Culture of Control

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Date: 3 October t/m 13 December 2015
Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague and other locations

For ten weeks, Stroom Den Haag focuses on the theme of control: from nudging and self-surveillance to talking fridges and military urbanism. No dystopian scenarios or raised fingers, but a genuine curiosity about a phenomenon that influences our lives and cities in countless ways. Through art, scenography, film, design, and reflection, Culture of Control explores, manipulates, and challenges familiar and unfamiliar control mechanisms. Stroom Den Haag collaborates with a wide range of individuals and organizations for this program, including AFFR, ICX, Platform-Scenography, and Open!

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 20:00–22:00
Culture of Control: evening in collaboration with Platform Scenography
During a joint evening organized by Stroom Den Haag and Platform Scenography, the theme of Culture of Control is further explored through scenography, design, and criminology.

3 October – 13 December 2015
SHOW MORE
Location: Stroom Den Haag
Central to this period is SHOW MORE, a video installation by Bruno Listopad and Nikola Knežević about self-objectification through online broadcasting. Stroom challenged choreographer Bruno Listopad and architect/artist Nikola Knežević to reflect on the growing influence of control on our personal lives. Rather than presenting individuals as mere victims of surveillance by corporations and governments, Listopad and Knežević show people actively trying to control their own public representation.

3 October – 3 December 2015
The Hague: City Without Walls?
Location: Stroom Den Haag (window installation)
In Stroom’s front window, architect Floris van der Zee presents an exhibition on urban defense mechanisms such as walls, moats, and ramparts, using historical and contemporary examples, including Europol and the ICC.

Sunday 11 October 2015, 18:15–19:45 (film screening at 20:15)
Control in Film
Location: Lantaren-Venster, Rotterdam
The Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam and Stroom Den Haag present an interview and film evening that explores our relationship with various systems of control, from the Cold War to modern privacy invasions and predictive policing. Saskia van Stein (director of Bureau Europa) will talk with Monique Koemans (criminologist and historian), Juha van 't Zelfde (curator and researcher), and Francesco Garutti (editor and curator). The evening concludes with a screening of Ex Machina.

Thursday 5 November 2015, 10:00–17:00 (public welcome from 12:00–17:00)
Anna Moreno: Public Lesson
Location: Stroom Den Haag
Artist Anna Moreno moves her classroom from the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) to the SHOW MORE exhibition space for one day, giving a lesson to Artistic Research students and interested visitors.

Tuesday 10 November 2015, 19:30
Meet Up: Ben Hayes (Statewatch) & Christopher Soghoian (ACLU)
Location: Het Nutshuis, The Hague
Ben Hayes and Christopher Soghoian engage with the public on one of the biggest contemporary challenges: how much and what kind of security do we need without sacrificing fundamental freedoms? Organized by Human Security Collective, The Hague International Center for Civic Hacks, Partos, Border Sessions, and Stroom Den Haag.

Monday 23 November 2015, 15:00–20:00
Action Research into the Mechanics of Control
Location: The International Zone of The Hague
How does control work—specifically, how is it spatially designed into the city? Platform-Scenography applies scenographic thinking to reveal, dismantle, or even reinforce control mechanisms. In late November, the platform hosts a day for designers, scenographers, researchers, and artists in The Hague to analyze the functioning of buildings like Europol and the ICC, and the International Zone as a whole.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 20:00
Constant Dullaart: Lecture – 'Balconism, neoliberal lulz and resurrected armies'
Location: Stroom Den Haag
Constant Dullaart’s work often addresses changing mechanisms of control in the online world. He uses the internet primarily as an alternative space for presentation and (mis)representation. His politically driven work critiques corporate control over how we perceive the world and how we passively adopt their language. Dullaart will speak about his Balconism Manifesto, which opens with:
“We are all outside on the balcony now. Standing on a platform made out of a tweet into corporate versions of public space.”

Sunday 22 November 2015, 15:00
Tour of SHOW MORE
Location: Stroom Den Haag
Bruno Listopad and Nikola Knežević will give a tour of the exhibition.

Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 December 2015, 12:00–17:00
Presentations: Disorderly Group Behaviour
Location: Stroom Den Haag
Nikola Knežević, Céline Talens, Katinka de Jonge, Abla elBahrawi, and Elmo Vermijs present their research on disorderly group behavior in public space, during the final weekend of SHOW MORE.

Open!
In 2004, the first Open! cahier was published with the theme of (in)security. Now, over 10 years later, the online platform Open! reflects on and looks ahead at the topic of safety and control, through a series of new articles and artistic contributions by:

- Jorinde Seijdel
- Marc Schuilenburg & Rik Peeters
- Michael Seemann
- Claire Birchall
- Elian Somers
- Abla Bahrawy

Wednesday 23 September 2015, 20:00
Secret Cinema
A secret film at a secret location during Top Secret Cinema @ The Hague, organized in collaboration with AFFR.

Acknowledgements
Culture of Control is made possible with support from the Creative Industries Fund NL, Mondriaan Fund, and the Municipality of The Hague.

Flyer image: Jillian Mayer – How to Hide from Cameras
http://www.jillianmayer.net