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2008. március 19., 18-20 óráig, Artpool P60Dimenzionista világtalálkozó (N+1/2008) A KAPCSOLAT-ALAPÚ MŰVÉSZET, MINT INFORMATÍV KÖLTÉSZET Vizsgálódó világok találkozása az időben

Gravity Art March 1 - April 26, 2008 TELIC Arts Exchange 975 Chung King Rd. Los Angeles, CA 90012
"TELIC Arts Exchange becomes a lab for the production of a new genre of art from March 1 through April 26. In light of recent cultural developments, video art, performance art, and conceptual art no longer seem like esoteric, avant-garde enterprises. Social networking and content distribution platforms, such as YouTube, suggest that these forms are becoming normative modes of public address and interaction. Gravity Art, curated by filmmaker Rene Daalder, is an exhibition that retroactively proposes a genre based on the idea of gravity as a medium. Operating in relation to Daalder's documentary on Bas Jan Ader, Here is Always Somewhere Else, and his website basjanader.com, this exhibition brings together several generations of conceptual artists through the unlikely, but perfectly obvious conceit of gravity. One dominant theme of Gravity Art is an interrogation of the legacy of Bas Jan Ader, the conceptual artist from the Netherlands who found himself in various art schools in Southern California in the late 1960's and early 1970's. The exhibition itself follows this trajectory: an exhibition at De Appel co-curated by Daalder in Amsterdam called Gravity in Art was a point of departure for this show at TELIC; many of the artists are Dutch; and Daalder himself emigrated from the Netherlands to Los Angeles around the same time as Ader. Gravity Art features work by Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Monsieur Moo, Johanna Billing, Lonnie van Brummelen, Daniel Devlin, Gino de Dominicis, Hege Dons Samset, David Horvitz, Friedrich Kunath, Gavin Maitland, Ari Marcopoulos, Liza May Post, Willem de Ridder, Pipilotti Rist, Fernando Sanchez, Wim Schippers and Wim Vanderlinden, Richard Serra, Pascual Sisto, Stelarc, Marco Schuler, Joel Tauber, Jacob Tonski, Tsui Kuang-Yu, Marijke van Warmerdam, Guido van der Werve, and Erik Wesselo."

Simone Forti/Jeremiah Day
"News Animations"/"No Words For You, Springfield"28 March - 3 May 2008
"Jeremiah Day is interested in resistance movements, as well as the flux of knowledge, stories and identity through the migration of people and histories. Day has been researching the movement of the people of the Blasket Islands off the Dingle Peninsula (Ireland), to the town of Springfield near Boston (USA) culminating in a complete evacuation of the Islands in the 1950s.
What we know of the poetic tradition of the Blasket Islands comes to us largely through the efforts of the English linguist George Thompson. In the story-telling of the Blaskets, Thompson felt he'd found a link with the pre-Socratic tradition of Greek epic poetry, where spiritual, personal, political and practical subjects were integrated, and thus the boundary between art and life could be said not to exist at all. Springfield has been largely in decline for fifty years now, a classic post-industrial American city. Can we imagine that any of the story-telling traditions of the Blaskets have lived on, there? And though the Blaskets are long deserted, what of the now developed Ireland around them? What does progress mean, from the lens of the Blasket tradition? "Poetry proper is never merely a higher mode of everyday language. It is rather the reverse: everyday language is a forgotten and therefore used-up poem, from which there hardly resounds a call any longer." Martin Heidegger

katt 6 csatornás videóinstalláció, loopMagyar Műhely Galéria 1072 Budapest, Akácfa u. 20. 2008. március 20-április 11.

Heiner Goebbels: Stifter's Dinge 15 - 27 April 2008
A co-commission by Artangel and Theatre Vidy-Lausanne
P3 Marylebone Road London NW1
Inspired by an eclectic range of influences and sources, international composer and director, Heiner Goebbels fascination with literature, politics and anthropology informs richly textured visual compositions that integrate classical, pop, jazz and traditional indigenous music. These vivid, otherworldly settings have often showcased exceptional players - from the Ensemble Modern to the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

Home Works IV: A Forum on Cultural Practices, April 12th to 20th, 2008, Beirut, Lebanon.
Ashkal Alwan, the Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts.
Venues: Masrah Al Madina (MM) Cinema Metropolis (CM) Sfeir Semler Gallery (SS) Planet Discovery (PD) Estral Center (EST) Agial Art Gallery (AG) Saint Joseph Church Crypt (SJC) Bernard Khoury Ateliers (BK).
The Home Works Forum is a multidisciplinary project that brings together artists, writers and intellectuals to present their work. Organized by Ashkal Alwan, it takes place every eighteen months in exhibition and performance venues throughout Beirut, and presents lectures, panel discussions, screenings, debates and artistic interventions (by established and emerging artists).
As a title, the term Home Works suggests an intertwining of public and private spheres, the outside world of work and the inside space of home. In referring to the exercises, lessons and research problems worked out by students repetitively and in solitude, Home Works implies a process of internal excavation, digging and burrowing deeper all the while constructing and accumulating new practices.
This fourth edition proposes for thematic axes disaster, catastrophe, recomposing desire and sex practices. From the experience of organizing three editions of the Home Works Forum, it is no longer self-evident to assume that such a platform make for true dialogue and cultural exchange possible. What it allows for however is a productive space in which political, social, economic realities can be explored, reflected, made manifest as visual and verbal articulations that occur with some consistency. These articulations have become our obsession.
ASHKAL ALWAN Phoenicia Str., Saab Bldg. #2, 4th Floor, Ain El-Mreisseh, Beirut, Lebanon

