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Title
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The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part Of Something Else
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Description
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The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part Of Something Else is a group exhibition with works by over forty artists. Playing with variation and repetition, resemblance and difference, synchronicities and slippages, this exhibition marks the end of Moderation(s), a long-term program (August 2012 – August 2014) initiated by Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam and Spring Workshop in Hong Kong.
But if everything is potentially everything else, complained the translator, what am I doing here? From “Afterword: The Death Of The Translator” by George Szirtes
Works by artists from across the globe – including a strong contingent of Hong Kong-based artists, many of whom have never shown at Witte de With before– are gathered around key concepts such as time, duration and space (Douglas Gordon, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, On Kawara), memory and inscription (Ang Song Ming, John Cage, Sharon Hayes), transformation (Bik Van der Pol, Nicolás Lamas), pleasure (Ivan Argote, Chu Yun, Willem de Rooij, Haegue Yang), and encounters (Lee Kit, Narcisse Tordoir). The relations and transferences between the presented artworks are guided by notions such as tension, repetition, variation, and momentum, reminiscent of Contact Improvisation, a dance method developed by choreographer Steve Paxton.
How can one work of art moderate another one? Can an audience become a moderator of the works on view? How much translation is needed to bring out meaningful relations between works created by different artists? If everything is connected, what is the shared connective language? The Part In The Story deals with the transmissive qualities of objects, situations, and storytelling, where one can dissolve into the others.
Guilty Pleasures, Incidents of Travel, A Thing At A Time, A Fictional Residency, Stories and Situations, and The Social Contract, each project installment of Moderation(s) questioned or redefined the conditions which impact the creation and production of objects, situations, and stories. As such, the dynamic triangulation between these three axis is the central topic of The Part In The Story, which can be seen as an epilogue and a reprise of the manifold motifs at play in the Moderation(s) program.
An epilogue is the final chapter at the end of a story. It can occur a significant period of time after the main plot has ended, and may offer scenes only tangentially related to the subject of the story. An epilogue can continue in the same narrative style and perspective as the preceding story, although occasionally the form can be drastically different from the overall story.
Participants
A Constructed World, Nadim Abbas, Allora & Calzadilla, Song Ming Ang, Ivan Argote, Bik Van der Pol, Pierre Bismuth, John Cage, Leung Chi Wo, Yun Chu, Cevdet Erek, Tim Etchells, Ceal Floyer, Aurélien Froment, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Douglas Gordon, Minja Gu, Ho Rui An, Vlatka Horvat, João Vasco Paiva, On Kawara, Patrick Killoran, Lee Kit, Sheung Chi Kwan, Nicolás Lamas, Michael Lee, Lucas Lenglet, Gabriel Lester, Katarina Löfström, MAP Office, Anthony Marcellini, Ahmet Ögüt, Pages, Babak Afrassiabi, Patricia Reed, Willem de Rooij, Mor Shani, Ho Sin Tung, Praneet Soi, Koki Tanaka, Narcisse Tordoir, Freek Wambacq, Adrian Wong, Magdalen Wong, Sara Wong, Haegue Yang, Trevor Yeung, Johan Zetterquist, Chen Zhen
Curators
Samuel Saelemakers, Heman Chong
Network
Spring Workshop
Supported By
Support by AMMODO, Iaspis, Mondriaan Fund, Outset Netherlands, SAHA.
Supporting galleries: Bugada & Cargnel, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hanart TZ Gallery.
Media support by Randian.
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Identifier
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KIM-EXH-2799
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14_3
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Type
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Exhibition
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Date
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2014-05-22/2014-08-17
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Temporal Coverage
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2014
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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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A Constructed World
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Adrian Wong
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Ahmet Ögüt
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Allora & Calzadilla
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Anthony Marcellini
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Aurélien Froment
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Babak Afrassiabi
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Bik Van der Pol
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Ceal Floyer
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Cevdet Erek
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Chen Zhen
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Douglas Gordon
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres
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Freek Wambacq
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Gabriel Lester
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Haegue Yang
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Ho Rui An
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Ho Sin Tung
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Ivan Argote
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Johan Zetterquist
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John Cage
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João Vasco Paiva
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Katarina Löfström
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Koki Tanaka
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Lee Kit
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Leung Chi Wo
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Lucas Lenglet
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MAP Office
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Magdalen Wong
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Michael Lee
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Minja Gu
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Mor Shani
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Nadim Abbas
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Narcisse Tordoir
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Nicolás Lamas
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On Kawara
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Pages
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Patricia Reed
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Patrick Killoran
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Pierre Bismuth
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Praneet Soi
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Sara Wong
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Sheung Chi Kwan
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Song Ming Ang
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Tim Etchells
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Trevor Yeung
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Vlatka Horvat
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Willem de Rooij
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Yun Chu
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Contributor
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Heman Chong
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Samuel Saelemakers
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Relation
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Spring Workshop