Thursday, January 05, 2012
'Say İyi Bir Film Müzikçisi': Ayşegül Sönmez / 24 Aralık 2011 / Sabah
Say iyi bir film müzikçisi
Üşenmedim, uzun yolu göze aldım. Okan Üniversitesi Akfırat Kampüsü'nde gerçekleşen Ceren Oykut'un konuşmasına gittim. Güzel sanatlar fakültesinin çağdaş sanat öğrencilerinin düzenlediği etkinlikte öğrenciler genç sanatçıyı soru yağmuruna tuttular. Oykut'un samimiyetinden etkilenmemek imkansızdı. Oykut, sanatın hızla metalaştığı şu günlerde bir sanatçı olarak neler hissediyorsunuz sorusunu açıkyüreklilikle "Ben ufak paralarla yaşamaya razıyım aksi çok tatsız oluyor" diye yanıtlaması özellikle... Sergi yerine daha çok insana ulaşacak kitaplar yapmaktan yana olduğunu da ekledi. İçinden geçtiğimiz şu günlerde söyledikleri anlamlı... Okan Üniversitesi'nde bu sanatçı konuşmaları devam edecekmiş. AKM'den her yer yakın... Servisi kaçırmazsam takip edeceğim. Haftanın etkinliği Fazıl Say konseriydi elbette. Bir grup gazeteci meslektaşımla seyretmeye koyulduğum konserde bu kez soru sorma sırası şef Gürer Aykal'daydı. Fazıl Say'a Hayyam konçertosuyla ilgili iki soru sordu. Neden klarnet ve neden Hayyam... "Hayyam bir aydınlanmacı" ve "Klarnet de çok yüzlü bir enstrüman"dı. Say'ın üç bölümlük Hayyam'ı benden geçmedi. Ne Sabine Meyer'in klarnetini sevdim ne de Hayyam'ın eşine duyduğu aşkın anlatıldığı son bölümü... Hatta bestenin ilk bölümü bana Charles Bronson'ı anımsattı. Bir köstebek filmi müziği gerilimine sahipti. Say, iyi bir film müziği bestecisi olabilir...Fakat Çaykovski'nin dokuzuncu senfonisini dinlediğime memnun oldum. Ne yalan söyleyeyim... Say tutkulu bir icracı, çalışkan bir besteci. İlk kez ona Türkiye'den de bir beste siparişi verilmiş. İKSV, kırkıncı yılı için ondan bir beste istemiş. Haziran ayına yetiştirmeye çalışıyormuş. Konserde çağdaş sanat dünyasından iki yüze rastladım. Hatta bir tanesinin dokuzuncu senfoni esnasında kırmızı yanaklarından inen gözyaşlarına bile tanık oldum. Necmi Sönmez ve Ferhat Özgür... Sönmez'indi evet o gözyaşları... Özgür'e gelince her ay, yurt dışında sergiye katılma rekoru kırmaya devam ediyor. Ankara'dan sonra İstanbul'a da alışmış görünüyor. Haftaya yılbaşı özelde buluşalım. Yılın unutulmazlarını yazacağım...
Friday, December 23, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
“39 REASONS WE STILL NEED SUPERMAN”-: 3-17 December 2011 / Havana / CUBA
“39 REASONS WE STILL NEED SUPERMAN”, Devised and curated by Tim Crowley
December 3-17 2011, 7:30 pm., Video Art Touring Festival
Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) ,Facultat des Artes Plasticas, 120 No. 110 e/.9na, Y13
Cubanacan, Playa, Havana – CUBA
Participating Artists:
Jake and Dinos Chapman / Anton Henning / Roman Signer / John Smith / TJ Wilcox / Jonathan Meese / Angus Fairhust / Guido van der Werve / Almagul Menhbayeva / Christian Jankowski / Xu Bing / Ross Sinclair / Mat Collishaw / Yang Zhenzhong / Jitish Kallat / Roslihan Ismail (Ise) / Liu Zejing / Kelste / Olaf Breuning / Wang Quinsong / Ferhat Ozgur / Hu Xiangqian / Vincent Leong / Benpa Chungdak / Tejal Shah / Dash Snow / Greta Alfrado / Paul McCarthy / John Bock / Emma Hart / Hoang Duong Cam / Priya Sen / Yeksetan Tsedal / Dihn Q.Lè / Margaret Salmon / Peter Walsh / Kang Jing / Roderic Buchanan
Introduction: The show’s starting point is an extensive overview of video work from the last 15 years. In true Myspace/ Facebook fashion, the selection is both personalized and intentionally un-private, customized and compartmentalized yet available to all. It targets the interest of artists in investigating how images operate and construct our understanding of the world. They explore aesthetic concepts, everyday narratives, and sociopolitical realities and utopias. While some artists use the video to challenge our assumptions about the mimetic nature of the medium, the curatorial focus of 18 reasons why we still need superman will be the relationship between performance and video, what reaction the works create in the audience and the subject matter as a catalyst for dialogue. Contemporary reality is an assemblage of whatever grabs our attention and we want these works to play part of the contemporary reality collage of the viewers, to form an alternative kind of map.
