Vortrag
Brigitte Weingart: The Grammar of Glamour: Andy Warhol's Screen Test
Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
Brigitte Weingart teaches Literary and Media Studies at Bonn University and lives in Berlin.
Her research and teaching areas focus on the intersections of literature, popular culture, and media history (especially film). She is currently working on a book on fascination. Former books include a study on Infectious Words. Representations of AIDS (Ansteckende Wörter. Repräsentionen von AIDS, Suhrkamp Verlag 2002) and co-edited volumes on »original copies«, the relationships between the visible and the speakable, and the communication of rumours.
Sonntag, 22. Januar 2012
Emily Wardill
Vortrag
Emily Wardill
Mittwoch, 25. Januar 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
It is rare to see a box of Quality Street chocolates juxtaposed with a pig’s trotter; as rare, perhaps, as witnessing a teenager in spats dressed as a killer whale having a panic attack. Familiarity and logic are, however, thin on the ground in Emily Wardill’s films. Generally speaking, the London-based artist wrestles with languages – visual, cinematic, verbal, musical – not in order to control them but to free them up, as if non-sequiturs or logistical leaps and slippages are closer to the way we process information than the demarcations of conventional logic we more often rely on. This is not to say that her films make no sense – they do, but in a very strange way. They are the least predictable things I have seen in a long time.
Jennifer Higgie, Frieze, 2010
Emily Wardill will talk backwards from her most recent project Fulll Firearms to SEA OAK – tracing a interest in artists film and the relationship between ideas and the way that they materialize. She will try to use work within the lecture and talk about it without explaining it whilst still attempting to be very clear.
Wardill is a London-based filmmaker. She has exhibited widely, including solo shows at de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam (2010), The Showroom, London (2009), the ICA, London (2008), Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner, London (2005, 2006), Standard, Oslo (2008) and the performance event The Feast Against Nature, at PS1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York (2004). She has shown at Tate Britain, Film Festival Oberhausen, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Witte de With, the London and New York Film Festival, MOCA Miami, and at the Venice Biennale in 2011. Her most recent show at the Badischer Kunstverein opens on 26 January.
Emily Wardill
Mittwoch, 25. Januar 2012, 19 Uhr, Aula
It is rare to see a box of Quality Street chocolates juxtaposed with a pig’s trotter; as rare, perhaps, as witnessing a teenager in spats dressed as a killer whale having a panic attack. Familiarity and logic are, however, thin on the ground in Emily Wardill’s films. Generally speaking, the London-based artist wrestles with languages – visual, cinematic, verbal, musical – not in order to control them but to free them up, as if non-sequiturs or logistical leaps and slippages are closer to the way we process information than the demarcations of conventional logic we more often rely on. This is not to say that her films make no sense – they do, but in a very strange way. They are the least predictable things I have seen in a long time.
Jennifer Higgie, Frieze, 2010
Emily Wardill will talk backwards from her most recent project Fulll Firearms to SEA OAK – tracing a interest in artists film and the relationship between ideas and the way that they materialize. She will try to use work within the lecture and talk about it without explaining it whilst still attempting to be very clear.
Wardill is a London-based filmmaker. She has exhibited widely, including solo shows at de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam (2010), The Showroom, London (2009), the ICA, London (2008), Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner, London (2005, 2006), Standard, Oslo (2008) and the performance event The Feast Against Nature, at PS1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York (2004). She has shown at Tate Britain, Film Festival Oberhausen, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Witte de With, the London and New York Film Festival, MOCA Miami, and at the Venice Biennale in 2011. Her most recent show at the Badischer Kunstverein opens on 26 January.
Dienstag, 17. Januar 2012
John Levack Drever
Vortrag
John Levack Drever: Where Field and Built Sound Synthesise
Freitag, 20. Januar 2012, 19 Uhr, Daimlerstrasse 32, Frankfurt am Main
Drever will discuss methods and fieldcraft related to environmental sound recording and editing, with particular reference to his work Ochlophonics Hong Kong, a sonic study on the auditory experience of living and coping in a crowded, postcolonial, ultra-modern city soundscape. The talk will reference concepts from acoustics, acoustic ecology, sociology and ecological urbanism pertinent to urban soundscape design.
John Levack Drever is a sonic artist and soundscape researcher who focuses on the minutiae of everyday soundscapes, background noise and human utterance. His practice bridges arts practice, environmental acoustics and noise control, and social sciences. He is a Senior Lecturer in Composition and head of the Unit for Sound Practice Research at Goldsmiths, University of London. His works range from the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (1999) to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (2002). He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society of Arts. Current research is concerned with the impact of sound design on vulnerable groups.
This talk is given in the context of techno +: Building Sound Machines, a workshop organised by "Post" during the lecture programme at Städelschule Frankfurt am Main.
John Levack Drever: Where Field and Built Sound Synthesise
Freitag, 20. Januar 2012, 19 Uhr, Daimlerstrasse 32, Frankfurt am Main
Drever will discuss methods and fieldcraft related to environmental sound recording and editing, with particular reference to his work Ochlophonics Hong Kong, a sonic study on the auditory experience of living and coping in a crowded, postcolonial, ultra-modern city soundscape. The talk will reference concepts from acoustics, acoustic ecology, sociology and ecological urbanism pertinent to urban soundscape design.
John Levack Drever is a sonic artist and soundscape researcher who focuses on the minutiae of everyday soundscapes, background noise and human utterance. His practice bridges arts practice, environmental acoustics and noise control, and social sciences. He is a Senior Lecturer in Composition and head of the Unit for Sound Practice Research at Goldsmiths, University of London. His works range from the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (1999) to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (2002). He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society of Arts. Current research is concerned with the impact of sound design on vulnerable groups.
This talk is given in the context of techno +: Building Sound Machines, a workshop organised by "Post" during the lecture programme at Städelschule Frankfurt am Main.
Freitag, 13. Januar 2012
Montag, 12. Dezember 2011
Beate Söntgen
Vortrag
Beate Söntgen: Matisse's Chairs
Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2011, 19 Uhr, Aula
Since the inception of modernity, since the rise of the bourgeois culture of representation, the figure of the interior has modeled the relationship between the picture and its beholder: as an enclosed space that opens up toward the observer and invites him or her to participate in the represented world. Matisse, however, thwarts this fantasy of immersion: with his chairs. They are precisely not figures of the notorious armchair, with its therapeutic mission of furnishing us with a peaceful interior world as a shield against the demands of what is outside. Matisse’s chairs stand literally athwart the invitation to participate, keeping us at arm’s length. The interior is the very subject on which Matisse worked to become Matisse, if we accept Yve-Alain Bois’s conception of a “Matisse system.” Only the articulation of margins such as that engendered by the bistable figure of inside and outside in the interior allows for the representation of the expansive force that is characterestic of Matisse – an expansive force that is directed sideways, not toward the beholder.
Beate Söntgen holds the Chair of Art History at Leuphana University, Lüneburg, since 2011. Before she was Professor of Art History at Ruhr-University of Bochum and Laurenz-Professor for Contemporary Art at the University of Basel. 1996-2002 Freelancer at the Feuilleton of the FAZ. Contribution to Exhibitions, 2006 as a Co-Curator of ‘K20’ Düsseldorf: 'Matisse. Figure-Colour-Space.’ Publications on modern and contemporary art and on art theory.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Beate Söntgen: Matisse's Chairs
Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2011, 19 Uhr, Aula
Since the inception of modernity, since the rise of the bourgeois culture of representation, the figure of the interior has modeled the relationship between the picture and its beholder: as an enclosed space that opens up toward the observer and invites him or her to participate in the represented world. Matisse, however, thwarts this fantasy of immersion: with his chairs. They are precisely not figures of the notorious armchair, with its therapeutic mission of furnishing us with a peaceful interior world as a shield against the demands of what is outside. Matisse’s chairs stand literally athwart the invitation to participate, keeping us at arm’s length. The interior is the very subject on which Matisse worked to become Matisse, if we accept Yve-Alain Bois’s conception of a “Matisse system.” Only the articulation of margins such as that engendered by the bistable figure of inside and outside in the interior allows for the representation of the expansive force that is characterestic of Matisse – an expansive force that is directed sideways, not toward the beholder.
