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From: Renee Ridgway Newsletter <rr at reneeridgway.net>
Date: Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:38 AM
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Holland Mania

Opening May 16, 2009

for more information please see my website: http://reneeridgway.net

De Lakenhal in Leiden, the Netherlands and Scheltema announce the
exhibition Holland Mania from May 16th to August 31, 2009. Eight
artists are invited to reflect on the American and Japanese pictorial
image of the Netherlands. The most recent installment of my 'Manhattan
Project' looks not only at 400 years of Dutch colonial settlement in
the United States, but the city of Leiden- 400 years after the
Pilgrims settled and eventually departed to the new world. What types
of images are conjured up through literature, historical texts,
remnants of the past and oral traditions?

Using the museum context as a background with its collection of
historical exhibits, prints, paintings and objects, this series of
works gathers a range of perspectives in regard to constructions of
identity, in the form of ‘Dutchness’ as well as contemporary Wampanoag
peoples. Imagery consists of a 'Pennsylvania Dutch' quilt designed by
the Amish yet composed from the Dutch and American flags. 'Dial
Dutchness' is an installation throughout the museum incorporating
Leiden telephone book pages and 8 multi-coloured PTT T-65 telephones
with audio tracks from locals as well as Americans with Dutch last
names. These vox populi voices are contrasted in 'Pillars of
Orange'-expert opinions presented as literary silk-screened excerpts
from literature, music and academic texts as if for an imaginary book
on 'Dutchness', contrasted by real books from the secret Pilgrim
Press. In the chapel of the museum the installation 'Wampanoag' uses
the existent paintings and objects as a staging fo
r two drawings and a single channel video projection where Wampanoag
do not re-enact but rather answer specific questions regarding 17th
century conventions, oral histories and the contemporary usage of
wampum.

The museum has also kindly offered me a studio during the exhibition
as an impromptu call centre in which to continue my 'Dial Dutchness'
installation as well as work on my forthcoming online platform
'Beaver, Wampum, Hoes'. Please let me know if you plan on coming to
visit or if I should call you instead.

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