Video show as an alternative map: Information we are given has a direct affect on a person's mental map of the geographical world. The perceived geographical dimensions of a foreign nation (relative to one's own nation) may often be heavily influenced by the amount of time and relative news coverage that the news media may spend covering news events from that foreign region. This selection of videos is our news coverage
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
'The Mystical Self': 15-29 November 2011 / Box Video Project Space, Milano-Italy
THE MYSTICAL SELF
Project by Cecilia Freschini
in collaboration with ArtVerona and Visualcontainer
from Nov. 15th to 29th 2011
at [.BOX] VIDEOART PROJECT SPACE
What are we looking for?
Is possible an attempt to express a religious consciousness without the traditional trappings of religion?
No conventional God, no church, no simple or secure connection with morality?
A world un-consoled by familiar religious imagery?
How does contemporary art address the idea of spirituality?
How do artists working today reveal and question commonly held assumptions about faith, belief, meditation, and religious symbols?
ARTISTS:
Resmi Al Kafaji, Silvia Camporesi, Mattia Chincarini, Herve Constant, Hung Tung-Lu, Kensuke Koike, Liuba, Luca Christian Mander, Moataz Nasr, Emeka Ogboh, Ferhat Özgür, Giordano Rizzardi, Alessandro Rolandi, Masha Sha, Zhang Xiaotao
'The mystical self' is a tour video exhibition project. In 2012, the show will be hosted in special locations at Cairo, Nepal and China.
[.BOX] Videoart Project Space
E' uno spazio unico nel suo genere, sempre impegnato a divulgare i migliori progetti di videoarte e new media provenienti da tutto il mondo.
[.BOX] è un progetto di Visualcontainer Italian Videoart Distributor
[.BOX] Videoart Project Space
Via Federico Confalonieri 11
20124 - Milano, ITALY
www.dotbox.it
info@dotbox.it
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
'Gözlerinden Öperim: Turan Erol'a Mektuplar' Kitabı Sel Yayıncılık'tan çıktı.
Editörlüğünü değerli meslektaşım Ahu Antmen ile birlikte üstlendiğimiz hocaların hocası Turan Erol'a yazılmış mektuplardan oluşan 'Gözlerinden Öperim: Turan Erol'a Mektuplar' adlı kitabı zevkle okuyacağınızı tahmin ediyorum.
Ferhat Özgür
Türk resminin önemli isimlerinden Turan Erol, usta bir ressam olduğu kadar bir dost canlısıdır da. Zaman içinde birçok dostundan, sorununu, sevincini, üzüntüsünü paylaşan mektuplar almıştır. Gözlerinden Öperim adıyla yayınladığımız bu kitapta, Turan Erol’a yazılmış Bedri Rahmi’den Bilge Karasu’ya, Orhan Peker’den Avni Arbaş’a, Nedim Günsür’den Neşet Günal’a ve daha birçok sanatçıdan gelen mektuplar yer alıyor.Çoğunun son cümlesinin ‘gözlerinden öperim’ ibaresiyle bittiği bu mektuplar, özellikle Türk sanat ve kültür ortamında 1950-1970 arasında D Grubu, Müstakiller, Yeniler Grubu, On’lar Grubu, şiirde İkinci Yeni akımı gibi, gruplaşmaların, yerellik-evrensellik tartışmalarının, sanat, edebiyat ve politikada yenilikçi-toplumcu düşüncelerin, Doğu-Batı kutuplaşmalarının gündeme geldiği hareketli bir döneme rastlıyor. Elinizdeki kitap bu sürecin aktörlerinin iç dünyalarını farklı boyutlarıyla anlamak açısından bir dönemin analizi aynı zamanda.TURAN EROL, 1927 yılında Milas’ta doğdu. 1951 yılında İstanbul Devlet Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu atölyesinden 1951 yılında mezun oldu. 1947’de ‘On’lar Grubu’na katıldı ve bu grubun 1970 yılına kadar sürdürdüğü tüm grup sergilerinde yer aldı. Akademi mezuniyetinin ardından 1952-1960 yılları arasında Diyarbakır Ziya Gökalp Lisesi’nde resim öğretmeni olarak çalıştı. 1960 yılında Ankara’ya göç etti ve ardından 1961-1962 yılları arasında sanat çalışmalarını Paris’te sürdürdü. Ulus Gazetesi’nde 1970 yılından itibaren ‘Defterimden’ adlı köşe yazılarını yayınlamaya başladı. İlerleyen yıllarda Türk resmi üzerine yazıları Ulus Gazetesi’nin yanı sıra, Dost, Yeni Dergi, Özgür İnsan, Politika, Türk Dili Dergisi ve Boyut gibi pek çok yayında yer aldı.1980 yılında Günsel Renda ile birlikte ‘Çağdaş Türk Resim Sanatı Tarihi’ adlı kitabı kaleme aldı. Diğer kitapları arasında ‘A History of Turkish Painting’, ‘Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu’ ve ‘Nazmi Ziya’ monografileri bulunmaktadır. Yapıtları yurt dışında, Belçika, Almanya, Japonya, Hollanda, Rusya, İngiltere, Avustralya gibi pek çok grup sergisinde yer alan Turan Erol, Ankara Üniversitesi, Gazi Üniversitesi, Hacettepe Üniversitesi gibi kurumlarda uzun yıllar öğretim elemanı olarak çalıştı. Turan Erol, Sedat Simavi Vakfı Görsel Sanatlar Ödülü, Birleşmiş Ressamlar ve Heykeltraşlar Derneği Ödülü, Ankara Sanat Kurumu "Yılın Ressamı" Ödülü, Uluslararası Plastik Sanatlar Derneği "Sanatta Ellinci Yıl" Hizmet Ödülü, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Ellinci Yıl Hizmet Ödülü, Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi Ellinci Yıl Hizmet Ödülü, ODTÜ Senato Onur Ödülü, Beykent Üniversitesi Sanat Ödülü, Gazi Üniversitesi Ellinci Yıl Hizmet Ödülü, TÜYAP Onur Ödülü ve Çağdaş Sanat Vakfı Onur Sanatçı Ödülleri ile onurlandırıldı. Sanatçı halen Ankara, İstanbul ve Bodrum’da yaşamaktadır.