Beate Söntgen holds the Chair of Art History at Leuphana University, Lüneburg, since 2011. Before she was Professor of Art History at Ruhr-University of Bochum and Laurenz-Professor for Contemporary Art at the University of Basel. 1996-2002 Freelancer at the Feuilleton of the FAZ. Contribution to Exhibitions, 2006 as a Co-Curator of ‘K20’ Düsseldorf: 'Matisse. Figure-Colour-Space.’ Publications on modern and contemporary art and on art theory.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Beate Söntgen
Vortrag
Beate Söntgen: Matisse's Chairs
Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2011, 19 Uhr, Aula
Since the inception of modernity, since the rise of the bourgeois culture of representation, the figure of the interior has modeled the relationship between the picture and its beholder: as an enclosed space that opens up toward the observer and invites him or her to participate in the represented world. Matisse, however, thwarts this fantasy of immersion: with his chairs. They are precisely not figures of the notorious armchair, with its therapeutic mission of furnishing us with a peaceful interior world as a shield against the demands of what is outside. Matisse’s chairs stand literally athwart the invitation to participate, keeping us at arm’s length. The interior is the very subject on which Matisse worked to become Matisse, if we accept Yve-Alain Bois’s conception of a “Matisse system.” Only the articulation of margins such as that engendered by the bistable figure of inside and outside in the interior allows for the representation of the expansive force that is characterestic of Matisse – an expansive force that is directed sideways, not toward the beholder.
Beate Söntgen holds the Chair of Art History at Leuphana University, Lüneburg, since 2011. Before she was Professor of Art History at Ruhr-University of Bochum and Laurenz-Professor for Contemporary Art at the University of Basel. 1996-2002 Freelancer at the Feuilleton of the FAZ. Contribution to Exhibitions, 2006 as a Co-Curator of ‘K20’ Düsseldorf: 'Matisse. Figure-Colour-Space.’ Publications on modern and contemporary art and on art theory.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Beate Söntgen: Matisse's Chairs
Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2011, 19 Uhr, Aula
Since the inception of modernity, since the rise of the bourgeois culture of representation, the figure of the interior has modeled the relationship between the picture and its beholder: as an enclosed space that opens up toward the observer and invites him or her to participate in the represented world. Matisse, however, thwarts this fantasy of immersion: with his chairs. They are precisely not figures of the notorious armchair, with its therapeutic mission of furnishing us with a peaceful interior world as a shield against the demands of what is outside. Matisse’s chairs stand literally athwart the invitation to participate, keeping us at arm’s length. The interior is the very subject on which Matisse worked to become Matisse, if we accept Yve-Alain Bois’s conception of a “Matisse system.” Only the articulation of margins such as that engendered by the bistable figure of inside and outside in the interior allows for the representation of the expansive force that is characterestic of Matisse – an expansive force that is directed sideways, not toward the beholder.
Beate Söntgen holds the Chair of Art History at Leuphana University, Lüneburg, since 2011. Before she was Professor of Art History at Ruhr-University of Bochum and Laurenz-Professor for Contemporary Art at the University of Basel. 1996-2002 Freelancer at the Feuilleton of the FAZ. Contribution to Exhibitions, 2006 as a Co-Curator of ‘K20’ Düsseldorf: 'Matisse. Figure-Colour-Space.’ Publications on modern and contemporary art and on art theory.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Montag, 5. Dezember 2011
Judith Hopf
Vortrag
Judith Hopf: Some End of Things
Mittwoch, 7. Dezember 2011, 19 Uhr, Aula
Judith Hopf will talk about her recent series of works with the title: Some End of Things. Alongside her 'research' concerning Endings, Hopf will concentrate on keywords like: Exhaustion, Emancipation and Entrance in order to develop perspectives beyond the hopefully and finally found Ends.
"...The artist's recent work often returns to the idea of exhaustion. She frames this concept in Beckettian terms, considering the Janus-faced possibilities of speaking exhaustively and, conversely, the point at which meaning itself is exhausted. Are you exhausted because of the endless possibilities or because the possibilities have already been exhausted? Hopf's work suggests unexpected modes of resistance to what she has called 'the tyranny of the same'. …" Sam Thorne , Frieze Foundation, 2011
Judith Hopf´s 'Some Ends of Things' were recently exhibited at Galerie Croy/Nielsen, Berlin, Frieze Foundation London, Alex Zachery Gallery, New York and Galerie Andreas Huber, Wien. In 2011 she participated in various groupshows like 'Priority Moments', Herald Street, London, 'Traurige Tiere', Kunstverein Bonn and 'How to Work', Kunsthalle Basel.
Judith Hopf is professor at Städelschule since 2008.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Judith Hopf: Some End of Things
Mittwoch, 7. Dezember 2011, 19 Uhr, Aula
Judith Hopf will talk about her recent series of works with the title: Some End of Things. Alongside her 'research' concerning Endings, Hopf will concentrate on keywords like: Exhaustion, Emancipation and Entrance in order to develop perspectives beyond the hopefully and finally found Ends.
"...The artist's recent work often returns to the idea of exhaustion. She frames this concept in Beckettian terms, considering the Janus-faced possibilities of speaking exhaustively and, conversely, the point at which meaning itself is exhausted. Are you exhausted because of the endless possibilities or because the possibilities have already been exhausted? Hopf's work suggests unexpected modes of resistance to what she has called 'the tyranny of the same'. …" Sam Thorne , Frieze Foundation, 2011
Judith Hopf´s 'Some Ends of Things' were recently exhibited at Galerie Croy/Nielsen, Berlin, Frieze Foundation London, Alex Zachery Gallery, New York and Galerie Andreas Huber, Wien. In 2011 she participated in various groupshows like 'Priority Moments', Herald Street, London, 'Traurige Tiere', Kunstverein Bonn and 'How to Work', Kunsthalle Basel.
Judith Hopf is professor at Städelschule since 2008.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Donnerstag, 24. November 2011
Andrea Fraser
Vortrag
Montag, 28 November 2011, 19 Uhr, Aula
Andrea Fraser
Andrea Fraser’s work is an on-going investigation of what we want from art. She has used performance, video, and a range of other media to explore the motivations that drive artists, collectors, art dealers, corporate sponsors, museum trustees and museum visitors, from the pursuit of prestige to financial investment to sexual fantasy to self-realization. Developing on site-specific and research-based practices that emerged with conceptualism, combined with feminist investigations of subjectivity and desire, her methods are rooted in the psychoanalytic principle that one can only impact structures and relationships in the immediate performance. She is Professor in the Department of Art at the University of California Los Department and is visiting faculty at the Whitney Independent Study Program.
Fraser will speak about her work and the challenge of conceiving any way to participate in the art field that do not seem completely bankrupt and compromised.
Montag, 28 November 2011, 19 Uhr, Aula
Andrea Fraser
Andrea Fraser’s work is an on-going investigation of what we want from art. She has used performance, video, and a range of other media to explore the motivations that drive artists, collectors, art dealers, corporate sponsors, museum trustees and museum visitors, from the pursuit of prestige to financial investment to sexual fantasy to self-realization. Developing on site-specific and research-based practices that emerged with conceptualism, combined with feminist investigations of subjectivity and desire, her methods are rooted in the psychoanalytic principle that one can only impact structures and relationships in the immediate performance. She is Professor in the Department of Art at the University of California Los Department and is visiting faculty at the Whitney Independent Study Program.
