'TAXI' Project, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, from May 31 2014, Permanent Installation

TAXI

Egle Budvytyte, Erik Bunger, Jakup Ferri, Bruno Muzzolini, Christopher Milne, Ferhat Özgür, Steve Piccolo, Anri Sala, Bert Theis, Shingo Yoshida, Fani Zguro

National Gallery of Arts, Tirana
From May 31, 2014
Permanent installation

National Gallery of Arts in Tirana presents “Taxi”, a sound specific project with the participation of Egle Budvytyte, Erik Bunger, Jakup Ferri, Bruno Muzzolini, Christopher Milne, Ferhat Ozgur, Steve Piccolo, Anri Sala, Bert Theis, Shingo Yoshida and Fani Zguro. Each artist was inviting to propose a sound piece for TAXI in Tirana City. “Taxi” is a project than begins from Anri Sala’s site specific “No Formula One No Cry” which consists in the realization of a soundtrack, where the noise that the Formula One cars makes is played along street dogs barking. The presentation of Sala’s soundtrack is done in different taxies around the world, from Frankfurt to Miami... The project is being documented with the help of visiting cards, which help establish direct contact with the taxi driver. Anyone interested can order the cab under his mobile number and ask the taxi driver to turn on the sound project for the duration of the trip.

Image: Anri Sala, No Formula One No Cry, sound, 03’ 36’’, 2002, courtesy of the artist and Chantal Crousel Paris

Special thanks to Artan Shabani, Anri Sala

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ARTS TIRANA
Address: Bulevardi Dëshmorët e Kombit, 1001, Tirana (Albania)
Tel: +355 4 222 60 33
E-mail: info@gka.al
Web: www.gka.al

'invisible violence', Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, 9 May - 30 June 2014

INVISIBLE VIOLENCE
A multi-disciplinary project co-produced by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade (MoCAB) and ARTIUM Basque Museum-Centre of Contemporary Art

Curators: Zoran Erić, Blanca de la Torre and Seamus Kealy

Exhibition venues:
MoCAB Salon, Heritage House, Institute Cervantes – Belgrade, Serbia 
from May 9th 2014 till June 30th, 2014
Opens Friday May 9th, 7 pm

ARTIUM, Basque Museum-Center of Contemporary Art – Vitoria, Spain
September 12th, 2014 to January 11th, 2015

This collaboration involves two distinct but jointly curated exhibitions, a film program to accompany both exhibitions, a conference in partnership with local academic bodies, and a series of talks, panel discussions and educational workshops. 

The Belgrade exhibition includes: Kader Attia (FR), Itziar Barrio (ES), Ursula Biemann (CH), Rossella Biscotti(IT/NL) & Kevin van Braak (NL), Sarah Browne (IE), Declan Clarke (IE), István Csákány (EU), Willie Doherty(UK/IE), Harun Farocki (DE), Daniel García Andújar (ES), Marta Jovanović (RS/IT), Dejan Kaludjerović (RS/AT),Vladimir Miladinović (RS), Locky Morris (UK/IE), Christodoulos Panayiotou (CY), Garrett Phelan (IE), Nikola Radić Lucati (RS), María Ruido (ES), Francesc Ruiz (ES), Fernando Sánchez Castillo (ES/NL), Jonas Staal(NL), Milica Tomić (RS) and Katarina Zdjelar (RS/NL)

The Belgrade conference: 'Invisible Violence'
Partner institutions MoCAB and Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade

Saturday May 10th, 2014
10 am to 4.30 pm
Belgrade Youth Center 

The conference gathers theorists and artists to discuss three thematic clusters of the project regarded as key symptoms that express 'invisible violence' within the European context today. 

