Public Space With A Roof currently / upcoming / recently Relocated Identities Series of exhibitions and lectures / movie program May / June / July 2005 Public Space With A Roof will feature different artistic viewpoints dealing with migration in the broadest sense in the month May, June and July. The project Relocated Identities aims to introduce different perspectives on the phenomenon of migration. Qualities of the visual arts as subtlety and creative invention can make us take a distance from pre-formulated ideas and concepts. I The first part of the project RELOCATED IDENTITIES, presented by Public Space With A Roof, is an exhibition on the overexposure of identity-related issues in art events. Can one ever represent overexposure without adding to it? Exhibition-making is always an articulation within the past, the present and the future of other articulations ­ of other exhibitions, of other exposures, of the totality of the themes/issues handled, of the people involved, of the vulnerability of those referred to. Eventually, of wounds that no exposure within an art-world context could ever claim to heal. At present, socio-politically engaged art appears to have become the victim of its own overexposure. To which extent has the excess of exhibitions on identity-related themes become a determining parameter, patronising the artists and issues curated? Could overexposure have engendered a negative impact on the meaning and the content of this engagement? Or even on the issues handled? Could art have any such power? Or could the context of its staging? II Other than confirming the notion of migration as an exotic and foreign impulse to a stable core-culture, RELOC ID II will look at migration as a concept essentially inherent to our culture(s). Instead of focusing on the migration of people, RELOC ID II will look at other players on a globalized stage, which are constantly in motion. What happens to peoplešs best friends, the objects, which we love to produce, exchange, and carry with us on our way, surround ourselves with, and through which we express ourselves? What changes do they undergo during their unnoticed journey over this planet? And is that motion really as imperceptible as it appears to our busy minds, or is place and origin, destination, transport, expansion and the emerging and sudden death of whole families of objects detectable instead? What is the cultural history of our everyday products, and is the promotional space associated with the products the last fortress of social imagination? RELOCATED IDENTITIES II examines migration from the back-door, regarding the major moves and changes which our cultures undergo from the perspective of our cultural objects.

Public Space With A Roof Overtoom 301 1054 HW Amsterdam The Netherlands pswar@xs4all.nl Public Space With A Roof is open from Thursday to Sunday 3 to 7 pm Relocated Identities 1