In conversation with Francesco Spampinato
A contemporary urban anthropologist, in her cross-media production Dutch artist Paulien Oltheten analyzes human behavior in the public space, or else daily rituals, routines, and unwritten social choreographies. The talk will offer the opportunity to delve into the artist’s oeuvre, with an overview going from Man and Dog (2002) to Lourdes TV (2024), and explore some key issues of her research-based practice including her methodology, her peculiar lecture-performances, and the interest of recent transformations of social lifestyle brought by the pandemic crisis.
In collaboration with the Department of the Arts of the University of Bologna
Paulien Oltheten (Nijmegen, Netherlands, 1982) studied at the Academy of Art and Design in ‘s-Hertogenbosch and Rijksakad¬emie in Amsterdam. In 2013 she did a one-year Mondriaan Fund residency at ISCP New York and in 2017 she worked in residency at the Cité internationale des Arts in Paris.