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Moving Backwards to Go Forwards

Ilke Gers

Performance
2023

This action, titled Moving Backwards to Go Forwards, took place on Sunday, December 10, prior to the match between Oemoemenoe and Feanster. During this one-time action, Gers drew a specific line in chalk on the rugby field. This line was inspired by the rules of rugby, where the ball may only be passed backward, and never forward.

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Ilke Gers

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Oemoemenoe started in 2023 as part of the Local Nomadic Program. For Oemoemenoe, contemporary artists are invited to develop a project in collaboration with local associations and businesses in Zeeland - sports clubs, swimming pools, hotels, and restaurants. We bring visitors into contact with contemporary art in various special places in Zeeland and invite artists who give us possible directions on which way to go. They question, each in their own way, the accepted norm through their artistic practice.

Vleeshal is an internationally oriented center for contemporary art, rooted in Zeeland. In Zeeland Focus, Vleeshal highlights regional artists, takes part in and celebrates local contemporary art and culture.

In 2015 Vleeshal kicked of its Nomadic Program, as an extension of its existing exhibition program in Middelburg. In its Nomadic Program Vleeshal goes on tour, organising exhibitions and other events in collaboration with venues in the Netherlands and abroad, such as Art Rotterdam, Amsterdam Art Weekend, the Spring Performance Festival, WIELS Art Book Fair, Brussels and Poppositions, Brussels.

This project is supported by the Mondriaan Fund, the municipality of Middelburg and the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.