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An ode to Rotterdam under lockdown. This movie is the result of a collaboration between Iratxe Jaio and her 11-year-old son Iñaki, who could not go to school for weeks because of the pandemic.
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We have received a project grant from the Mondriaan Fonds to continue our work on the reproduction of a Nazi memorial that lay forgotten and neglected by the side of a road in Basque Country.The grant allows us to travel to the Basque Country and map the territory on which we found the monument:...
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An installation with objects of porcelain, cast from molds that were recuperated from an abandoned factory near Donostia-San Sebastián. This project is the third case study in our artistic investigation of the factory as a paradigmatic site of the twentieth century. Just like in our previous...
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A series of charcoal drawings, based on the images from the "Libro de los Plagios" (The Book of Plagiarism). This book was published in 1991 by the Basque sculptor Oteiza, as an indictment of what he perceived to be a flagrant plagiarism of his work.
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Nire ama Roman hil da (My mother died in Rome) is an installation that consists of handmade facsimiles of the "exceptional" graffiti discovered in Iruña-Veleia, an archaeological site in Basque Country, and a video in which the inscriptions are deciphered by different experts in favour of, or...
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18 Aralık 2004 is a collection of newspapers, all bought on the 18th of December 2004 around Taksim Square in Istanbul. Headline news that day was that the European Union had finally agreed to start accession negotiations with Turkey. On the accompanying video, two members of the communist party...
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Work in Progress (2013) immerses itself in the manufacturing industry of Markina-Xemein, the rural Basque village where Jaio comes from. A video documents the mass-production of rubber car parts, following the pieces from the assembly line in a worker-owned factory to subcontracted workshops where...
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In "Últimas Palabras" (Last Words), an actor and a speech instructor rehearse a text based on the final statement made by Alfredo Astiz at his trial. This ex-commander of the Navy during the last military dictatorship in Argentina is currently serving a life sentence for crimes against human nature...
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On National Liberation Day 2012, the former Van Heutsz Monument has been unveiled for the third time in its history. This time by spoken word artist Olympia Latupeirissa. At this occasion, she gave a rendering of the speech Foute Keuzes, which she developed together with the artists Iratxe Jaio and...
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A series of hearings in the artists' tent in Occupy Amsterdam. Fellow Occupiers were interrogated by a rotating panel of four, on the dilemmas of maintaining a radically inclusive and participatory democracy, while keeping order in the camp and dealing with its social problems. The tribunal was set...
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Two instructors from the police academy teach the art of interrogation to a group of artists and students. They are given a training in cross-questioning techniques, and in dealing with violence. Through screenings, debates and relevant literature, the participants are stimulated to apply this...
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A project around the changing values of labour and property, examining the notion of artistic production through the resurrection of the woodturning hobby of a retired factory worker (Klaas' late grandfather).
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During the city council elections of Rotterdam in 2010, six campaign billboards were clandestinely removed from public space, replaced with new ones, and mounted in a group show that examined the relationships between art and politics.
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Neighbourhood residents were invited to join in a morbid parade that lead to the local shopping mall, where the participants, dressed up like bloodied corpses, would mingle with the startled customers, in a collective action between performance, dérive and street theatre.
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A full-scale reconstruction of an apartment that is being built in the new suburbs of Vitoria-Gasteiz, and guided tour leading from those suburbs to the exhibition space in the center of town.
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A monologue on love and loneliness, assembled from internet forum postings that deal with relational problems, played through secondhand telephones
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A collection of drawings, traced from videostills and digital documents: an ever growing storyboard that plots the uneasy relationship between the model and reality, between urban planning and concepts of life, family and reproduction.
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Using bluescreen techniques, the audience to an exhibition is cut and paste into a livingroom from the neighbourhood.
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A videoprogram assembled along themes such as social control, cultural confrontations, urban planning and its consequences for the inhabitants of a working class area in The Hague that was marked for large-scale demolition and renovation.
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A fictionalized biography, loosely based on the story of Camilla, a pregnant designer from Denmark, who has been living in the Netherlands for the past eight years.
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A movie about the complex representations of the political conflict in Northern Ireland from the perspectives of three foreign visitors. After the peace agreement in 1998, tourism became a developing industry in Belfast. The city had to reconsider its public image. But how can a city with such a...
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Observations from the bedroom window, looking at daily life in the Dordtselaan, a street in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) that has come under heightened surveillance by the authorities due to its reputation as a crime hot-spot.
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A local language class for foreigners in Luxembourg, presented as a symbolic exchange between communities.
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A mapping of the multifaceted volunteer movement that was mobilised after the Prestige oil spill, describing the ecological disaster as a political and social phenomenon.
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