PIXELS OF REALITY: What do you Know, What do You See? 
(18th May - 18th June 2006) ________________________________________


EXHIBITION OPENING  - Thursday, May 18th, 7pm ______________________
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Public Space With a Roof dedicates its program to the issues of 
Art, Politics, History and Documentary. In order to start a 
constructive discussion about the various approaches to these issues 
during the months May/June 2006 our project will consist of several 
layers: exhibition, lectures, public discussion, film screening, 
and a reader.



PIXELS OF REALITY: 
What do you Know, What do You See?


In the last few decades, the digitalized image has become our main 
tool to perceive reality. When zoomed in on this image, it reveals 
its deceptive and fragmented nature - tiny squares in different colors 
- pixels of our reality. Hence, our perception of the surrounding 
world and current processes is based on the false uniformity and unity 
of a highly fragmented and complex entity. The aim of our project is 
to zoom in on this image and reveal its structure, so as to show the 
diversity and artificiality of such a mediated perception of the world. 

Pixels of Reality is the starting phase of a project with which we want 
to open-up the discussion about the position of artists' interventions 
in stimulating future social and political change. We want to re-examine 
the concepts 'politics' and 'art' in the overly used term 'political art', 
as well as the role of media in turning the aesthetics of our senses into 
anaesthetics. Or, as film director Peter Watkins has formulated it: 
we want to examine the role of the artist in "a world where ethics, 
morality, human collectivity, and commitment (except to opportunism) 
are considered Ôold fashioned'". 

We bring together artists and professionals from different fields who, 
through their work, discuss the questions of both ethics and aesthetics. 
We are interested in artists who engage in social and political issues, 
but who also develop their own language and push the limits of the medium 
in which they work. Our main question is: what is the responsibility of 
the artist in his/her practice and how does this differ from the 
responsibility of other public actors?

One of the layers of our project is a reader that will offer a collection
of texts that allow us to define better the existing positions toward art, 
politics, history, memory, and social change. The reader is perceived as 
a meeting point of our questions, different statements from the project 
participants and diverse thinkers who inspired us. 

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Public Space With A Roof kindly invites you and your friends to the opening 
of our exhibition: 'Pixels of Reality: What do you Know, What do You See?'

Thursday, May 18th at 7 pm
Exhibition is open 18th May - 18th June 2006
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ARTISTS: 

Christiaan Bastiaans 
Banu Cennetoglu 
Nicole Cousino & Chris Vecchio 
Harun Farocki 
Rainer Ganahl 
Sagi Groner 
Ivan Grubanov 
Jon Kessler 
Rinat Kotler 
Carlos llavata 
Fabian Marcaccio 
Ahron Shabtai
Wael Shawky
Praneet Soi
Krzysztof Wegiel

LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS (May 20, 21, 28): 

Thomas Elsaesser 
Rainer Ganahl
Sagi Groner
Jon Kessler 
Stefan Majakowski*
Steve Rushton
Wael Shawky
Tjebbe van Tijen
REBOND POUR LA COMMUNE

FILM SCREENINGS (May 28): 

William Kentridge 
Zelimir Zilnik

Public discussion (May 21): 
moderator Noa Roei

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Project initiated by: 
Adi Hollander, Tamuna Chabashvili and Vesna Madzoski

Production: Mathijs Lieshout, Davide Manzoni
Reader editor: Astrid Van Weyenberg
Graphic Designers: OneDayNation

The project is kindly supported by: VSB Fonds and Mondriaan Foundation

The exhibition is open 18th May - 18th June
LOCATION: Public Space With A Roof - Overtoom 301, 1054 HW Amsterdam
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*The program is subject to change __________________________________
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For further questions mail to : pswar@xs4all.nl_____________________
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Special thanks to: Anke Bangma, Eva Fotiadi and Reinaldo Laddaga ___
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