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Posted May 20 2003 10:03

Upcoming exhibition | Into the Breach | Opening Reception Saturday 31st May, 21:00h

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SMART Project Space | 1st Constantijn Huygensstraat 20, Amsterdam | 020 427=
5951

Into the Breach | 1st June until 6th July, 2003

Work by: Marc Bijl | Phil Collins | Banu Cennetoglu & Bojan Fajfric | M=
arcel Dinahet | Smith/Stewart
Siebren Versteeg | with performance by Fabienne Audeo=
ud at 22hrs in SMART Cinema

Opening Reception Saturday 31st May, 21:00h

"A painful thought: past a certain point in time, history has not been real=
. Without realising it, the whole human race seems to have suddenly left re=
ality behind. Everything that is supposed to have happened since then would=
no longer be true, but we wouldn't realise it. Our task and our duty would=
now be to uncover this point, and until we did we would have to persist in=
our present destruction." CANETTI

In this sense we are all hostages, serving as dissuasive arguments and coll=
ectively answering for something, but for what? This is a kind of fate that=
is fixed and whose manipulators we can no longer even see. We now live in =
a state of permanent suspense and emergency, not knowing what event, what a=
ccident will set off the ultimate manipulation. It is from a no-man's land =
of terror that the world is now managed. Liberty, security, terror; we have=
successively breached these stages in every domain. The world is held coll=
ectively responsible for the order that reigns there - if anything were to =
come dangerously close to infringing this order, the world would have to be=
destroyed. The era of the trans-political is beginning. With this we are i=
n breach of our own identity, called upon to assume it, to answer for it wi=
th our own lives.

We now accept that the world started from nothing and it will end with noth=
ing and that it is going through enormous transformations that involve its =
own destruction. Culture so far has been an attempt to escape the realizati=
on that we are finite. Culture was the idea that we have these monuments fo=
rever, like an illusion of infinity. Every great burst of art has been the =
attempt to think that we have made it, that we have achieved the absolute, =
in books, in philosophy, in art. And we have created a shield against that =
through our culture. Today we are now realizing that it may be over. Canett=
i wished to seize this blind point beyond which "things have stopped being =
true", where history has stopped existing without our realizing it - withou=
t which realization we can only persevere in our current destruction. Suppo=
sing we could determine this point, what would we do? The point from which =
we could turn the process of the dispersion of time and history around esca=
pes us. This is why we call on every previous epoch, every way of life, eve=
ry mentality to historicize itself, to recount itself with proof and docume=
nts in hand: it is because we feel that all this has been invalidated in ou=
r own sphere, which is that of the end of history.

Every Sunday and Wednesday at 17.00 hrs Smart Project Space presents free v=
ideo programs in SMART Cinema. "A Certain Dislocation" accompanies the exhi=
bition Into the Breach.

Sponsored by: Gemeente Amsterdam, Mentrum, Mondriaan Stichting, Brand Bier,=
Beam Systems, Van der Pol Bouwmaterialen
Work by Smith/Stewart originally commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella in=
association with Chisenhale Gallery, London.

For further information please contact Jacco Musper, tel +31 20 427 5951 or=
jacco@smartprojectspace.net

SMART Project Space | www.smartprojectspace.net
Exhibition Space & Cinema: 1e Const. Huygensstraat 20
Opening times: Tues-Sat from 12.00-22.00, Sun from 14.00-22.00 hrs.
Mail to: P.O.Box 15004, NL-1001 MA Amsterdam
Phone: +31 20 427.5951
Fax.: +31 20 427.5953
mail: info@smartprojectspace.net

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seems to have suddenly left reality behind. Everything that is supposed to =
have
happened since then would no longer be true, but we wouldn’t realise =
it. Our
task and our duty would now be to uncover this point, and until we did we w=
ould
have to persist in our present destruction.” CANETTI In this s=
ense we are
all hostages, serving as dissuasive arguments and collectively answering fo=
r
something, but for what? This is a kind of fate that is fixed and whose
manipulators we can no longer even see. We now live in a state of permanent=

suspense and emergency, not knowing what event, what accident will set off =
the
ultimate manipulation. It is from a no-man’s land of terror that the =
world is
now managed. Liberty, security, terror; we have successively breached these=

stages in every domain. The world is held collectively responsible for the =
order
that reigns there – if anything were to come dangerously close to inf=
ringing
this order, the world would have to be destroyed. The era of the trans-poli=
tical
is beginning. With this we are in breach of our own identity, called upon t=
o
assume it, to answer for it with our own lives. We now accept that t=
he
world started from nothing and it will end with nothing and that it is goin=
g
through enormous transformations that involve its own destruction. Culture =
so
far has been an attempt to escape the realization that we are finite. Cultu=
re
was the idea that we have these monuments forever, like an illusion of infi=
nity.
Every great burst of art has been the attempt to think that we have made it=
,
that we have achieved the absolute, in books, in philosophy, in art. And we=
have
created a shield against that through our culture. Today we are now realizi=
ng
that it may be over. Canetti wished to seize this blind point beyond which=

"things have stopped being true", where history has stopped existing withou=
t our
realizing it – without which realization we can only persevere in our=
current
destruction. Supposing we could determine this point, what would we do? The=

point from which we could turn the process of the dispersion of time and hi=
story
around escapes us. This is why we call on every previous epoch, every way o=
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