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Galerija Skuc : ACCRETIONS - 4 Aug 2010 to 3 Sept 2010 Current Exhibition |
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Shady El Noshokaty
STAMMER: Research. Audio-video performance |
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ACCRETIONS 4. 8. � 3. 9. 2010 Artists: Roman Dziadkiewicz, Hassan Khan, Sinisa Labrovic, Shady el Noshakaty, Honza Zamojski Accretions refers to rhizomatic growth and build up in biological organisms which, if translated into the social world, could be used to imply expansive growth. We appropriate the word as an operational term to both question and intervene into the very construction of aesthetic communities, which is a process of coming together and building up. The starting point of our inquiry is related to artistic sources and references and the ways in which singularity of experience can be shared through a particular presence in specific spatial and temporal configurations of an artistic event. And perhaps the very indeterminacy of these configurations has the potential to bring together an aesthetic community. Thus, the outcome as such cannot be predicted, nor obvious, even for the curators. Within the division of labour in the art world, exhibition making has often proven to be a practice that entails expectations for professionally established and structured procedures of curating. This includes networking, conceptualization, selection of artists and works, and organisation of events, both creatively and bureaucratically. However, what happens when the process of pre-conceived and pre-designed curating itself becomes dependent on artistic processes and marks a failure of every predetermination? In this, the final product does not come together through professionally defined considerations but through friendship, or political and aesthetic kinship, leaving aside politically correct considerations of representing identities and geographies. Within the temporal span of curatorial work and the exhibition as the ultimate result, there are often transformations, transmutations and transmogrifications which are not always obvious in the final presentation. In Accretions, we propose to construct a reflective space for communal engagement which is directly involved with the artists` proposal for a work of art, performance and other forms of interventions in a designated time and space. We have invited five artists from locales in which the curators practice�Roman Dziadkiewicz, Hassan Khan, Sinisa Labrovic, Shady el Noshakaty, and Honza Zamojski to collaborate on the accretion of a series of events. We are working with artists who perceive�their positions and subjectivity as part of a broader aesthetic community, who question the way in which knowledge and artistic skills emerge and are disseminated, and who are able to translate through diverse registers of knowledge. We would like to test whether these broader concerns on which the artists were invited to reflect become a departure point for public engagement. The latter includes questions related not only to the (direct and indirect) involvement of the audience/public in the construction of aesthetic experience, but also within the historical, spatial and communal locale of Galerija �kuc in Ljubljana. Negotiating with the Gallery�s specific history and legacy, but also with its evolving present, we propose to turn the gallery into a space in which situational social and artistic relationships are given a space to reflect upon the very institutional and artistic frameworks of the coming together of an aesthetic community through continuous engagement in conversations, attachments and detachments. The structural and formal questions which the exhibition as an event addresses are questions that complicate the distinction between the process of art production and its final destination or reception. Throughout the event, each day is reserved for a single work produced or enacted by one of the invited artists. Each work is exposed or choreographed (written in time) for a given period to a specific audience which attends an �opening� event every day. Thus what choreography and accretion share is a temporal build up and construction of experience through a process. After this exposure, the work finds a place in the gallery, awaiting other works to occupy the space after each opening. We envision the exhibition as an event through a collection and accumulation of experiences and traces; the art work becoming a trace of its own presence. Through the processual structure of the event, the ultimate result in the form of the final product is never arrived at. In this way, art can potentially become a vehicle to create an aesthetic/political community. In short, we would like to curate a social space, an event or an exhibition as a living organism which evolves and transforms through time. The event always already takes place post-factum; hence, the exhibition as an accumulation of experiences, bodies, spaces and gazes. This exhibition marks an opening for collaborative potential, rather than for presenting the results of collaboration which has already taken place. Collaboration will continue in at least one another location � Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz in 2011. The idea of the project is inextricably related to the circumstances under which the curatorial team was formed, that is the Summer Seminars for Curators in Yerevan. Curators: Angela Harutyunyan, Tev� Logar, Joanna Soko�owska You are kindly invited to attend a series of public events to be held between Wednesday, August the 4th and Sunday, August the 8th, 2010 at 20.00 at Galerija �kuc. Wednesday, August 4 at 20.00 at Galerija �kuc. Hassan Khan The Big One. Live Concert Thursday, August 5 at 20.00 at Galerija �kuc. Honza Zamojski Ghosts Friday, August 6 at 20.00 at Galerija �kuc. Sini�a Labrovic An artist selling his skin Saturday, August 7 at 20.00 at Galerija �kuc. Shady El Noshokaty STAMMER: Research. Audio-video performance and virtual 4 chanel sound sculpture Sunday, August 8 at 20.00 at Galerija �kuc. Roman Dziadkiewicz and the Coming Community Multisensual Band The Patchwork Performance A guided tour with one of the curators will take place on Tuesday, August 10th and Thursday, September 2nd at 18.00. The project is prepared in cooperation with Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz. |
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