II Encuentro Internacional El Arte es Accion

El Ministerio de Cultura organiza el II Encuentro Internacional El Arte es Acción

Reúne a los artistas más influyentes de la “nueva performance” desarrollada a lo largo de los años noventa

se celebrará los días 2, 3 y 4 de julio de 2009 y tendrá lugar en el Teatro Valle-Inclán de Madrid.


El Ministerio de Cultura, a través de la Dirección General de Bellas Artes y Bienes Culturales y en colaboración con el Centro Dramático Nacional, organiza el II Encuentro Internacional El Arte es Acción, que se celebrará los días 2, 3 y 4 de julio de 2009 en el Teatro Valle-Inclán de Madrid.

Tras el interés que despertó el I Encuentro Internacional celebrado en el Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía en 2008, el Ministerio de Cultura ha querido continuar esta iniciativa cuyo objetivo es fomentar el desarrollo de las nuevas disciplinas artísticas.

En esta segunda edición se puede ver el trabajo de siete performers del panorama internacional, que desarrollaron su arte a lo largo de los años noventa causando polémica y debate, y que se mantienen todos ellos en plena actividad creativa. Además de sus acciones en el escenario, o fuera de él, se han programado encuentros (de 17,00 h a 18,30 h) en los que el público podrá debatir abiertamente con los artistas, y proyecciones (de 12,00 h a 14,00 h) de los mejores trabajos de los performers invitados.

El Encuentro está comisariado por Marcel.lí Antúnez, conocido internacionalmente por sus performances mecatrónicas y sus instalaciones interactivas, que ha reunido a los siguientes artistas presentados por orden alfabético:

Annie Sprinkle & Elizabeth Stephens.- Annie, artista estadounidense, es una de las creadoras del post feminismo y el post porno. Se define como prostituta/porno star devenida artista/sexóloga; Elizabeth, artista multimedia y profesora de arte en la Universidad de California. Su trabajo se enfoca en la performance medioambiental. Performance: Dirty sexecology or how to make love to the earth. Dirigido por Patty Gallagher.

Cuco Suárez.- Artista asturiano cuyos proyectos están relacionados con la radicalidad de la experiencia corporal a través de la performance y la instalación. Performance: Las noticias se escriben con sangre. Cuco Suárez con Ernesto Avelino

Franko B.- Artista italo-británico que ha creado obras en múltiples medios entre los que destaca la performance. Es uno de los artistas más brillantes de su generación en este medio. Performance: I’m thinking of you. Música de Helen Ottaway.

Guillermo Gómez Peña & Roberto Sifuentes.- Guillermo, nacido en México y residente en Los Ángeles, performer, escritor, activista y educador. La mayor parte de su trabajo intelectual y artístico se refiere a la interfaz entre el Norte y el Sur (México y USA); Roberto, artista interdisciplinario que combina performance en vivo con tecnologías interactivas y vídeo. Su trabajo incluye una amplia gama de proyectos, desde unipersonales y dúos de performance, hasta grandes instalaciones que utilizan video, fotografía, audio y ciber-arte. Performance: Mapa-corpo 3. Guillermo Gómez-Peña & Roberto Sifuentes.

Marcel.lí Antúnez Roca.- Artista catalán conocido por sus performances mecatrónicas y sus instalaciones interactivas. Ha desarrollado una metodología que denomina sistematurgia, literalmente dramaturgia de sistemas computacionales. Performance: Hipermembrana. Marcel.lí Antúnez Roca con Nacho Galileo.

Ron Athey.- Artista de Estados Unidos. Destacó por la trilogía de performance “tortura”: “Martyrs & Saints”, “4 scenes in A Harsh Life” y “Deliverance”. Uno de los trabajos más turbadores de la performance. Performance: Self Obliteration #1: Ecstatic / Self Obliteration #2: Sustained Rapture. Ron Athey.

Tania Bruguera.- Una de las artistas más representativas de Cuba. Artista interdisciplinar que trabaja fundamentalmente en el behavior art, performance, instalación y video. Performance: Capitalismo Genérico 3.

Sede: Teatro Valle-Inclán.
Centro Dramático Nacional.
Plaza de Lavapiés s/n.
28012 Madrid

Presentacion de el II Encuentro Internacional El Arte es Accion

Froebel Suite

Froebel Suite, Aurélien Froment's first solo exhibition in a UK public space, continues the artist's ongoing reflection on the function and semantic power of images. Having previously worked as a projectionist, Aurélien Froment remains interested in cinematography and in how the production of knowledge varies according to the way images are sequenced.

At Gasworks, Froment presents new works that turn images and objects into the subjects of scrutiny. In these works, a brick, a maritime knot and the image of the boat on the hill taken from Werner Herzog's film Fitzcarraldo (1982) are presented out of their own contexts and dissected in a series of sequential photographs or, as it is the case with the latter work, through a conversation between the artist and Herzog.

