VISION

Program

Radical Reversibility examines the interplay between image, gaze and perception from multiple angles: artistic, philosophical, non-anthropocentric, and scientific. RR functions as an open platform and a laboratory for practice and theory where artists, writers, curators and academics seek to contextualize their own work within new practices and engage in discourses in and beyond the arts. The lens-based image often forms the starting point of RR’s projects, but is usually embedded within the wider scope of the (visual) arts and societal, scientific and ecological topics. RR shares its work through curated exhibitions, online and print publications, editions, symposia, and other events.
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Exhibition view From Seeing to Acting, Looiersgracht 60, September 2021.
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Of Gaia and Ouranos

exhibition

Radical Reversibility and Looiersgracht 60 present Of Gaia and Ouranos, a new exhibition by Roger Cremers and Doina Kraal, curated by Frank van der Stok and Taco Hidde Bakker. 

26 November 2023 - 22 December 2023

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Of Gaia and Ouranos

exhibition opening performance

Roger Cremers & Doina Kraal, Of Gaia and Ouranos 
Exhibition at Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam: 26.11—22.12.2023
Public opening: 25.11.2023, 7:30–10 PM (performance at 8 PM)
Performance Of Rheia and Kronos in collaboration with musicians Boele Weemhoff and Sylvian Kloens
 

25 November 2023 7:30 pm

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Spiritus - Archive Event V - Oumuamua

finissage performance residency music

Archive Event V at Looiersgracht 60 concludes the first Public Research Residency with artists Doina Kraal and Roger Cremers, who will perform Oumuamua, a transhistorical sound play in collaboration with musicians Boele Weemhoff and Sylvian Kloens.

10 September 2022 8:00 pm

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Spiritus - Speculations on Cosmic Modesty

lecture talk

A talk and public discussion about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, the imagination and speculations about extraterrestrial life and intelligence, with guests Philippe Ailleris and Taede A. Smedes and moderators Doina Kraal and Taco Hidde Bakker.  

3 September 2022 4:00 pm

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Spiritus - Storytelling Event

work in progress talk text performance

For the second event in the context of the Public Research Residency at Looiersgracht we invite guests for a storytelling event (a miniature time travel through objects and live stories). 

27 August 2022 4:00 pm

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Spiritus - UFO Film Screening with Bram Roza

film screening

Film screening of The Phenomenon (James Fox, 2020) with an introduction by UFO-researcher Bram Roza about the film and his own documentary-in-progress, De UFO’s van Soesterberg

20 August 2022 7:30 pm

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Spiritus - Public Research Residency with Doina Kraal & Roger Cremers

exhibition work in progress residency

Looiersgracht 60 and Radical Reversibility are welcoming Amsterdam-based artists Doina Kraal (1980) and Roger Cremers (1972) as the first participants of the Public Research Residency.

8 August 2022 - 10 September 2022

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

All and Nothing (Film Program)

film screening

Sunday 3 October the exhibition will close with a film program curated by Julian Ross (Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS)). Two screenings of a special film program 'All and Nothing' connected to the theme of the exhibition—curated and introduced by researcher and film programmer Julian Ross.
13:30–14:45 hrs & 15:00–16:15 hrs (max. 40 visitors per screening, admission 5 euro for 1 time slot). Please show your QR code as proof of vaccination or a negative test result upon entry of the screening room.

3 October 2021 1:30 pm

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam.

Ecotherapy

performance

Ecotherapy is a sound performance by the artist Yoichi Kamimura, whose installation Phantom Power is part of From Seeing to Acting.

3 October 2021 4:30 pm

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Fire, or How to Get Rid of Those Embarrassing Graphic Markers

lecture

Performative lecture 'Fire, or how to get rid of those embarrassing graphic markers’ by Ilse van Rijn. On living/writing with a more-than-human world. Followed by a conversation with Ilse van Rijn and Martine Stig about their collaboration and respective works ‘Fire’ and 'The Reflection of the Man'.

2 October 2021 4:00 pm

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Artist Talk: Mustapha Azeroual

lecture

Artist talk + Q&A by artist Mustapha Azeroual about his Echo and Radiance series, in which he explores the materiality and conditions of light through experimental photography and sculpture.

26 September 2021 2:00 pm

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Artist Talk: Hiryczuk/ Van Oevelen

lecture

Artist talk by Hiryczuk/ Van Oevelen about their current (visual) research about what seeing can mean for our relation with the environment.

26 September 2021 3:00 pm

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Non-Eye Centric Drawings - Performative

performance

Non-Eye Centric Drawings - performative part.
Artist Murat Yildiz will draw live in the exhibition space.

16 September 2021 - 24 September 2021

Looiersgracht 60 (Wed-Sun 12-6PM)

From Seeing to Acting

exhibition

The exhibition From Seeing to Acting invites us to (re)consider the mutual relationships between seeing and acting. 

16 September 2021 - 3 October 2021

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam (Wed-Sun 12-8PM)

Seeing without a Seer

finissage talk

The art cooperative Radical Reversibility and Looiersgracht 60 cordially invite you to the finissage of the exhibition Seeing without a Seer this Sunday 30 September at 14 h.

For this occasion Radical Reversibility (RR) has invited two highly original authors, Peter Delpeut and Taco Hidde Bakker, who both published a book recently. In an informal conversation with RR they will talk about their respective projects in which they address topics revolving around ‘the act of seeing’, imagery and various photographic practices.

30 September 2018 - 30 September 2018

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Ocularcentrism

lecture

Lecture by Agnieszka Wolodzko about ocularcentrism during the workshop Seeing without a Seer for students of the Master Institute AKV St. Joost and honours programme of Artez Hogeschool.

29 September 2018 - 29 September 2018

Seeing without a Seer

masterclass

Masterclass Seeing without a Seer with honours programme Artez and Master Insitute St. Joost.

29 September 2018 - 29 September 2018

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Seeing without a Seer

symposium

In the context of an ongoing research programme the art cooperative Radical Reversibility organizes, in collaboration with Looiersgracht 60, the exhibition and symposium Seeing without a Seer.

21 September 2018 - 21 September 2018

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Seeing without a Seer

exhibition

Seeing without a Seer explores alternative ways of looking, thinking and image-making that evade the central position of the viewer. 

20 September 2018 - 30 September 2018

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Prognostics - On the Entanglement of Image and Gaze

lecture

The Prognostics lecture series at UniArts inquires into the future of art by taking a closer look at the new languages, models and forms that the latest generation of artists are creating in response to the urgent questions arising today in the domains of art, politics and sociology.

29 November 2017 - 29 November 2017

UniArts, Helsinki

CO-OP Talk

talk

Talk with Martine Stig and Sjoerd van Oevelen, with an introduction by Lars Willumeit, curator of the Unseen CO-OP.

24 September 2017 - 24 September 2017

The Living Room, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam

Unseen CO-OP

exhibition

For Unseen CO-OP – the new addition to Unseen, the international platform for contemporary photography – curator Lars Willumeit has selected RR together with 12 international art collectives to present themselves.

21 September 2017 - 24 September 2017

UNSEEN Amsterdam, Westergasfabriek