I am comedy

Last chance…

This is your final chance to view the exhibition We are Comedy and the accompanying video programme I am Comedy (screened previously at Worm, Rotterdam and W139, Amsterdam).
Finnisage this saturday in Hoorn (also opening of the renewed artist-residency).

time: Saturday 13th of December, 16:00-19:00
location: korte achterstraat 2a (& 6 too), Hoorn, the Netherlands

more info: www.hotelmariakapel.nl

I AM COMEDY

I AM COMEDY is a multi-location project that combines residency, exhibition and screenings curated by Toby Huddlestone.

I am Comedy

Olaf Breuning, Nim-jo Chung, Juanan Eguiguren, Oliver and Tellervo Kalleinen, Otto Karvonen, Frank Koolen, Roy Voss and Tom Souden, Bedwyr Williams

Screenings
@:

Worm, Rotterdam: 12.11.08 @ 20:30 (doors 19:30)

W139, Amsterdam: 13.11.08 @ 20:30 (doors 19:30)

Hotel MariaKapel: 13.12.08 @ 16:00

We Are Comedy

Nim-jo Chung, Juanan Eguiguren, Frank Koolen, Bedwyr Williams

Exhibition
@:

Hotel MariaKapel, Korte achterstraat 2a, Hoorn, Nederlands

Preview/Opening: sunday 23.11.08 @ 16:00

Opening hours: 23.11.08 – 14.12.08, Thu-Fri 18:00-21:00, Sat-Sun 14:00-17:00

see www.hotelmariakapel.nl for more details

“Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!”

I am Comedy investigates artists who involve themselves explicitly as either narrator or actor to explore the human condition and their own identity through humour. This seemingly optimistic means of surviving by simply laughing at life is somewhat more tragic deep down. All the artist’s selected have one thing in common – they want to make us laugh at their interventions and attempts to understand the everyday.

Freud believed that humour often acts as a cover up for deeper, more tragic psychological states. Many of the artists in this project use humour as a diversion for more hidden philosophies – nihilistic and futile in the case of Nim-jo Chung and Juanan Eguiguren, buoyant and celebratory in the case of Frank Koolen and Voss and Souden and social and political through the work of Olaf Breuning, Tellervo and Oliver Kalleinen and Otto Karvonen.

For more information and location details please refer to www.hotelmariakapel.nl or email: office@hotelmariakapel.nl