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EVENEMENT #1/07
05 April – 15 July 2007

OPENING 4 April 2007 / from 6 pm to 9 pm

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After devoting all of 2006 to the Aller-Retour cycle, the Centre culturel suisse now proposes
a program without a specific theme. Always decidedly pluridisciplinary, the #1/07 event presents budding young artists and more established ones who renew themselves.

Exhibitions
WORKER, DRONE, QUEEN
In the main exhibition space, we present, a group show by four artists: CAROL BOVE, VIDYA GASTALDON, AMY O’NEILL and MAI-THU PERRET. Under this title, chosen like the program visual by the artists themselves, this exhibition brings together four young women who were born in the 1970s. All four live in or come from Geneva, and most of them know each other well. Although this collective proposal embodies no theoretical or formal link between the works, one can nevertheless distinguish similarities in their investigations which feature specific references to manual skills or the crafts, or to elements relating to precise moments of 20th century history.

e-flux video rental by ANTON VIDOKLE and JULIETA ARANDA (Berlin-New York).
EVR is a multiple project which includes a free video club, as well as film and video screenings and archives. The collection, which consists of nearly 700 works, was constituted in cooperation with over 80 artists, curators and international critics. Initially created in New York in 2004, EVR has been presented in Amsterdam, Berlin, Frankfurt, Seoul, Istanbul, the Canary Islands, Austin (Texas), Budapest, Anvers, Miami and Boston. At every stopover in a new city, art professionals are invited to select new artists whose works are incorporated in the collection.
Guest commissioners: CHRISTINE MACEL, MICHEL RITTER, MARIA-INES RODRIGUEZ, FABRICE STROUN, and NICOLAS TREMBLEY.
Selected videos will be screened on the 14.04, 26.04, 21.06 and the 12.07 at 18h (free
entry).

EVENINGS
The principle of pluri-disciplinarity will be confirmed during the Rendez-vous du Jeudi soir venues, with the following highlights:
MUSIC : 3 unplugged concerts by the YOUNG GODS (17, 18 and 19.04) and an evening dedicated to composer HANS ULRICH LEHMANN (17.05).
DANCE / PERFORMANCE :
With: CAROLE MEIER (03 and 04.05), MARISA GODOY / OONA PROJECT (10 and 11.05), PERRINE VALLI (24.05) CELINA CHAULVIN / LILITH LAB and NICOLE SEILER (31.05 and 01.06), PAULO DOS SANTOS (7, 8 and 9.05) and ALEXANDRA BACHZETSIS, LIES VANBORM & TINA BLEULER (14, 15 and 16.06).
CINEMA with a screening of the film Geschichte der Nacht (Story of the Night) (1978, 63′), directed by CLEMENS KLOPFENSTEIN (26.04)
Guided tours of the Marais with artists DECTOR & DUPUY (28.06, 5 and 12.07).

Complete programme of the evenings: http://www.ccsparis.com

Handy information:
Open from Wednesday to Sunday / 1 pm – 8 pm / late night Thursday till 10 pm
(entrance by 38 rue des Francs-Bourgeois – at the end of the passage) / free entry
Rendez-vous du jeudi soir
Evenings / 8 pm / reservation recommended 01 42 71 38 38

The Centre culturel suisse de Paris is the representation of Pro Helvetia, Arts Council of Switzerland

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The Jewish Museum

Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art
At The Jewish Museum in New York
On view through August 5, 2007

The Jewish Museum
Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street,
New York, NY
212.423.3200
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org

Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art
On view through August 5, 2007

Over the nearly 60 years since the founding of the State of Israel, people outside the country, informed mainly by media accounts, see it primarily as a place of conflict. What does this mean for art about Israel?

Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art, on view at The Jewish Museum through August 5, 2007, focuses on photography and video art made after the year 2000. Expressing the diverse outlooks of nearly two dozen artists, these images represent the life and culture of a nation where political realities influence every aspect of creative endeavor. What is revealed is a complicated view of Israel and its people.

