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Wednesday 11 August 2010

Wishing Well

Wishing Well

Åsa Ersmark at Färgfabriken
Stockholm 10/09/2010-31/10/2010

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Wednesday 30 June 2010

This Image Is No More - The Invisible Generation Event in Beijing

"Good TV", in collaboration with Vision Forum and the people of Wu Dao Ying Hu Tong in Beijing welcomes you to an art exhibition based on storytelling performed live.

"This image is no more"
Bejing - Wu Dao Ying Hu Tong
1 - 4 Jul 2010

The exhibition "This image is no more" has been conceived in collaboration between a group of Swedish artists and members of the Chinese community. The project looks for new forms of making and perceiving art, where the art as object has been replaced by the relations and processes surrounding it.

People who live and work in the Wu Dao Ying Hu Tong have been engaged to tell stories of images drawn from memories, dreams or visions. Meaning that the exhibition consists of images only materialized in the act of storytelling. The public will find these storytellers in their everyday settings at home or at work. On request each person/storyteller performs a monologue describing their specific image.

Welcome to opening reception will take place at "illy coffee/Cafe Confucius" on Thursday the 1st of July at 19.00 - 21.00 pm.

Adress: No. 25 Imperial College street, Dongcheng District, Beijing.

The exhibition takes place at 10 different sites within the Wu Dao Ying Hu Tong, Beijing:

Thursday 1 July, 20.00 - 22.00

Friday 2 July, 18.00 - 21.00

Saturday & Sunday, 3-4 July, 15.00 - 18.00

Les Vraoums at Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris

Les Vraoums ambiancent, thursday July 1 at 9 pm at Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris - métro iéna ou Alma-Marceau

the performance is part of Pauline Curnier Jardin's participation in:

*** D Y N A S T Y ***

Palais de Tokyo/Musée d'Art Moderne/ARC-Paris

Commissariat scientifique:

MAMVP/ARC : Anne Dressen, assistée d’Elsa Beaudoin
Palais de Tokyo: Julien Fronsacq, assisté de Jeanne Dreyfus Daboussy
Commissariat général:
Fabrice Hergott et Marc-Olivier Wahler
all the artists here:

more about Pauline here:

CINEMIXA™ Venezuela tour

CINEMIXA™ Venezuela tour
[Antipop, Samon Takahashi, Stefff Gotgovski]
Puerto La Cruz, Barquisimeto, Maracaibo, Caracas
du 18 au 26 juin / from june 18th till june 26th

For more info click here

Friday 28 May 2010

The Invisible Generation at UCCA in Beijing

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Homomecanicus at CAPC in Bordeau

18 young artist from the University in Bordeaux will together create an 6 1/2 hour performance that dialogues with the film A Clockwork Orange at CAPC on June 2, 2010. Inside the darkened space there will be two large screens where a slowed down version of Stanley Kubrick’s classic A Clockwork Orange is going to be projected so it makes an 6 1/2h version of the film. Next to the projection, 18 artists will perform specially created performances for the event. The performances will not reproduce the film, but to dialogue with it.

For more information click here.

Wednesday 26 May 2010

The Invisible Generation at various public locations in Kiev - 2-4 July 2010

Oksana Chepelyk, Oleg Chorny and Gena Khmaruk, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Klas Eriksson, GangDon, Volodymyr Karashevskyi, Alexander Kokhanovsky, Oksana Plysyuk, Per Hüttner and Olav Westphalen, Jean-François Robardet and Simon Hitziger, TanzLaboratorium and Huang Xiaopeng

Curated by Per Hüttner and Yulia Usova

Vision Forum, PAI and Les’ Kurbas Center are proud to announce The Invisible Generation in Kiev.

The Invisible Generation is an ongoing contemporary art project that has appeared in different guises in Beijing, Melbourne and Shenzhen. The venues have been carefully selected due to their specific historical contexts and their perceived trajectories into the future. The project takes its starting point in performative traditions, but focuses on practices and events that cross over into other time-based activities, such as sound, film, video, literature, theatre and workshops. The project offers new situations for art and audience to meet outside of where one expects to meet an art piece or performance. The Invisible Generation allows the artists and audience to investigate how art can become a tool to shift our outlook at reality when it appears with an element of surprise.

full program here.

