Impakt Festival 2001 Programme

[Arjon Dunnewind]

Utrecht, September 21, 2001.

The Impakt Festival 2001 will be organized from October 2-7 in 
Utrecht, The Netherlands. Please find below a short introduction to 
the programme. The complete programme will be online (www.impakt.nl) 
next week. Please let us know if you would like to receive the 
complete programme earlier. It can be send to you immediately as a MS 
word 6.0 document (184 K).
It will be our pleasure to welcome you at Impakt 2001.

On behalf of the Impakt organization,

Arjon Dunnewind,
Artistic Director.

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Impakt 2001, October 2-7

The 12th Impakt Festival will be special in many respects. For Impakt 
2001, we have entered into a unique collaboration with the Centraal 
Museum. With its multidisciplinary and temporary character, Impakt 
will explore the borders of what is possible within the museum walls.
An important part of Impakt 2001 is Group Show, a specially compiled 
exhibition in which work is brought together by artists who pay 
special attention to group behavior and group processes. Group 
identity is taking on an ever more important role: collapsing nations 
on one hand and the advancing process of globalization on the other 
makes people reconsider the culture they form a part of. We are 
exposed to smaller-scale manifestations of group processes every day 
in terms of fashion, styling, and social traffic, in which we all 
participate. In the Group Show exhibition collective identity is set 
against individual identity in the form of installations, 
performances, and workshops, and humans are exposed as herd animals.
The artists participating in Group Show are Annika Larsson (S), 
Jeroen Kooijmans (NL), Patricia Piccinini (AU), Maria Pask (NL), 
Arturas Raila (LT), Julika Rudelius (NL) and Klaar van der Lippe (NL).
This year Impakt is paying special attention to the American artist
Doug Aitken. Various Dutch museums have been trying for some time to 
organize an exhibition of his work. We are especially pleased that we 
can present a program compiled by Aitken himself, with film versions 
of his installations.
With the annual Panorama program, Impakt once again offers an 
overview of recent developments within innovative visual culture. 
Panorama consists of a current selection of installations, the most 
intriguing productions from film and video art, as well as cd-roms 
and websites.
In the Panorama exhibition Christoph Draeger (CH/USA), Magnus Wallin 
(S), Femke Schaap (NL), Jose Restrepo (CO) en Ryoji Ikeda (JP) will 
show new pieces.
The Panorama new media programme includes cd-roms and websites by:
Stanza (UK), Miroslav Nicic & Borjana Ventzislavova (AU), Michael 
Brynntrup (D), squid s o u p (UK), Gustav Deutsch & Hanna Schimek 
(AU), Melinda Rackham (AUS), Mia Makela (S/FIN), and many others. In 
the new-media "couch.clubs" the artists themselves present their own 
websites and CD-Roms.
Finally we have selected 147 films and videos by artists like William 
Wegman (USA), Kristin Lucas (USA), Phyllis Baldino (USA), Salla Tykkä 
(FIN), Sam Easterson (USA), Dominic Gagnon (CAN), Donigan Cumming 
(CAN), Guillaume Graux (B), Nelson Henricks (CAN), Steve Reinke 
(CAN), Jay Rosenblatt (USA).
The music program is filled with concerts and DJ sets given by 
leading artists from electronic music and dance culture. Influences 
from hip-hop, techno, surf music, and other genres come together in 
various performances that offer an overview of the latest trends in 
music. DJ Olive (USA), Christian Fennesz (AU), Mouse on Mars (D), 
Funkstörung (D), Luke Vibert (UK) and others will give concerts and 
DJ-sets.
With a single entry ticket, you can visit all of the programs in the 
museum every day, from 11am to 11:30 pm . Furthermore, until 5pm you 
can visit the Pipilotti Rist exhibition in the Centraal Museum's 
project spaces. Because people cannot live on good art alone, Impakt 
is also offering a delicious meal every day in the Centraal Museum's 
Refectory, and you can drink to your heart's content in the stylish 
bar. In our opinion, all the ingredients for an exciting week are at 
hand.

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Arjon Dunnewind,
Impakt Festival
P.O. Box 735
3500 AS  Utrecht
The Netherlands

If you use a courier service you must have your parcel delivered to 
our office address:
Impakt Festival, Damstraat 19, 3531 BP Utrecht, The Netherlands

Tel.: + 31 30 2944493
2nd phone: + 31 30  2963408
mobile: + 31 6 5193 3745
Fax.: + 31 30 2944163

e-mail:
arjon at impakt.nl (work)
arjon at xs4all.nl (home and abroad)
http://www.impakt.nl
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