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Saturday, October 08, 2011
Friday, October 07, 2011
'Choosing Another Strategy': Machine Raum / 13 October 2011 Vejle/ Denmark
| Introduction |
| Machine-RAUM 2011 Choosing another Strategy |
On the 13. October Machine-RAUM will open its second international festival of video art and digital culture in Vejle. The intension behind the theme for 2011, Choosing another Strategy, is motivated by a wish for openness and new thinking, both as regards experimentation and taking on responsibility for a globalised future. This theme expresses a wish for dialogue and democracy between artists and art works across social, ethnic, political and cultural strategies. The festival encompasses works that, in their different ways, demonstrate alternative ways to deal with everyday life and alternative ways to deal in the world. The special thing about art is that it is not bound by the obligations of journalism or documentation when it comes to contemporary issues, and therefore it is able to come up with new strategies. The works show this in different ways, in everything from conceptual videos, short fictive gimmicks to performative actions documented on video. With the vision of seeking out alternative strategies Machine-RAUM presents a number of artists and art art curators from parts of the world that are currently undergoing enormous changes, and therefore have a need for dialogue and communication extending beyond the political. Thus the festival feels the pulse of the way in which art and artists act some of the world’s crisis areas. There will also be a showing of video works by European artists and art students from Denmark and Germany. In these countries the political situation is very different, but the relation between art and politics is still an issue. It is the intention of Machine-RAUM to function as a platform and venue for artists working with video and digital culture. During the festival the exhibiting artists will present their works and through artist talks open up the possibility of discussion and the sharing of experiences. Students from art academies in Denmark and Germany will present their works and offer their proposals regarding a new generation’s way of working with digital media. Machine-RAUM is a non-profit organisation. Directors and curators, Hanne Nielsen & Birgit Johnsen Project coordinator, Lene Noer
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Monday, October 03, 2011
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
'Video Collage: DAZ / Architect's association, Jelacic Square 3-Zagreb- Croatia
VIDEO/ COLLAGE: Architecture
screening program
MARKO LULIĆ / ALBAN MUJA / FERHAT ÖZGUR / DAMIR OČKO / MIHOVIL PANSINI / PULSKA GRUPA/ RIMAS SAKALAUSKAS / NEBOJŠA ŠERIĆ SHOBA / DARIO ŠOLMAN
curated by Branka Bencic
DAZ / Architect's association, Jelacic Square 3
Zagreb (Croatia)
September 29, 8 PM
Concepts of space are grounded in individual and collective experiences. Screening program VIDEO/ COLLAGE: Architecture gathers different artistic positions questioning the transformation of social cartography and detecting critical tools to explore spatial issues. Videos by international and Croatian artists question models of representations of a contemporary city (Vienna, Ankara, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Pristina...) - places where "geometric rationality and entanglements of human lives meet", where modernist utopias, dystopic futures and realities of transition coexist, where different spatial, ideological, cultural, social, economic phenomena meet. Concepts of representation of a city are based on different fragments - layers of immediate surroundings, everyday experiences and routines, parts of history and culture, all which is shaping processes of thinking and perception.
