Stroom School 'Another Reality': Lina Bo Bardi Fan Day

Saturday 2 July 2016, 12.00-17.00 hrs
Location: Stroom, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Language: English
| Entrance: free
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Part of Stroom School, a public program of lectures, tours and events accompanying the exhibition Another Reality. After Lina Bo Bardi.

A Fan Day is an opportunity to share personal experiences, it is not a symposium with talks and lectures. What does Lina Bo Bardi mean to you personally, or to you as an artist, designer or researcher. The Lina Bo Bardi Fan Day we organize in collaboration with artist Wendelien van Oldenborgh and various Bo Bardi Fans like Marcelo Rezende, Mike Cooter, Finn Beames, Mark Pimlott, Max Risselada, Laura Smith, Krijn Christaansen en Jorn Konijn looks at Bo Bardi's work from various angles.

Lina Bo Bardi loved to talk with people. Her Sunday brunches were known to result in lively conversations around the fireplace in her Casa de Vidro. Let us turn Stroom into Lina Bo Bardi's livingroom on Saturday 2 July. An afternoon to talk to interesting people and to watch great films on Bo Bardi. And there will be the launch of a special publication, a performance everyone can participate in; food and drinks will be served and there will be nice Brazilian music.

From 12 noon there is a continuous showing of various films and documentaires:

Marcelo Machado, The Political Architecture of Lina Bo Bardi (Unhão, MASP, SESC), 2014 (90 min.)
Aurélio Michiles and Isa Grinspun Ferraz, Lina Bo Bardi, 1993 (50 min.)
Laat op de avond, na een korte wandeling, episode 'Ga naar Bahia' had Lina hem gezegd', architect Aldo van Eyck bezoekt São Paolo en Salvador (VPRO 13-05-1996,  89 min.)

OTHER PROGRAM ITEMS
(subject to change)

12.00 - 12.30 hrs:
Wendelien van Oldenborgh about The Didactic Room

12.30 - 13.30 hrs:
Beauty and the Right to the Ugly, a film by Wendelien van Oldenborgh, shot on location in 't Karregat, Eindhoven, 2014 (55 min.)

13.30 - 14.00 hrs:
Fan statements by Laura Smith (architect, Lina Bo Bardi Fellow 2013), Finn Beames (theater director, Lina Bo Bardi Fellow 2015), Max Risselada (em. Professor of Architecture TU Delft)

14.00 - 15.15 hrs:
Marcelo Rezende (researcher, critic, curator and former director of the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, that was founded by Lina Bo Bardi) in conversation with Wendelien van Oldenborgh

15.15 - 15.30 hrs:
Presentation of the publication Times of Complexity and Bewilderment. Reflecting on Lina Bo Bardi's "Design at an Impasse"

15.30 - 16.00 hrs:
Fan statements by Mark Pimlott (artist/architect) and Krijn Christiaansen (designer)

16.00 - 17.00 hrs:
MASS *, performance by Finn Beames and Paloma Gormley, music by Tiernan Beames

17.00 hrs:
Food, drinks and music (from the 1960s and 70s - (Via Brazil)

* MASS is a live performance -- which may leave an installation behind it -- in which an audience inhabits and alters a material landscape. Layered with music and text, the piece takes what seems to be an immutable object and explores its plasticity, to ask questions about our relationships with built environments and our capacity to effect change within them.
The piece (which is still under development) was initially a response to some research undertaken by Finn Beames in Brazil, as part of the Lina Bo Bardi Fellowship 2015. Awarded by the British Council, this Fellowship promotes the exploration of Bo Bardi's work and her impact on culture as it is still felt today. This showing is supported by the British Council and Stroom Den Haag, and produced by London-based live arts company Oedipa.


The first Lina Bo Bardi Fan Day took place in November 2010 as part of Van Oldenborghs presentation Lina Bo Bardi: The Didactic Room in the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.

Lina Bo Bardi Fan Day at Stroom Den Haag
photo: Eric de Vries, courtesy Stroom Den Haag
Lina Bo Bardi Fan Day at Stroom Den Haag
photo: Eric de Vries, courtesy Stroom Den Haag
Lina Bo Bardi Fan Day at Stroom Den Haag
photo: Eric de Vries, courtesy Stroom Den Haag
Lina Bo Bardi Fan Day at Stroom Den Haag
photo: Eric de Vries, courtesy Stroom Den Haag
Lina Bo Bardi Fan Day at Stroom Den Haag
photo: Eric de Vries, courtesy Stroom Den Haag
Lina Bo Bardi Fan Day at Stroom Den Haag
photo: Eric de Vries, courtesy Stroom Den Haag
Lina Bo Bardi Fan Day at Stroom Den Haag
photo: Eric de Vries, courtesy Stroom Den Haag
Lina Bo Bardi Fan Day at Stroom Den Haag
photo: Eric de Vries, courtesy Stroom Den Haag
Lina Bo Bardi Fan Day at Stroom Den Haag
photo: Eric de Vries, courtesy Stroom Den Haag
Another Reality. After Lina Bo Bardi
photo: design: Manuel Raeder