Fraser will speak about her work and the challenge of conceiving any way to participate in the art field that do not seem completely bankrupt and compromised.
Martha Rosler
Vortrag
Martha Rosler
Freitag, 25. November 2011, 19 Uhr, Aula
Martha Rosler was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she now lives, after spending the 1970s in California. She works in video, photo-text, installation, sculpture, and performance, and writes on aspects of culture. She is a renowned teacher and has lectured widely, nationally and internationally. Rosler's work is centered on everyday life and the public sphere, often with an eye to women's experience. Recurrent concerns are the media and war as well as architecture and the built environment, from housing and homelessness to systems of transport.
Her work in numerous international solo- and group exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale of 2003; the Liverpool Biennial and the Taipei Biennial (both 2004); as well as many major international survey shows, including Open Systems at the Tate Modern (2005). Her work has been included in Documenta XII, SkulpturProjecte07 in Münster, "That's the way we do it", Kunsthaus Bregenz (2011), and the 12th Istanbul Biennial in 2011. A retrospective of her work, "Positions in the Life World," was shown in five European cities and at the International Center of Photography and the New Museum for Contemporary Art (both in New York).
Rosler has published ten books of photography, art, and writing. Among them are Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Essays 1975-2001 (MIT Press, 2004, An October Book, in conjunction with the International Center of Photography), the photo books Passionate Signals (Cantz, 2005), In the Place of the Public: Airport Series (Cantz, 1997), and Rites of Passage (NYFA, 1995). If You Lived Here (Free Press, 1991) addresses her Dia project on housing, homelessness, and urban life.
Martha Rosler
Freitag, 25. November 2011, 19 Uhr, Aula
Martha Rosler was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she now lives, after spending the 1970s in California. She works in video, photo-text, installation, sculpture, and performance, and writes on aspects of culture. She is a renowned teacher and has lectured widely, nationally and internationally. Rosler's work is centered on everyday life and the public sphere, often with an eye to women's experience. Recurrent concerns are the media and war as well as architecture and the built environment, from housing and homelessness to systems of transport.
Her work in numerous international solo- and group exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale of 2003; the Liverpool Biennial and the Taipei Biennial (both 2004); as well as many major international survey shows, including Open Systems at the Tate Modern (2005). Her work has been included in Documenta XII, SkulpturProjecte07 in Münster, "That's the way we do it", Kunsthaus Bregenz (2011), and the 12th Istanbul Biennial in 2011. A retrospective of her work, "Positions in the Life World," was shown in five European cities and at the International Center of Photography and the New Museum for Contemporary Art (both in New York).
Rosler has published ten books of photography, art, and writing. Among them are Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Essays 1975-2001 (MIT Press, 2004, An October Book, in conjunction with the International Center of Photography), the photo books Passionate Signals (Cantz, 2005), In the Place of the Public: Airport Series (Cantz, 1997), and Rites of Passage (NYFA, 1995). If You Lived Here (Free Press, 1991) addresses her Dia project on housing, homelessness, and urban life.
Donnerstag, 10. November 2011
Fergus Henderson, Trevor Gulliver und Douglas Gordon: Meat and Heat
Vortrag
Fergus Henderson, Trevor Gulliver und Douglas Gordon: Meat and Heat
Mittwoch, 16. November 2011, 19 Uhr, Aula
Fergus Henderson (born 1963) is an English chef who founded the St John restaurant in St John St, London. He is often noted for his use of offal and other neglected cuts of meat as a consequence of his philosophy of Nose To Tail Eating. Following in the footsteps of his parents, Brian and Elizabeth Henderson, he trained as an architect at the Architectural Association in London. Most of his dishes are derived from traditional British cuisine and the wines are all French.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Fergus Henderson, Trevor Gulliver und Douglas Gordon: Meat and Heat
Mittwoch, 16. November 2011, 19 Uhr, Aula
Fergus Henderson (born 1963) is an English chef who founded the St John restaurant in St John St, London. He is often noted for his use of offal and other neglected cuts of meat as a consequence of his philosophy of Nose To Tail Eating. Following in the footsteps of his parents, Brian and Elizabeth Henderson, he trained as an architect at the Architectural Association in London. Most of his dishes are derived from traditional British cuisine and the wines are all French.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Ross Birrell / David Harding: You like this Garden?
Vortrag
Ross Birrell / David Harding: You like this Garden?
Dienstag 15. November 2011, 19 Uhr, Aula
Inviting his own professor from Glasgow, David Harding, to a three-man-show at the Portikus Douglas Gordon initiates his new professor ship at the Städelschule. For about ten years Harding has been collaborating with artist and tutor Ross Birell on poetic Videoworks. In this lecture Birell & Harding will talk about their long standing cooperation and they will reflect on the practice of creating film. There will be an emphasis on triggering the discussion of the coming exhibition at Portikus which will be opening two days later.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Ross Birrell / David Harding: You like this Garden?
Dienstag 15. November 2011, 19 Uhr, Aula
Inviting his own professor from Glasgow, David Harding, to a three-man-show at the Portikus Douglas Gordon initiates his new professor ship at the Städelschule. For about ten years Harding has been collaborating with artist and tutor Ross Birell on poetic Videoworks. In this lecture Birell & Harding will talk about their long standing cooperation and they will reflect on the practice of creating film. There will be an emphasis on triggering the discussion of the coming exhibition at Portikus which will be opening two days later.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Consume
Bar
Consume
Montag, 14. November 2011, 19 Uhr, Lichthalle
Consume is an improvised mobile bar that has no fixed time, location or staff. It may generally be found by word of mouth and operates primarily in the public space, sometimes tied into an art event and at other times by appropriating a part of the city for its own purposes.
The serial Consume bar was initiated in early November 1991 by three architecture students of the Frankfurt Städelschule, Jim Dudley, Christian Pantzer and Tony Hunt, primarily to provide a locus for interaction between the disciplines of art and architecture.
The hardware of the bar, standing as a metaphor for architecture, consists of a Bricolage of junk, essentially an old surfboard which is balanced on crates of beer. As the bar is mobile, at times even self-propelled, the locations become part of software along with the customers with their various alcoholic and musical lubrications.
The classical hierarchy of architecture in relation to its users and location, or Genius Loci, is turned around so that the ultimate shaper is no longer the architect but the throng of the customers themselves. This has been known to be rather unsettling, but we persist.
Christian Pantzer, *1962, Studium an der HfBK Städelschule-
Architekturklasse 1989 - 1993, lebt und arbeitet in Frankfurt.
Tony Hunt, *1964, Studium an der Univeristy of Brighton 1985 - 1988, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture London 1989-1991, HfBK Städelschule Architekturklasse 1991 - 1993, lebt und arbeitet in Frankfurt und London.
Daniel Kohl, *1967, Studium der Bildenden Kunst an der Cooper
Union in New York City 1986 - 1991 und an der HfBK Städelschule 1992 - 1997 bei Thomas Bayrle, lebt und arbeitet in Frankfurt.
James Dudley *1966, Born in Tooting South London. Studied at Bath University, Bartlett school of Architecture, University College London and Stadelschul Architekturklasse 1991-92. Lives and Works in Zurich as a creative director for spatial communication.
Consume
Montag, 14. November 2011, 19 Uhr, Lichthalle
Consume is an improvised mobile bar that has no fixed time, location or staff. It may generally be found by word of mouth and operates primarily in the public space, sometimes tied into an art event and at other times by appropriating a part of the city for its own purposes.