Selection of works ranges from film experiments and 60s anti-film neo avantgarde issues by Mihovil Pansini, a video essay in theory of modern architecture by Marko Lulic, to fallen socialist utopias in works by Damir Ocko and Rimas Sakalauskas to establishing critical relations in the framework of urban transformations, social and economic exchange taking place in cities filmed by Ferhat Ozgur, Nebojsa Seric Shoba and Alban Muja, concluding with video animations by Dario Solman and architect's collective Pula group.
Program
Mihovil Pansini (CRO): Scusa signorina, 1963 (5’13”)
Marko Lulić (AUT): The Moderns (Vienna), 2005 (4’28”)
Rimas Sakalauskas (LT): Synchronization, 2009 (8’)
Damir Očko (CRO): The Boy With a Magic Horn, 2007 (15’20”)
Alban Muja (KOS): Blue Wall Red Door, White door 2009 (33’)
Ferhat Ozgur (TUR): It’s time to dance now, 2008 (5’20”)
Nebojša Šerić Shoba (BiH/USA): It’s all just little bit of history repeating, 2001 (2’)
Dario Šolman (CRO/USA): Screening , 2007 (4’13”)
Pulska grupa (CRO): Red plan, 2008 (2’)
running time: 80’
Friday, September 23, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
'A Decade of Commitment to Contemporary Art' / Project 4L Elgiz Contemporary Art Museum- Istanbul
"A Decade of Commitment to Contemporary Art"
Elgiz 10 Istanbul
17 September 2011 - 17 March 2012
Curator:
Dr. Necmi Sönmez
Special projects:
Burak Bedenliler, Lale Delibaş, Nejat Satı, İskender Yediler
Guest artist:
Gavin Turk (U.K.)
The first museum of contemporary art in Turkey, Proje4L/Elgiz Museum is hosting Gavin Turk with Turkish artists in its 10th anniversary exhibition “Elgiz 10 Istanbul” starting on 17 September 2011.
“Elgiz 10 Istanbul” is curated by Dr. Necmi Sönmez who lives in Dusseldorf and organizes exhibitions in Europe and United States. It will be a reinterpretation of the Elgiz Collection which includes artists:
Darren Almond, Doug Aitken, Louis Bourgeois, Adnan Çoker, Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Loris Cecchini, Burhan Doğançay, Nejad Devrim, Tracey Emin, Eric Fischl, Jan Fabre, Gilbert & George, Murat Germen, Atilla Galatalı, Günter Förg, Nan Goldin, Nilbar Güreş, Gülsün Karamustafa, Barbara Kruger, Elke Krystufek, Azade Köker, Mustafa Kunt, Kurucu Koçanoğlu, Sol Lewitt, Bjarne Melgaard, Jonathan Meese, Paul Mccharty, Sarah Morris, Mateo Mate, Frank Nitsche, Abdurrahman Öztoprak, Marcus Oehlen, Ferhat Özgür, Jorge Pardo, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Lisa Ruyter, Thomas Struth, Aslı Torcu, David Tremblett, Ömer Uluç, Johannes Wohnseifer, Tim White Sobiesky, İskender Yediler, Fahr-el-Nissa Zeid.
