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Experiments in Art and Technology

OPEN SCORE by Robert Rauschenberg

a joint DVD production by
Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)
and
ARTPIX

NTSC / PAL – Region 0 (all regions) DVD
Available now
international distribution:
microcinema international – http://www.microcinema.com
info@microcinema.com
ISBN: 978-0-9668010-7-1
UPC: 880198059697

For further information:
http://www.9evenings.org

OPEN SCORE by Robert Rauschenberg is the first in series of 10 DVDs memorializing 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering - a legendary series of theater, dance, music and performances at the New York 69th Regiment Armory in 1966. Participants were 10 New York artists:

Robert Rauschenberg
John Cage
David Tudor
Yvonne Rainer
Robert Whitman
Steve Paxton
Alex Hay
Deborah Hay
Lucinda Childs
Öyvind Fahlström

The artists worked with 30 engineers and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories to create performances that incorporated new technology.

The DVDs – one on each artist’s performance - will be released sequentially over the next two years with the initial publication of the series: Open Score by Robert Rauschenberg, available now, followed by the second in the series: John Cage - Variations VII, available later this year.

9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering is recognized as a major artistic event of the 1960s. The performances represented the culmination of a period of extraordinary creative energy in art, dance and music in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and they also pointed to the future, as artists began to use new technology in their work. 9 Evenings was organized by Robert Rauschenberg and Billy Klüver, then a research scientist at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. It was held at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City from October 13-23, 1966. Using archival film footage and original sound recordings, the 9 Evenings films reconstruct each artist’s performance as fully as possible; they also contain new interviews with artists, engineers and performers to illuminate the artistic, technical and historical aspects of the works.

The films of 9 Evenings are produced for E.A.T. by Julie Martin and directed by Barbro Schultz Lundestam. They are funded in part by generous gifts from Robert Rauschenberg and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation as well as with support from the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art Science and Technology.

E.A.T. is a service organization that promotes the collaboration between artists and engineers to provide artists with access to new technology and to facilitate their participation in projects dealing with areas of social concern.

ARTPIX is a non profit organization that produces DVDs about the arts including: Robert Whitman: Performances from the 60s; Trisha Brown: Early Works 1966-1979; William Wegman: Video Works 1970-1999. ( http://www.artpix.org )

Purchasing information: Joel Bachar, Microcinema International, 1636 Bush St., Ste. 2, San Francisco CA 94109, +1-415.447.9750 / FAX +1-509.351.1530 / joel@microcinema.com.

For more information go to: http://www.9evenings.org

DaimlerChrysler Collection

DaimlerChrysler Collection -
New online book shop available

The DaimlerChrysler Collection is pleased to announce that some 35 titles of the collection can now be ordered online. Thanks to a new established collaboration with the Berlin based bookshop Bücherbogen am Savignyplatz all publications - covering the history of the collection from 1977 to today as well as new acquisitions – are now available worldwide.

Started in 1977 the DaimlerChrysler Collection focuses on abstract and geometrical pictorial concepts, from which it derives its distinctive character today. With its quality and presence among the staff and international museums, the DaimlerChrysler Collection continuously expanded to include some 1,500 works by German and international artists today. The Collection reflects the company’s commitment to art as an inherent element of the corporation’s social self-concept and cultural profile.

Various exhibition catalogues, artist monographs and theme publications have been published over a period of almost thirty years. With contributions of various authors and acclaimed art critics every exhibition at DaimlerChrysler Contemporary is backed up with an attractive catalogue. These publications offer an excellent overview regarding the presented art works or new acquisitions and provide comprehensive information on the specific artists.

One of the exhibition series, called ‘Minimalism and After’, which was conceived in autumn 2000 for the Collection has recently been summarized in a broad compendium. About 300 works by approximately 150 artists are introduced in substantial work monographs, complemented by a thematic essay which – through the perspective of a corporate collection – sums up a 100 years history of abstract art from the Adolf Hölzel class at the Stuttgart Academy 1906 to the present day.

Minimalism and After - Tradition and Tendencies of Minimalism from 1950 to the Present
New acquisitions for the DaimlerChrysler Collection 2000 to 2006
Work monographs on about 150 artists, 23 x 28 cm, 560 pages, about 620 color ill.

