Visiting Hours, 2019
dialogue between Noémie Solomon and k.g. Guttman

I ask the audience to close one eye is a cartographic coming-into-form of personal/ political latencies of love, questions of genetic pre-dispositions, and animate/inanimate relations. Using live performance tactics of proximity, framing, sensing, pausing and pacing, I introduce several items into the space that do not belong to each other immediately

PhDArts, international doctorate programme in art and design, is a collaboration between Leiden University Academy of Creative and Performing Arts and the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague

Practice-based Research in Art

Graduate 2020

Art Research Programme: Whose Afterlife?

This fall k.g. Guttmann will teach the course ‘Whose Afterlife?’, which is part of the Art Research Programme of the Lectorate Art Theory & Practice.

The course Whose Afterlife? will address the key concept of the archive in order to challenge students to produce new forms of collecting, making and organizing in art practice.

The course is influenced by questions that run through k.g.’s art practice of how to launch the archive into the present moment. k.g. uses performance, video and drawing practices to create new territories from historical traces

This text by artist k.g. Guttman is produced through the context of the PhDArts Leiden University& KABK Den Haag, that offers a doctorate in art and design.

The text examines the theoretical notions underlying the installation / performance Fear of losing the details (2014), a site-specific project that took place in the artist’s childhood home in North York, Canada (January–March 2014).