10:00 am: Panel 1 'Invisible Violence: Retraditionalization' (folklore, nationalisms, identity & trauma, erasure of history…)

Speakers: Tiziana Andana (IT), Declan Long (IE), Suzana Milevska (MK), Jan Müller (DE)
Moderator: Stevan Vuković (RS)

12.10 pm: Panel 2 'Invisible Violence: Bureaucratization' (EU apartheid – violence of new legislations; problematics of institutional governance, political interference …)

Speakers: Petar Bojanić (RS), Daniel García Andújar (ES), Massimo Palma (IT) 
Moderator: Adriana Zaharijević (RS)

1:45 pm: Lunch break 

2:25 pm: Panel 3 'Invisible Violence: Exploitation' (labour, capital networks, new political hegemonies …)

Speakers: Daniel Loick (DE), Itziar Barrio (ES), Nikola Radić Lucati (RS)
Moderator: Ana Vilenica (RS)

4.00 – 4.30 pm: Final discussion 


Film Programme
Partner institutions MoCAB and Filmforum of Students Cultural Centre, Belgrade 
Grand Hall of the Students Cultural Centre

Timetable of screenings: 
Tuesday May 20th – João Salaviza (PT)
Tuesday May 27th – Duncan Campbell (IE)
Monday June 9th – Ferhat Özgür (TR)
Tuesday June 17th – Jesse Jones (IE)
Tuesday June 24th – Pavel Brăila (MD) 

Background 

The project explores 'invisible violence' as it is discernable within quotidian, domestic, work-related, and everyday life; administrative and bureaucratic violence; visual violence in advertising and media; as well as subtle forms of sectarianism and community animosity arising from recent historical circumstances. These are forms of violence that are arguably globally omnipresent. These comparisons of violence shall be explored by bringing together artists' work that are problematizing territorial, nationalistic, mythological and identity-related topics in a topical fashion, without being bogged down by dualistic, partitioned or oppositional representations. 

The theme of violence as a subject for an exhibition is naturally a sensitive and often provocative one, and sometimes generative of Manichean definitions of 'us and them.' Therefore, with this project, it is an aim to resist undue focus on issues of war, genocide and extreme violence, while enabling these to be a tangible, if unseen backdrop to the project. The violence being predominantly explored – that which is depicted or investigated in the invited artists' work - is forms of violence within language, within representation, as a result of shifting socio-economic conditions, and shifting ideas and policies that may be identified as enacting a 'cultural' violence upon geo-political bodies and individuals. This does not mean that these more topical and more pronounced forms of violence (terrorism, war, ethnic cleansing and genocide) are explicitly avoided in this exhibition, but that instead they do not dominate the field of references, which itself aims to cast several beacons on different forms of cultural and contemporary violence simultaneously. Additionally, a variety of obstacles that appeared during the production of this overall project, which ironically may be defined as key examples of invisible violence, will be presented and deciphered alongside the exhibition and its discourses. Originally a three-country project, and now touring between Serbia and Spain without an Irish partner, the processes of this project's development had unexpectedly and inadvertently uncovered forms of invisible violence.

This project aims to depict the universalising aspects of forms of invisible violence as they are currently prevalent all over Europe; forms of violence that are, for example, seen as a central threat to the production of egalitarian ideals of European citizenship. 

With the support of: 

Ministry of Culture and Information, Republic of Serbia
Arabako Foru Aldundia, Diputación Foral de Álava 
Fund for an Open Society, Serbia
Culture Ireland
British Council Northern Ireland 
Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia 
Instituto Cervantes, Belgrade 
Österreichischen Kulturforum, Belgrade
Goethe Institut, Belgrade
Institut francais, Belgrade
Instituto Camões, Belgrade
EUNIC, Serbia

'ALL ABOUT THESE… LADIES AND GENTLEMEN', SOMA, MEXICO, 8 May 2014

ALL ABOUT THESE… LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

Hamra Abbas, Halil Altindere, Maria Thereza Alves, Luca Bolognesi, Candice Breitz, Egle Budvytyte, Erik Bünger, Jean-Charles Hue, Minerva Cuevas, Hubert Czerepok, Kajsa Dahlberg, Dina Danish, Ra Di Martino, Jimmie Durham, Dora Garcia, Manuela Garcia, Daniel Guzmán, Alban Hajdinaj, Pablo Helguera, Judith Hopf, Yuri Leiderman, Dafna Maimon, Haroon Mirza, Bruno Muzzolini, Stefan Nikolaev, Tomas Ochoa, Damián Ortega, Fernando Ortega, Ferhat Ozgur, Adrian Paci, Steve Piccolo, Agnieszka Polska, Mark Raidpere, Pipilotti Rist, Aida Ruilova, Anri Sala, Mariette Schiltz and Bert Theis, Artan Shabani, Eltjon Valle, Esme Valk, Shingo Yoshida, Akram Zaatari

Curator Fani Zguro
Opening May 8 until May 8, 2014
Soma Mexico DF

Once I used to watch the movies of Ingmar Bergman, now I paste notes taken from E-flux and Art-agenda. "All About These ... Ladies and Gentlemen" is nothing but an illustration of the images that set these notes in motion (Fani Zguro). 