2008.03.19.-30. Joshua Birch és Daniel Turner: Debut / Rescue Video A Boulevard & Brezsnyev "örömmel mutatja be a Debut / Rescue című kiállítást, Joshua Birch és Daniel Turner amerikai alkotók új munkáit. A Király utcai galériatérbe a művészek egy olyan sorozatot alkottak meg, amely installációként is megállja a helyét. A zsákvászonra vakolattal készített festményektől kezdve a nagyméretű zászlókon és egy élő tobozos fán át egészen a tükrökkel vezetett fény- és különböző szöveges munkákig kerülnek installációra. Birch és Turner, vagy ahogyan ők mondják, Tirch és Burner immáron öt éve dolgoznak együtt a saját stúdiójukon kívül is. Az esztétika energiájával való kísérletező kedvük hozta őket össze, s a művészek most Budapesten találták meg helyüket, ahol a talált anyagok palettája új fejezetet nyit kultúrákon átívelő kísérletüknek. Birch és Turner érdeklődéssel dolgozik a terek és környezetek széles skálájával, Kalifornia strandjai, hegyei és farmjai, Virginia mocsarai éppúgy közel állnak hozzájuk mint a helyi programok és a különböző amerikai intézetekben bemutatott jelentős számú kiállítás. Mindkét művész komoly bajtársiasságot érez volt kollégáikkal, Turner festményei a virginiai Chrysler Múzeum falai között voltak kiállítva, Birch interaktív szobrokból álló sorozata pedig a san franciscoi Legion of Honor múzeumban kapott helyet."

Adrian Paci: Per Speculum March 13 - May 18, 2008
kép: Adrian Paci, Per Speculum, 2006. Courtesy of francesca kaufmann, Milan.
Bonniers Konsthall Torsgatan 19, S-113 90 Stockholm, Sweden
The Albanian-Italian artist's latest film takes the viewer to an ostensibly pastoral landscape, where some children play with mirrors, slingshots and reflections of the sun. The movie was shot in the summer of 2006 in Milton Keynes in England and is screened with a 35mm projector. Adrian Paci's latest film Per Speculum takes place in an idyllic landscape, more reminiscent of a fairy tale than reality. The camera pans over the billowing landscape, but soon focuses on a group of children dressed in timeless clothes. The image zooms out and it is revealed that this image of the children is enclosed within the frame of a large mirror. There they are caught in the eye of the camera and in the reflection from the mirror. A boy picks up a slingshot and releases a shot that shatters the glass of the mirror and the picture it has created. The landscape expands behind the mirror and shows that the children, like a picture in the picture, are captured in a representation of reality. A simple way of translating Per Speculum is "by means of a mirror". The allegorical film contains references to religion, art history and feature films. Towards the end of Per Speculum we see the children perching on branches high up in a tree. They are holding the shards of the mirror glass in their hands towards the camera and blind us with the reflections of the sun. The tree is an ancient Biblical symbol that has been used in art ever since the Middle Ages. The title of the film alludes to the Bible's First Letter to the Corinthians. Just like the Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini, Adrian Paci has also become interested in sacred symbols that are seen, for example, in icon paintings. The children in Per Speculum are extremely similar to the artist's earlier sketches of film stills from Pasolini's films Decameron (1971) and The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964), films that are actually tales from the Bible.

About Gasworks Founded in 1994, Gasworks is an art organisation based in South London, housing twelve artists' studios and proposing a programme of exhibitions and events, artists' residencies, international fellowships and educational projects. Gasworks focuses on visual arts practice in its broadest sense, working discursively with UK-based and international artists to facilitate the development of their work. Gasworks' programme is committed to providing a responsive context for the work of emerging and mid-career artists, and to disseminating critical practices to a wider audience. Gasworks is part of Triangle Arts Trust, an international network of artists and organisations. Gasworks 155 Vauxhall Street London SE11 5RH

Art in New York artkrush March 19-April 1, 2008

WARHOL'S JEWS: TEN PORTRAITS RECONSIDERED March 16 through August 3, 2008 The Jewish Museum NY
When it premiered in 1980, Andy Warhol's Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century was met with both admiration and hostility. The series depicts such luminaries as Bernhardt, Einstein, Freud, and the Marx Brothers, among others. On view are photographs that Warhol used as source images, several preliminary sketches, a preparatory collage, an edition of the final silk-screen portfolio (of which 200 were published), and one of the five complete sets of paintings that he made for the series. Additional materials related to the portraits, including the list of nearly 100 famous Jews prepared by Warhol's dealer, and television coverage of the artist's trip to Miami for the world premiere of the series, will shed light on their creation and display. ART, IMAGE AND WARHOL CONNECTIONS Presented concurrently with Warhol' s Jews, this mini-exhibition features works by artists who directly respond to Andy Warhol or employ techniques often associated with Warhol's oeuvre. Warhol and themes central to his practice such as current events, consumer culture and the superstar, are seen reflected through 26 works by a multi-generational group of artists, including Deborah Kass, Alex Katz, Abshalom Jac Lahav, Adam Rolston, Ben Shahn, Devorah Sperber, and June Wayne."

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