forum collection close-up @ ts2: tv as... 24 Mar 2011 Location: Auditorium, Stedelijk Museum Language: English Entrance fee: None, with valid museum ticket Reservations: Reservation is mandatory The exhibition TV as... – currently on display at Temporary Stedelijk 2 – focuses on the heterogeneous ways in which TV appears in the visual arts of the past decades, with numerous examples from the Stedelijk collection. Several recent international exhibitions have been dedicated to television as well – for example Are You Ready For TV? at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2010/2011). For the Stedelijk , theTV as… exhibition is part of a long tradition of the museum in collecting television(-related) art and presenting it in seminal exhibitions such as The Luminous Image (1984) and Arts for Television (1987). With this Collection Close-up @ TS2 event, the Stedelijk invites several noted artists, curators and critics to reflect on the extensive history of television in the arts and at the Stedelijk, as well as formulate a future perspective. For how can we explain this dedicated love for the mass medium that, since its rise in the 1950s and 1960s, so many art professionals disqualified as uninteresting and ‘low-brow’? Where lies its artistic future? Has television as an artistic medium become fully incorporated in new media, a category in which Internet and mobile technology currently take central stage? Program: 19.30 Introduction by Bart Rutten (Curator Visual Arts, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam) 19.40 Lecture by Dara Birnbaum (media artist, New York) 20.30 Break 20.45 Short lecture by Paul Groot (art historian, Amsterdam) 21.05 Interview with Madelon Hooykaas (media artist, Amsterdam) 21.25 Questions and discussion 21.50 End Biographies speakers: Dara Birnbaum's provocative video works are among the most influential and innovative contributions to the contemporary discourse on art and television. In her videotapes and multi-media installations, Birnbaum applies both low-end and high-end video technology to subvert, critique or deconstruct the power of mass media images and gestures to define mythologies of culture, history and memory. Through a dynamic televisual language of images, music and text, she exposes the media's embedded ideological meanings and posits video as a means of giving voice to the individual. A retrospective exhibition of Birnbaum’s work was recently held by S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium (2009) and traveled to Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal (2010.) In conjunction with the retrospective, a major monograph on Birnbaum’s work, The Dark Matter of Media Light, was published. Her work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2010); the Reina Sofia, Madrid (2010); MACBA, Barcelona, Spain (2010); Kunsthalle and MuMOK, Vienna (2010); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2009); Modern Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, (2009); The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan (2009); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2007). Birnbaum has participated in Documenta 7, 8, and 9. Most recently, she has been awarded a Creative Artist Residency at the Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation (2011) as well as a USA Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Fellow (2010). In addition, she is the recipient of numerous distinguished awards, including a Certificate in Recognition of Service and Contribution to the Arts, Harvard University, 1988; TV Picture Prize, International Festival of Video and Electronic Arts in Locarno, Switzerland (1991); and the American Film Institute's Maya Deren Award for Independent Film and Video Artists (1987) and several National Endowment for the Arts, amongst others. Paul Groot is filmer and lecturer at Mediamatic, the AHK and Artcross, Tokyo. As an art critic, he has contributed to NRC Handelsblad, Museumjournaal, ArtForum, Flash Art and other noted art magazines and journals. He was editor of Radio Rabotnik TV in 1986-1987, with Jos Alderse Baas (one of the key players in a nice ‘ biography’ at an art event in Paradiso in 1980, see Martijn Haas, "S.K.G," Uitgeverij Lebowski, Amsterdam), Menno Grootveld (founder Radio Rabotnik TV), Gerald van der Kaap (star photographer) and Bibikov. Between 1986-1987 they made the broadcasts of Radio Rabotnik TV, which resonated within and beyond the Amsterdam canal neighborhood and have been acquired by the Stedelijk Museum. Madelon Hooykaas is a pioneering multi­media artist who collaborated since 1972 with Elsa Stansfield and experimented with the very latest audio­visual technologies and innovations. Their films, sculptures and installations are about space and time: the cycle of the seasons, the tides, and natural elements such as radio waves and magnetic fields. In nearly all their work they explicitly refer to the earth and nature, and spirituality is part of their philosophy of life. Although Elsa Stansfield died unexpectedly in 2004, Madelon continues her work in their spirit. Stansfield/Hooykaas’ work is internationally renowned, has featured at venues such as the Biennale of Sydney, Documenta in Kassel and the Whitechapel Gallery in London, and is included in the collections of the MoMA in New York and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. A major recent exhibition is Revealing the Invisible, the Art of Stansfield/Hooykaas from Different Perspectives in the Netherlands and Scotland. De Buitenkant, Amsterdam, has published a standard book about their work with the same title in English. Madelon Hooykaas has recently produced and directed several films for Dutch Television. Bart Rutten is an art historian, specializing in film and video art. Since 2008 collection he is curator for the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and was part of the content team of The Temporary Stedelijk. Before that, Rutten worked at the Stedelijk Museum of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, from 2005-2008, where he curated several group shows and solo’s, and at the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk, formally known as Montevideo), from 1998-2005, as head of the presentation department. In addition to his position at the Stedelijk he is a member of several advisory boards, among which the One Minute Foundation. Rutten was also guest lecturer on the subject of the history of video art at several art schools and universities in the Netherlands and abroad and hosts a monthly television item on contemporary art for national television (for the AVRO).

• Trefwoorden
  Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam [Activiteiten/Lezingen/Muziekuitvoeringen], Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam [Tentoonstellingen], beeld- en/of geluidsdrager, televisie, monografie
• Persoonstrefwoord
  Paul Groot, Dara Birnbaum, Else Madelon Hooykaas