Turk will be displaying a new 2.45M Turkish 'amulet' painting, as well a wall mounted Turkish rug, “Cave Rug”. Both these works will be hung on Turks’ turkey wallpaper depicting hundreds of roasted turkeys. This will be the second time Gavin Turk has exhibited in Istanbul after his participation in the 6th Istanbul Biennial in 1999.
Other artists doing site-specific works to accompany the collection exhibition are Burak Bedenlier, Lale Delibaş, Nejat Satı and Iskender Yediler.
She mainly supports artists from her region. These activities are in the map of Istanbul Biennial that will be inaugurated in the same dates.
Proje 4L was founded by collectors Sevda and Can Elgiz under the name of “Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art” in its former premises in Levent. The museum opened in 2001, when there were no non-profit institutions in Turkey dedicated to contemporary art.
Established with a mission to promote the development of contemporary art in Turkey, the initiave focussed on providing space, support and international visibility to projects by young Turkish artists.
Service Sponsor: Polisan Home Cosmetics
"A Decade of Commitment to Contemporary Art"
International Women Collectors
16 September 2011 (17:00 – 18:00)
Elgiz 10 Istanbul
17 September 2011 - 17 March 2012
Curator:
Dr. Necmi Sönmez
Special projects:
Burak Bedenliler, Lale Delibaş, Nejat Satı, İskender Yediler
Guest artist:
Gavin Turk (U.K.)
The first museum of contemporary art in Turkey, Proje4L/Elgiz Museum is hosting Gavin Turk with Turkish artists in its 10th anniversary exhibition “Elgiz 10 Istanbul” starting on 17 September 2011.
“Elgiz 10 Istanbul” is curated by Dr. Necmi Sönmez who lives in Dusseldorf and organizes exhibitions in Europe and United States. It will be a reinterpretation of the Elgiz Collection which includes artists:
Darren Almond, Doug Aitken, Louis Bourgeois, Adnan Çoker, Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Loris Cecchini, Burhan Doğançay, Nejad Devrim, Tracey Emin, Eric Fischl, Jan Fabre, Gilbert & George, Murat Germen, Atilla Galatalı, Günter Förg, Nan Goldin, Nilbar Güreş, Gülsün Karamustafa, Barbara Kruger, Elke Krystufek, Azade Köker, Mustafa Kunt, Kurucu Koçanoğlu, Sol Lewitt, Bjarne Melgaard, Jonathan Meese, Paul Mccharty, Sarah Morris, Mateo Mate, Frank Nitsche, Abdurrahman Öztoprak, Marcus Oehlen, Ferhat Özgür, Jorge Pardo, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Lisa Ruyter, Thomas Struth, Aslı Torcu, David Tremblett, Ömer Uluç, Johannes Wohnseifer, Tim White Sobiesky, İskender Yediler, Fahr-el-Nissa Zeid.
Turk will be displaying a new 2.45M Turkish 'amulet' painting, as well a wall mounted Turkish rug, “Cave Rug”. Both these works will be hung on Turks’ turkey wallpaper depicting hundreds of roasted turkeys. This will be the second time Gavin Turk has exhibited in Istanbul after his participation in the 6th Istanbul Biennial in 1999.
Other artists doing site-specific works to accompany the collection exhibition are Burak Bedenlier, Lale Delibaş, Nejat Satı and Iskender Yediler.
She mainly supports artists from her region. These activities are in the map of Istanbul Biennial that will be inaugurated in the same dates.
Proje 4L was founded by collectors Sevda and Can Elgiz under the name of “Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art” in its former premises in Levent. The museum opened in 2001, when there were no non-profit institutions in Turkey dedicated to contemporary art.
Established with a mission to promote the development of contemporary art in Turkey, the initiave focussed on providing space, support and international visibility to projects by young Turkish artists.
Service Sponsor: Polisan Home Cosmetics
"A Decade of Commitment to Contemporary Art"
International Women Collectors
16 September 2011 (17:00 – 18:00)
Guests:
Ella Fontanals Cisneros, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo,
Basma Al Sulaiman.
Moderator:
Michele Codoni
Women collectors have been active throughout the history. Today, they are continuing to support artists and sharing their collections with the public with a social vision.
Proje 4L/Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art explicated being a private collector and the changes in museum management in today’s world by inviting three women collectors in a panel as part of its 10th Anniversary activities. It also examined the language and the style women have developed with artists and public in a subject as sensitive as art.
