Anneleen Louwes over het artikel in Focus:
“Hier een artikel in het ouwe trouwe FOCUS fotografie-tijdschrift van december 2020 waar Koos Breukel de gast-hoofdredacteur was en waarbij hij koos om naast Charlotte Dumas, Paul Blanca, Cuny Janssen, Roy Villevoye, Ulay, Corbino, Marco Bakker en Venus Veldhoen ook mij een plek te geven ... de koze van Keus dus eigenlijk..”
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Begin december opent op initiatief van Het Vijfde Seizoen de tentoonstelling PUK* van Floris Schönfeld. PUK* is een gelaagd meerjaren onderzoeksproject over Artificial Intelligence en neurodiversiteit.
PUK* stelt de vraag hoe wij nadenken over Artificial Intelligence en of er binnen de ontwikkeling van AI ruimte is voor andere intelligenties, afwijkend gedrag en neurodiversiteit. In 2019 werkte Schönfeld ruim drie maanden in de residency Het Vijfde Seizoen waar hij samen met een patiëntengroep in Den Dolder werkte aan een vervolgstap in dit meerjarenproject. De kunstenaar creëert tijdens de interactieve tentoonstelling een open-ended ervaring voor het publiek.
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Theatermaker Alexandra Broeder verbindt binnen haar werk de domeinen kunst en psychiatrie met elkaar. Onder de naam The SheepTown Project werkt zij het komend jaar nauw samen met verschillende GGZ instellingen en spreekt zij met kinderen en jongeren die intensief in behandeling zijn, psychologen en filosofen vanuit de vraag: wat zegt de manier waarop wij in deze tijd omgaan met geestesziekte over onze maatschappij en de tijd waarin we leven?
De eerste vertaling van dit project is een installatie in de openbare ruimte die individueel te bezoeken is
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This week is the LAST chance to see Sylvie Zijlmans and Hewald Jongenelis' short film "They Live In Us (I Am A Very Detailed Person)" at the Beautiful Distress House. The film will be showing Thursday to Sunday from 8-10pm. The film itself is 34 minutes. Make sure to drop by!
Location: Beautiful Distress House, van Riemsdijkweg 41a, Amsterdam Noord
Date: 22-25 October
Time: 8-10pm
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Het Vijfde Seizoen - 2007
Life has come to a grinding halt due to the corona virus.
Beautiful Distress and the Fifth Season had to adapt to these difficult times as well and had to virtually stop all activities. The artist in residence programs in Kings County Hospital in New York, and Fukuroda Hospital, Japan are temporarily on hold. The Beautiful Distress House that we operate in Amsterdam Noord is closed and all the planned exhibitions there are postponed.
We hope to jump back into action once everything calms down a bit and it is safe to do so. In this time of social and physical distancing art can connect, give inspiration and the boost we can all use right now. This knowledge has inspired us and “our" artists to give a sign of life and our involvement to our mutual friends and followers by actively using our Beautiful Distress and Fifth Season social media platforms with the artists that have spent a residency period in Den Dolder (The Netherlands), Kings County Hospital, New York or Fukuroda Hospital, Daigo Town, Japan.
We asked the artists to make a small video of 1 to 2 minutes max and in the video (show) and reflect on the artwork they did in the residency, especially given the current times we are living in: What was their focus during the residency, keeping in mind the people they met and worked with in the hospital. Never before have so many people understood better how it feels to have your freedom curtailed.
We think it is important to share these videos, especially now, since our experience is that the vision of the artists and their artworks inspire our followers and sometimes also give hope. We realize everybody is having a difficult time. Please feel free to react on these videos. New York, and thus also Kings County hospital, has been hit especially hard.The patients and staff there can use all the support they can get, as can everyone else involved with -or following- Beautiful Distress: artists, patients, their families, health care workers, volunteers, we want to cheer up everybody.
We may be isolated, but we are not alone.
Beautiful Distress and Het Vijfde Seizoen
Het Vijfde Seizoen - 2007
Life has come to a grinding halt due to the corona virus.
Beautiful Distress and the Fifth Season had to adapt to these difficult times as well and had to virtually stop all activities. The artist in residence programs in Kings County Hospital in New York, and Fukuroda Hospital, Japan are temporarily on hold. The Beautiful Distress House that we operate in Amsterdam Noord is closed and all the planned exhibitions there are postponed.
