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.<\/p>\n

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 \u2013 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?<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mind-body-problem is a question one runs into almost inevitably when
\nworking with figurative sculpture. How can matter ever come to life?
\nIt is an age old question in itself that inspired the medieval Arabic novel
\nof Ibn Tufayl in which a boy growing up on a deserted island dissects the
\ndead deer that raised him, looking at the intestines, the lungs, the heart,
\nthe brain, in a search for the part that made her alive. It seemed to us
\na question worthwhile to ask to our colleagues, our fellow filmmakers and
\nartists, and one that evoked many counter-questions, such as: <\/p>\n

Would you like to be cremated or burried?
\nDoes a fly have thoughts?
\nCan I see what someone else sees?
\nIs the cat in the box alive or not?
\nIf the soul inhabits a body, could a spirit inhabit a sculpture?
\nWhat is the difference between a video of a man and his mirror image?
\nIs a fight with an umbrella ever a spiritual struggle?
\nWhy is it so hard to say goodbye?\u201d <\/p>\n

Sander Breure and Witte van Hulzen are two cousins who collaborate on the
\nproduction of videos and performances focusing on human behaviour; the
\nencoded structures in that behaviour, the influence of time and place on
\nthe relationships between people. Theater has been an important factor in
\ntheir work from the very start. They studied at Rijksakademie voor beeldende
\nkunsten in Amsterdam in 2017 and began making sculptures \u2013 assemblages in
\nthe form of human figures.<\/p>\n

Series 1: “Mind-body-problem”
\nCurators: Sander Breure and Witte van Hulzen
\nDeadline: March 15, 2022
\nSubmit address: theoneminutes.org\/participate
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