BLURRR

This autumn the Rotterdam exhibition space TENT. celebrates its tenth anniversary and presents the jubilee event BLURRR from 9 September to 15 November 2009. TENT. reveals a new cultural practice in which the young artist goes beyond the borders of different disciplines and presents him/herself as homo universalis 2.0.

Ever since the renaissance, artists have adopted the position of jack-of-all-trades and their work involves more fields than just that of visual art. And yet, thanks to the possibilities of the Internet, it seems that multitasking has become the most important basis for the practice of art without being noticed. Artists are simultaneously a performer, singer or designer. They work alternately in collectives, duos and groups. They share their knowledge or work on social network sites such as Facebook, Hyves or MySpace and assign the public an active role in their work. With BLURRR, TENT. poses the question: What consequences does this have for their artistic practice and how will this movement continue further? And how should the exhibition space relate to artists who constantly choose a new form of presentation?

TENT. draws attention particularly to artists in their twenties and thirties with a hybrid artistic practice, such as Gyz La Rivière, who is part of the collective Humobisten, writes books and works as a designer, documentary maker and visual artist. Or such as Strange Attractors, who, as a duo from New York and Rotterdam, see no problem in running a design studio from both locations. Nina Boas is a performance artist, sings and has the BARTstore as her operating base. Around nine artists are behind the Volksrekorders, who, in addition to their individual artistic practices, focus collectively on an analysis of the public space.

BLURRR manifests itself in crossovers between visual art, music, design and architecture. The sharing of knowledge, inspiration and information is central; a discursive artistic practice that plays with social models within and outside the exhibition space.

BLURRR

mit Nina Boas, Sophie Krier, Gyz La Riviere, Volksrekorders , Strange Attractors , Walter Langelaar, Iddo Drevijn, Esme Valk.