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To Live Outside the Law You Must be Honest
Nicoline van Harskamp
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09/03 - 01/04/07
Nicoline van Harskamp’s long-term project ‘To Live Outside the Law You
Must be Honest’ investigates systems of government and interpretations
of the notion of freedom.

The project is comprised of three scripted video works, each performed
by the same actor in different roles. The first video is filmed in
Christiania, a free town at the centre of Copenhagen that was created in
the early 70s, which continues to reject the ownership of houses and
infrastructure and practise consensus democracy. Informed by interviews
with its residents the video addresses issues of self-government and
self-policing. The second two works were filmed in London, and are based
on interviews with left wing and right wing libertarians who actively
campaign against violations of freedom today. In all three works the
issues of freedom and participatory democracy are addresssed, each
drawing very different conclusions.

A discussion around these ideas will take place on Sunday 1 April, 17.00

Nicoline van Harskamp (b. 1975) lives and works in Amsterdam, where she
recently began a residency at the Rijksakademie. Parts of ‘To Live
Outside the Law You Must be Honest’ were produced within the Christiania
Researcher in Residence Program, and the work will be shown at
Redackija, Belgrade, and Arsenale, Poznan, as well as in her current
solo show in Nikolaj CCA, Copenhagen.

‘To Live Outside the Law You Must be Honest’ was produced with a grant
from the Fonds BKBV Netherlands Foundation for Art, Architecture and
Design. The presentation of the work at Casco is generously supported by
Gemeente Utrecht and the Mondriaan Foundation.
http://www.vanharskamp.net/

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