R.S.O.L.
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Room for the Study Of Loneliness : space for contemporary art
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R.S.O.L. Art Space Deventer brings current developments in contemporary art into focus with presentations of limited size but great significance. Away from commercial interests and other aspects involved in the art world, R.S.O.L. Art Space shows new work by Dutch and international artists and connects it to a current development and theme. Currents and movements taking place below and on the surface in contemporary art are made visible and accountable. Anyone who wants to know what is going on in contemporary art cannot miss the presentations of R.S.O.L.!
R.S.O.L. is a not-for-profit enterprise and is not supported by governments or funds, but is funded entirely from its own resources, revenues and donations. Due to the recent move your support is needed twice as much. Be committed, support R.S.O.L. now!
Join study and support group Radical Softness as Resistance:
"Only when it's dark enough can you see the stars"
The days are getting shorter in the dark days before Christmas. But in a metaphorical sense too, the world seems to be getting darker. The globalisation of the Western economic model has created an environmental and climate crisis with all kinds of socio-economic and -political consequences. Globally, politics seems to be moving more and more towards the radical right. Right-wing government leaders are presently pursuing autocracy and are waging wars on various levels. Instead of the soft, healing forces of conversion, transformation, conservation and protection, the chosen way forward seems to be harshness, violence, exploitation and exclusion. In the art world, the acquisition of social status and the accumulation of property seem to increasingly prevail over intrinsic and substantive questions, that seek knowledge and comprehension. Artists are behaving like competitors rather than colleagues.
Therefore, R.S.O.L. wants to form a study and support group. To reflect together on these issues from the perspective of philosophers' critical theory - and to support each other in a radical resistance of kindness, understanding, care and transformation. The study and support group is aimed at all those who in one way or another are groaning under the darkness of the present era, and who feel involved or are interested in contemporary art. We will meet once a month in R.S.O.L. and when unable to attend, we will use e-mail and snail-mail as channels of exchange. The reading text forms the basis of the exchange. From our mutual understanding and appreciation of it, we work towards an individual, critical application or integration in our own places, with our mutual help and support.
American poet and writer Lora Mathis created the phrase: ‘Radical softness as a weapon’ in 2015. This began with a series of photographs with letter beads on magazine pictures of flowers. Following Mathis' aphorism, Brooklyn-based artist and writer Be Oakley's GenderFail Press produced a 2021 publication: “Radical Softness as a Boundless Form of Resistance”. Following her defeat in the 2024 US elections, Kamala Harris said in her 7 November speech at Howard University in Washington: ‘Only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars’. Together with the title of the GenderFail publication, this maxim forms the title and motto for the study and support group that R.S.O.L. wants to form.
The first text for the study and support group is: ‘The One-Dimensional Society’ by Herbert Marcuse, part 1 of ‘One-Dimensional Man’.
We need each other! Join:
Therefore, R.S.O.L. wants to form a study and support group. To reflect together on these issues from the perspective of philosophers' critical theory - and to support each other in a radical resistance of kindness, understanding, care and transformation. The study and support group is aimed at all those who in one way or another are groaning under the darkness of the present era, and who feel involved or are interested in contemporary art. We will meet once a month in R.S.O.L. and when unable to attend, we will use e-mail and snail-mail as channels of exchange. The reading text forms the basis of the exchange. From our mutual understanding and appreciation of it, we work towards an individual, critical application or integration in our own places, with our mutual help and support.
American poet and writer Lora Mathis created the phrase: ‘Radical softness as a weapon’ in 2015. This began with a series of photographs with letter beads on magazine pictures of flowers. Following Mathis' aphorism, Brooklyn-based artist and writer Be Oakley's GenderFail Press produced a 2021 publication: “Radical Softness as a Boundless Form of Resistance”. Following her defeat in the 2024 US elections, Kamala Harris said in her 7 November speech at Howard University in Washington: ‘Only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars’. Together with the title of the GenderFail publication, this maxim forms the title and motto for the study and support group that R.S.O.L. wants to form.
The first text for the study and support group is: ‘The One-Dimensional Society’ by Herbert Marcuse, part 1 of ‘One-Dimensional Man’.
We need each other! Join:
Currently, the study and support group consists of seven people from the Deventer, Zwolle, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Vlissingen region, ranging from twenty-somethings to sixty-somethings. Join us, the first meeting will be in January 2025.
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You can also come to R.S.O.L. for consultation on the acquisition of contemporary art and the development of your collection. Whether as an individual, an institution or a company. R.S.O.L. is also happy to take care of various editorial tasks, including applications for grants or funds.
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