Artist Talk with Martijn Hendriks

In the context of the group exhibition ‘It ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it’, Dutch artist Martijn Hendriks has been invited to talk about his work in the exhibition and discuss it in relation to the broader topics in his practice as part of a conversation with curator Melanie Bühler.

Martijn Hendriks is interested in the strange status and possibilities of material sculpture in times of immaterial labor. In his work he considers how sculptures incorporate and move through different networks - personal, social, technological, financial, material. He explores how art works can contaminate these networks, dissolve their boundaries, or create their own smaller temporary networks.

His works in the current exhibition incorporate materials like commercial display stands, ergonomic body supports, water, Financial Times newspapers, energy saver lamps and cables, and reflect a fundamentally hybrid state of things in which boundaries between different networks and frames of reference continuously dissolve.

Melanie Bühler lives and works in Amsterdam. She is responsible for Lunch Bytes an international platform/discussion series on art and digital culture. Lunch Bytes was initiated in 2011 by the Goethe-Institut Washington, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Pro Helvetia in Washington DC.

Programme
16.00 Martijn Hendriksma in conversation with Melanie Bühler
17.00 Q&A
17.30 Drinks and possibility to visit the exhibition

Language: English
Admission: Free
RSVP: assistant@manifesta.org