Another piece within the installation is Cinemeccanica, a free-standing wall with a glass window from which one can see the gallery from the perspective of a projectionist. This piece gives the exhibition a new reading and highlights how each work functions within a wider narrative.

These works illustrate the idea of “education through self-activity”, championed by the German 19th century educationalist Friedrich Froebel, best known for developing the kindergarten model. Froebel, who lends his name to the title of the exhibition, believed that the acquisition of knowledge is achieved through a series of steps, each requiring a level of interaction. It is this process of active learning that gives viewers of the exhibition the opportunity to create different narratives and forms of engagement with the surrounding space.

A further element of the exhibition is Like the cow jumped over the moon, a booklet edited by Aurélien Froment, designed by Åbäke and co-published by Gasworks and Dent-De-Leone. Based on an interview between Aurélien Froment and Werner Herzog, the publication focuses on the image of the ship on the hill, which symbolises Fitzcarraldo's plot and the myth that has surrounded the film and its production. The booklet is available for sale at £3 in the gallery.

Gasworks - Gallery, Studios and International Residency Programme

NMI 2009

NMI: "NMI 2009 - 'Film, Fernsehen und Computer / Medien, Computer, Content 2.0'"

d documenta - a conference towards documenta 13

Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Turin, Italy

18 September 2009, 10am – 1pm and 2.30pm – 6.30pm
19 September 2009, 11am – 1pm and 2.30pm – 6.30pm

The d documenta is a two-day conference which has the goal to provide a forum of discussion and reflection on the history of documenta, its various incarnations and its future.

documenta has come to represent a key periodic moment when contemporary art is exhibited and those who are interested in art as well as in its relation to the world meet, assess the situation and share their views. For those involved in organising the next documenta, the journey publicly begins on September 18th, 2009.

The speakers invited to this event are the artistic directors of all the preceding editions of documenta. Each former director has been asked to make a presentation about their documenta by first describing the sense of the present they felt at the time of the project they organised: How did they feel present to their time, what did that mean and how did that inform the strategies they employed, the decisions they took? Second, they have been asked to outline, in retrospect, what they might have done differently - in light of what happened in the world of art and in the world at large subsequent to their documenta.

The Castello di Rivoli and documenta 13 are grateful that all the former directors, as representatives of the artists and the curatorial teams who together conceived, imagined, witnessed and dreamed documenta, have accepted the invitation and will reflect upon their ideas and experiences.

When documenta was conceived in the early 1950s, it was a direct response to the “degenerate art” politics of the Third Reich. Therefore, contrary to other periodic international exhibitions which have emerged from the world fair models of the 19th century, it is characterised by a theoretical grounding and a sense of the urgency of art in society. Today no less than 50 years ago.

The choice of Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, as the ideal location for this conference, is due to the particular circumstance that the museum’s first director, Rudi Fuchs, was also Artistic Director of documenta 7 in 1982, and that today, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Chief Curator since 2001 and interim artistic director of the Castello di Rivoli in 2009, has been nominated the Artistic Director of documenta 13, which will be held in 2012 in Kassel. "documenta 13 - says Christov-Bakargiev - is being developed from an archeological perspective, according to which every cultural project that moves forward must be grounded on a backwards gaze, in an ecological relationship to the past. How was the present imagined in the second half of the 20th century and what was considered urgent at each successive edition of the exhibition?" At the same time, she is “…personally committed to the illogical, the playful and the poetic, to the celebration of works of art, as well as to the participation and singular experience of those who attend an event like documenta”.

This conference attempts to bring the past, present, and future of documenta into one room, in dialogue, and we invite those who are interested to join us.

The speakers are:
Heiner Georgsdorf, Speaker of the Board of Trustees of the Arnold-Bode- Foundation, and friend of Arnold Bode.
With reference to documenta, 1955, II.documenta, 1959, documenta III, 1964, 4.documenta, 1968, directed by A. Bode.
Walter Grasskamp, Chair of Art History in the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich. With reference to documenta, 1955; II. documenta, 1959; documenta III, 1964; 4.documenta, 1968.
Jean-Christophe Ammann, part of the ‘Work group’ that curated documenta 5, 1972, directed by Harald Szeemann.
Manfred Schneckenburger, Artistic Director of documenta 6, 1977
and documenta 8, 1987.
Rudi Fuchs, Artistic Director of documenta 7, 1982.
Jan Hoet, Artistic Director of documenta IX, 1992.
Catherine David, Artistic Director of documenta X, 1997.
Okwui Enwezor, Artistic Director of documenta 11, 2002.
Roger M. Buergel, Artistic Director of documenta 12, 2007.
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Artistic Director of documenta 13, 2012.

General Information

All lectures and discussions will be recorded and published electronically.

Attendance to the conference is free but seating is limited.
Booking essential by August 5, 2009.
To reserve your seat please fill out the application form available on the website www.castellodirivoli.org and www.documenta.de

ARTweek 2009

ARTWEEK: "ARTweek 2009 finder sted d. 29. juli - 8. august.

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