ENGLISH BELOW
ENGLISH VERSION:
It was a very inspiring and bold pitch that felt like a social experiment we want to be part of. We were impressed by the way in which Karina connected her personal experience as a writer to larger, universal topics that many people can relate to. In a brave and perhaps utopian attempt at dismantling her own ego, she is asking pertinent questions about productivity, authorship, identity – in the creative sector and beyond. “How does one become an institution?” “Can a creative process be outsourced?” “Why do we sometimes want to become someone else?”
The project plays with the boundaries of filmmaking, using film as a component of a larger, interactive project, and a pretext for an exchange and encounter in the vast space in-between individual protons. We believe it will result in a wonderful network of intimate connections that we, as an audience, will be offered a glimpse into through this humorous, witty, and empathetic work.
– Alicja Melzacka, Ika Schwander, Koen de Rooij for Video Power
tentoonstelling
> LR.RG_03
met Sven Boel, Karina Beumer, Filip Collin, Rien Schellemans, Kristien Dirkx
samengesteld door Lore Van Roelen en Robert Soroko
20-21.10.23, LR.RG, Bisschoppenhoflaan 75, Deurne BE
De originele Karina Beumer
(auditie opdracht MS voor LR.RG#3)
Wanneer de werkverslaafde beeldend kunstenaar Karina Beumer een writers-block krijgt gaat ze op zoek naar een vervanger voor zichzelf. 63 mensen solliciteren voor de functie en Beumer begint haar sollicitanten auditie opdrachten te geven. In ‘De originele Karina Beumer (auditie opdracht MS voor LR.RG#3)’ zien we het resultaat van de 3de auditie opdracht “Werk verder aan het werk voor de tentoonstelling LR.RG#3”: Een tussenruimte of iets dat bleef hangen in een transitie.
Tijdens de tentoonstelling zal Lore Van Roelen het werk duiden en zichzelf ondertussen afvragen: “Wie is de maker van dit werk: Karina Beumer, de sollicitant, of Robert Soroko en Lore Van Roelen? Maakt het iets uit?”
exhibition
> Paranoia, gecureerd door Tamara Beheydt
met werk van Karina Beumer, Che Go Eun, Elleke Frijters, Joke Hansen, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, Meriton Maloku, Mikes Poppe, Martina Sauter, Kris Van Dessel, Charlot Van Geert, Tim Volckaert
16.02.2024-07.04.2024
CC Ter Dilft Bornem, BE
Live event
Vrijdag 13 september
Public Universal Television: The New Karina Beumer
Join us for a live showcase of the latest TV sensation, The New Karina Beumer, at Public Universal Television!
Tempel
Tolstraat 1074 VM Amsterdam
Netherlands
“Filmed in front of a live studio audience”
You are invited to join the congregation of ‘Public Universal Television’ to help choose who will become ‘The New Karina Beumer’. For this piece of performance art you will become part of an esoteric church of video-making and sit behind the cameras during the live production of a television game show on the spectacular Tempel stage. Four contestants will complete a series of artistic tasks to convince you of their vision for the very soul of art and be crowned as the new Karina.
Directed by Leslie Lawrence and Sophia Simensky and hosted by Karina Beumer featuring Karina Beumer, Karina Beumer, Karina Beumer and Karina Beumer. The performance is presented in English or in Dutch with English subtitles.
Doors open at 1830, performance begins at 1930 and last approximately 1 hour.
Viewers for this performance must consent to the use of their image as audience member, in exhibition and broadcast, for the ‘Public Universal Television’ project and the documentary project ‘De Originele Karina Beumer’
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About Public Universal Television
Public Universal Television is a new art performance series by Leslie Lawrence & Sophia Simensky, developing their practice of performing the artistic production of popular media in co-operation with their audience. Residing in the former theosophical temple of Amsterdam, they have created an esoteric society of video makers looking at news ways to make co-operative media. For each performance they co-operate with a different artist, making them the guest host of a new tv show, the filming of which is then staged for the live audience as a piece of performance art.
Public Universal Television is supported by the AFK (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts)
visit: publicuniversal.tv
About The Original Karina Beumer
To investigate where her work addiction stems from, Karina Beumer sends out a job advertisement for the position of Karina Beumer. When the applicants completely take over her work as an artist and make it even more successful, Karina wants to take back control of her artistry, and consequently herself, in this social experiment. But this turns out not to be as straightforward as she thought.
De Originele Karina Beumer is made in collaboration with the VPRO and is supported by the NPO-fund, Netherlands Film Fund and Mondriaan fonds.
TICKETS (free but with registration) https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tickets-public-universal-television-the-new-karina-beumer-1000604052657