Also Available:

Exhibition catalogues of DaimlerChrysler Contemporary in Berlin, among others:

Private Corporate IV - A dialogue of the collections Poddar and DaimlerChrysler
Paperback, 97 pages, German/English, 75 color ill., 2007

CLASSICAL : MODERN - Classical Modern Art of the DaimlerChrysler
Paperback, 81 pages, German/English, 124 color ill., 2006

Photography, Video and Mixed Media II, New acquisitions
Paperback, 73 pages, German/English, 73 color ill., 2005

Monographs and theme publications, among others:

Contemporary Art for the Mercedes-Benz Welt Stuttgart
Paperback, 76 pages, German/English, 52 color ill., 2006

Franz Erhard Walther – Wortfeld, 2005
Paperback, 32 pages, German or English, 23 color ill. 2006

Sylvia Fleury: Paris Commissioned, 2005
Paperback, 24 pages, German, French or English, 15 color ill., 2006

More exhibition catalogues and work books by the DaimlerChrysler Collection, among others:

ABC of the DaimlerChrysler Collection, Conversation with Art on Art
Ring binding, 217 pages, Japanese/English, 56 color ill., 2006

Andy Warhol – Cars and Business Art
Hardback, 144 pages, German or English, 82 color ill., 2002

DaimlerChrysler Contemporary
Alte Potsdamer Str. 5
D - 10785 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0) 30 259 41 42 0
kunst.sammlung@daimlerchrysler.com

http://www.collection.daimlerchrysler.com

For more information go to: http://www.sammlung.daimlerchrysler.com/publikationen/publikationen_e.php

Witte de With

MARGARET SALMON
TRIS VONNA-MICHELL
20 May – 19 Aug 2007

WITTE DE WITH
CENTER FOR
CONTEMPORARY ART
WITTE DE WITHSTRAAT 50
3012 BR ROTTERDAM
THE NETHERLANDS
+31 10 411 0144
http://www.wdw.nl
info@wdw.nl

This summer, Witte de With is proud to announce two solo exhibitions: Margaret Salmon and Tris Vonna-Michell, opening simultaneously on Saturday 19 May 2007.

Margaret Salmon (b. 1975, New York, USA) creates filmic portraits that weave together poetry and documentary. Focusing on individuals in their everyday habitats, her slow-moving films capture the minutiae of daily life and infuse them with gentle grandeur to touch upon universal human themes. As she puts it, “it is the ghost narrative in mundane tasks that I find interesting.”

Inspired by Soviet propaganda films and American realist fiction, Salmon portrays the common struggle of ordinary people. Her position as a film-maker is never aggressive or intrusive. Balancing intimacy with respectful distance, she creates works that are at once sober and lyrical.

Music often plays a central role in her work. Technically, she draws upon practices pioneered by cinematic movements such as Italian neorealism and Cinema Vérité.

Salmon studied at the School of Visual Arts, NYC, and at the Royal College of Art, London. She now lives in Whitstable, UK. In 2006, she was awarded the first MaxMara Women’s Art Prize and Le Prix Gilles Dusein. She is a candidate for the Vincent Award. In early 2007, she had a solo exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery (London) and her work will be shown in the Arsenale at this summer’s Venice Biennale.

The exhibition is curated by Zoë Gray and Nicolaus Schafhausen, with support from The British Council.

WdW Publishers will produce the book Margaret Salmon, featuring texts by André Bazin, Raymond Carver, Zoë Gray, Nicolaus Schafhausen, and Bina von Stauffenberg.
To be launched at the opening. ISBN:978-90-73362-75-8

Tris Vonna-Michell (b. 1982, Southend on Sea, UK) tells tall tales and short stories. His work is both public performance and mental process, as he tries to unravel and articulate numerous real and fictional histories. His practice is at once structured and spontaneous, allowing his performances to be directly influenced by his audience.

Employing slide-projectors, excerpts from texts, and collected objects as theatrical props, Vonna-Michell moves rapidly through his fantastical stories. The influence of sound poems such as Kurt Schwitters’ Ursonata and the Spoken Word compositions of Allen Ginsberg or William S. Burroughs are discernible in Vonna-Michell’s work. The incredible rapidity of his delivery, his use of repetition and his streetwise London accent conjure up images of a Samuel Beckett character crossed with a Grime MC.

Vonna-Michell’s performances function as chapters within an over-arching, non-linear narrative. His tales overlap, run in parallel or find themselves reconfigured as they are retold in new settings. This young artist thus adds a new chapter to the age-old tradition of storytelling.

Witte de With will produce a 7-inch vinyl recording by Vonna-Michell titled Tall Tales and Short Stories. Graphic concept by Tine Melzer.

The artist will be at Witte de With to perform his work on the following dates:
May 19, 20 & 22
June 1, 2 & 3
June 16, 17 & 19 in collaboration with Poetry International Festival.
Dates of his presence in July and August will be available online at http://www.wdw.nl

The exhibition is curated by Renske Janssen and Nicolaus Schafhausen, with support from The British Council and Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen.

Opening: Saturday 19 April
1 p.m. Opening of Margaret Salmon, Tris Vonna-Michell and PRIXDEROME.NL
3 p.m. Artist’s talk: Margaret Salmon in conversation with Polly Staple (Frieze).

For more information, please see our website http://www.wdw.nl or contact info@wdw.nl

For more information go to: http://www.wdw.nl