We hope to jump back into action once everything calms down a bit and it is safe to do so. In this time of social and physical distancing art can connect, give inspiration and the boost we can all use right now. This knowledge has inspired us and “our" artists to give a sign of life and our involvement to our mutual friends and followers by actively using our Beautiful Distress and Fifth Season social media platforms with the artists that have spent a residency period in Den Dolder (The Netherlands), Kings County Hospital, New York or Fukuroda Hospital, Daigo Town, Japan.
We asked the artists to make a small video of 1 to 2 minutes max and in the video (show) and reflect on the artwork they did in the residency, especially given the current times we are living in: What was their focus during the residency, keeping in mind the people they met and worked with in the hospital. Never before have so many people understood better how it feels to have your freedom curtailed.
We think it is important to share these videos, especially now, since our experience is that the vision of the artists and their artworks inspire our followers and sometimes also give hope. We realize everybody is having a difficult time. Please feel free to react on these videos. New York, and thus also Kings County hospital, has been hit especially hard.The patients and staff there can use all the support they can get, as can everyone else involved with -or following- Beautiful Distress: artists, patients, their families, health care workers, volunteers, we want to cheer up everybody.
We may be isolated, but we are not alone.
Beautiful Distress and Het Vijfde Seizoen
“They Live In Us”, het nieuwste project van beeldend kunstenaars Sylvie Zijlmans en Hewald Jongenelis, is een korte film over de geheimzinnigheid, de angst, en de charme, van het besef dat je nooit zeker kunt zijn van het beeld dat je van de werkelijkheid hebt. In de tentoonstelling “They Live In Us (I Am A Very Detailed Person)” die van 25 september tot en met 25 oktober te zien is in het Beautiful Distress House in Amsterdam, tonen zij een preview van deze film.
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“They Live In Us”, het nieuwste project van beeldend kunstenaars Sylvie Zijlmans en Hewald Jongenelis, is een korte film over de geheimzinnigheid, de angst, en de charme, van het besef dat je nooit zeker kunt zijn van het beeld dat je van de werkelijkheid hebt. In de tentoonstelling “They Live In Us (I Am A Very Detailed Person)” die van 25 september tot en met 25 oktober te zien is in het Beautiful Distress House in Amsterdam, tonen zij een preview van deze film.
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Beautiful Distress - 2019
Writer #MirtheBerentsen stayed at the residency in New York in 2017/2018 which resulted in the publication 'Stories from Kings County Hospital'. A fragmentary collection of stories, poems and pictures about the psychiatric hospital as a biotope for American politics, escaping reality by creating a counter-narrative, gender, the limitations of care, the inevitability of death and the power of language.
"I just got off the phone with Shaka, a dear friend and writer. We met at the hospital and he mentions that Coronalife is almost like a communal psychosis. As determining what is real and what is not has become the new normal. Imagine someone telling you half a year ago that we live in a society where everyone should keep a 1,5 meter distance while wearing masks, all your steps are traced via your phone so that your neighbors get a notification if you're infected, your temperature is checked before entering a restaurant, inequality rises in rapid pace, oh and by the way: 5G is the culprit'.
This whole corona-period is challenging, even for people without a history of mental illness. So please, check in with your loved ones, support your local community and ask for help.
** The publication is still for sale via @Printedmatterinc @san.serriffe @MottoBooks @riot_artandbooks @werkplaatstypografie @wiels_brusselsstories and many other places >>> 100% of all sales will go to the @audrelordeproject - a lesbian, gay, bisexual, two spirit, trans and gender non-conforming people of color community organizing center, focusing on the #NewYorkCity area **
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Carol Stakenas, curator at-large for the Social Practices Art Network (SPAN), talks to Chilean Amsterdam-based artist Martín La Roche (1988) about his three-month residency experience at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, as part of the Beautiful Distress Foundation (Amsterdam) program, whose mission is to raise awareness of mental distress under the belief that art is pre-eminently capable of articulating and representing the human condition.
Beautiful Distress uses art to tell stories of psychiatry to a wide audience that, by not coming into direct contact with mental illness, is submerged in ignorance and, therefore, stigmatization. Although mental illnesses evoke negative emotions in those who suffer them, they are also a rich source of creativity. By uniting these two worlds, that of art and psychiatry, Beautiful Distress seeks to validate the world and the experience of the mentally ill.
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Het Vijfde Seizoen - 2018
Life has come to a grinding halt due to the corona virus.