Ella Fontanal Cisneros: As an American born in Cuba and raised in Venezuela she predominantly collects Latin American art. She has established Miami Art Central (MAC) in 2001 and Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) in Miami in 2002. Apart from exhibiting the Cisneros Collection, the foundation runs a variety of programs for contemporary Latin American artists and supports the collaboration within different fields of art.
Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo: She has established a foundation bearing her name in Turin, Italy, in 1995 to support artists from all over the world in visual arts, music, performance art and literature. She introduces contemporary art to the community and improves international relations in art. She is part of various international boards of museums such as Tate, MoMa and New Museum. In addition to that she was honoured by the government of Italy and France for her support to contemporary art.
Basma Al Sulaiman: As a member of a prominent family in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), Al-Sulaiman collects art from all around the world and exhibits her collection, which consists of Middle Eastern artists together with International artists (with a strong presence of Chinese artists), in an interactive revolutionary three dimensional cyber museum named BASMOCA. She is an active member of Arts Global; a foundation devoted to bring the European and Arabic worlds closer.
Moderator Michele Codoni: After his law education and his diplomatic career, he established a public relations and event organization company in London. Codoni has a close relationship with the contemporary art world and he serves in the board of directors of BASMOCA. .
Tuesday, September 06, 2011
Saturday, July 16, 2011
'Role Images, Role Playing' / Museum der Moderne Salzburg
'Role Images, Role Playing'
Museum der Moderne Salzburg
23.07.2011 / 30.10.2011
curator: esther ruelfs
The exhibition will be on display at the MdM MÖNCHSBERG from 23 July until 30 October 2011 and features works dealing with various aspects of
role-playing by the following artists:
Marina Abramović, Eleanor Antin, Christian Boltanski, Candice Breitz, Claude Cahun, Martin Dammann, Fred Holland Day, Christoph Draeger, Marcel Duchamp, Yan Duyvendak, Sławomir Elsner, EVA & ADELE, Harun Farocki, Gilbert & George, Niklas Goldbach, Douglas Gordon, Francisco de Goya, Rodney Graham, G.R.A.M., Aneta Grzeszykowska, Christian Jankowski Glenn Kaino, Martin Kippenberger, David LaChapelle, An-My Lê, Ulrike Lienbacher, Urs Lüthi, Anja Manfredi, Manon, Dieter Meier, Yasumasa Morimura, Adi Nes, Suzanne Opton, Ferhat Özgür, Jack Pierson, Sascha Pohle, Man Ray, Dirk Rose, Julika Rudelius, August Sander, Cindy Sherman, Gillian Wearing, Hannah Wilke, Madame Yevonde and many others.
Roles, actors, stages, scripts ... a glance at the imagery of these terms reveals society as a theatre. We are all actors playing different cultural, social and biological roles. According to Erving Goffman (“The Presentation of Self in Everday Life“), life is a theatre in which we all perform different roles in order to fulfil social norms and expectations and present our own “self”. While society depends on a smooth coordination of actors and roles and “spoilsports”are marginalized, subjected to therapy, locked up or locked out, art deals with problematic areas of friction and breaking points between roles and actors. It reflects our desire to look behind the mask, where we seem to expect “authentic”persons. This is the first exhibition –featuring photographs, graphics, videos and installations - that gives acomprehensive survey of the phenomenon of role playing as a theme of art, from paraphrased Tableaux vivants of the 19th century to role-playing games in internetbased social networks. In order to do justice to the historicity and heterogeneity of role-playing, the exhibition subdivides this phenomenon into thematic fields.
Problems and concepts of identity were central themes of contemporary art of the 1990s and were addressed in various exhibitions, which frequently focused on concepts of female identity. What has happened since the debate of the 1990s? In which way has our role understanding been influenced by the media? In the 1998 movie The Truman Show the protagonist is completely unaware that he is monitored by 5,000 cameras 24 hours a day, seven days a week, while “everyday life”is simulated with gigantic effort. At that time filmmakers were still able to present this as a dark vision of the future. The reality show Big Brother, which was first broadcast in 2000, has radically changed the distinction between private
and public role.
Since the 1968 generation’s demand for spontaneity and authenticity has been unmasked as paradox, we can find a playful approach to roles and an
effortless switching between them today. People assume virtual identities in their “Second Life”and in internet forums.
