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juin 21, 2006 0
HUMAN GAMES
22 JUN | 21 JUL | 2006
works | At Late (1998) | opening JUN.21 2006
curated by | Francesco Bonami, Maria Luisa Frisa, Stefano Tonchi
Human Game. Winners and Losers is a reflection on sport and its central role in contemporary society. Today, sport is a nerve point: it is the meeting point of passion and desire, science and research and a metaphor of existence as summarized by the sub-title, Winners and Losers. The aim of Human Game is to find the crucial bond between sport, in the sense of a recreational pastime, and social, political and cultural life. The continuing spread of a vast sport mythology has changed habits, clothing styles and has prompted real revolutions. Human Game examines the metamorphosis of sport as it changed from play, competition, discipline and body care to universal spectacle that encompasses technology, fashion, art, business, medicine and communications.
Human Game is a book and an exhibition. Both will focus on five different themes that can become the device for organizing sport and its image together with art, communications, design, fashion and pop culture, as well as all the social and political contrasts related to it: LIMIT, GAMES, MUTATION, TRADITION, FREEDOM.
LIMIT_ speed, records, challenger, second skin, lycra GAMES_ motion, action, contrast, team spirit, jersey MUTATION_ prostheses, protection, muscles, athletic supporters, doping TRADITION_ white, cotton, rule, WASP, tennis FREEDOM_ antagonism, freestyle, no rules, philosophy, fisheye
These themes reflect the complexities of contemporary sports, and how sport champions influence other people’s lifestyles and fashions with their behavior. Art uses sport as a symbol and metaphor of life; fashion designers’ creations tell how fashion has been marked by sport and how sport has been affected by the lure of fashion. The only real innovations in fashion during the past decade have been in sports clothing: sports products have become signature items and influence fashion from streetstyle to haute couture. Sports are media phenomena for all intents and purposes and sports stars are true super-stars whose internationally recognized faces impact every kind of product. Lifestyles are truly becoming sport-ized.
The exhibition_ Human Game. Winners and Losers is staged along a path of more than 100 meters, in a spiral of gilded metal meshwork (diameter 11 meters) interrupted by five containers – one for each theme – made of materials used in sports (mats, ice, turf, asphalt, water). And, along this path are works of art, clothes, images, equipment and lots of other things that tell the story of the human game.
The book_ an almanac filled with images, texts and curiosities (about 500 pages with 600 illustrations). A co-publication by Fondazione Pitti Discovery and Charta.
Human Game. Winners and Losers is produced by the Fondazione Pitti Discovery and curated by Francesco Bonami, Maria Luisa Frisa and Stefano Tonchi; sport-fashion consultant Robert Rabensteiner, the book image and exhibition design are by Hola, a Los Angeles-based architecture studio, coordinated by Jeffrey Inaba
The exhibition will open in Florence on 21 June 2006, on the occasion of Pitti Immagine Uomo 70 and negotiations are currently in progress to take it to other institutions in Europe and America.
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Artistes : Vito Acconci, Rey Akdogan, Ulf Aminde, Carlos Amorales, Maria Antelman, Gustavo Artigas, Felipe Barbosa, Matthew Barney, Elisabetta Benassi, Paul Floyd Blake, Michael Blum, Andrea Bowers, Slater Bradley, Olaf Breuning, Roderick Buchanan, Mircea Cantor, Josef Dabernig, Stephen Dean, Sylvie Fleury, Kendell Geers, Fabrice Gygi, Julie Henry, Brian Jungen, Omer Ali Kazma, Jeff Koons, Annika Larsson, Sharon Lockhart, Eva e Franco Mattes (0100101110101101.org), Olaf Metzel, Tracey Moffatt, Gianni Motti, Bruce Nauman, Melik Ohanian, Gabriel Orozco, Cecilia Parsberg, Paul Pfeiffer, Shannon Plumb, Robin Rhode, Collier Schorr, Roman Signer, Florian Slotawa, Fiona Tan, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Grazia Toderi, Jaan Toomik, Patrick Tuttofuoco, Uri Tzaig, Mark Wallinger
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juin 02, 2006 0
UNDO REDO
03 JUN | 17 SEP | 2006
works | SlowMotion (2003) | opening JUN. 02 2006
curated by | Solvej Helweg Ovesen
The exhibition is dedicated to the prefix “re“ – record, recode, re-construct, repair, redo, repeat, reply, re-sample, re-create, represent, recover, revolve ….
On June 2, 2006 the Kunsthalle Fridericianum opens the exhibition undo redo that focuses on contemporary strategies of appropriation. The different forms of montage, quotation or sampling of visual and sound material or texts have a long tradition in visual arts. Examples can be found in Avant-garde, Pop and Conceptual Art. Where ‘the New’ and ‘the original’ in art were emphasized in Modernism, today innovation derives from variation – lies in the process of post-production.