Beautiful Distress and the Fifth Season had to adapt to these difficult times as well and had to virtually stop all activities. The artist in residence programs in Kings County Hospital in New York, and Fukuroda Hospital, Japan are temporarily on hold. The Beautiful Distress House that we operate in Amsterdam Noord is closed and all the planned exhibitions there are postponed.
We hope to jump back into action once everything calms down a bit and it is safe to do so. In this time of social and physical distancing art can connect, give inspiration and the boost we can all use right now. This knowledge has inspired us and “our" artists to give a sign of life and our involvement to our mutual friends and followers by actively using our Beautiful Distress and Fifth Season social media platforms with the artists that have spent a residency period in Den Dolder (The Netherlands), Kings County Hospital, New York or Fukuroda Hospital, Daigo Town, Japan.
We asked the artists to make a small video of 1 to 2 minutes max and in the video (show) and reflect on the artwork they did in the residency, especially given the current times we are living in: What was their focus during the residency, keeping in mind the people they met and worked with in the hospital. Never before have so many people understood better how it feels to have your freedom curtailed.
We think it is important to share these videos, especially now, since our experience is that the vision of the artists and their artworks inspire our followers and sometimes also give hope. We realize everybody is having a difficult time. Please feel free to react on these videos. New York, and thus also Kings County hospital, has been hit especially hard.The patients and staff there can use all the support they can get, as can everyone else involved with -or following- Beautiful Distress: artists, patients, their families, health care workers, volunteers, we want to cheer up everybody.
We may be isolated, but we are not alone.
Beautiful Distress and Het Vijfde Seizoen
Het Vijfde Seizoen - 2010
Life has come to a grinding halt due to the corona virus.
Beautiful Distress and the Fifth Season had to adapt to these difficult times as well and had to virtually stop all activities. The artist in residence programs in Kings County Hospital in New York, and Fukuroda Hospital, Japan are temporarily on hold. The Beautiful Distress House that we operate in Amsterdam Noord is closed and all the planned exhibitions there are postponed.
We hope to jump back into action once everything calms down a bit and it is safe to do so. In this time of social and physical distancing art can connect, give inspiration and the boost we can all use right now. This knowledge has inspired us and “our" artists to give a sign of life and our involvement to our mutual friends and followers by actively using our Beautiful Distress and Fifth Season social media platforms with the artists that have spent a residency period in Den Dolder (The Netherlands), Kings County Hospital, New York or Fukuroda Hospital, Daigo Town, Japan.
We asked the artists to make a small video of 1 to 2 minutes max and in the video (show) and reflect on the artwork they did in the residency, especially given the current times we are living in: What was their focus during the residency, keeping in mind the people they met and worked with in the hospital. Never before have so many people understood better how it feels to have your freedom curtailed.
We think it is important to share these videos, especially now, since our experience is that the vision of the artists and their artworks inspire our followers and sometimes also give hope. We realize everybody is having a difficult time. Please feel free to react on these videos. New York, and thus also Kings County hospital, has been hit especially hard.The patients and staff there can use all the support they can get, as can everyone else involved with -or following- Beautiful Distress: artists, patients, their families, health care workers, volunteers, we want to cheer up everybody.
We may be isolated, but we are not alone.
Beautiful Distress and Het Vijfde Seizoen
Het Vijfde Seizoen - 2009
Life has come to a grinding halt due to the corona virus.
Beautiful Distress and the Fifth Season had to adapt to these difficult times as well and had to virtually stop all activities. The artist in residence programs in Kings County Hospital in New York, and Fukuroda Hospital, Japan are temporarily on hold. The Beautiful Distress House that we operate in Amsterdam Noord is closed and all the planned exhibitions there are postponed.
We hope to jump back into action once everything calms down a bit and it is safe to do so. In this time of social and physical distancing art can connect, give inspiration and the boost we can all use right now. This knowledge has inspired us and “our" artists to give a sign of life and our involvement to our mutual friends and followers by actively using our Beautiful Distress and Fifth Season social media platforms with the artists that have spent a residency period in Den Dolder (The Netherlands), Kings County Hospital, New York or Fukuroda Hospital, Daigo Town, Japan.
We asked the artists to make a small video of 1 to 2 minutes max and in the video (show) and reflect on the artwork they did in the residency, especially given the current times we are living in: What was their focus during the residency, keeping in mind the people they met and worked with in the hospital. Never before have so many people understood better how it feels to have your freedom curtailed.
