Special Events 10–25 Feb

Since 2017, Sonic Acts has collaborated with Stedelijk Museum on a long-term research trajectory dedicated to the lesser-known pioneers of sound art. The first stage of this collaboration revisited artist Maryanne Amacher (1938–2009). The second project was a tribute to the Canadian innovator Martin Bartlett (1939–93) in the commissioned film by Luke Fowler. In 2018, we celebrate the work of Swedish composer, philosopher, mathematician, and visual artist, with a far-reaching retrospective exhibition, Catherine Christer Hennix: Traversée du Fantasme (10.02–27.05). The exhibition includes a new live performance and a seminar with writer and professor Marcus Boon. Although Hennix is known as a sound artist, she has produced a body of visual art that intersects the boundaries of painting, sculpture, and anti-art – what Hennix calls Epistemic Art. Academy visitors can experience an experimental environment envisioned especially for this occasion by ArtScience students. Sensing the Place is the outcome of a research project – a collaboration between ArtScience Interfaculty and Sonic Acts – in which students examined different ways of mapping or understanding a space based on their senses. Two installations/environments in the Tolhuistuin – Tuinzaal and Waterstudio – also call for your attention: 3049 by patten and Hidden Layers by Shadow Channel students. Progress Bar evenings on Friday and Saturday are good opportunity to venture into their strange sci-fi worlds saturated with radical proposals for the new future.