PASTA NOWADAYS, 2016

Impakt Opening Exhibition: Authenticity is Dead, Long Live Authenticity. 
With Minja Gu's performance

There will be art. Yes, a lot of art. And, most importantly, it will be the opening of Impakt Festival 2016. All this will take place at Fotodok on Wednesday 26 at 5pm. We will prepare you to the following days, full of lectures, artist talks and movies. All around the chosen topic of 2016: Authenticity? from the perspectives of arts, technology and society. 

At 5 PM there will be the performance of Korean artist Minja Gu. Minja Gu’s works appear frail and intimate, and almost indistinguishable from everyday life. Gu is predominantly interested in what society uses and then discards. 

For the performance Pasta Nowadays, Minja Gu collects all of the various pastas available from local supermarkets. From over 70 different pastas available, 30 different types can be identified; 24 of the packages have recipes on the back. The ultimate pasta combines all of these 24 recipes, including 12 kinds of cheese, beef, pork, ham, 5 kinds of seafood, herbs, spices and vegetables.

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The exhibition comprises a number of online and offline works, some of which are specially commissioned for
the Impakt Festival, including works made during artist residencies prior to the exhibition. The exhibition stretches across two venues in Utrecht. The galleries Fotodok and
Casco at Lange Nieuwstraat 7 in the city centre contain works by DIS, Harm van den Dorpel, Tobias Kaspar, Oliver Laric, Jonas Lund & Sebastian Schmieg, Elise van Mourik,
Amalia Ulman and Beny Wagner. The Rietveld Model
House at Erasmuslaan 9 is an early twentieth-century home,
designed by Gerrit Rietveld. Still fully furnished, it is a clear
example of the Het nieuwe bouwen movement, which came
to prominence in the 1920s and ’30s. The bright, domestic
setting provides the backdrop to works by General Idea and
Korakrit Arunanondchai; this is also a great opportunity to
visit this architectural heritage site.

The aphorism “Authenticity is dead, long live authenticity!” proves vital in the prolific debate on authenticity in the postdigital age. Authenticity is in the eye of the beholder. There is a general understanding of its meaning, oftentimes based on notions of introspection and soul-searching; some, however, deem the debate altogether irrelevant. However, for a younger generation of artists, new technologies contribute to a new understanding of the scope of authenticity. Digital tools, such as the blockchain, prove valuable when it comes to tracing provenance, or the attribution of authorship. Increasingly, artists advance the circulation of their work from burden to strategy.

PROGRAMME:

Location: Fotodok and Casco, Lange Nieuwstraat 7, Utrecht
Time: 17:00 - 20:00
Tickets: Free entrance / from Thursday onwards: combi tickets 5€ 

(Fotodok/Casco+Rietveld Model House)

VISITING HOURS EXHIBITION
- FOTODOK/CASCO, Lange Nieuwstraat 7, Utrecht
26 - 30 October: 12:00 - 20:00h
1 - 6 November: 12:00 - 17:00h

- RIETVELD MODELHUIS, Erasmuslaan 9, Utrecht
26 - 30 October: tours at 15:00 - 16:00 and 16:00 - 17:00
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More on the Impakt Festival 2016: www.impakt.nl
More on the Opening Exhibition: http://bit.ly/2e63K06
More on Minja Gu: http://impakt.nl/festival/minja-gu/