Closing weekend SHOW MORE: Disorderly Group Behavior in Public Space

Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 December 2015, 12-17 hrs
Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Entrance: free
Reservations: not needed
Language spoken: English
Part of Culture of Control

Presentations during the closing weekend of SHOW MORE.

Over the course of 2014-2015 a research group of the Sandberg Institute initiated by architectural designer Elmo Vermijs focused on the topic of Disorderly Group Behavior in Public Space (DGBPS), aiming to connect and take hold of it from an architectural and socio-psychological perspective. Several experts from both fields were consulted and a wide range of issues were discussed such as: performativity, acting, randomness, social media, democracy, crowd control, individuality, public sphere and semi-public space. Members of the research group include: initiator Elmo Vermijs, participant at the Lectoraat Art and Public Space, Rietveld Academy, and the participants Abla elBahrawy, Nikola Knezevic, Katinka De Jonge (with Céline Talens), of the School of missing studies, former master's program at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. During the closing weekend of SHOW MORE they will present and discuss the results of their research.

PROGRAM

Day 1: Saturday 12 December 2015

12:00 hrs - 13:00 hrs
- Disorderly Group Behavior hyper diagram production
This exercise is silent.
As a kick off visitors are invited to participate in the production/drawing of the DGBPS-diagram with the research group members. It is a form of a game according to the following principle: the words 'disorderly group behavior in public space' are written on a board and everybody is welcome to get involved; add, change, draw, connect, erase, question, and shape the content of the diagram.

14:00 hrs - 16:00 hrs
- No conclusion reading group
Close reading of 1 selected text moderated by Clare Butcher. The reading group will take place in the lobby of Stroom. This is an invitation to walk through, join, leave comments etc. The text can be downloaded as a pdf here (click on the title):
The Distribution of the Sensible
(an extract from Jacques Ranciere's book Politics of Aesthetics)

Day 2: Sunday 13 December 2015

10:00 hrs - 12:30 hrs (private session)
- "You say it once, I hear it twice."
Symprovisation
Erik Hagoort and the participants of the DGBPS research group had a conditioned conversation for two hours and forty minutes. They made variations on a motif proposed by Hagoort, while they practiced to avoid asking questions and avoid giving answers.
Conversation partners: Abla elBahrawy, Erik Hagoort, Katinka de Jonge, Nikola Knežević, Céline Talens.
For more about symprovisation: www.erikhagoort.nl

Exhibition SHOW MORE open to the public from 12 hrs

14:00 hrs - 16:00 hrs
- Disorderly meditation ritual and presentation of individual projects
Lunch moderated by Tina Cake Line + display and presentation by other researchers.