Friday 30 April 2010

Simultaneity - in Stockholm and Beijing

Oana Camilleri, Yan Jun and Zhifei Yang
Curated by Anne Klontz
April 24–May 16, 2010

The Simultaneist poem teaches a sense of the merry-go-round of all things; while Herr Schulze reads his paper, the Balkan Express crosses the bridge at Nish, a pig squeals in Butcher Nuttke’s cellar.
~ From the Collective Dada Manifesto

As the Dadaist poem illustrates, our day-to-day existence is rife with overlapping occurrences. The mundane is embellished by simultaneous situations which include aspects of the physical and mental, spiritual and scientific. Simultaneity is the passageway through which these notions can interact in union and explains the occurrence of things which seemingly exist in parallel, though separated by time and space. It is always in motion, both within the literal sense of society’s multi-faceted interactions and to unknown realms beyond.
The exhibition Simultaneity is an open invitation extended to you. Choose to ride with it and the co-existence of the realities you are a part of can be experienced. There is a path provided; however, the direction you take is completely up to you. There are points both within and outside of the Romanian Culture Institute where three works of art await your participation and discovery. As you wander, tune-in to the psychological intuitions which endure…there, within the artists’ works, lingers simultaneity — released.
When Herr Schulze leaves work, he steps into an elevator sounding from another time. The butcher smokes a cigarette outside his cellar door and wonders about the mysterious landscapes behind the windows on Brunnsgränd. Before the bridge at Skeppsbrokajen, the Balkan Express makes a stop at King Gustav III’s statue to daydream.

In the space of a window frame, multiple narratives take place, from people walking by on the outside to a person drinking coffee or typing at their desk on the inside. Who hasn’t stopped in the midst of their actions to wonder what the other person is doing or thinking on the other side? Based on these desires, what if you could — metaphysically speaking — create another time and space for yourself?
Science can explain how an electron can be in two places at once, but the idea that one person can exist in two places at the same time remains open to debate. However, one can argue that evidence of this phenomenon exists through accounts of individual recollections. Oana Camilleri, in her video The Places Where I Live (2007), touches upon this possibility through a visual memoir. Framed inside two windows of the Romanian Culture Institute and viewable to those passing by outside on Brunnsgränd, are two distinct landscapes from Camilleri’s life; one filmed from the fourth floor balcony of the flat where she grew up in Cluj, Romania and the other filmed from the window of the house where she lived in Camberwell, England. Each landscape is a symbolic image of how her life has been affected by factors of choice and opportunity. At the age of 18 she fled Romania after the downfall of the Berlin Wall. As Camilleri describes, although she is a part of each place, she doesn’t really belong to either one. The Places Where I Live is a personal reflection about displacement and fluctuating in-between the places where one’s identity is established. Camilleri’s work expresses something inherent to all aspects of simultaneity, in essence, its quality as an intimate process of exploration.
The architectural frameworks of the institute also provide the platform for experiencing the sound installations of Beijing-based poet and musician, Yan Jun. As stated earlier, simultaneity has a life cycle which is in a continuous state of motion in relation to time, space and those involved in the experience. Two sound installations created for the exhibition by the artist exemplify these aspects. Through overlapping soundscapes, a subjective progression takes place, beginning when one enters the building. Both One and Two (2008-10) is a duet of kissing sounds and the wind in trees performing at the entrance. Relying only on hearing with no external visual stimulation to suggest a narrative, what visions or sensations are triggered within you mentally and emotionally?
Continue inside through the hallway and you will discover Neither Three nor Four (2010), a manipulation of the mechanical sounds taken from and played within the building’s antique elevator. Position yourself within its wood paneled interior and add another dimension to the atmosphere by riding the elevator to the top floor. Through a similar situation, a passage has been created connecting you to someone in Beijing hearing the same mechanically altered sounds within another location. Without knowing this other person, you share something in common, intrinsic to the space within the elevator.
At each sound point, the presence of life and interaction is expressed, but no physical evidence can be found. In place, a layered composition is created step-by-step, elevating consciousness to a point of reality that exists within the mind’s eye. This progressive narrative constructs a reality dependent on one’s associations through emotions, thoughts or past memories in connection to the living experience of the sounds. At the threshold of contemplation, you cross the entrance into discovery. As you close the door behind you, the path never ceases.
Beyond the institute’s exterior, the merry-go-round of life presents a scenic stage for a public performance of Day Dreams II (2010), by the artist Zhifei Yang. Located at King Gustav III’s statue and contrasting the hard surface of Skeppsbrokajen, is the soft calmness of Yang sleeping on an extremely large, white pillow. Her body is almost consumed by the pillow’s voluminous size; a metaphor of how the dreaming mind and human existence are innately connected. True testimonials exist of people dreaming about a specific event while at the same time, someone else, such as a close companion, is actually living the experiences revealed in the dreamer’s mind. Are you one of these individuals? The blank surface of a pillow case will be waiting for you to pen your dream during the artist’s performance.
The intricate ways in which the unconscious mind and waking world communicate is not only a passageway into our inner thoughts, but also a powerful and mystifying experience when separated by time and space in relation to another event. In her work, Yang seeks to develop this communication into a shared network of experiences to include her own daily reflections as well as the recollection of others through archiving individual dream narratives. These collections provide the basis for the second installment of Yang’s work, a video titled Day Dreams (2009), and viewable through the web site of the Romanian Culture Institute.
If one takes the time to reflect and to recognize the ways in which our world fluctuates in rhythm, one can open the way toward unique insights, whether it is in terms of how one experiences a work of art or a new realm of possibilities which exist as an alternative dimension to our conscious world.
Look out your window, what do you see? As you walk past, are you looking in?

