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de Appel

Solo — exhibition
Michaël Borremans
"Veldwerk"
8 September - 4 November 2007

de Appel
Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10
1017 DE Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Opening hours
Thu-Sun: 11 am - 6 pm

http://www.deappel.nl

Although originally trained as a photographer and graphic designer, since the mid-1990s, the Belgian artist Michaël Borremans (Geraardsbergen, 1963) mainly wields the paintbrush and has made a name for himself with absurd-ominous drawings and enigmatic–seductive paintings. From autumn 2007 de Appel explores an unknown aspect of Borremans’ oeuvre, namely the films on which he has been working on the quiet. In an interview with journalist Els Fiers (Metropolis M, October 2005) Borremans stated: ‘A painting is not a stationary image: it moves, it is a presence. Film is something I would still like to experiment with. I’m considering working with this medium although I might never exhibit the results.’ Borremans has now decided to screen his films — that seem to be a logical step in his indirect investigation into the realism of the image — as an essential part of his artistic production. The presentation in de Appel is Borremans first solo exhibition in The Netherlands,
but also counts as the international premiere of his cinematic work.

Formally and thematically, Borremans’ films are closely related to his two-dimensional work, and they will be shown in ‘environments’ of paintings and drawings. They are ‘tableaux vivants’ with poetic titles like "The Storm" or "The Feeding", in which Borremans very gradually, with subtle camera work, creates an oppressive atmosphere. Borremans builds up a gripping but subdued suspense that fails to lead to a ‘climax’ or ‘apotheosis’. The images in Borremans’ films balance on the divide between a recognizable, everyday reality and a slightly bizarre dream world and raise questions about the reality and impact of images in our society.

In January 2008, the exhibition will travel further to the venue of co-organiser Centro de Artes Visuais in Coimbra, Portugal (21 January - 20 April 2008). To accompany the exhibition, a comprehensive catalogue will be published, a collaboration between CAV Coimbra, de Appel and Hatje Cantz, with contributions by a.o. Ann Demeester, Masimiliano Gioni and Delfim Sardo.

For more information and images please contact: Gerbrand Korevaar, gkorevaar@deappel.nl

For more information about the publication please contact: Edna van Duyn, ednavanduyn@deappel.nl

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

neuroTransmitter

The FM Ferry Experiment
live broadcast from the
Staten Island Ferry

concept and programming by:
neuroTransmitter (Valerie Tevere + Angel Nevarez)

September 14, 15, 20, 21, 22,
27, 28, 29 - 2007
12 - 4 pm EST (NYC)

On-Air:
WSIA 88.9FM
http://www.fmferryexperiment.net

In-Studio:
Hurricane Deck of the
Staten Island Ferry
reached via:
Whitehall Terminal — 1 Whitehall St. Manhattan
St. George Terminal - 1 Bay St.
Staten Island

http://www.fmferryexperiment.net

For eight days in September, neuroTransmitter presents The FM Ferry Experiment, a project which transforms the Staten Island Ferry into a floating radio station, broadcasting out to the NYC region as it continuously travels between Staten Island and Lower Manhattan.

In 1967, The New York Avant-Garde Festival (1963-1980) founded by Charlotte Moorman, landed on the Staten Island Ferry for 24-hours. In the spirit of this festival, The FM Ferry Experiment integrates broadcast and performance into one of New York’s most traveled public spaces, expanding its architecture out into the airwaves, engaging publics on the ferry and on-the-air.