Photographers and video artists were among the first to react to events such as the second Intifada, a wave of violence and political conflict which began in 2000 between Israel and the Palestinians. Their art became an effective medium for mining the day to day life in Israel. The exhibition at The Jewish Museum is comprised of nearly 45 works by 23 artists who view Israel as a society that has outgrown the utopian model of its settlement and statehood. Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art presents evocative landscapes and powerful reportage, formal portraits, quickly composed snapshots, and video.

Artists represented include Boaz Arad, Yael Bartana, Rina Castelnuovo, Rineke Dijkstra, Barry Frydlender, Ori Gersht, Amit Goren, Michal Heiman, Noel Jabbour, Miki Kratsman, Leora Laor, Gillian Laub, Yaron Leshem, Motti Mizrachi, Orit Raff, Guy Raz, Igael Shemtov, Wolfgang Tillmans, Mark Wallinger, Wim Wenders, Pavel Wolberg, Sharon Ya’ari, and Catherine Yass. Sixteen of the participating artists are Israeli and seven are from other parts of the world. This reflects the growing emergence of Israel as a subject of widening interest among artists. Contested land, religious ideology, and the rights and needs of Israelis and Palestinians are concerns that these artists negotiate as they seek to portray a nation often divided against itself. The exhibition reveals a country in flux that only a multiplicity of perspectives can bring into focus. While Dateline Israel may reinforce the impression of a place where conflict can overwhelm daily life, the photographs and videos in t
his exhibition also offer a richer and more nuanced view.

For more information go to: http://www.thejewishmuseum.org

PORTIKUS

Judith Hopf and Henrik Olesen
Doors

March 31, 2007 – May 13, 2007

PORTIKUS
Alte Brücke 2 Maininsel
60594 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Telephone 49 69 962 44 54-0
Fax 49 69 962 44 54-24
http://www.portikus.de

Doors, an exhibition at the Portikus, shows a collaborative project developed by Judith Hopf and Henrik Olesen. Doors offers passageways, entrances and exits, detours and cul-de-sacs, and repeatedly asks the viewer to come to a new decision. The different possibilities of action—opening doors, moving (backward) in space—engender new spatial constellations. They affect what is behind, what remains initially hidden from view, and necessitate unforeseen changes in direction and sidestepping gestures. This sculptural space, conceived as a model and designed in the manner of a stage setting, at once also presents an exaggerated delineation of social patterns, in which limitations, compulsions, contradictions and strictures, but also possibilities for decisions emerge into view.

In a similar manner, Judith Hopf and Henrik Olesen also approach the subject of spatial and personal demarcation by means of film. They re-stage a scene from Luis Buñuel’s film Le Fantôme de la liberté (The Phantom of Liberty, 1974) in which numerous scenes play out behind doors; we gain only brief insights into the former by opening the latter. As though in a comedy of manners, people from different backgrounds meet by chance and only for brief moments in the hallway, conduct exchanges in small gestures, commingle by accident with the reality of the lives of others, only to disappear again into their own worlds.

Another remake, of Fluxus artist George Landow’s film The Evil Faerie (1966), points toward the notion of art maintained by the Fluxus movement, where art was discovered amid the gestures of everyday life and understood as a realization of human freedom.

Judith Hopf’s and Henrik Olesen’s practice evinces a productively critical consciousness of socially propagated normalizations. They question the conventions of the everyday with a view to their socio-political effects. They thus detect a social pressure upon different forms of life that disturb the public consensus, and are hence marginalized or rendered invisible.

Judith Hopf most recently showed works during the exhibition “No Matter How Bright the Light, the Crossing Occurs at Night” at the Kunstwerke, Berlin, and at Extra City, Antwerpen; her works were also on view at the Secession, Vienna, and at Gallery Andreas Huber, Vienna.

Henrik Olesen had an exhibition last year at the Generali Foundation, Vienna, and most recently showed works at the exhibition space Mehringdamm 72, Berlin.

A publication will accompany this exhibition at the Portikus (scheduled to appear in late July, 2007).

With generous support from:

For more information go to: http://www.portikus.de