FATFORM, 2010-2012
in collaboration with Daniela Bershan and Jonas Ohlsson
FATFORM was an art project (2010-2012), initiated by Daniela Bershan, Kaleb de Groot and Jonas Ohlsson, that challenged the idea of a traditional platform and its basic functionality. Local and international artists met, exchanged, exhibited and performed together until the apocalypse in 2012 at one of the best underground locations in Amsterdam: the rooftop parking garage Klieverink in Amsterdam-Zuidoost. With an experimental cross-programming, different audiences were attracted from various fields such as contemporary art, biology, hip hop, new media, philosophy, performance and reggae and are encouraged (or basically forced) to at least have a peek at the other.
This project was an experiment to find a form that is open enough to have space for diverse and often non-compatible networks. By not trying to minimize these incompatibilities but rather to propose a form that is FAT enough to contain all radicals.
FATFORM produced three big exhibitions: Fatform (2010), The Island (curated by Irene de Craen and Jonas Ohlsson, 2012) and Present Forever (curated by Daniela Bershan, Ad de Jong and Manuel Klappe, 2012). See The Island and Present Forever elsewhere on this site. Find out more on FATFORM at www.fatform.com
