"since each of us was several, there was already quite a crowd"

1001 resumes | 1001 cv's
an archivist research project on hybrid biographies

At the kunstvlaai rhizomatic will start building an archive of hybrid biographies in the form of complete resumes: the collective project 1001 resumes. A conventional cv is written in such a way that it fits with the job to apply for. It doesn't meet with the rules of the job market to mention all details of our lives. We asked creatives who worked with us earlier to send in full resumes focusing on jobs they've done to make money and focusing on exhibitions, artistic projects and crucial events in their lives. Later in the process we realized that hybrid biographies like those of artists often go together with migration and a nomadic live.

We hope the result to be a sort of biographical poetry – an impressive, non-linear multitude of stories. We try to confront the formal and competitive structure of the cv with the intimate character of a diary by making biographical aspects visible that would never be public otherwise - as a form of alternative historiography. In 2013 the archive will be presented in the context of the video project "de sollicitatie opera | the resume opera" that will be performed by professional opera singers in job centres (uitzendbureaus) in Amsterdam-Noord. A project on labor, immaterial labor and the existential situation of artists within their hybrid working realities.

breaking the rules of conventional cv-ism and
writing a beautiful piece of resume-poetry

you are welcome to email us your hybrid cv(-poetry):

it can be

-anonymous or with your name on it
-written or performed
-one page or more
-true or pure fiction
-in your native language or in english

focusing on

-artistic and creative work
-exhibitions and projects
-any other sort of work experience
-school and study experiences
-travel experience and any other form of migration and nomadism
-crucial moments in your live

Kunstvlaai: Festival of Independents, 9th edition

23 November - 02 December 2012, Amsterdam
www.kunstvlaai.nl

In november 2012, the 9th edition of Kunstvlaai: Festival of Independents, titled !INexactly THIS" took place in Amsterdam with the contributions of over 70 independent art institutions, art schools and artist-led initiatives presenting live art, exhibitions, film screenings, archival presentations, lectures and workshops.

This edition of the Kunstvlaai positions itself amidst the dynamic characteristics of self-organized art initiatives and project structures. As a rejection of the exacting hyper-production that has yielded repeated collapses of global capitalism, it turns toward the fluctuating working methodologies and imaginative propositions of smaller players in the cultural field. As a temporal platform of ideas, collective experimentation and intuitive organizational approaches the visual identity of INexactly THIS draws inspiration from probability principles and subatomic pathways as seen in the Feynman diagrams, which altered the field of particle physics in the mid 20th century.

Participants based in the Netherlands:
1646, ADA (Area for Debate & Art), Amsterdam Dinner Movement, Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier, Apiece For Artists, Attraction of the Opposites, Baracca, Berm Collective / Stichting Berm, Boogbrug Vianen, Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, De Fabriek, De Service Garage, DEFKA, de Appel Curatorial Programme, Dutch Art Institute / MFA ArtEZ in association with If I Can"t Dance, I Don"t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution; Casco; Van Abbemuseum & guests, Extrapool, Fam. Ruim, FLAM, Foam Lab, Frank Mohr Institute, Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Architectural Design Department), Girls Like Us, Goleb, HorizonVerticaal, HMK (HotelMariaKapel), Kees Koomen, Kunsthuis SYB, Kunsttraject, KUS, Location Z, Lost Painters, Lost Property, MaHKU (Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design), KABK (Master Artistic Research, Master ArtScience), Sandberg Instituut (All departments), Piet Zwart Institute (Master of Fine Arts), St. Joost / AKV (Master of Fine Arts), Metropolis M, MILK, MOIRA, Nest, Nieuwe Vide, NP3, Onomatopee, P.art of Your Life, P/////AKT, Pietmondriaan.com, Plan B, Planet Art, Polly"s Picture Show, PrintRoom, Public Space with a Roof, RC de Ruimte, Rhizomatic, Rongwrong, Roodkapje & WORM, Salon Sur+, San Serriffe, Sign, SMBA, TAAK, Teto Projects & W139, Urban Living Room, The One Minutes, Trendbeheer, Upominki, Werkplaats Typografie, Whatspace, Wild-C, MU with KOP-Breda, Kunstpodium T, CBK "s- Hertogenbosch, and Landkunst (BKKC), WORM.FilmWerkplaats, Zet Foundation.

International Participants:
98Weeks (Beirut), After the Butcher (Berlin), AIT (Tokyo), Amit Charan & Laura Preston (Wellington), Arbour Lake Sghool (Calgary), Atopia (Oslo), Arrow Factory (Beijing), Britto Arts Trust (Dhaka), CEIA (Belo Horizonte), Centre for Visual Introspection (Bucharest), CHIO#C / KIOSK (Chisinau), First Floor Gallery (Harare), Green Papaya Art Projects (Quezon City), Indonesian Visual Art Archive – IVAA (Yogyakarta), JAAGA (Bengaluru), Instituto Buena Bista (Curacao), Komplot (Brussels), Más Arte Más Acción (Bogota), Mumbai Art Room (Mumbai), (Or Nothing), Partizaning (Moscow), Platform Open Place (Kiev), Red Shoes (Paris), Society (Sydney), Taleb Cherche Midi (Marrakesh),The Cube (Taipei), The Institute of Wishful Thinking (New York), The Reading Room (Bangkok). (As on 1st November 2012)

Curators: Natasha Ginwala (IND), Fleur van Muiswinkel (NL) Producer: Yasser Ballemans

INexactly THIS is generously supported by: #
Gemeente Amsterdam, Dienst Zuidas; Metropolis M; Gemeente Amsterdam, Stadsdeel Zuid; Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam, Masters Rietveld Academie; VSB Fonds; Cultuurfonds BNG; Mondriaan Fonds; Arts Collaboratory; Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten; Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds; Office for Contemporary Art, Norway; NSW Government, Trade & Investment Arts NSW.