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Bik Van der Pol and Yates Norton on Continuous Reconfigurations
Artist duo Bik Van der Pol and Curator at Rupert, Yates Norton will reflect on what Bik Van der Pol have called the ‘continuous reconfigurations of places, histories and publics’.
Bik Van der Pol
Through their practice Bik Van der Pol aim to articulate and understand how art can produce a public sphere and space for speculation and imagination. This includes forms of mediation through which publicness is not only defined but also created. Their work follows from research of how to activate situations as to create a platform for various kinds of communicative activities. Bik Van der Pol’s mode of working consists of setting up the conditions for encounter, where they develop a process of working that allows for continuous reconfigurations of places, histories and publics. Their practice is site-specific and collaborative, with dialogue as a mode of transfer; a “passing through”, understood in its etymological meaning of “a speech across or between two or more people, out of which may emerge new understandings”. In fact, they consider the element of “passing through” as vital. It is temporal, and implies action and the development of new forms of discourse. Their practice is both instigator and result of this method.
Yates Norton
Yates Norton is a curator and researcher currently working at Rupert, Vilnius, where he is the curator for the public programmes and has worked closely with the residency and alternative education programmes. Most recently he has been working with questions of care and interdependence, particularly as they have been informed from the perspectives of disability rights.
