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Title
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Surplus Authors
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Description
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Outside of personal romance, collaboration is perhaps the most elemental form of politics—just consider how the term plays a hand in ideas as basic as “two heads are better than one” as well as in issues as large as international alliances. To crack open this power relation Surplus Authors looks at a group of artists whose work traces and delineates several fault lines inherent in the act of collaboration from (art) historical and social indebtedness, to trust, generosity, incentives, antagonism and even cooption. Without laying claim to any illustrative narratives, Surplus Authors presents itself at a time of a growing call for institutions to work together as a promised means to alleviate the reasons for austerity.
As a possible retort, Surplus Authors begs another question: is collaboration an end in and of itself, or is it a tenuous and unfolding process in which psychological, intellectual, and political dynamics are contested and reconstituted?
Participating artists: Michael Blum & Damir Nikšić, AA Bronson & Ryan Brewer, Club Moral, Maya Deren, Song Dong & Yin Xiuzhen, Haris Epaminonda & Daniel Gustav Cramer, Chris Evans, Luis Jacob & Chris Curreri, Dora Garcia, Alicja Kwade, MadeIn Company, Karen Mirza & Brad Butler, Annaïk Lou Pitteloud & Steve Van den Bosch, Ana Roldán & Falke Pisano, Wu Shanzhuan & Inga S. Thorsdottir, Hito Steyerl, Jalal Toufic, Oscar Tuazon and Tzu Nyen Ho.
Surplus Authors is curated by Defne Ayas together with Philippe Pirotte.
The opening will be jointly hosted with TENT, who is opening the show Between The Map and The Territory on the same day, from 8 pm to 11 pm. From 11pm onwards, after party in WORM, opposite Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art and TENT.
Participants
AA Bronson, Hector Aristizábal, Michael Blum, Ryan Brewer, Brad Butler, Club Moral, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Maya Deren, Chris Evans, Haris Epaminonda, Tzu Nyen Ho, Luis Jacob, Alicja Kwade, Karen Mirza, Damir Nikšić, Pablo Pijnappel, Falke Pisano, Annaïk Lou Pitteloud, Ana Roldan, Wu Shanzhuan, Song Dong, Hito Steyerl, Inga Svala Thorsdottir, Jalal Toufic, Oscar Tuazon, Steve Van den Bosch, Yin Xiuzhen, Xu Zhen
Curators
Defne Ayas, Amira Gad, Philippe Pirotte
Supported By
Kunstenisrael
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Identifier
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KIM-EXH-2948
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12_6
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Type
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Exhibition
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Date
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2012-09-05/2013-01-06
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Temporal Coverage
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2012
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Publisher
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Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art
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Spatial Coverage
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Rotterdam
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Language
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en
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Is Part Of
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Exhibition history
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Rights Holder
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Kunstinstituut Melly
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Creator
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AA Bronson
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Alicja Kwade
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Ana Roldan
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Annaïk Lou Pitteloud
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Brad Butler
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Chris Evans
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Club Moral
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Damir Nikšić
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Daniel Gustav Cramer
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Falke Pisano
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Haris Epaminonda
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Hector Aristizábal
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Hito Steyerl
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Inga Svala Thorsdottir
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Jalal Toufic
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Karen Mirza
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Luis Jacob
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Maya Deren
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Michael Blum
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Oscar Tuazon
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Pablo Pijnappel
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Ryan Brewer
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Song Dong
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Steve Van den Bosch
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Tzu Nyen Ho
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Wu Shanzhuan
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Xu Zhen
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Yin Xiuzhen
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Contributor
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Amira Gad
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Defne Ayas
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Philippe Pirotte
Surplus Authors — image 006 MadeIn Company, Physique of Consciousness, 2011. Courtesy of the artists and Long March Space, Beijing
Surplus Authors — image 005 Club Moral, L'Age d'Or / I Wanna Be Injured, 1986-present. Courtesy of the artists
Surplus Authors — image 004 Falke Pisano and Ana Roldan, Dynamo (detail), 2008 - 2012
Surplus Authors — image 003 Chris Evans, Company, 2009. Courtesy of the artist, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam and Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin
Surplus Authors — image 002 Alicja Kwade, Being Nicola Tesla (Alicja Kwade), 2011. Courtesy of the artist and private collection
Surplus Authors — image 001 Wu Shanzhuan & Inga S. Thorsdottir, Echo, Narcissus, Sisyphus, 2011. Courtesy of the artists and Long March Space, Beijing