Throughout the year, LI-MA’s collection will be travelling across the Netherlands, bringing the latest additions to our innovative media art collection to multiple cities for the first time. LI-MA Presents: New Art on Screen and LI-MA Presents: New Art on Screen - Bring Your Own File aim to broaden the reach of media art and build lasting connections between creators, cultural organisations, and various audience segments. 

For our upcoming edition, marking ten years since the very first LI-MA Presents, we return to our home base at LAB111 for an evening programme that delves into the complexities of identity, relationships, and societal structures, reflecting on themes of colonialism, patriarchy, and queer love, all through the unique perspectives of three artist duos.

Programme details

Broersen & Lukács, I Wan'na Be Like You (2024, 13:44 min)

In I Wan’na Be Like You, artist duo Lukács and Broersen explore the Western view of the wilderness, often seen as Terra Nullius—unexplored land coveted by colonial powers. The film, created over four years, features digital reconstructions of Europe's major botanical gardens using thousands of photographs. Through photogrammetry and 3D modelling, they recreate greenhouses filled with 'conquered' nature. As the camera moves through this virtual jungle, it becomes clear that we are not in untouched nature, but in an artificial greenhouse where everything is documented, categorised, and exploited. I Wan’na Be Like You premiered during the opening of the Netherlands Pavilion at the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea.

Amsterdam-based Broersen & Lukács are known for their critical engagement with Western visual culture, working across video, animation, and graphics. Their works, which have been part of LI-MA's collection since 2012, have been exhibited globally at venues including FOAM in Amsterdam, Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Magnus Monfeldt & Jonas Ohlsson, For Our Children's Children (2024, 29:56 min)

For Our Children’s Children follows artist duo Magnus Monfeldt and Jonas Ohlsson’s interrogation of masculinity and the patriarchy in relation to fatherhood. What does it mean to be a man in times like these? Two artist friends and their children engage in role play to challenge rigid old patterns of the patriarchy. Monfeldt and Ohlsson infuse their existential conversations with a warm sense of humour, resulting in a film with a hopeful spirit.

Jonas Ohlsson is an artist and maker of drawings, installations, jeans sculptures, and porcelain objects. He makes electronic music, performing as Blodfet & DJ Lonely. Alongside music, provocation and humour, other major themes in his work include: politics, the unconscious, good listening and looking around you. Magnus Monfeldt is an artist who in his work often tells personal stories. Together, the pair create installations, drawings and films on fatherhood that interrogate the patriarchy, masculinity, and creativity. 

You can't get what you want but you can get me, Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh (2024, 13 min)

A unique slideshow documenting two long-haired trans men falling madly in love. Over the course of one year, the artist couple Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh gathered photographs from real-life events such as their first kiss, meeting each other's parents, long-distance thirst traps, a beach wedding, and top surgery and its subsequent recovery. A sweet and steamy celebration of T4T love with life and art all tangled up. Nominated for the Golden Calf for Best Short Documentary at the Netherlands Film Festival.

Samira Elagoz is a Finnish/Egyptian transmasculine artist based between Berlin and Amsterdam. Elagoz has dedicated his career to exploring themes such as gender, the politics of the gaze, sexual violence and its aftermath, digital romanticism, and intimate encounters through long-term, transdisciplinary research spans various artistic mediums—installation, film, performance, and tex, blending cinematic performance with theatrical documentary. 

Z Walsh is a Brooklyn-based transgender director, producer, model, and photographer. Amongst New York's and Los Angeles' creative communities he is well-known for his raw, full-hearted depictions of both his subjects and himself. 

Wouter Hisschemöller - Weesperplein (NL, 2024, 4min)  

A preview of Weesperplein by Wouter Hisschemöller will also be screened. Weesperplein uses machine learning software (TensorFlow with the COCO-SSD dataset) to capture and isolate objects from the busy Weesperplein intersection in Amsterdam. By combining video footage with hand-drawn elements, Hisschemöller reconstructs the scene in 3D. The work reflects the repetitive flow of traffic and urban life, enhanced by an electronic soundtrack inspired by the rhythm of the city's streets.

Wouter Hisschemöller is a frontend developer and artist based in Amsterdam, with a background in graphic design and drawing from HKU. His animations combine video, drawings, 3D models, and self-composed electronic music, often presented as seamless loops. Working with custom-built software, Hisschemöller’s work explores the rhythms of urban life, capturing the repetitive flows of movement in his surroundings.

Q&As with the artists will follow the screenings. The evening will be moderated by LI-MA's Theus Zwakhals.

The following week, on 23 October, a BYOF session will take place at SHEBANG, in collaboration with CBK Zuidoost, bringing you fresh new works from our BYOF open call.

LI-MA Presents: New Art on Screen and LI-MA Presents: New Art on Screen - Bring Your Own File are presented in partnership with CBK Zuidoost, Greylight Projects, Media Art Friesland, 171 project.space, and The Grey Space in the Middle. The project is generously supported by Fonds 21, Cultuurfonds.

This event is additionally supported by the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK).

Header: Broersen & Lukács, I Wan'na Be Like You (NL, 2024, 13:44 min)