Repetitions and duplication are of central importance for role-playing. In the field of art this results in a special punchline, as the role is emphasized by the repetition of an iconographic model or a specific work of art and self-presentation is unmasked as re-enactment. The exhibition presents a survey on the subject of role models and role-playing, according to specific thematic guidelines:
19th century role-playing, religious role-playing (Passion of Christ, the Last Supper, other biblical scenes), paraphrases of works of art, concepts ofidentity (reflections on the role of artists, artists as works of art, gender roles and stereotypes, travesty, multiplication and repetition, ethnic identity, I is another) Theatricality, Fiction and Fantasy, private and public roles (socialisation, social class and profession), serious games (re-enactment, role-playing as therapy and political instrument)
A comprehensive, richly illustrated catalogue with texts by Mark
Butler, Susanne Holschbach, Birgit Jooss, Sabine Kampmann, Doris
Krystof, Richard David Precht, Esther Ruelfs and Veit Ziegelmaier has
been published by Hirmer Verlag in conjunction with the exhibition.
Edited by Toni Stooss, Esther Ruelfs, Hirmer Verlag, München, 2011
352 pages with 350 pictures, paperback, German, € 39.90.
With friendly assistance from
prohelvetia Schweizer Kulturstiftung
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
'video capitale 2011'
Vidéo Capitale
Du 2 au 11 juillet à Ronchamp / France
Soirée de clôture lundi 11 juillet à 20h sur la Place de l’église.
Dans les vitrines de la rue Le Corbusier.
Chaque soir, à partir de 22h, les vitrines de la boulangerie Simonin, de l’Office de Tourisme et de la salle d’attente du médecin, dans le centre de la ville de Ronchamp, s’animeront avec des projections grand format, et feront vivre en lumières les espaces extérieurs de la rue principale. Ce sera une fête des regards qui sera proposée chaque soir, multipliant notre approche du quotidien, au croisement des différentes disciplines, de l’architecture à la danse, du documentaire aux arts plastiques. Les vidéos ont été réalisées par de très jeunes artistes ou des créateurs confirmés, tous engagés dans la création contemporaine internationale, travaillant les images du monde, de notre humanité.
In the shopping windows of the rue Le Corbusier.
Each evening, from 10 pm, the windows of Simonin bakery, of the Tourist Office and that of the doctor’s waiting room will be animated in the centre of Ronchamp town with huge projections and will make the outdoors of the main street live with light. Every evening, this will be a festival for the eye, hence multiplying our approach to the daily life, at the crossroad of several disciplines such as architecture, dancing, documenting or plastic arts. Videos have been produced by very young artists or more confirmed creators ; they all are implied to international contemporary creation and work the world and mankind images. Translation by Freddy Galand.
Avec les vidéos de / artists : Pierre Alferi, Lucie Boucek, Maurice Braun, Ben Braun & Felix Koziol, Antonin Buchwalter, Thananasis Chondros & Alexandra Katsiani, Michel Collet, Hervé Constant, Julien Daubigny, Anne Durez, Michael Esser, Collectif Fact, Christian Frentzen, Matthieu Gauthier, Marc Gerenton, Masha Godovannaya, Masahiro Handa, Nina Juric, Justin Kruse, Lello Lopez, Ket Mayer et Nina Juric, Jean-Paul Mignot, Hannes Marget, Christophe Monterlos, Ferhat Ozgur, Cristina Pavesi, Jeff Perkins, Pedro Puertas, Simone Reineck, Renaud Ruhlmann, Rebekka Schaufelberger, Cécile Sigonney, Pierre Soignon, Gruppo Sinestetico, Vassily Teriakidis, Valentine Verhaeghe, Lukas Vogel, Isabelle Vorle, Chi-Hun Whang, Frédérique Weigel.
Vidéo Capitale 2011 est un événement de Montagne Froide en hommage à l’architecte Le Corbusier, à Ronchamp, dans le cadre de La Fête Radieuse.
