lesson at dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany, 29-30 June, 2012.

In vino veritates, A drunken lesson is just another seminar on Truth, but it looks for it through the devices of alcohol and circumstance. The participants drink to each new concept shared and discussed together, progressively becoming more drunk as the search goes on. But rather than looking for a universal model, they engage in parallel thoughts and multiplied visions: in vino veritates.
While no one will be able to grasp the big picture, each individual will bear witness to a piece of the whole, retransmitting and expanding it in unpredictable ways, beyond the confines of the lesson and the logic of learning itself.With Lars Bang Larsen, Diedrich Diederichsen, Boris Groys, Chus Martínez, Cesare Pietroiusti, Jakob Schillinger and Iacopo Seri.

More information here.

Documentation:

Artist In Residence at Very Small Kitchen, November 2011 - April 2012

Ohad Ben Shimon is currently Artist In Residence at Very Small Kitchen.

Very Small Kitchen is a project inhabiting, defining and exploring spaces of connection between writing and art practice; text, book and exhibition;curating and authorship.

Curated by David Berridge.

The residency will be published as an online series of posts. 

Follow Posts: Post 1, Post 2, Post 3, Post 4, Post 5, Post 6, Final Post

Review of You Are Courteously Invited in Metropolis M, 12 April, 2012

Read review (in Dutch) : http://metropolism.com/reviews/you-are-courteously-invited/

Review by Julia Geerlings.

Photo by Julia Geerlings.

English Translation:

"The charming artists Ohad Ben Shimon and Veniamin Kazachenko invite you to their temporary set in 1646 for a collective theater performance. Open until Saturday, April 14 to visit in The Hague.

The title of the exhibition You Are Courteously Invited here should be taken literally. Ben Shimon and Kazachenko expect an active contribution of the visitors to the exhibition in which they want to investigate how the public and art institutions relate to each other. The joint project is the third in a series of Ohad Ben Shimon & Veniamin Kazachenko.

The space of 1646 is classified as a stage on which props as microphones, an easel and a keyboard are to be used in a spontaneous performance. The interaction with the visitors are filmed and put on the website and on Facebook, where great movies are to be seen in which they talk with visitors, and the famous music band Will & The People which they found in front of 1646 and picked them off the street to perform inside.

In this way the exhibition comments on the traditional role of the artist, artwork, art institutions and the art market. The title of the exhibition, for example, plays with the standard opening of an invitation to a gallery opening, the artists also have placed red dots below the drawings, which pretend to be already 'sold'. An exhibition like this is looking for the boundaries between reality and performance, and life and art."

You Are Courteously Invited, Ohad Ben Shimon & Veniamin Kazachenko, 1646, The Hague, 30 March - 14 April, 2012

VIEW FULL VIDEO DOCUMENTATION OF THE WHOLE PROCESS

You Are Courteously Invited is the 3rd chapter of a series of recent collaborative works by Ohad Ben Shimon & Veniamin Kazachenko and it follows two previous events conducted during February and March 2012 in Paris and Amsterdam.

In these series, the artists employ a Dialogue-Painting-Text-Lecture-Performance format to reflect upon and investigate the value and mechanisms of spectatorship/ performance/ representation/ production. For that, 1646 will be turned into a pre-production set/stage for the making of a new collective theater performance by the title You Are Courteously Invited.

You are courteously invited to take part in the planning, rehearsal and live presentation of this new theater piece during the opening at 1646 on March 30th at 19.00 and the successive live events ending April 14th. 

A Correspondance with Ariel Goldberg Edited Into An Interview, Emergency Index Release Party, The Kitchen, NY, 20 March, 2012

At the release party of Emergency Index 2011 at The Kitchen, New York, Ariel Goldberg performed a correspondence edited into an interview with Ohad Ben Shimon, whose performance The Mirror Stage is documented in the anthology. Alex DeCarli played the part of Ohad. As of now, there are no pictures of this event.

More of Ohad Ben Shimon and Ariel Goldberg' Correspondance (edited by David Berridge) is online at VerySmallKitchen.