Soma Mexico DF presents "All About These... Ladies and Gentlemen", a video screening curated by Fani Zguro in collaboration with Gallery On The Move, from May 8 until May 8, 2014. "All About These... Ladies and Gentlemen" that got started at Viafarini Milan in 2013 and also was presented at Co-Pilot Istanbul and The National Gallery of Arts Tirana in 2014, is a project that keeps on and changing in time. In every new presentation, will be introduced new artists and videos. The structure remains the same, while the information is replaced with other dates.

Image: Bruno Muzzolini, Disco drum machine, 2009, Full HD video - color, sound, duration 5' : 44'', courtesy of the artist

Special thanks to: Pipilotti Rist, Manuela Garcia, Dora Garcia, Soma Mexico, Galerie Michel Rein, Kurimanzutto Gallery, Azra Tuzunoglu, Studio Sala, Galleria Kaufmann Repetto, Bruno Muzzolini, Adrian Paci, Lo Schermo dell' Arte Film Festival, Gaia Fugazza, Galerie Zak Branicka, Jacqui Davies

SOMA 
Address: Calle 13 #25 Col. San Pedro de los Pinos, 03800 Ciudad de México 
Tel: +52 55 5277 4947 
E-mail: info@somamexico.org
Web: www.somamexico.org | www.galleryonthemove.net

WERKLEITZ FESTIVAL 2014

Mit Filmen u.a. von: Laurie Anderson, Maya Deren, Omer Fast, Christoph Girardet, Michel Gondry, Ute Hörner & Mathias Antlfinger, Buster Keaton, Ho Tzu Nyen, Ferhat Ozgür, Ekta Mittal & Yashaswini Raghunandan,… 

Das Werkleitz Festival wurde von Marcel Schwierin (Berlin) und Luc-Carolin Ziemann (Leipzig) kuratiert.

Film ist ein ideales Medium, um das Motiv des Doppelgängers zu visualisieren, denn nur dem Kino gelingt es tatsächlich, die täuschend echte Illusion der Verdopplung der Wirklichkeit auf der Leinwand zu erzeugen. Der Doppelgänger ist somit ein filmisches Sujet par excellence. In den mehr als 40 Filmen des Festivals begegnen den Zuschauern Doubles, Klone und Roboter, Spiegel-, Zerr- und Vexierbilder aller Art. Die Filme fragen nach dem Unterschied von Original und Kopie, verhandeln die politische Dimension der Austauschbarkeit beider und ergründen, wie Doppelgänger in einer Welt, in der Kopien allgegenwärtiger sind als Originale, zu Projektionsflächen und Orientierungspunkten werden. So unterschiedlich die Doppelgänger, so vielfältig sind ihre filmischen Verkörperungen: die Frage, wo das Ich aufhört und das Du beginnt, wird in Spiel-, Dokumentar- und Experimentalfilmen genauso verhandelt wie in Animationen, Videokunst und Musikvideos. Dabei treffen einfache Spiegeltricks auf komplexe digitale Animationen. Oft erscheinen die Künstler selbst in ihren Filmen und konfrontieren die Abbilder ihres Ichs mit der äußeren oder der inneren Welt, mal als beschwingter Slapstick, mal als verstörende Vision. 