We think it is important to share these videos, especially now, since our experience is that the vision of the artists and their artworks inspire our followers and sometimes also give hope. We realize everybody is having a difficult time. Please feel free to react on these videos. New York, and thus also Kings County hospital, has been hit especially hard.The patients and staff there can use all the support they can get, as can everyone else involved with -or following- Beautiful Distress: artists, patients, their families, health care workers, volunteers, we want to cheer up everybody.
We may be isolated, but we are not alone.
Beautiful Distress and Het Vijfde Seizoen
Het Vijfde Seizoen - 2006
Life has come to a grinding halt due to the corona virus.
Beautiful Distress and the Fifth Season had to adapt to these difficult times as well and had to virtually stop all activities. The artist in residence programs in Kings County Hospital in New York, and Fukuroda Hospital, Japan are temporarily on hold. The Beautiful Distress House that we operate in Amsterdam Noord is closed and all the planned exhibitions there are postponed.
We hope to jump back into action once everything calms down a bit and it is safe to do so. In this time of social and physical distancing art can connect, give inspiration and the boost we can all use right now. This knowledge has inspired us and “our" artists to give a sign of life and our involvement to our mutual friends and followers by actively using our Beautiful Distress and Fifth Season social media platforms with the artists that have spent a residency period in Den Dolder (The Netherlands), Kings County Hospital, New York or Fukuroda Hospital, Daigo Town, Japan.
We asked the artists to make a small video of 1 to 2 minutes max and in the video (show) and reflect on the artwork they did in the residency, especially given the current times we are living in: What was their focus during the residency, keeping in mind the people they met and worked with in the hospital. Never before have so many people understood better how it feels to have your freedom curtailed.
We think it is important to share these videos, especially now, since our experience is that the vision of the artists and their artworks inspire our followers and sometimes also give hope. We realize everybody is having a difficult time. Please feel free to react on these videos. New York, and thus also Kings County hospital, has been hit especially hard.The patients and staff there can use all the support they can get, as can everyone else involved with -or following- Beautiful Distress: artists, patients, their families, health care workers, volunteers, we want to cheer up everybody.
We may be isolated, but we are not alone.
Beautiful Distress and Het Vijfde Seizoen
Het Vijfde Seizoen - 2017
Life has come to a grinding halt due to the corona virus.
Beautiful Distress and the Fifth Season had to adapt to these difficult times as well and had to virtually stop all activities. The artist in residence programs in Kings County Hospital in New York, and Fukuroda Hospital, Japan are temporarily on hold. The Beautiful Distress House that we operate in Amsterdam Noord is closed and all the planned exhibitions there are postponed.
We hope to jump back into action once everything calms down a bit and it is safe to do so. In this time of social and physical distancing art can connect, give inspiration and the boost we can all use right now. This knowledge has inspired us and “our" artists to give a sign of life and our involvement to our mutual friends and followers by actively using our Beautiful Distress and Fifth Season social media platforms with the artists that have spent a residency period in Den Dolder (The Netherlands), Kings County Hospital, New York or Fukuroda Hospital, Daigo Town, Japan.
We asked the artists to make a small video of 1 to 2 minutes max and in the video (show) and reflect on the artwork they did in the residency, especially given the current times we are living in: What was their focus during the residency, keeping in mind the people they met and worked with in the hospital. Never before have so many people understood better how it feels to have your freedom curtailed.
We think it is important to share these videos, especially now, since our experience is that the vision of the artists and their artworks inspire our followers and sometimes also give hope. We realize everybody is having a difficult time. Please feel free to react on these videos. New York, and thus also Kings County hospital, has been hit especially hard.The patients and staff there can use all the support they can get, as can everyone else involved with -or following- Beautiful Distress: artists, patients, their families, health care workers, volunteers, we want to cheer up everybody.
We may be isolated, but we are not alone.
Beautiful Distress and Het Vijfde Seizoen
On July 10th the exhibition 'I see you are not there' by Sanne Kabalt will open at Beautiful Distress House
What is the relation between pain and the words we give to it? How do we look at photographs of someone who is no longer there? Should the camera do what the eyes cannot? These are some of the questions Sanne Kabalt poses in her recent work.
Kabalt combines photography and writing into installations in the realms of illness, death, madness and loss. 'I see you are not there' is the first extensive solo-exhibition by Sanne Kabalt in Amsterdam. It is organized by Het Vijfde Seizoen, a foundation devoted to the relation between art and mental health. The show includes the project ‘As long as you don’t talk about problems so much you won’t see them anyways’ that Sanne realized at the residency Het Vijfde Seizoen.