Nous remercions : la Communauté de Communes de Rahin et Chérimont, la Commune de Ronchamp, le Comité des fêtes et de Jumelage de Ronchamp, l’Office du Tourisme, L’association Œuvre Notre-Dame du Haut, le Pays des Vosges Saônoises, le Programme LEADER-FEADER du Groupe d’Action Locale du Pays des Vosges Saônoises, Montagne Froide, La Maison de l’Architecture de Franche-Comté, Ecran Mobile, Le Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, DRAC de Franche-Comté, Le Conseil Régional de Franche-Comté, Le Conseil Général de la Haute-Saône, Le Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain de Franche-Comté, l’Espace Multimédia Gantner de Bourogne et le Conseil Général du Territoire de Belfort, l’École Régionale des Beaux-arts de Besançon, l’Association Allégorie Réelle, Éléonore Bak & A.R.S, Atelier de Recherche Sonore, Ecole Supérieure d’Art Metz Métropole, la Boulangerie Simonin, Monsieur Gérard Cornillac, l’Institut Fur Musik und Medien - Robert Schumann Hochschule Dusseldorf, La Filmakademie Baden Württemberg de Ludwigsburg. Création graphique welcome design.
www.montagnefroide.org
Du 2 au 11 juillet à Ronchamp / France
Soirée de clôture lundi 11 juillet à 20h sur la Place de l’église.
Dans les vitrines de la rue Le Corbusier.
Chaque soir, à partir de 22h, les vitrines de la boulangerie Simonin, de l’Office de Tourisme et de la salle d’attente du médecin, dans le centre de la ville de Ronchamp, s’animeront avec des projections grand format, et feront vivre en lumières les espaces extérieurs de la rue principale. Ce sera une fête des regards qui sera proposée chaque soir, multipliant notre approche du quotidien, au croisement des différentes disciplines, de l’architecture à la danse, du documentaire aux arts plastiques. Les vidéos ont été réalisées par de très jeunes artistes ou des créateurs confirmés, tous engagés dans la création contemporaine internationale, travaillant les images du monde, de notre humanité.
In the shopping windows of the rue Le Corbusier.
Each evening, from 10 pm, the windows of Simonin bakery, of the Tourist Office and that of the doctor’s waiting room will be animated in the centre of Ronchamp town with huge projections and will make the outdoors of the main street live with light. Every evening, this will be a festival for the eye, hence multiplying our approach to the daily life, at the crossroad of several disciplines such as architecture, dancing, documenting or plastic arts. Videos have been produced by very young artists or more confirmed creators ; they all are implied to international contemporary creation and work the world and mankind images. Translation by Freddy Galand.
Avec les vidéos de / artists : Pierre Alferi, Lucie Boucek, Maurice Braun, Ben Braun & Felix Koziol, Antonin Buchwalter, Thananasis Chondros & Alexandra Katsiani, Michel Collet, Hervé Constant, Julien Daubigny, Anne Durez, Michael Esser, Collectif Fact, Christian Frentzen, Matthieu Gauthier, Marc Gerenton, Masha Godovannaya, Masahiro Handa, Nina Juric, Justin Kruse, Lello Lopez, Ket Mayer et Nina Juric, Jean-Paul Mignot, Hannes Marget, Christophe Monterlos, Ferhat Ozgur, Cristina Pavesi, Jeff Perkins, Pedro Puertas, Simone Reineck, Renaud Ruhlmann, Rebekka Schaufelberger, Cécile Sigonney, Pierre Soignon, Gruppo Sinestetico, Vassily Teriakidis, Valentine Verhaeghe, Lukas Vogel, Isabelle Vorle, Chi-Hun Whang, Frédérique Weigel.
Vidéo Capitale 2011 est un événement de Montagne Froide en hommage à l’architecte Le Corbusier, à Ronchamp, dans le cadre de La Fête Radieuse.
Nous remercions : la Communauté de Communes de Rahin et Chérimont, la Commune de Ronchamp, le Comité des fêtes et de Jumelage de Ronchamp, l’Office du Tourisme, L’association Œuvre Notre-Dame du Haut, le Pays des Vosges Saônoises, le Programme LEADER-FEADER du Groupe d’Action Locale du Pays des Vosges Saônoises, Montagne Froide, La Maison de l’Architecture de Franche-Comté, Ecran Mobile, Le Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, DRAC de Franche-Comté, Le Conseil Régional de Franche-Comté, Le Conseil Général de la Haute-Saône, Le Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain de Franche-Comté, l’Espace Multimédia Gantner de Bourogne et le Conseil Général du Territoire de Belfort, l’École Régionale des Beaux-arts de Besançon, l’Association Allégorie Réelle, Éléonore Bak & A.R.S, Atelier de Recherche Sonore, Ecole Supérieure d’Art Metz Métropole, la Boulangerie Simonin, Monsieur Gérard Cornillac, l’Institut Fur Musik und Medien - Robert Schumann Hochschule Dusseldorf, La Filmakademie Baden Württemberg de Ludwigsburg. Création graphique welcome design.
www.montagnefroide.org
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