The serial Consume bar was initiated in early November 1991 by three architecture students of the Frankfurt Städelschule, Jim Dudley, Christian Pantzer and Tony Hunt, primarily to provide a locus for interaction between the disciplines of art and architecture.
The hardware of the bar, standing as a metaphor for architecture, consists of a Bricolage of junk, essentially an old surfboard which is balanced on crates of beer. As the bar is mobile, at times even self-propelled, the locations become part of software along with the customers with their various alcoholic and musical lubrications.
The classical hierarchy of architecture in relation to its users and location, or Genius Loci, is turned around so that the ultimate shaper is no longer the architect but the throng of the customers themselves. This has been known to be rather unsettling, but we persist.
Christian Pantzer, *1962, Studium an der HfBK Städelschule-
Architekturklasse 1989 - 1993, lebt und arbeitet in Frankfurt.
Tony Hunt, *1964, Studium an der Univeristy of Brighton 1985 - 1988, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture London 1989-1991, HfBK Städelschule Architekturklasse 1991 - 1993, lebt und arbeitet in Frankfurt und London.
Daniel Kohl, *1967, Studium der Bildenden Kunst an der Cooper
Union in New York City 1986 - 1991 und an der HfBK Städelschule 1992 - 1997 bei Thomas Bayrle, lebt und arbeitet in Frankfurt.
James Dudley *1966, Born in Tooting South London. Studied at Bath University, Bartlett school of Architecture, University College London and Stadelschul Architekturklasse 1991-92. Lives and Works in Zurich as a creative director for spatial communication.
Donnerstag, 27. Oktober 2011
TARYN SIMON
1. November 19 Uhr Aula
TARYN SIMON
A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters, I – XVIII
Contraband
An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar
The Innocents
Taryn Simon was born in 1975 in New York, where she lives and works. Her latest work, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters, on view in 2011 at Tate Modern, London, and Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, chronicles 18 bloodlines and their related stories. In each of the eighteen ‘chapters’ that make up the work, the external forces of territory, power, circumstance or religion collide with the internal forces of psychological and physical inheritance. Her collection is at once cohesive and arbitrary, mapping the relationships among chance, blood, and other components of fate. The subjects documented by Simon include feuding families in Brazil, victims of genocide in Bosnia, the body double of Saddam Hussein’s son Uday, and the living dead in India. In 2011, Simon’s work was also included in the 54th Venice Biennale. Her previous work includes Contraband (2010), an image archive of items detained or seized from passengers and mail entering the United States from abroad; An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar (2007), which reveals objects, sites, and spaces integral to America’s foundation, mythology, or daily functioning but inaccessible or unknown to a public audience; and The Innocents (2003), which documents cases of wrongful conviction in the United States, calling into question photography’s function as a credible witness and arbiter of justice.
TARYN SIMON
A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters, I – XVIII
Contraband
An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar
The Innocents
Taryn Simon was born in 1975 in New York, where she lives and works. Her latest work, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters, on view in 2011 at Tate Modern, London, and Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, chronicles 18 bloodlines and their related stories. In each of the eighteen ‘chapters’ that make up the work, the external forces of territory, power, circumstance or religion collide with the internal forces of psychological and physical inheritance. Her collection is at once cohesive and arbitrary, mapping the relationships among chance, blood, and other components of fate. The subjects documented by Simon include feuding families in Brazil, victims of genocide in Bosnia, the body double of Saddam Hussein’s son Uday, and the living dead in India. In 2011, Simon’s work was also included in the 54th Venice Biennale. Her previous work includes Contraband (2010), an image archive of items detained or seized from passengers and mail entering the United States from abroad; An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar (2007), which reveals objects, sites, and spaces integral to America’s foundation, mythology, or daily functioning but inaccessible or unknown to a public audience; and The Innocents (2003), which documents cases of wrongful conviction in the United States, calling into question photography’s function as a credible witness and arbiter of justice.
Montag, 24. Oktober 2011
Jalal Toufic
Vortrag
Jalal Toufic: The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster
Dienstag, 25. Oktober 2011, 19h, Aula
With regard to the surpassing disaster, art acts like the mirror in vampire films: it reveals the withdrawal of what we think is still there. In normal times a nebulous entity despite the somewhat artificial process of canon-formation, tradition becomes delineated and specified by the surpassing disaster. Tradition is what conjointly materially survived the surpassing disaster, was immaterially withdrawn by it, and had the fortune of being subsequently resurrected by artists, writers, and thinkers.
Jalal Toufic is a thinker and a mortal to death. He was born in 1962 in Beirut or Baghdad and died before dying in 1989 in Evanston, Illinois. Many of his books, most of which were published by Forthcoming Books, are available for download as PDF files at his website: http://www.jalaltoufic.com. He is presently a guest for the year 2011 of the Artists-in-Berlin Program of the DAAD.
This lecture is on the occasion of the publication of the German translation of Toufic’s book The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster (Forthcoming Books, 2009) by August Verlag last month.
Jalal Toufic: The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster
Dienstag, 25. Oktober 2011, 19h, Aula
With regard to the surpassing disaster, art acts like the mirror in vampire films: it reveals the withdrawal of what we think is still there. In normal times a nebulous entity despite the somewhat artificial process of canon-formation, tradition becomes delineated and specified by the surpassing disaster. Tradition is what conjointly materially survived the surpassing disaster, was immaterially withdrawn by it, and had the fortune of being subsequently resurrected by artists, writers, and thinkers.
Jalal Toufic is a thinker and a mortal to death. He was born in 1962 in Beirut or Baghdad and died before dying in 1989 in Evanston, Illinois. Many of his books, most of which were published by Forthcoming Books, are available for download as PDF files at his website: http://www.jalaltoufic.com. He is presently a guest for the year 2011 of the Artists-in-Berlin Program of the DAAD.
This lecture is on the occasion of the publication of the German translation of Toufic’s book The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster (Forthcoming Books, 2009) by August Verlag last month.
Mittwoch, 12. Oktober 2011
Mark von Schlegell
Lesung
Mark von Schlegell: Beyond the paperback revolution (Jack Vance)
Freitag, 14. Oktober 2011, 19h, Aula
In Kooperation mit Merve Verlag
In the forthcoming Dreaming the Mainstream: Critical Fictions of U.S. Power (Merve Verlag, Berlin) Mark von Schlegell reads Emily Dickinson, Patricia Highsmith, H.P. Lovecraft, Philip K. Dick and others as vanguard agents of the 20th Century paperback revolution. This lecture will shine light on the relatively unknown career of the contemporary U.S. science fiction "grand-master" Jack Vance to speculate on the paperback revolution's history and possible survival in the current crisis of 21st century publishing and the anarchy beyond.
Mark von Schlegell is born in 1967 in New York and lives in Cologne. He is an American science fiction writer and cultural critic. His numerous essays have appeared in magazines such as: "Parkett", "Arttext" and "Flash Art". His most recently published books are “Mercury Station” (2009, Semiotext(e)) and “New Dystopia” (2011, Sternberg Press); and – in German – the essay “Realometer” (2009, Merve) and the sci-fi novel “High Wichita” (2011, Matthes&Seitz).
Since 2011 he is Guest Professor at the Städelschule.
Mark von Schlegell: Beyond the paperback revolution (Jack Vance)
Freitag, 14. Oktober 2011, 19h, Aula
In Kooperation mit Merve Verlag
In the forthcoming Dreaming the Mainstream: Critical Fictions of U.S. Power (Merve Verlag, Berlin) Mark von Schlegell reads Emily Dickinson, Patricia Highsmith, H.P. Lovecraft, Philip K. Dick and others as vanguard agents of the 20th Century paperback revolution. This lecture will shine light on the relatively unknown career of the contemporary U.S. science fiction "grand-master" Jack Vance to speculate on the paperback revolution's history and possible survival in the current crisis of 21st century publishing and the anarchy beyond.
