4bidgallery@gmail.com
OT301, Overtoom 301, 1054 HW Amsterdam NL
www.4bidgallery.com
...is a monthly activity which happens over one week c/o 4bid gallery in the OT301, Amsterdam. -
SHUFFLE PROJECT
Performing Arts, Literature, Music, Photography, Film or Hybrid) during a week long project. Each participant runs one day of the week’s events and takes part in the sessions hosted by the others. Partecipants propose an idea, a question or a thought that they want to look at from
4bid is a group of four people that engages in creative dia-
THE GROUP
performance, dance, installation and curatorial practice. The Gallery is a physical space in which to create, express, expose the product of elaborations, facilitating communication and exchange between individuals and the local community. We like the idea of a small family inhabiting the space -and lery’s door. An independent entity that is part of the bigger family, the OT301. The space has for us a double function: at times a ‘backstage area’ where activities, studies, promanner, and an organized presenting platform that shows variety of recurrent activities open to the public: exhibitions/ open studios, workshops and performances/installations.
monthly Open Call to add to two proposals by 4bid members. The guest artists: Andrea Abbatangelo and Ina Dokmo, they were invited to exchange workshops during the week. Ideas, questions and thoughts were looked at from dif-
FEBRUARY’S SHUFFLE PROJECT
These 4 people, bodies, minds at work came together encouraging discussions and feedback at end of each workshop, whilst all the process was being documented by an external and internal eye, that of Giacomo Cardoni (4bid), an eye who was part of the project having voice throughout its duration. This catalog is the personal result of his documentation. At the end of the week the group gathered for a shape to a public presentation of the work: the Open-Show.
...is a monthly activity which happens over one week c/o 4bid gallery in the OT301, Amsterdam. -
SHUFFLE PROJECT
Performing Arts, Literature, Music, Photography, Film or Hybrid) during a week long project. Each participant runs one day of the week’s events and takes part in the sessions hosted by the others. Partecipants propose an idea, a question or a thought that they want to look at from
This edition of the Open Show presented several aspects of the week in the form of a performative installation. This consisted in a setup that re-staged elements of the workshops where the audience
OPEN SHOW
by the artist (a table to lie on, whilst dough for bre ad could rest on their body before baking inside the gallery-oven and a colored light was projected on them), watch two dancers moving “from the he art” and “changing” qualities in their bodies, and had a chance to talk to the participants to the shuf of the photo footage by one of the artists to whom they could ask questions and exchange critique.
THE DOCUMENTATOR’S SUGGESTED QUESTIONS Why does sound trigger us to move or block us?
WORKSHOP DAY IRINA BALDINI
Who is your movement for? Is what I’m doing instinctive or the result of a learning process? Are we annoyed when we don’t accept what we are doing? In relation with my interest, is it the easiest part that I choose, or the one that gives me something? How fast does our brain realize what we are doing? Is it the beauty of the game/exploration that allows us to Are we interested in receiving or giving orders? Do emotions have a speed? Is the relation master/slave an intrinsic part of ourselves? How strongly do you experience the external imposition of change? What is the function of dead time?
THE DOCUMENTATOR’S SUGGESTED QUESTIONS
WORKSHOP DAY ANDREA ABBATANGELO
Are people impressed by simple things when they are disoriented? When I don’t understand the reason of what I’m doing, how do I build the relation with the external? What do we need to perceive the small and beautiful things?
THE DOCUMENTATOR’S SUGGESTED QUESTIONS
WORKSHOP DAY INA DOKMO
The stronger the relation with the body, the more use of its movements? Why do we share in words what we were, and what we have felt? Do people create a bond with what they create? Can I say something is mine when I share energy and/or time with it? Why do people use objects they consider to belong to others to vent?
THE DOCUMENTATOR’S SUGGESTED QUESTIONS
WORKSHOP DAY PAOLO PAGGI
Are people interested in confrontation merely for the simple reason of doing so? Is the confrontation born from the interest of the object or the subject? What pushes us to reveal something hidden inside of us? put? How far can I go into the depths of knowledge about myself?
THE DOCUMENTATOR’S SUGGESTED QUESTIONS external mass?
OPEN SHOW DAY
Why do people choose to interact with art? Why do the artists want visitors to interact? Does being experimental imply being artistic?
LINK
www.dokmo.se andreaabbatangelo.blogspot.it
CONTACTS
www.4bidgallery.com
4bidgallery@gmail.com
OT301, Overtoom 301, 1054 HW Amsterdam NL
4bidgallery@gmail.com
OT301, Overtoom 301, 1054 HW Amsterdam NL
www.4bidgallery.com