OANA CAMILLERI (b. 1972)
The Places Where I Live, 2007
Dual video – Installed in the windows of the Romanian Culture Institute located on Brunnsgränd, adjacent to Skeppsbron. Viewable during the evening from 6:00 p.m. for the duration of the exhibition.

YAN JUN (b. 1973)
Both One and Two, 2008-10 – Installed at the entrance of the building. Neither Three nor Four, 2010 – Installed inside the elevator, to the left of the institute’s main entrance. Both works are open to the public during opening hours between 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. for the duration of the exhibition.

ZHIFEI YANG (b. 1982)
Day Dreams II, 2010 – Performance at King Gustav III’s statue, beginning of Skeppsbrokajen. Saturday, April 24 between 7 – 10 p.m. and Sunday, April 25 between 1 – 4 p.m.
Day Dreams, 2009
Video – Posted on the web site of the Romanian Culture Institute of Stockholm for the duration of the exhibition, www.rkis.se.

interview # 6 - francesco ventrella

FRIDAY - APRIL 30th 2010
8.30 PM (GMT + 1)

LIVE BROADCAST ON HTTP://WWW.PERFORMANCESEASON.COM/

INTERVIEW # 6
FRANCESCO VENTRELLA

CATEGORY: GENDER PERFORMANCE

THURSDAY- APRIL 29th 2010
8.30 PM (GMT + 1)

LIVE BROADCAST ON HTTP://WWW.PERFORMANCESEASON.COM/
BAD_W.H.0R,E_D,S.

PERFORMANCE BY THE GROSSI MAGLIONI MAGIC DUO

BETWEEN CATEGORIES: GENDER / RANDOM PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE

WEDNESDAY - APRIL 28th 2010
8.30 PM (GMT + 1)

LIVE BROADCAST ON HTTP://WWW.PERFORMANCESEASON.COM/
MORE “MORE THAN A MOUTHFUL”

PERFORMANCE BY SHEILA BISHOP

BETWEEN CATEGORIES: REENACTMENT / GENDER / THEATER PERFORMANCE

FROM FRYDAY 23rd TO SUNDAY 25th - APRIL 2010

NON STOP FROM 10 AM TO 5 PM (GMT + 1)

LIVE BROADCAST ON WWW.PERFORMANCESEASON.COM

SKIP SKIP SKIP THAT NOW IS SLIP SLIP SLIP!

PERFORMANCE BY SIMON HITZIGER & JEAN-FRANÇOIS ROBARDET

CATEGORY: RANDOM PERFORMANCE

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Tuesday 20 April 2010

The Invisible Generation in Kiev - POSTPONED

Following an ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano eruption and the closure of much of European Airspace, Vision Forum has decided to postpone the events in Kiev until July 2-4.

We are very sad about this and apologize to all involved for any inconvenience caused.

Please keep look here for updates.

Oksana Chepelyk will still start the upcoming events by perform her FLYING UP SKY-SCRAPERS on 18 June, at 19-00 at Rusanovskaya Naberezgnaya - Welcome!