Mark von Schlegell is born in 1967 in New York and lives in Cologne. He is an American science fiction writer and cultural critic. His numerous essays have appeared in magazines such as: "Parkett", "Arttext" and "Flash Art". His most recently published books are “Mercury Station” (2009, Semiotext(e)) and “New Dystopia” (2011, Sternberg Press); and – in German – the essay “Realometer” (2009, Merve) and the sci-fi novel “High Wichita” (2011, Matthes&Seitz).
Since 2011 he is Guest Professor at the Städelschule.
Dienstag, 20. September 2011
ENCORE
"ENCORE"
Abschlussausstellung der Absolventinnen und Absolventen 2011 der Staatlichen Hochschule für Bildende Künste - Städelschule im MMK ZOLLAMT.
Eröffnung: Dienstag, 27. September 2011 um 19.30 Uhr im MMK Zollamt
Ausstellungsdauer: 28. September bis zum 23. Oktober 2011
Zur Eröffnung sprechen: Prof. Nikolaus Hirsch und Dr. Susanne Gaensheimer
Zum dritten Mal präsentieren die Absolventen der Staatlichen Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule ihre Abschlussarbeiten im MMK Zollamt. Die Kooperation unterstreicht die enge Verbundenheit der international profilierten Städelschule mit dem MMK und gibt den
Besuchern einen Einblick in das große künstlerische Potential der Region. Die Ausstellung zeigt die jüngsten Produktionen von 30 Künstlern aus den Klassen von Judith Hopf, Christa Näher, Willem de Rooij, Douglas Gordon, Michael Krebber, Simon Starling und Tobias Rehberger.
Zu sehen sind Arbeiten von:
Patrick Alt, Agassi Bangura, Andrea Bellu, Viola Bittl, Lukas Bohnenstengel, Alfred Boman, Max Brand, Carolin Bühler, Milena Büsch, Annabell Chin, Murray Gaylard, Giorgio Giusti, Dominik Gohla, Sandra Havlicek, Jonas Jensen, Danny Kerschen, Yasuaki Kitagawa, Daniela Kneip Velescu, Annina Matter, Ruairiadh O'Connell, Sabine Rak, Marcel Schiele, Sarah Schoderer, Dan Starling, Beatrice Steimer, Tomislav S. Vukic, Jonas Weichsel, Paul Wiersbinski, Leo Wörner, Naneci Yurdagül, Silja Yvette
aus den Klassen von Christa Näher, Judith Hopf, Willem de Rooij, Michael Krebber, Douglas Gordon, Simon Starling und Tobias Rehberger.
Kurator: Bernd Reiss
Zur Ausstellung wird ein Katalog erscheinen.
Diese Ausstellung wird großzügig unterstützt von
ALLEN & OVERY LLP und STÄDELSCHULE PORTIKUS E.V.
Tradition ist die Verleihung des vom Verein Städelschule Portikus e.V. gestifteten Absolventenpreises, dotiert mit 2000 Euro.
Die Jury, der jedes Jahr andere Mitglieder angehören, setzte sich bei der diesjährigen Absolventenausstellung wie folgt zusammen:
Dr. Claudia Orben-Mäckler (Städelschule Portikus e.V.)
Dr. Susanne Gaensheimer (Direktorin MMK)
Willem de Rooij (Professor für freie Kunst, Städelschule)
Die PreisträgerInnen werden am 27.09. um 19:30 zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung bekanntgegeben.
Abschlussausstellung der Absolventinnen und Absolventen 2011 der Staatlichen Hochschule für Bildende Künste - Städelschule im MMK ZOLLAMT.
Eröffnung: Dienstag, 27. September 2011 um 19.30 Uhr im MMK Zollamt
Ausstellungsdauer: 28. September bis zum 23. Oktober 2011
Zur Eröffnung sprechen: Prof. Nikolaus Hirsch und Dr. Susanne Gaensheimer
Zum dritten Mal präsentieren die Absolventen der Staatlichen Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule ihre Abschlussarbeiten im MMK Zollamt. Die Kooperation unterstreicht die enge Verbundenheit der international profilierten Städelschule mit dem MMK und gibt den
Besuchern einen Einblick in das große künstlerische Potential der Region. Die Ausstellung zeigt die jüngsten Produktionen von 30 Künstlern aus den Klassen von Judith Hopf, Christa Näher, Willem de Rooij, Douglas Gordon, Michael Krebber, Simon Starling und Tobias Rehberger.
Zu sehen sind Arbeiten von:
Patrick Alt, Agassi Bangura, Andrea Bellu, Viola Bittl, Lukas Bohnenstengel, Alfred Boman, Max Brand, Carolin Bühler, Milena Büsch, Annabell Chin, Murray Gaylard, Giorgio Giusti, Dominik Gohla, Sandra Havlicek, Jonas Jensen, Danny Kerschen, Yasuaki Kitagawa, Daniela Kneip Velescu, Annina Matter, Ruairiadh O'Connell, Sabine Rak, Marcel Schiele, Sarah Schoderer, Dan Starling, Beatrice Steimer, Tomislav S. Vukic, Jonas Weichsel, Paul Wiersbinski, Leo Wörner, Naneci Yurdagül, Silja Yvette
aus den Klassen von Christa Näher, Judith Hopf, Willem de Rooij, Michael Krebber, Douglas Gordon, Simon Starling und Tobias Rehberger.
Kurator: Bernd Reiss
Zur Ausstellung wird ein Katalog erscheinen.
Diese Ausstellung wird großzügig unterstützt von
ALLEN & OVERY LLP und STÄDELSCHULE PORTIKUS E.V.
Tradition ist die Verleihung des vom Verein Städelschule Portikus e.V. gestifteten Absolventenpreises, dotiert mit 2000 Euro.
Die Jury, der jedes Jahr andere Mitglieder angehören, setzte sich bei der diesjährigen Absolventenausstellung wie folgt zusammen:
Dr. Claudia Orben-Mäckler (Städelschule Portikus e.V.)
Dr. Susanne Gaensheimer (Direktorin MMK)
Willem de Rooij (Professor für freie Kunst, Städelschule)
Die PreisträgerInnen werden am 27.09. um 19:30 zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung bekanntgegeben.
Montag, 18. Juli 2011
Flaca / Tom Humphreys
Flaca / Tom Humphreys
9. Juli – 11. September 2011
Eröffnung: 8. Juli 2011, 20 Uhr Pressegespräch: 8. Juli 2011, 11 Uhr
Der Künstler Tom Humphreys präsentiert im Portikus eine Gruppen- ausstellung, die auf sehr persönliche Weise den Ausstellungsraum Flaca aufgreift, den er in seinem Londoner Wohnhaus von 2003 bis 2007 organisierte, sowie seine eigene künstlerische Position innerhalb dieser Struktur reflektiert. Die Ausstellung Flaca / Tom Humphreys knüpft an die Tradition des Portikus an, die Ausstellungshalle immer wieder neu herauszufordern, zu testen und zu interpretieren. Im Anschluss an die vorherige Ausstellung Time/Bank, bei der das Haus in eine alternative „Bank“ umgewandelt wurde, folgt nun eine neue Umformung: Im Kontrast zur infrastrukturellen Formensprache einer Bank spielt diese Ausstellung auf Vertrautheit und die Initmität des bewohnten Raums an.