EröffnungsveranstaltungFr, 25. April, 20.30 Uhr, Filmprogramm mit anschließender Geburtstagsparty im Puppentheater (Dock 1 und Foyer), Tickets: kostenfrei, kein Ticketverkauf

Filmprogramme im Kino Zazie: (Ticketverkauf über Kino Zazie)
Sa, 26. April und So, 27. April sowie Fr, 2. Mai und Sa, 3. Mai, jeweils 19.00 und 21.30 Uhr: „Gegenüber // Mirror, Mirror on the Wall“, „Me as We“, „Doppelgänger im Horrorfilm“ (Vortrag von Ralf Donis mit Filmbeispielen), „Sisters (Die Schwestern des Bösen)“, „Puppen, Doubles und andere Stellvertreter“, „Identical (?) Twins“, „Ghoststories“, „Dancing with Myself“ / Karten: 5,- EUR (ermäßigt: 3,-)

Installationen im Videorama:Werkleitz Schaufenster in die Stadt, Schleifweg 6, Halle (Saale)
April: „Dog Duet“ von William Wegman, US 1975
Mai: „Dog Duet“ von Pascal Lièvre, FR 2009

Infos: doppelgaenger.werkleitz.deDownload PDF: Filmprogramm.pdf

ART COLOGNE, 9-13 APRIL 2014

SOUVENIRS FROM EARTH & ART COLOGNE present FILM COLOGNE, a new sector at the Cologne art fair. 50 submissions from participating galleries are presented in a dedicated video lounge at the entrance area of the exhibition. From April 9th-13th the 9h program will be screened in the ART COLOGNE lounge and live on SOUVENIRS FROM EARTH through cable networks in France and Germany and on www.sfe.tv. 

The program was composed by SFE curator Alec Crichton with assistance of Daniel Hug, director of ART COLOGNE. 

Artists:

Brian Alfred / William Anastasi / Skip Arnold / Bill Balaskas / Delpine Balley / Anna Barha / Johanna Billing / Keren Cytter / Dennis Del Favero / Sebastian Diaz Morales / Per Dybvig / Volker Eichelmann / Ulrik Helfort / Lynn Hershman Leeson /  Alisson Hrablulk / Christian Jankowski / Sven Johne / Boaz Kaizman / Alan Kaprow / Manfred Kuttner / Adrian Lohmüller / Christina Lucas / Katja Mater / Anthony Mcall / Dieter Meier / Erkka Nissinen / Marcel Odenbach / Ferhat Özgür / Mary Reid Kelly / Claus Richter Miguel Angel Rios / Martha Rosler / Mika Rottenberg / Aida Ruilova / Anri Sala / Sam Samore / Fernando Sanchez Castillo / Larissa Sansour / Robert Seidel / Mathew Stone / Kerry Tribe / Stefanos Tsivopoulos / Eric van Lieshout / Ulla von Brandenburg / Matthew Weinstein

'Autonomous and Beautiful', Aksanat Beyoglu, Istanbul, 7 January 2014

Autonomous and beautiful

Artists:Ahmet Elhan, Ansen, Ardan Özmenoğlu, Erdağ Aksel, Ersan Deveci, Ferhat Özgür, Gülay Semercioğlu, Haluk Akakçe, Hussein Chalayan, İnci Furni, Murat Germen, Nazif Topçuoğlu, Osman Dinç, Ramazan Bayrakoğlu, Seçkin Pirim, Serkan Taycan, Seydi Murat Koç, Şükran Moral, Vahit Tuna, Yaşam Şaşmazer

Curator: Hasan Bülent Kahraman

opening: 7 January 2014, 6pm
Address: İstiklal Cad. No:8 34435 Beyoğlu-İstanbul
Tel: (0 212) 252 35 00-01
Fax:(0 212) 245 12 28
E-MAIL:akbanksanat@akbank.com

Contemporary art was born in the last 20 years. The new art emerging through changes in institutional structures as well as in structural features was bearing various different characteristics. The exhibition curated by Hasan Bülent Kahraman envelops these differences with two fundamental concepts: autonomy and beauty.

Autonomy is one of the most striking qualities of new art. This was achieved through a comprehensive and compelling relationship that it established with the political and the social. Notions such as memory, identity, belonging, space and body altogether formed the backbone of the works of this period, but at the same time, these were creating the plane of intersection of the social and the political.

At the same time, the exhibition establishes the beautiful as another structural feature of the new art. Perhaps the most overlooked characteristic of new art in Turkey is highlighted through the works in this exhibition. The exhibition advocates that the aesthetic beauty becomes a specific “tool” for the constitution of the aesthetics of the surface, the volume, the space and of the body. Equally, it argues that the beautiful is adopted by artists as a founding principle and emphasises that the new art in Turkey is turned into a distinctive but at the same time a political resistance context.

