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Holland Mania- Renee Ridgway Nwesletter

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On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Inder Salim <indersalim at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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
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> 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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