Niet Normaal is an exhibition curated by Ine Gevers going on in Amsterdam.  Not Normal.  It investigates what it is to be normal, what it is to be “not normal” - abnormal.  Who decides what is normal?  Who maintains this distinction?  The show runs through March of this year.  I wish I could go participate in this landmark show.

Issues of dis/ability are pertinent right now.  What is the body’s relationship to identity?  And what is that identity’s relationship to society and its functioning?

This show puts together so many artists working through these issues.  Many of these artists are “not normal.”  What, then, does that mean?

From the science projects of Adam Zaretsky to the Genpets by Adam Bradndejs this exhibition tries to cover it all.  Technology, the body, normality - how do these all fit together?