Adam Pendleton EL T D K Amsterdam

A three-part program comprising two performances and an exhibition in a collaboration between de Appel and Kunstverein, Amsterdam.

Part one “three scenes”, Performance took place on 23 Sept. 2009 in Kunstverein, Amsterdam

Part two “grey-blue grain”, Exhibition 12 Dec. 2009 – 31 Jan. 2010 Location: Kunstverein, Ruyschstraat 4 III, Amsterdam A selection of projects from 2007-09 that deal directly with the abstraction and instrumentalisation of language and image through sculpture and wall-based work.

Part three “BAND”, Performance/film screening 13 and 14 Dec. 2009, 8.30 PM Location: De Brakke Grond (Rode Zaal), Nes 45, Amsterdam

Adam Pendleton’s BAND is a form and content refashioning of Jean-Luc Godard’s “Sympathy for the Devil”. Made in the aftermath of May ’68, the original film helped mark Godard’s break from his Nouvelle Vague period into a more committed engagement with the politics and class struggles of the time. BAND is unfolding in stages, it began at the Toronto International Film Festival with a rehearsal/film-shoot and live concert by the indie-rock/post-punk band Deerhoof. The Amsterdam performance/film screening will present the first edit of footage from Toronto with work-in-progress sequences from texts based on the work of authors explicitly related to Godard’s film, such as black power activist Eldridge Cleaver; or tangentially related, such as Gertrude Stein. The final stage of BAND will occur as a solo-exhibition at The Kitchen, New York in Fall 2010.

Co-producers: Kunstverein, Amsterdam, Wayne Baerwaldt, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary; Noah Cowan, Toronto International Film Festival, Future Projections; with additional support from Rashida Bumbray, The Kitchen, New York.

Adam Pendleton EL T D K Amsterdam
Part two, Exhibition:
“grey-blue grain”
Ort: Kunstverein, Ruyschstraat 4 III, Amsterdam