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Car Bomb III-IV / ANATOMY OF A CAR BOMB WRECKAGE Three day exhibition and concluding symposium concerning two car bomb wreckages placed in front of the Boijmans van Beuningen museum, Rotterdam. The two car bomb wreckages were the remains of two cars used in early 2007 for an attack on Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad, killing thirty-eight people. During the exhibition, each of the wreckages were placed on four metal bases so as to amplify their sculptural properties. Moreover, they were lit day and night. During the concluding symposium, after the two introductions from the artists, several speakers were asked to interpret the wreckages within a western context: social engineer Joost Janmaat, who was directly involved with the transportation of the wreckages from Iraq to the Netherlands, writer Chris Keulemans, theoretician Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, and art critic Rutger Pontzen discussed the two objects as artifacts, objects in a performative context, media symbols, and art works. As such, the wreckages constantly acquired another “anatomy” by the broadening and specification of the contexts that were offered to them by the speakers. The audience was placed between the wreckages. Concept and production in cooperation with Jack Segbars This project was made possible with support of Mothership, Rotterdam (NL); Center for Visual Arts, Rotterdam (NL); The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Amsterdam (NL); Partizan Publik, Amsterdam (NL) |