April 2011 Archives

Sans vous, rien ne se fera

Une énergie adolescente, un artificier, un désir assouvi, un cheval cabré, une ligne claire, un chat qui rôde, une soirée-tentative, un vide accueillant, des millimètres à parcourir, une accumulation de « je », un agencement spéculatif, une raquette de tennis.
En présence de Pauline Bastard, Jon Bernad, Benjamin Blaquart, Baptiste Brevart, Dominique Gilliot, David Horvitz, Charlie Jeffery, Megan May Daalder, Grégoire Motte, Elisa Pône, Lidwine Prolonge, Sébastien Rémy, SZAF (Miklós Mécs et Judit Fisher), Achraf Touloub et Meurtre, Les Vraoums, Gachette of the Mastiff.

http://www.mainsdoeuvres.org

http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/store/index.php?id=1678


A photograph I took on my California Coast road-trip from earlier this year was used on the cover of a Xiu Xiu Deerhoof split 7-inch. I think it's on sale now. The photograph was taken in the Lost Coast of Calfornia, the only part of California that does not have a highway serving it. The engineer's building highway one, aka pacific coast highway, could not build through this part of California. So the highway merges with the 101 a little east. However, there are still country roads that you can drive on. In my mom's small Saturn, I decided to drive through, and ended up getting stuck about 20 miles into the forest... Stuck in mud... For 24 hours... No cell signal... On a road that no one drives on... Had to sleep in car w/ two friends... Saved by mushroom foragers in the next day.... This sunset was both an amazing sight, and also a sign that it was about to get dark, and we were no getting out that day..........................

Artists Presentations_


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Wednesday 20 April, 17.00 till 20.00 h (soup & bread is served in between talks)
in Theatre Zeebelt
De Constant Rebecqueplein 20b in The Hague
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You are warmly invited to the collaborative program by DCR Gueststudio and Satellietgroep @ Zeebelt Theatre, The Hague:

Starting at
+ 17.00   Irwan Ahmett & Tita Salina (Indonesia) 
+ 17.30   Izabela Oldak (Poland) 
+ 18.00   soup 
+ 19.00   James Geurts (Australia) co curator for Satellietgroep 
+ 19.30   David Horvitz (US) guest curator Cinema at Sea for Satellietgroep 
+ 20.00 - 22.00  aftertalks

Worng
Artists: Kristoffer Akselbo (DK), Goodiepal (DK), David Horvitz (US), Ferdinand Ahm Krag (DK), André Komatsu (BR), Takeshi Murata (US), Rasmus Høj Mygind (DK), Marie Kølbæk Iversen (DK), Pind (DK), Bertrand Planes (F), Torben Ribe (DK) & Nicolas Robbio (AR)
Period: April 16 – May 22, 2011
Curated by: Toke Lykkeberg & Julia Rodrigues

Returning to France from the Venice Biennial in 1995, Jean Baudrillard typed down his inner dialogue with contemporary art in an infamous article. He concluded that it was “mediocrity squared”:
It pretends to be null: ‘I am null! I am null!’ – and it is really null.

This cry, that Baudrillard was sure to identify and whose language he was so sure to understand, is still heard. And its echo resounds in this group exhibition at IMO under the heading “Worng”, which is hacker slang for wrong. But this time it resounds in an inappropriately more eloquent manner. Worng abounds with errors, flaws, distortions and mismanagement. However, the artists here do not just embrace failure. They also cultivate it. They try “to write the mediocre well,” as Gustave Flaubert put it.

If contemporary art is defined by its pluralism, then there is no right way of making art. Even to the point, where what might seem decidedly wrong becomes an option. And this option is not one option. It is a plethora of possibilities. There might be only one way of being right, but various ways of being wrong. The diversity is reflected in Worng, which presents anything from failed file sharing and distorted pictures to a text illustrated by its own obliteration and records which risk ruining the recording artist the very moment they start to sell.

At the opening, Goodiepal will give “a concert or playback lecture.”

Please download David Horvitz's book "Public Access", which will be presented at Worng.

IMO
Ny Carlsberg Vej 68 OG
DK-1760 Copenhagen
Denmark

www.imo-projects.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svanem%C3%B8lle_Beach
http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svanem%C3%B8llestranden

I am the guest-curator for April's Cinema At Sea at Badgast in Scheveningen, Holland (near The Hague).