Though the processes of combined deconstruction and reconstruction the ten artists of the exhibition transfer existing texts, images or pieces of music in new contexts and references and generate new meaning. They understand the environment as a collection of different material that can easily be downloaded, mixed or arranged in new and different ways. This knowledge does not only influence the perception of the world but also the current production of art. The participating artists are not interested in simple repeating or adopting already existing ideas. They rather show ways and possibilities to deal responsibly with history and artistic works. Through the amount of available information, the selection of the material and the techniques of recomposing gain more and more importance. The diversity of these processes is shown by the presented works.
undo redo is the first exhibition in the collective project of the curatorial workshop programme, that will stage the artistic programme of the Kunsthalle Fridericianum until November 2006. In this series, which dovetails in theme and time, four members of the curatorial workshop and the artistic director René Block will be providing insight into their current work in independent exhibitions. The exhibitions – under the collective title 5 Days to the End of Art – will follow individual approaches and mirror the varying perspectives, interests, and procedures of a young generation of curators.
The apodictic title of the exhibition series is by no means intended to proclaim the often evoked “end of art” but a search for the conditions of contemporary artistic and curatorial practice. The open structure of the programme allows each member to develop and stage his or her own exhibition idea for the series.
Since 2003, the curatorial workshop has constituted a key element at the Kunsthalle Fridericianum.
Over this period, young, international curators have accompanied the programme of the Kunsthalle, expanding it with independent exhibition projects. The approach adopted by the curatorial workshop is the practical integration of young curators in the day-to-day work of the institution Kunsthalle Fridericianum. Over and beyond the theoretical discourse of university curator programmes, it permits members to test their own curatorial enterprise and to experiment in exhibition work from the first outline of an idea to the realisation stage. This procedure distinguishes the workshop strongly from other programmes.
Together with the exhibition undo redo the parallel project of René Block starts. Under the title René´s Side-Show the video work Ascension by the English artist Sam Taylor-Wood will be presented in the first floor of the Kunsthalle Fridericianum. This project not only introduces the farewell exhibition Fremd bin ich eingezogen by the artistic director with special implications but also accompanies the work of the young curators with a personal statement.
Solvej Helweg Ovesen, born 1974 in Denmark has been a member of the curatorial workshop programme since November 2004. She is co-curator of the 7th Werkleitz Biennial 2006 and the1st Quadrennial for Contemporary Art in Denmark, 2007/08 in Copenhagen.
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Artists : Lucas Ajemian, Mariana Castillo Deball, Martha Colburn, Gabriel Lester, Mads Lynnerup, Jan Mancuska, Melik Ohanian, Susan Philipsz, Kirstine Roepstorff, Tino Sehgal
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Deutschland
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jan 26, 2006 0
SATELLITES OF LOVE
27 JAN | 26 MAR | 2006
works | Hit (1998) | opening APR.24 2007
curated by | Edwin Carels
In the work of Melik Ohanian, the world is not presented as a stage for human activity and definitely not as a fixed, organized and hierarchical entity, but rather as an evolving cosmos, dynamic and full of life. Video as a medium offers the space to articulate and make tangible the connections between time, language and movement. In Hit, an empty television studio is observed, while the set still has to be tested.
During the festival (January 25 – February 5, 2006), Satellite of Love will be the nerve center for the Exploding Television section of the IFFR’s program. As in previous years, this section of the festival, organized by Edwin Carels, focuses on recent developments in digital technology that influence or perhaps even result in radical shifts within visual and audiovisual culture. Satellite of Love will become the headquarters of a veritable TV commune, a utopian project. Furthermore, in association with the VPRO, Exploding Television will be manifesting itself online via www.explodingtelevision.net.
The rapidly changing media landscape and especially that of the medium of television lie at the basis of the Satellite of Love exhibition. Over recent months, not a day has gone by without the media reporting technological, financial or political maneuvers in the world of television. The number of digital broadcasters is skyrocketing. The convergence of television, the Internet and mobile telephony is bringing about a radical change in the way programs are being presented to the public.
The means of distributing image and sound may be increasing by the day, but this ?openness? also masks a new form of restriction. While at first a communal forum was developed for a broad public, it now appears that segmentation is striking due to market influences, with profit as the ultimate objective. In other words, the public space is disappearing while private space is gaining ground. Making television using a camera and a laptop hardly presents a problem, but a satellite link continues to be a privilege for the happy few.
In response to these trends, the organizers chose to provide a platform for the independent voice. In Satellite of Love, visual artists, media activists and television-makers rediscover something that is being torn apart from the top down. The aim is to establish a space (for reflection) where the production of live television is combined with installations. In addition, in the afternoon and evening there is a program of public discussions, masterclasses, and TV dinners organized in association with the Stimuleringsfonds Culturele Omroepproducties (Fund for Cultural Broadcasting Productions) and V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media. Satellite of Love and Exploding Television will also be broadcast online via VPRO Digitaal and local television, thus providing a lively context for interaction and reflection.
A special program will be presented during the Museum Night on March 4, 2006, see www.rotterdamsemuseumnacht.nl/startEN.html.
Also see the Exploding Television website. From January 23 onward at www.explodingtelevision.net.
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Artists : Franz Ackermann, AL+AL, Francis Alÿs, Mark Bain, John Logie Baird, Pierre Bismuth & Michel Gondry, Angela Bulloch, Edith Dekyndt, Dias & Riedweg, Michel François, Laurent Grasso, Erik van Lieshout, Yves Netzhammer, Melik Ohanian, Daniel Sauter & Osman Khan, Monika Sosnowska, Maurice van Tellingen, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Francesco Vezzoli.
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