Activities: June 2008.
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PUBLICATIONS TRANSITIONERS APERIODICAL BULLETIN The issue n°2 of Transitioners' Aperiodical Bulletin is now released and downloadable following this
link.
MANIFESTA 6 DEPT III: ABSCHLUSSBALL
The
Contract of Discord established during the collective
Abschlussball project has been published as an insert to
IDEA n°28.
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L'ARGENTCollective exhibition
OPENING: Sunday 15 JUN, from 15:00 to 20:00.
Open through 17 AUG.
Le Plateau, Place Hannah Arendt, 75019 PARIS
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NA MI VAN?Collective exhibition
OPENING: Friday 20 JUN, from 18:00.
Open through 31 AUG.
Mucsarnok, Hősök tere, BUDAPEST
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BE A HAPPY WORKER: WORK-TO-RULE! Collective exhibition
OPENING: Thursday 26 JUN
Open through 20 JUL.
Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Subiceva 29, ZAGREB
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COMMENTING L'ARGENT / MARKA Public discussion: Emiliano Battista, Gal Kirn and Jorgos Papadopoulos.
Saturday 28 JUN, 17:00
Le Plateau, Place Hannah Arendt, 75019 PARIS
In collaboration with
Academie Jan van Eyck.
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Collective exhibition
In an era dominated – in art, as elsewhere – by the omnipresent issue of profitability, this exhibition offers a partial survey of artistic approaches challenging the social role of money, from the early 20th century up until the present. This has been a great chance to bring together works by Manet, Yves Klein, Andy Warhol, Ernest T., Claire Fontaine, Société Réaliste and others. In the context of a rampant capitalism for which the power of the market is all, art is no longer just a sound investment or an aesthetic refuge. Now thoroughly – and symptomatically – integrated into the capitalist system, it can provide a better, faster return on investment than some top shares. In such a setting it is logical to give a hearing to artists, individually or in groups, whose work falls within the shadow of stock-market fluctuations. The exhibition L'Argent ("Money") comprises three complementary sections. It begins with a wall of photocopies of works of art addressing the money issue. In turn the public can take possession of the reproductions and touch works of art that very few institutions can afford to borrow. The exhibition then lingers over the period 1970–80, during which artists decided to infiltrate the institutional network and denounce the underhanded transactions that had become an everyday feature of the scene. In a third and final part, Le Plateau is given over to site-specific works focusing right now, in 2008, on the unique, universal touchstone that is money.
With works by: Adel Abdessemed, Fikret Atay, Fabio Balducci & Sophie Calle, Iain Baxter, Philippe Cazal, Claude Closky, Moyra Davey, Wim Delvoye, Tracey Emin, Et n'est-ce *&/et, Malachi Farrell, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Sylvie Fleury, Claire Fontaine, Michel François, Gloria Friedmann, General Idea, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, David Hammons, Thomas Hirschhorn, IFP, Michel Journiac, Edward Kienholz & Nancy Reddin, Ben Kinmont, Olga Kisseleva, Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, Suzanne Lafont, Matthieu Laurette, Bertrand Lavier, Louise Lawler, Zoe Leonard, Les ready-made appartiennent à tout le monde ®, Gilles Mahé, Kris Martin, Cildo Meireles, Annette Messager, Antoni Muntadas, Marylène Negro, Cady Noland, Orlan, Gabriel Orozco, Ouest-Lumière, Cesare Pietroiusti & Paul Griffith, Josephine Pryde, Claude Rutault, Seth Siegelaub, Santiago Sierra, Société Réaliste, Reena Spaulings, Ernest T, Taroop & Glabel, the Centre of Attention, Joana Vasconcelos, Dana Wyse, la Biennale de Paris.
Curated by: Caroline Bourgeois and Elisabeth Lebovici.
from Sunday 15 JUN to Sunday 17 AUG.
Le Plateau, Place Hannah Arendt, 75019 PARIS
On Sunday 28 JUN at 17:00, Le Plateau will host Emiliano Battista, Gal Kirn, Jorgos Papadopoulos and Société Réaliste to comment and reflect on the exhibition (
see below).
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Contemporary Hungarian Art is the conceptual umbrella under which several contemporary Hungarian art exhibitions and projects taking place in Budapest between July 21st – August 31st 2008 are gathered together in the organization of Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest. The nucleus of the structure is given by the large format exhibition with the same title, presented in Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle, which aims to set forth what is topical, novel and noteworthy in contemporary Hungarian art. The pursuit of latest developments of the local art scene as well as new framing perspectives are among its working methods. About twenty artists are asked to reflect on what concerns them nowadays and make that visible in the installation of their works.
With works by: András Braun, László Csáki, Gábor Erdélyi, Kis Varsó, Gábor Arion Kudász, Ilona Lovas, Kamilla Szíj, Imre Bukta, Szabolcs Kiss Pál, SZAF / Miki Mécs & Judit Fischer, György Szász, Beatrix Szörényi, Péter Türk, Gyula Várnai, Róza El Hassan, Tibor Horváth, Tamás Kaszás, Antal Lakner, Pál Szacsvay, Société Réaliste.
Curated by: Judit Angel and Zsolt Petrányi.
from Friday 20 JUN to Sunday 31 AUG.
Műcsarnok, Hősök tere, BUDAPEST
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Collective exhibition
The exhibition
Be a Happy Worker: Work-to-Rule! considers different perspectives and concepts of work and labour, the 'slowing down' of work, touching upon the quality of work and life in the former and present working conditions, the global division of labour and creative reflections on industrial and postindustrial labour. On the other hand, the exhibition touches upon the nostalgia for the time of belief in industrial modernization, in the light of destinies of workers after the transformations and dissolving of the factories in East Europe.
With works by: Mircea Cantor, Maja Cipek, Miklos Erhardt & Reinigungsgesellschaft, Igor Grubic, Sanja Ivekovic, Helmut & Johanna Kandl, Pavel Mrkus, Deimantas Narkevicius, Marion von Osten, Marija Mojca Pungercar, Societe Realiste, Mladen Stilinovic.
Curated by: Ivana Bago and Antonia Majaca.
from Thursday 26 JUN to Sunday 20 JUL.
Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Subiceva 29, ZAGREB.
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Public discussion
Emiliano Battista, Gal Kirn and Jorgos Papadopoulos will reflect on the exhibition
L'Argent from their specific point of view and action.
Emiliano Battista, (Buenos Aires, 1973) researcher in theory at
Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht), he has graduated from
Université Catholique de Louvain. Translator, his work focuses on the anti-aesthetic theories of Jean-François Lyotard and Alain Badiou, and the defence of aesthetics by Jacques Rancière.
Gal Kirn, (Ljubljana, 1980), researcher in theory at
Jan van Eyck Academie, member of the
Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique, he is currently writing a critical book on a contemporary lecture of Althusser's work. PhD candidate at
University of Nova Gorica (Slovenia) and editor-in-chief of
Agregat (Ljubljana).
Jorgos Papadopoulos, (Athens, 1975), economist, researcher in theory at
Jan van Eyck Academie, member of the
Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique, he is working on the psychoanalysis of money and the ideological critique of financial capitalism. Graduated from
Erasmus Universiteit (Rotterdam) and
London School of Economics.
Saturday 28 JUN, 17:00
Le Plateau, Place Hannah Arendt, 75019 PARIS
In collaboration with
Academie Jan van Eyck.
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