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This summer’s The One Minutes Series is ‘Mind-body-problem’. Artist duo Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen selected videos that depict the relationship between the soul and the body – whether as a metaphor, a problem or even a bad joke. ‘Mind-body-problem’ asks the age-old question: how can matter ever come to life?

The 22 selected videos were sent in from Belgium, Benin, France, Germany, Greece, Iraq, Netherlands, Morocco, Pakistan, Senegal, Spain and United Kingdom. ‘Mind-body-problem’ is a collaboration with Maastricht Institute of Arts (NL). Breure and Van Hulzen did a workshop with students of the institute. Also students of RHoK academie in Etterbeek, Brussels (BE) produced videos.

Thursday Night Live! at Het Nieuwe Instituut will present the online premiere Thursday 8 July at 8pm CEST. Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen, Julia van Mourik (director of The One Minutes Foundation) and the participating artists will be present at Crowdcast. Open discussion with the public is encouraged.
thursdaynight.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en/activities/mindbodyproblem
crowdcast.io/e/premiere-mind-body

“The mind-body-problem is a question one runs into almost inevitably when working with figurative sculpture. How can matter ever come to life? It is an age old question in itself that inspired the medieval Arabic novel of Ibn Tufayl in which a boy growing up on a deserted island dissects the dead deer that raised him, looking at the intestines, the lungs, the heart, the brain, in a search for the part that made her alive. It seemed to us a question worthwhile to ask to our colleagues, our fellow filmmakers and artists, and one that evoked many counter-questions, such as:
Would you like to be cremated or burried?
Does a fly have thoughts?
Can I see what someone else sees?
Is the cat in the box alive or not?
If the soul inhabits a body, could a spirit inhabit a sculpture?
What is the difference between a video of a man and his mirror image?
Is a fight with an umbrella ever a spiritual struggle?
Why is it so hard to say goodbye?”

Sander Breure and Witte van Hulzen are two cousins who collaborate on the production of videos and performances focusing on human behaviour; the encoded structures in that behaviour, the influence of time and place on the relationships between people. Theater has been an important factor in their work from the very start. They studied at Rijksakademie voor beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam in 2017 and began making sculptures – assemblages in the form of human figures.

Participating artists:
Heidi Vogels
Elle Burchill
Thierry Oussou
Sabine Mooibroek
Elisabeth Molin
Michelle Son
Kani Marouf
Vincent Verhoef
Natasha Papadopoulou
Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec
Denise Kehoe
Emma van der Put
Peter Ewig
Christine Moldrickx
Raluca Moldoveanu
Bas Schevers
Ben Rivers
Antonis Pittas
Daouda Dia
Iqra Tanveer
Paulien Oltheten
Hamza Halloubi

Download the trailer: vimeo.com/563627324
Download the trailer announcing the online premiere: vimeo.com/563604885

Download an image: theoneminutes.org/content/5-about/3-press/heidi-vogels-untitled-1999-netherlands-the-artist-courtesy-by-the-one-minutes-foundation.png

‘Mind-body-problem’ will tour museums and cultural spaces around the world subscribed to The One Minutes Series in July and August 2021.

‘Mind-body-problem’ is a collaboration with Maastricht Institute of Arts and was made possible by Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, BNG Cultuurfonds and Mondriaan Fund.

The One Minutes Foundation produces and distributes one-minute videos from an artistic point of view, offering an international stage for people to create, engage and connect.
Every two months, The One Minutes Foundation puts out a new series of 60-second films that investigate how we perceive and engage with moving image. Museums and cultural organisations around the world subscribe to the series.

You can now search The One Minutes Collection online: https://tinyurl.com/yhwmjvsm

Please send in your videos for ‘Forked Tongue’ curated by Madison Bycroft before 15 July and participate in the project! theoneminutes.org/participate

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