ABOUT ALL THESE... LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:Viafarini in collaboration with Gallery On The Move Opening December 10, 2013 until December 14, 2013 DOCVA Viafarini, Milan (Italy

ABOUT ALL THESE... LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

artists

Shadi Habib Allah, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Halil Altindere, Maria Thereza Alves, Carlos Amorales, Ziad Antar, Fikret Atay, Maja Bajevic, Zbynek Baladran, Rosa Barba, Yael Bartana, Rossella Biscotti, Luca Bolognesi, Candice Breitz, Egle Budvytyte, Erik Bünger, Miguel Calderón, Francisco Camacho, Barbara Ceriani Basilico and Alessandro Mancassola, Jordi Colomer, Minerva Cuevas, Hubert Czerepok, Kajsa Dahlberg, Dina Danish, Ra Di Martino, Jimmie Durham, Miha Erman, Ulrika Ferm, Jakup Ferri, Regina José Galindo, Dora Garcia, Ion Gregorescu, Daniel Guzmán, Khaled Hafez, Alban Hajdinaj, Pablo Helguera, Hiwa K., Judith Hopf, Jean-Charles Hue, Jesper Just, Hassan Khan, Ali Kazma, Yuri Leiderman, Anibal Lòpez, Los Carpinteros, Jorge Macchi, Dafna Maimon, Dorit Margreiter, Haroon Mirza, Ivan Mudov, Ciprian Muresan, Museo Aero Solar, Bruno Muzzolini, Stefan Nikolaev, Tomas Ochoa, Ahmet Ogut, Melik Ohanian, Damián Ortega, Fernando Ortega, Ferhat Ozgur, Adrian Paci, Steve Piccolo, Agnieszka Polska, Mark Raidpere, Pipilotti Rist, Mika Rottenberg, Aida Ruilova, Anri Sala, Hiraki Sawa, Katerina Seda, Artan Shabani, Mariette Schiltz and Bert Theis, Santiago Sierra, Melanie Smith, Sean Snyder, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Esme Valk, Helidon Xhixha, Shingo Yoshida, Nick Zedd and Richard Kern, Akram Zaatari, Brigitte Zieger.

Curator Fani Zguro

Viafarini in collaboration with Gallery On The Move

Opening December 10, 2013 until December 14, 2013

DOCVA Viafarini, Milan (Italy)

Once I used to watch the movies of Ingmar Bergman, now I paste notes taken from E-flux and Art-agenda. "All About These ... Ladies and Gentlemen" is nothing but an illustration of the images that set these notes in motion (Fani Zguro).

Viafarini presents “About All These… Ladies and Gentlemen”, a video screening curated by Fani Zguro  in collaboration with Gallery On The Move, from December 10 until December 14, 2013.

Image: Dora Garcia, Just Because Everything Is Different It Does Not Mean That Anything Has Changed: Lenny Bruce In Sydney, 2008, video HD, 60', english version, subtitled in english, With Richard Neville, Lawrence Shearer and Harli Ammouchi in the role of Lenny Bruce, Edition of 5 ex + 1 AP, Courtesy Galerie Michel Rein

Special thanks to: Prometeo Gallery di Ida Pisani, Dora Garcia, Galerie Michel Rein, Kurimanzutto Gallery, Studio Xhixha, Studio Sala, Galleria Kaufmann Repetto, Bruno Muzzolini, Lewin Quehl, Adrian Paci, Edson Luli, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Simone Frangi, Mariette Schiltz, Green Art Gallery, Galleria Francesca Minini, Galleria Franco Soffiantino, Ferhat Ozgur, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Gaia Fugazza, Pilot Galeri, Galerie Zak Branicka, James Cohan Gallery                

VIAFARINI DOCVA

Address: Fabbrica del Vapore, via Procaccini 4, 20154 Milan (Italy)

Tel: +39 02 45471153

E-mail: viafarini@viafarini.org

Web: www.viafarini.org | www.galleryonthemove.net

HISTOIRES PARALLÈLES : PAYS 18 November – 15 December 2013 centre chorégraphique national montpellier languedoc-roussillon Address: Boulevard Louis Blanc, 34000 Montpellier, France