Flaca entzieht sich einer einfachen, linearen Beschreibung – allein schon deswegen, weil dort über vierzig Künstler in unterschiedlichsten Konstellationen ausgestellt haben. Das Programm wie auch die einzelnen Ausstellungen entwickelte Tom Humphreys in engem Austausch mit den eingeladenen Künstlern. Dies führte dazu, dass jedes Ausstellungsprojekt seine ganz eigene Besonderheit hatte. Christian Egger schreibt in seinem Katalogtext zur Ausstellung: „Das Ausstellen dort bedeutete oft das Frisch-Sehen-Können der ersten Londoner Einzelausstellungen von eben noch in Flaca angetroffenen Künstlerinnen, und das war tatsächlich alles wirklich aufregend, als ginge es einem selbst ein bisschen wie dem eigenen mitgebrachten Mobiltelefon beim ersten schreckenden Aufladen mit Insel-Strom, irgendwie anders energetisiert – mit Ausfällen flirtend“.
Die Auseinandersetzung mit der Vergangenheit des Ortes Flaca hat Tom Humphreys dazu bewegt, für den Portikus eine Ausstellung zu entwickeln, die in keinster Weise Ansprüche auf eine anschauliche oder historisch korrekte Repräsentation seiner damaligen Tätigkeit stellt, sondern vielmehr zu einer verzerrten Doppelung in der Gegenwart wird. Tom Humphreys hinterfragt die Aktivität dieser Zeit. So haben zum Beispiel einige der eingeladenen Künstler dieser Ausstellung nie bei Flaca ausgestellt. Daneben werden „Originale“, wie die von Michael Beutler und Henning Bohl für Flaca produzierten Werke, mit neueren und eigens für die Ausstellung entwickelten Arbeiten kombiniert, wie etwa Nora Schultz’ Wandstruktur, die ihr selbst als Druckwerkzeug und zugleich der Ausstellung als Hängefläche dient. Die Umgestaltung des Raums durch ein neu eingezogenes Stockwerk und die Einbindung von ungewöhnlichen Ausstellungsorten wie Garten und Treppenhaus, sind Mittel, die den vorgegebenen Raum in Frage stellen und neu interpretieren. Im Rahmen dieser zeitlichen und räumlichen Hybridisierung zwischen Portikus und Flaca wird die Ausstellungsinstitution auf der Maininsel in das Haus am Broadway Market eingeschrieben und umgekehrt.
Tom Humphreys selbst hat für die Ausstellung eine Arbeit produziert, die das Format des Portikusplakats, ein von jedem ausstellenden Künstler individuell entworfenes Poster, aufnimmt. Anstelle eines repräsentativen
Ausstellungsplakats entwarf und produzierte Tom Humphreys eine Serie mit Titeln wie FLACA / PORTIKUS, HOUSE ARREST, REBOUND (2005), und REPRODUCTION und platziert sie im Treppenhaus – dort, wo üblicherweise die Plakate vergangener Portikus-Ausstellungen hängen. Er schafft sich somit einen Platz, der auch bei Flaca kennzeichnend für ihn war: an der Schnittstelle zwischen Gastgeber, Ausstellungsproduzent und Künstler. Tom Humphreys weist mit der Einladung an die Künstler und der Zusammenstellung der Werke einerseits auf eine gemeinsame künstlerische Haltung hin, andererseits versucht er jegliche thematische und formale Klammern zu vermeiden. Das Resultat ist ein organisches Gebilde, das zwar Geschichte erzählt, zugleich aber einen Raum für endlose und unauflösbare Implikationen künstlerischer Arbeit eröffnet.
Mit Will Benedict, Michael Beutler, Karla Black, Henning Bohl, Jana Euler, Ellen Gronemeyer, Claire Hooper, Tom Humphreys, Paul Lee, Laure Prouvost, Nora Schultz, Lucie Stahl, Sue Tompkins und Alexander Wolff
Zur Ausstellung wird eine Publikation veröffentlicht. Tom Humphreys hat für den Portikus eine Edition entworfen.
Für weitere Informationen oder Führungen zur Ausstellung wenden Sie sich bitte an info@portikus.de oder melden Sie sich telefonisch unter 069-9624454-0
Der Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain ermöglicht die Ausstellung Flaca / Tom Humphreys, die Teil des mehrjährig angelegten Projektes Art & Life der Staatlichen Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule ist. Weltweit führende Vertreter aus Kunst, Architektur und Wissenschaft entwickeln hier einen Ansatz, der Kunst und Leben strukturell aufeinander bezieht. Art & Life wird vom Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain seit Oktober 2010 und bis 2013 finanziell getragen.
9. Juli – 11. September 2011
Eröffnung: 8. Juli 2011, 20 Uhr Pressegespräch: 8. Juli 2011, 11 Uhr
Der Künstler Tom Humphreys präsentiert im Portikus eine Gruppen- ausstellung, die auf sehr persönliche Weise den Ausstellungsraum Flaca aufgreift, den er in seinem Londoner Wohnhaus von 2003 bis 2007 organisierte, sowie seine eigene künstlerische Position innerhalb dieser Struktur reflektiert. Die Ausstellung Flaca / Tom Humphreys knüpft an die Tradition des Portikus an, die Ausstellungshalle immer wieder neu herauszufordern, zu testen und zu interpretieren. Im Anschluss an die vorherige Ausstellung Time/Bank, bei der das Haus in eine alternative „Bank“ umgewandelt wurde, folgt nun eine neue Umformung: Im Kontrast zur infrastrukturellen Formensprache einer Bank spielt diese Ausstellung auf Vertrautheit und die Initmität des bewohnten Raums an.
Flaca entzieht sich einer einfachen, linearen Beschreibung – allein schon deswegen, weil dort über vierzig Künstler in unterschiedlichsten Konstellationen ausgestellt haben. Das Programm wie auch die einzelnen Ausstellungen entwickelte Tom Humphreys in engem Austausch mit den eingeladenen Künstlern. Dies führte dazu, dass jedes Ausstellungsprojekt seine ganz eigene Besonderheit hatte. Christian Egger schreibt in seinem Katalogtext zur Ausstellung: „Das Ausstellen dort bedeutete oft das Frisch-Sehen-Können der ersten Londoner Einzelausstellungen von eben noch in Flaca angetroffenen Künstlerinnen, und das war tatsächlich alles wirklich aufregend, als ginge es einem selbst ein bisschen wie dem eigenen mitgebrachten Mobiltelefon beim ersten schreckenden Aufladen mit Insel-Strom, irgendwie anders energetisiert – mit Ausfällen flirtend“.
Die Auseinandersetzung mit der Vergangenheit des Ortes Flaca hat Tom Humphreys dazu bewegt, für den Portikus eine Ausstellung zu entwickeln, die in keinster Weise Ansprüche auf eine anschauliche oder historisch korrekte Repräsentation seiner damaligen Tätigkeit stellt, sondern vielmehr zu einer verzerrten Doppelung in der Gegenwart wird. Tom Humphreys hinterfragt die Aktivität dieser Zeit. So haben zum Beispiel einige der eingeladenen Künstler dieser Ausstellung nie bei Flaca ausgestellt. Daneben werden „Originale“, wie die von Michael Beutler und Henning Bohl für Flaca produzierten Werke, mit neueren und eigens für die Ausstellung entwickelten Arbeiten kombiniert, wie etwa Nora Schultz’ Wandstruktur, die ihr selbst als Druckwerkzeug und zugleich der Ausstellung als Hängefläche dient. Die Umgestaltung des Raums durch ein neu eingezogenes Stockwerk und die Einbindung von ungewöhnlichen Ausstellungsorten wie Garten und Treppenhaus, sind Mittel, die den vorgegebenen Raum in Frage stellen und neu interpretieren. Im Rahmen dieser zeitlichen und räumlichen Hybridisierung zwischen Portikus und Flaca wird die Ausstellungsinstitution auf der Maininsel in das Haus am Broadway Market eingeschrieben und umgekehrt.
