On False Tears and Outsourcing was the first institutional solo exhibition by Cally Spooner in the Netherlands. For her show, Cally Spooner made a new series of devised, living gestures, changing every three weeks. These gestures marked the start of a long-term project by the artist, which considers the violence of being used as, and using, a Human Resource. The project, divided into three chapters, presents choreographed instances in which language and emotional excess are extracted, then redeployed as strategy.

June 20 – July 11
On False Tears And Outsourcing – 6 dancers, responsible for delivering
self-organised efforts to resolve difficult and time-consuming issues, ‘go the distance’ across multiple overlapping phases, using appropriated competitive strategy and appropriated intimate gestures, 2015
25 minutes

July 11 – August 1
On False Tears And Outsourcing – Financiers are trained to produce tears
2015
3-day Stanislavski Method course

August 1 – 30
On False Tears And Outsourcing – Singers deliver time sensitive instructions, 2015

The show runs parallel to and in dialogue with the group exhibition Violent Incident at Vleeshal Zusterstraat, curated by Cally Spooner and Roos Gortzak.

Review AQNB.