Chinese European Art Center (CEAC) and The One Minutes will start close cooperation again in 2022. The renowned The One Minutes Series will be exhibited at CEAC, supplemented by entries from the CEAC network. We will release together a series of open calls of The One Minutes from time to time, and jointly hold The One Minutes exhibitions and screenings.

The first open call from The One Minutes Series X Chinese European Art Center (CEAC) in 2022 is Mind-body-problem. Artist duo Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen will select 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?

Selected films will be presented from April 2 till May 7, 2022 at Chinese European Art Center, together with the “Mind-body-problem” series which was previously exhibited at the Het Nieuwe Instituut in the Netherlands. https://thursdaynight.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en/activities/mindbodyproblem

“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.

Series 1: “Mind-body-problem”
Curators: Sander Breure and Witte van Hulzen
Deadline: March 15, 2022
Submit address: theoneminutes.org/participate

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