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Subject: Project Arts Centre presents Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan<br>To: Project Arts Centre Gallery <<a href="mailto:gallery@project.ie">gallery@project.ie</a>><br><br><br>
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<h1 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 5.85pt"><span><span lang="EN-IE" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Project</span></span><span lang="EN-IE" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <span>Arts</span> <span>Centre</span>, </span><span lang="EN-IE" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dublin</span><span lang="EN-IE" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></h1>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><b><span lang="EN-IE" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan</span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-IE" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">12 December 2008</span><span lang="EN-IE" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> – </span><span lang="EN-IE" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">31 January 2009</span><span lang="EN-IE" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>
<span> </span><br><b>You are warmly invited to the opening and festive celebration on 11 December at </b></span><b><span lang="EN-IE" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">6pm</span></b><b><span lang="EN-IE" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>
</span></b><span lang="EN-IE" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #666666; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://www.projectartscentre.ie/" target="_blank">http://www.<span>projectartscentre</span>.ie</a> <br></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-IE" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #666666; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><img alt="" hspace="0" align="baseline" border="0"><br></span><i><span lang="EN-IE" style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: #666666; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, 'Revolt of the Giants', 35mm film still, 2008 </span></i><span lang="EN-IE" style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Project Arts Centre is proud to present the newly commissioned installation of two films by Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, in the </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">exhibition</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Monument</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> to Another Man's Fatherland.</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Triggered by the invitation to make a new work for </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dublin</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, the two collaborating Dutch artists followed a trail of migrating Celts to </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Berlin</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, where a victory monument commemorates a battle of this ancient people. The artists' 35mm black and white film slowly follows the surface of the monument's frieze bringing us into an intimate encounter with a global treasure. Depicting the gigantomachy, or struggle between gods and giants. The frieze is also the receptacle of another tale – that of imperialism, cultural looting and the re-appropriation of national treasures, cultural heritage and the spoils of war.</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Initially they planned to film the sculptural battle scene in the Pergamonmuseum, however the museum did not want to collaborate with an art project addressing the fact that the monument originates from somewhere else. This might 'stir the debate about repatriation', something the museum was 'not interested in'. </span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Numerous images of Pergamon's Gigantomachia frieze circulate in academic books and guides that have been published throughout the years. Appropriating these existing reproductions, which were printed in different epochs and different periods, with their diverse grids, qualities and illumination, the artists reconstructed the entire sculptural battlefield, and this is what we see on film.</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The second element in the <i>Monument to Another Man's Fatherland</i> exhibition, is another tonal interpretation of the sculptural relief<span> </span>, presented this time not in image but in language. The artists have collaborated with participants of an integration class in the Goethe-Institut in </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Istanbul</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">. Motivated by rising nationalism and in response to integration lagging behind, many European countries have recently introduced a proficiency integration exam. Only after passing this exam can applicants obtain their papers for migration. This prepares new migrants for the difficult task of learning the language and culture of their new fatherland, in their country of origin. While on residency with Platform Garanti, van Brummelen & de Haan asked these prospective Germans, who were preparing themselves for the integration exam and still knew only very basic German vocabulary, to read out loud a German art historical description of the sculpted myth that travelled ahead of them. In front of a 16mm camera, and whilst grappling with difficult pronunciation and terms that are not taught in the course (such as serpent's leg) the aspirant migrants describe each of the scenes of the sculptural battlefield in their fledgling German.</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">As with many of van Brummelen & de Haan's collaborative works there is a long and twisting tale behind these films. As the migrants in </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Istanbul</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">'s Goethe Institut argued about the relevance of them describing a 'Greek' sculpture, and the Pergamonmuseum denied their request to film the frieze, the artists' formal trajectory developed into an increasingly layered illustration of the complex historical subject matter. In an age of globalization, the relationships we have to language and to national artistic and academic heritage have becoming increasingly nuanced and conflicted, creating open spaces for artistic reading and interpretation. The artworks of van Brummelen and de Haan actively inhabit these disputed grounds.</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Curated by Tessa Giblin</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Saturday 31<sup>st</sup> January from </span></u></b><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">1pm</span></u></b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></u></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Screenings and Dialogue</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> with Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan<b></b></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Politics of Landscape</span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">lecture by Christophe Gallois - curator at Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean and writer for <i>Redrawing the Boundaries</i><b></b></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Redrawing the Boundaries</span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">book launch with Astrid Vorstermans, Valiz publisher, Mariska van den Berg, editor, and Louis Lüthi, the book's designer at </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">5pm </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(launched with <strong><i>Permaculture</i>, Project Press</strong>, edited by Sarah Pierce and Grant Watson, celebrating the exhibitions presented and commissioned by Project from 2001 to 2006)</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We are delighted to present a day of screenings and dialogue with the artists to close the exhibition at Project Arts Centre. Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan will be showing a selection of films on both 16mm and 35mm, accompanied with discussion and a lecture on their work by Christophe Gallois. This will also be a celebration of the launch of their artists' monograph<b> <i>Redrawing the Boundaries</i></b>, published by Valiz and edited by Mariska van den Berg, with texts by Christophe Gallois, Tessa Giblin and Andréa Picard.</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The new films of van Brummelen and de Haan have been supported in their production by the Dutch Film Fund, The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Goethe-Institut Istanbul, Platform Garanti, Kodak: Global Images in Motion and Project Arts Centre.</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Monument to Another Man's Fatherland</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> has been generously supported by the Mondriaan Foundation.</span></p>
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