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Op 10 juli opent in onze tentoonstellingsruimte Beautiful Distress House de tentoonstelling 'I see you are not there’ van Sanne Kabalt
Wat is de relatie tussen pijn en de woorden die we eraan geven? Hoe kijken we naar foto's van iemand die er niet meer is? Moet de camera doen wat de ogen niet kunnen? Dit zijn enkele van de vragen die Sanne Kabalt stelt in haar recente werk.
Oud resident van het Vijfde Seizoen Sanne Kabalt combineert fotografie en tekst tot installaties over ziekte, dood, waanzin en verlies.
'I see you are not there' is de eerste grote solotentoonstelling van Sanne Kabalt in Amsterdam. De tentoonstelling bevat het project ‘Zolang je niet over problemen praat zie je er toch niets van’, dat Sanne realiseerde tijdens haar residentie in Het Vijfde Seizoen.
In verband met de Covid-19 maatregelen zorgen we voor een veilige omgeving. Beautiful Distress House is ruim, maar er is een limiet aan de mensen die we kunnen ontvangen. Reserveer je plek voor de opening op www.sannekabalt.com/rsvp.
Er zijn ook twee performances waarbij maximaal 12 personen aanwezig kunnen zijn. Tijdens de reguliere openingstijden is reserveren niet nodig.
Ons adres is: Beautiful Distress House
Ms. Van Riemsdijkweg 41A, Amsterdam
op de NDSM werf, naast de veerboot.
Openingstijden:
11 juli - 16 augustus
Donderdag - vrijdag: 11:00 - 18:00 uur
Zaterdag - zondag: 12:00 - 18:00 uur
PERFORMANCES
‘She gave the photographs what they wanted’ is een performance van en door Sanne Kabalt in de tentoonstelling ‘I see you are not there’
De performance wordt uitgevoerd op zaterdag 1 augustus om 15:00 uur & zaterdag 15 augustus om 15:00 uur.
Een visueel medium als fotografie impliceert een focus op een statisch eindresultaat, een eindwerk. Sanne Kabalt is echter geïnteresseerd in het proces dat ervoor en erna komt. De methode die ze gebruikt om ergens te komen. De vragen die onbeantwoord zijn gebleven.
In ‘She gave the photographs what they wanted’ vervaagt de grens tussen het maakproces en het eindresultaat. Het publiek wordt uitgenodigd in de gedachten van de kunstenaar, in de experimenten en mislukkingen, in de voortdurende poging om iets onzichtbaars visueel over te brengen aan anderen.In haar performances brengt Kabalt foto's, tekst, lezen en zingen samen.
De performances zijn exclusief toegankelijk voor 12 personen tegelijk. Reserveer je plek op www.sannekabalt.com/rsvp
De tentoonstelling en de performances worden mede mogelijk gemaakt door het Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst & Het Vijfde Seizoen.
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Beautiful Distress - 2019
Life has come to a grinding halt due to the corona virus.
Beautiful Distress and the Fifth Season had to adapt to these difficult times as well and had to virtually stop all activities. The artist in residence programs in Kings County Hospital in New York, and Fukuroda Hospital, Japan are temporarily on hold. The Beautiful Distress House that we operate in Amsterdam Noord is closed and all the planned exhibitions there are postponed.
We hope to jump back into action once everything calms down a bit and it is safe to do so. In this time of social and physical distancing art can connect, give inspiration and the boost we can all use right now. This knowledge has inspired us and “our" artists to give a sign of life and our involvement to our mutual friends and followers by actively using our Beautiful Distress and Fifth Season social media platforms with the artists that have spent a residency period in Den Dolder (The Netherlands), Kings County Hospital, New York or Fukuroda Hospital, Daigo Town, Japan.
We asked the artists to make a small video of 1 to 2 minutes max and in the video (show) and reflect on the artwork they did in the residency, especially given the current times we are living in: What was their focus during the residency, keeping in mind the people they met and worked with in the hospital. Never before have so many people understood better how it feels to have your freedom curtailed.
We think it is important to share these videos, especially now, since our experience is that the vision of the artists and their artworks inspire our followers and sometimes also give hope. We realize everybody is having a difficult time. Please feel free to react on these videos. New York, and thus also Kings County hospital, has been hit especially hard.The patients and staff there can use all the support they can get, as can everyone else involved with -or following- Beautiful Distress: artists, patients, their families, health care workers, volunteers, we want to cheer up everybody.
We may be isolated, but we are not alone.
Beautiful Distress and Het Vijfde Seizoen