Tom Humphreys selbst hat für die Ausstellung eine Arbeit produziert, die das Format des Portikusplakats, ein von jedem ausstellenden Künstler individuell entworfenes Poster, aufnimmt. Anstelle eines repräsentativen
Ausstellungsplakats entwarf und produzierte Tom Humphreys eine Serie mit Titeln wie FLACA / PORTIKUS, HOUSE ARREST, REBOUND (2005), und REPRODUCTION und platziert sie im Treppenhaus – dort, wo üblicherweise die Plakate vergangener Portikus-Ausstellungen hängen. Er schafft sich somit einen Platz, der auch bei Flaca kennzeichnend für ihn war: an der Schnittstelle zwischen Gastgeber, Ausstellungsproduzent und Künstler. Tom Humphreys weist mit der Einladung an die Künstler und der Zusammenstellung der Werke einerseits auf eine gemeinsame künstlerische Haltung hin, andererseits versucht er jegliche thematische und formale Klammern zu vermeiden. Das Resultat ist ein organisches Gebilde, das zwar Geschichte erzählt, zugleich aber einen Raum für endlose und unauflösbare Implikationen künstlerischer Arbeit eröffnet.
Mit Will Benedict, Michael Beutler, Karla Black, Henning Bohl, Jana Euler, Ellen Gronemeyer, Claire Hooper, Tom Humphreys, Paul Lee, Laure Prouvost, Nora Schultz, Lucie Stahl, Sue Tompkins und Alexander Wolff
Zur Ausstellung wird eine Publikation veröffentlicht. Tom Humphreys hat für den Portikus eine Edition entworfen.
Für weitere Informationen oder Führungen zur Ausstellung wenden Sie sich bitte an info@portikus.de oder melden Sie sich telefonisch unter 069-9624454-0
Der Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain ermöglicht die Ausstellung Flaca / Tom Humphreys, die Teil des mehrjährig angelegten Projektes Art & Life der Staatlichen Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule ist. Weltweit führende Vertreter aus Kunst, Architektur und Wissenschaft entwickeln hier einen Ansatz, der Kunst und Leben strukturell aufeinander bezieht. Art & Life wird vom Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain seit Oktober 2010 und bis 2013 finanziell getragen.
Montag, 27. Juni 2011
SIMON STARLING
Vortrag
Simon Starling - Noh such Thing as Time
Mittwoch, 6. Juli 2011, 19 Uhr, Aula
Taking its title from a essay by the Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto that investigates the relationship between photography, time and the tradition of masked Japanese Noh theatre, this talk will be based around two of Simon Starling’s recent exhibitions that redeploy the work of other artists. The first, Never the Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts) realised at Camden Art Centre existed somewhere between an artist selected group show and a gesamtkunstwerk and involved reinstalling works shown at Camden over the last 50 years. All these works, that themselves “worry at the borders of our understanding of time”, were repositioned in the exact same spot they had occupied the first time they were shown, creating an unsettling polyphonic or at times cacophonic temporal experience temporal. The second exhibition, Project for a Masquerade (Hiroshima), uses the temporally complex space of Noh theatre, a space in which the ghosts assume human form, the old become young and the young old, as a structure to investigate the complex history of Henry Moore’s sculpture Atom Piece (1964-65). This simple domed form on a rough-hewn tripod has a bizarre double life both as a monument to the beginnings of the atom bomb project in Chicago, Enrico Fermi’s Pile No. 1, and simultaneously as an autonomous work within the context of the collection of the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art..
SIMON STARLING is born in 1967 in Epsom, UK. In 1977 he buys one second of one minute of one hour in a raffle and wins his first camera. In 1980 he builds his first home-darkroom and in 1992 he is awarded a Master of Fine Arts at Glasgow School of Art. Between 1993 and 1996 he serves as committee member at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow. In 1995 he makes his first solo exhibition at the Showroom Gallery, London for which he reconstructs part of the London exhibition space in Glasgow to use as a studio [An Eichbaum Pils Beer Can…]. In1997 he builds a small fishing boat in Marseille from a museum display case from the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh [Blue Boat Black] and makes a chair out of a bicycle and a bicycle out of a chair [Work, Made-ready, Kunsthalle Bern]. In 1998, following a trip to Ecuador to find a balsa tree, he flies a radio-controlled airplane over the Museum of Modern Art at Heidi, Melbourne [Le Jardin Suspendu]. In August 2002 he digs up a large Cereus cactus on the set of the ‘Texas Hollywood Film Studio’ and transports it 2,145 km to Frankfurt am Main, Germany in a red Volvo 240 Estate [Kakteenhaus]. In 2003 he displays an unwanted public artwork in the Palazzo Levi on the Grand Canal as part of Zenomap, Scotland’s contribution to the Venice Biennale [Island for Weeds, Prototype] and starts work as Professor of Fine Arts at the Staedelschule, Frankfurt. In 2004 he is shortlisted for the Hugo Boss Prize and in the following year wins the Turner Prize. In 2008 he makes exhibitions in among other places, a derelict bathhouse in Glasgow, Scotland [Project for a Public Sculpture (After Thomas Annan)], a semi-derelict factory in Dornbirn, Austria [Plant Room] and a fantastically narrow, seven story house in Turin, Italy known as the ‘Fetta di Polenta’ (Slice of Polenta)[Three Birds, Seven Stories, Interpolations and Bifurcations]. In 2011 Starling reinstalls over 30 works from Camden Art Centre’s exhibition history in the exact same place they were originally shown [Never the Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts)] and collapses a 16th century Japanese Noh play onto the complex story surrounding the double life of Henry Moore’s sculpture ‘Atom Piece’ [Project for a Masquerade (Hiroshima)].
Simon Starling - Noh such Thing as Time
Mittwoch, 6. Juli 2011, 19 Uhr, Aula
Taking its title from a essay by the Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto that investigates the relationship between photography, time and the tradition of masked Japanese Noh theatre, this talk will be based around two of Simon Starling’s recent exhibitions that redeploy the work of other artists. The first, Never the Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts) realised at Camden Art Centre existed somewhere between an artist selected group show and a gesamtkunstwerk and involved reinstalling works shown at Camden over the last 50 years. All these works, that themselves “worry at the borders of our understanding of time”, were repositioned in the exact same spot they had occupied the first time they were shown, creating an unsettling polyphonic or at times cacophonic temporal experience temporal. The second exhibition, Project for a Masquerade (Hiroshima), uses the temporally complex space of Noh theatre, a space in which the ghosts assume human form, the old become young and the young old, as a structure to investigate the complex history of Henry Moore’s sculpture Atom Piece (1964-65). This simple domed form on a rough-hewn tripod has a bizarre double life both as a monument to the beginnings of the atom bomb project in Chicago, Enrico Fermi’s Pile No. 1, and simultaneously as an autonomous work within the context of the collection of the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art..