HISTOIRES PARALLÈLES : PAYS MÊLÉS

artists

JENNIFER ALLORA & GUILLERMO CALZADILLA

CHAN-HYO BAE

BOUCHRA KHALILI

MWANZO MILLINGA

ERKAN ÖZGEN & SENER ÖZMEN

FERHAT ÖZGÜR

PUSHPAMALA N

ANNA-KATHARINA SCHEIDEGGER

COMMISSARIAT D’EXPOSITION : ALAIN BUFFARD

18 November – 15 December 2013

centre chorégraphique national montpellier languedoc-roussillon

Address: Boulevard Louis Blanc, 34000 Montpellier, France

Phone:+33 4 67 60 06 70

The exhibition will take place in the CCN until December 15^th 2013.

vidéos de ferhat özgür, rencontre entre ferhat özgür et alain buffard metamorphosis chat

jeudi 21 novembre . 19h . studio bagouet

Metamorphosis Chat is the title of Ferhat Özgür’s video shown as part of the exhibition. As its name implies, this is about an artistic chat. Throughout the week Turkish visual artist Ferhat Özgür and French choreographer Alain Buffard will take time to meet and bring together their approach to ideas and practices.  The audience will be invited to share this artistic encounter: from a selection of videos by Ferhat Özgür, the two artists will hold an open dialogue on their respective fields.

opening, show, talk quartiers libres

monday, november 18^th . 7pm . bagouet studio

as part of the ‘quinzaine des tiers mondes et de la solidarité internationale’ (fortnight dedicated to third-world countries and international solidarity), in association with cimade ngo

Quartiers libres night (title of the performance by Nadia Beugré, literally ‘free time’) invites us to explore, exchange and discover these parallel stories that take the form of an exhibition, a performance and discussions:

Opening of the exhibition Histoires parallèles, pays mêlés, featuring artists from outside Europe working on issues of territories, power, representations and genres.

Quartiers libres, solo work by Nadia Beugré in which the Ivorian dancer/choreographer frees herself from Western choreographies to address issues of violence against women in Africa.Discussions and meeting with local key players and witnesses regularly faced with migration, territorial and power issues, in association with and hosted by the ‘Maison des Tiers Monde et de la Solidarité Internationale Montpellier’ and Cimade NGO.

]domaines[ alain buffard

histoires parallèles, pays mêlés

november 18 and 21

Alain Buffard, who studied dance with Alwin Nikolais, met with US choreographers Yvonne Rainer and Anna Halprin, who would have a great influence on his career. Performer for Daniel Larrieu or Régine Chopinot among others, he created Good Boy in 1998, a solo work as uncompromising and straightforward as a manifesto. While ever changing, Buffard’s work has always been dealing with recurring issues. Following a period of questioning art, body and genre, the choreographer started to focus on the suggestion that dance is mainly about the body – as a political challenge – which cannot be ignored: his pieces are regularly shown during Montpellier Danse Festival and throughout the year: Baron Samedi, Tout va bien, Good boy.

Histoires parallèles : pays mêlés (parallel stories – blended countries) was created in the Spring 2013 in Nimes around the ethnography gallery of the Natural History Museum. This ]domaines[ in the CCN will provide for the re-invention of this event in a location not dedicated to visual arts. It reflects the variety of Alain Buffard’s practices, with no concern for hierarchy, and above all the need to shift presentation frameworks and assumed categories that go with them.

Histoires parallèles : pays mêlés illustrates a journey towards or from the other. Fragments of stories, networks of images and accounts combining special chronicles, uncommon paths, specific knowledge; a journey across different practices as the basis of our memories of the future.

Guest artists are willing to display these comings and goings from one culture to another, which do not however lead to a cultural blending.  They work on the plasticity of the world by refusing to set boundaries, forms and genres. They share the will to account for the nobleness and deep humanity of the people and subjects with whom they interact through works that illustrate contemporary practices within various converging areas.

From the other who fashions our own singularity we know that our future memory is already out there, elsewhere.

www.alainbuffard.eu