HMK at 
: Love Disaster, a live exercise by Mariëlle Videler
18 – 20 February 2011, Stockholm, Sweden
"Our search for love and contact knows explosive forms. It may happen that this search degenerates into a disaster. The execution of a disaster happens very quickly, situations change within a few seconds. Is, with disaster entering, all vision of paradise lost?"
In February, HMK presents a project by Mariëlle Videler at the Supermarket Artfair. The fair hosts 71 artistrun centres from 25 European, American and Balkan countries. The Netherlands are well-represented with projects by HMK, the Zet Foundation, 1646, De Zwarte Ruyter and the Service Garage. Videler's work, titled Love Disaster was selected from HMK's annual Call for Proposals.
For her project at Supermarket Artfair, Videler bases her work on images of disasters that had happened at several recreational venues such as 't Hemeltje (Volendam, NL, 2001), the Beverly Hills Supperclub (US, 1977) and more recently the Love Parade (GER, 2010). She then transforms these facts and images in an installation consisting of collage, drawings, a model, video and performances throughout the fair.
Mariëlle Videler's work often consists of carefully choreographed situations, that strongly intensify the contact between performers, and between the performers and their audience. These meetings are strongly directed by the artist herself, thus prohibiting any external impulses or stimuli to influence the performance. In 2009, Videler presented the work Blinded Tourist in W139 (Amsterdam), where she invited artists from different countries to participate in a residency, and to work there under her specific restrictions.