Slide Show at Spinoza Day..

Well, I guess you can't win them all.....On 23 November there was a Spinoza Day at Paradiso in Amsterdam. It was day with several lectures and two debates so I thought it might be good to present Hirschhorn's Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival there, as a visual backdrop to all the talking.

Since the organizers thought is was a good idea, I asked Thomas to create some slides, which he did: 13 great slides explaining his perspective as an artist on his project. Unfortunately, the people of the first debate did not want us, since there were several artists in the debate and they did not want to have someone else's work in the background. Then, the first debate also rejected us (I think the term 'visual violence'' was used..). So then it was decided to show the slides after one of the lectures, but we were not allowed to introduce the project.

So in the end, the slides were shown out of the blue to an understandably baffled public...