SIMON STARLING is born in 1967 in Epsom, UK. In 1977 he buys one second of one minute of one hour in a raffle and wins his first camera. In 1980 he builds his first home-darkroom and in 1992 he is awarded a Master of Fine Arts at Glasgow School of Art. Between 1993 and 1996 he serves as committee member at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow. In 1995 he makes his first solo exhibition at the Showroom Gallery, London for which he reconstructs part of the London exhibition space in Glasgow to use as a studio [An Eichbaum Pils Beer Can…]. In1997 he builds a small fishing boat in Marseille from a museum display case from the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh [Blue Boat Black] and makes a chair out of a bicycle and a bicycle out of a chair [Work, Made-ready, Kunsthalle Bern]. In 1998, following a trip to Ecuador to find a balsa tree, he flies a radio-controlled airplane over the Museum of Modern Art at Heidi, Melbourne [Le Jardin Suspendu]. In August 2002 he digs up a large Cereus cactus on the set of the ‘Texas Hollywood Film Studio’ and transports it 2,145 km to Frankfurt am Main, Germany in a red Volvo 240 Estate [Kakteenhaus]. In 2003 he displays an unwanted public artwork in the Palazzo Levi on the Grand Canal as part of Zenomap, Scotland’s contribution to the Venice Biennale [Island for Weeds, Prototype] and starts work as Professor of Fine Arts at the Staedelschule, Frankfurt. In 2004 he is shortlisted for the Hugo Boss Prize and in the following year wins the Turner Prize. In 2008 he makes exhibitions in among other places, a derelict bathhouse in Glasgow, Scotland [Project for a Public Sculpture (After Thomas Annan)], a semi-derelict factory in Dornbirn, Austria [Plant Room] and a fantastically narrow, seven story house in Turin, Italy known as the ‘Fetta di Polenta’ (Slice of Polenta)[Three Birds, Seven Stories, Interpolations and Bifurcations]. In 2011 Starling reinstalls over 30 works from Camden Art Centre’s exhibition history in the exact same place they were originally shown [Never the Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts)] and collapses a 16th century Japanese Noh play onto the complex story surrounding the double life of Henry Moore’s sculpture ‘Atom Piece’ [Project for a Masquerade (Hiroshima)].
Donnerstag, 23. Juni 2011
Art and Subjecthood – a Conference on the Return of the Human Figure in Semiocapitalism
Konferenz
Art and Subjecthood – a Conference on the Return of the Human Figure in Semiocapitalism
Freitag, 1. Juli 2011, 15-21 Uhr, Lichthof
Initiiert vom Institut für Kunstkritik (Isabelle Graw, Daniel Birnbaum, Nikolaus Hirsch)
Many art works today evoke the human figure: Consider the omnipresence of the mannequin in current installations of artists like John Miller, Thomas Hirschhorn, Heimo Zobernig or David Lieske. Or consider the revival of a minimalist vocabulary, which embraces anthropomorphism as in the works of Isa Genzken and Rachel Harrison. This conference seeks to speculate on the reasons as to why, since the turn of the Millennium, we have encountered so many art works that tend to reconcile Minimalism with suggestions of the human figure. It proposes that this new artistic convention becomes rather questionable when discussed in the light of Franco Berardi´s theory of semiocapitalism – a power technology that aims squarely at our human resources. The participants of this conference are asked to offer possible explanations for this wide acceptance of anthropomorphism – could it be that this is a manifestation of the increasingly desperate desire for art to have agency?
Participants: Hal Foster, Caroline Busta, Michael Sanchez, Ina Blom, Jutta Koether
Respondents: Stefan Deines, Stefanie Heraeus, Magdalena Nieslony, Oliver Brokel
Art and Subjecthood
The Return of the Human Figure in Semiocapitalism
3 pm Welcome (Nikolaus Hirsch)
3.30 pm Introduction Isabelle Graw "When Objecthood turns into Subjecthood"
4 pm Hal Foster "Philosophical Toys & Psychoanalytical Travesties: Dolls, Puppets & Mannequins in the 1920s"
5 pm Caroline Busta “Body Doubles“
6 pm Michael Sanchez “Behavioral: Some Thoughts on Art Under Network Capitalism“
7 pm Ina Blom "Media Animism. Rachel Harrison's Living Images"
8 pm Jutta Koether „Mad Garlands”
The conference is part of the project „Art and Life“ and made possible by Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain
Art and Subjecthood – a Conference on the Return of the Human Figure in Semiocapitalism
Freitag, 1. Juli 2011, 15-21 Uhr, Lichthof
Initiiert vom Institut für Kunstkritik (Isabelle Graw, Daniel Birnbaum, Nikolaus Hirsch)
Many art works today evoke the human figure: Consider the omnipresence of the mannequin in current installations of artists like John Miller, Thomas Hirschhorn, Heimo Zobernig or David Lieske. Or consider the revival of a minimalist vocabulary, which embraces anthropomorphism as in the works of Isa Genzken and Rachel Harrison. This conference seeks to speculate on the reasons as to why, since the turn of the Millennium, we have encountered so many art works that tend to reconcile Minimalism with suggestions of the human figure. It proposes that this new artistic convention becomes rather questionable when discussed in the light of Franco Berardi´s theory of semiocapitalism – a power technology that aims squarely at our human resources. The participants of this conference are asked to offer possible explanations for this wide acceptance of anthropomorphism – could it be that this is a manifestation of the increasingly desperate desire for art to have agency?
Participants: Hal Foster, Caroline Busta, Michael Sanchez, Ina Blom, Jutta Koether
Respondents: Stefan Deines, Stefanie Heraeus, Magdalena Nieslony, Oliver Brokel
Art and Subjecthood
The Return of the Human Figure in Semiocapitalism
3 pm Welcome (Nikolaus Hirsch)
3.30 pm Introduction Isabelle Graw "When Objecthood turns into Subjecthood"
4 pm Hal Foster "Philosophical Toys & Psychoanalytical Travesties: Dolls, Puppets & Mannequins in the 1920s"
5 pm Caroline Busta “Body Doubles“
6 pm Michael Sanchez “Behavioral: Some Thoughts on Art Under Network Capitalism“
7 pm Ina Blom "Media Animism. Rachel Harrison's Living Images"
8 pm Jutta Koether „Mad Garlands”
The conference is part of the project „Art and Life“ and made possible by Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain
Tom Humphreys
Vortrag
Tom Humphreys
Mittwoch, 29. Juni, 19 Uhr, Aula
Tom Humphreys is an artist living in London. From 2003 until 2007, he organised an exhibition programme in his house on Broadway Market, which he titled "Flaca". He invited artists that were close to him in different ways, through their work or through personal relationships. He has been invited to do the upcoming exhibition at Portikus, for which he developed a group exhibition that will somehow question the activities of that time in a new environment, implicating a critical relationship to the past rather than presenting a static historical perspective. He will speak about a variety of things, ranging from his own work to Flaca and his exhibition at Portikus.
The exhibition "Flaca / Tom Humphreys" encompasses works by Will Benedict, Michael Beutler, Karla Black, Henning Bohl, Jana Euler, Ellen Gronemeyer, Claire Hooper, Tom Humphreys, Paul Lee, Laure Prouvost, Nora Schultz, Lucie Stahl, Sue Tompkins and Alexander Wolff
Tom Humphreys
Mittwoch, 29. Juni, 19 Uhr, Aula
Tom Humphreys is an artist living in London. From 2003 until 2007, he organised an exhibition programme in his house on Broadway Market, which he titled "Flaca". He invited artists that were close to him in different ways, through their work or through personal relationships. He has been invited to do the upcoming exhibition at Portikus, for which he developed a group exhibition that will somehow question the activities of that time in a new environment, implicating a critical relationship to the past rather than presenting a static historical perspective. He will speak about a variety of things, ranging from his own work to Flaca and his exhibition at Portikus.
The exhibition "Flaca / Tom Humphreys" encompasses works by Will Benedict, Michael Beutler, Karla Black, Henning Bohl, Jana Euler, Ellen Gronemeyer, Claire Hooper, Tom Humphreys, Paul Lee, Laure Prouvost, Nora Schultz, Lucie Stahl, Sue Tompkins and Alexander Wolff
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