Rijksakademie Beamclub #07 Nina Yuen

Wednesday 27 January 2010 | De Verdieping @ TrouwAmsterdam | Wibautstraat 127 | start 21:00 | Entrance is free
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The Rijksakademie Beamclub is a monthly night where (former) residents of this renowned international arts institute are asked to present (YouTube) videos that have some kind of relationship with their work. These videos range from obscure Japanese game shows to hilarious episodes of South Park. Anything goes. Artists that have been invited here are a.o. Hans Aarsman, Ben Cerveny, Nicoline van Harskamp, Gino Saccone and John Lonsdale.

American artist Nina Yuen (Hawaii, 1981) will kick off the first edition of 2010. Yuen, who recently finished her 2 year residency at the Rijks, was nominated for the Volkskrant beeldende kunstprijs 2009 by Ann Demeester, director of de Appel.

“I wish she had won, if only for the movie ‘Don Sung’ in which she sprays her boyfriend who is standing in a big shrubbery with the garden hose as if he was a plant. Just before he gets soaked he asks ‘what is this scene about?’. Her movies are some kind of everyday genius combined with carefully orchestrated diary like images that only few can pull off. Often she acts a part in them, painting her house and creating costumes just for a few seconds of film. It’s hard to pinpoint what her work is ‘about’, it seems perhaps more of a language onto itself, but I loved it from the start.”
Sarah van Sonsbeeck, artist and Beamclub organiser.

For more information on Nina Yuen visit her website, or have a look at this interview for more info on her work.

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De Verdieping is the cultural project space underneath club and restaurant TrouwAmsterdam. http://trouwamsterdam.nl/de-verdieping

Thanks to the Amsterdamse Fonds voor de Kunsten, the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten and Sarah van Sonsbeeck.