Live programs consisting of performances, lectures, and conversations will take place on the Staten Island Ferry, and will be broadcast along with music, sound, and ambient noise via WSIA 88.9 FM and http://www.fmferryexperiment.net

In-studio performances and appearances by:
31 Down, Dafne Boggeri, Ralf Homann, Jesal Kapadia & Sreshta Premnath, Tianna Kennedy, Emily Jacir & Jamal Rayyis, Edward Miller, School of Missing Studies with Peter Ferko, Xaviera Simmons, Brooke Singer & Brian Rigney Hubbard, Sandra Skurvida, Alex Villar, Bojidar Yanev

audio works by:
Julieta Aranda, Fia Backström, Mark & Stephen Beasley, Wiebe E. Bijker, Bik Van der Pol, Nao Bustamante, Paul Chan, free103point9, Wynne Greenwood & K8 Hardy, Maryam Jafri, Hassan Khan, Fabiano Kueva, Brandon LaBelle, Pedro Lasch with Thomas Lasch & Audio Wizards, Cristóbal Lehyt, LIGNA, Lana Lin, Jill Magid with Ed Vas, Naeem Mohaiemen, Antoni Muntadas, Max Neuhaus, Phill Niblock, Carsten Nicolai, Jenny Perlin, Cesare Pietroiusti, Radio Sonideros (Sara Harris, Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, Keren Ness, Clare Robbins), Steve Roden, Marina Rosenfeld, Kristen Roos & Jackson 2Bears, Martha Rosler, Scanner, Hanna Rose Shell & Luke Fischbeck, Jason Simon,
Skyline, Judi Werthein

plus further socio-spatial experimentation, conversations, news bulletins, music, archival broadcasts, and sing-alongs…

neurotransmitter - Initiated in 2001 by Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere as a project whose work fuses conceptual practices with transmission, sound performance, and mobile broadcast. Their work re-articulates radio in multiple contexts considering new possibilities for the broadcast spectrum as public space. Recent projects include: WUNP, unitednationsplaza, Berlin, Germany; The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore; The New Museum, NY; viafarini, Milan, Italy; The Anna Akhmatova Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; Govett Brewster Museum, NZ; Centre d’Art Passerelle, Brest, France; and Museu da Imagem e do Som, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Tevere is an artist and Associate Professor of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island, CUNY. Nevarez is an artist, DJ, and musician.

WSIA 88.9 FM was founded in the mid-1970s by a group of students at The College of Staten Island, CUNY who ran some wire to the cafeteria and started spinning records. They then applied for a license and have been broadcasting regularly since August 31, 1981. For over 25 years WSIA has featured a variety of programming, and the CSI students who run the station have always been committed to being new and innovative, and serving the Staten Island and Greater New York community. WSIA broadcasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week over the air and online at http://www.wsia.fm

The FM Ferry Experiment is produced in cooperation with the New York City Department of Transportation and WSIA 88.9FM; and has been made possible in part by The National Endowment for the Arts; The Independence Community Foundation through The Staten Island Project and College of Staten Island Foundation; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council with support of The September 11th Fund; and Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art, supported by NYSCA and Jerome Foundation; with sponsorship from free103point9.

For more information:
http://www.fmferryexperiment.net
info@fmferryexperiment.net

For more information go to: http://www.fmferryexperiment.net

Spatiul Public Bucuresti / Public Art Bucharest 2007

Spatiul Public Bucuresti | Public Art Bucharest 2007 announces its final month of events

15 September - 15 October 2007
Bucharest, Romania

Curated by Marius Babias and
Sabine Hentzsch
Assistant curator: Raluca Voinea
Project assistant: Irina Gheorghe

Participating artists: Mircea Cantor, Anetta Mona Chisa / Lucia Tkácová, Nicoleta Esinencu, H.arta, Daniel Knorr, Dan Perjovschi and Lia Perjovschi.

http://www.spatiul-public.ro

Spatiul Public Bucuresti | Public Art Bucharest 2007 is a pilot project which attempts to create a platform for trans-disciplinary discussions and debates that explore how public art could encourage a critical engagement with the dominant structures of power active in contemporary society. The non-existence of an uncompromised public sphere in Romania during communism had generated the conditions for the unfettered capitalism of the post-communist period to acquire a monopoly on the public space. Bucharest is one of the fastest developing cities in Europe, however one where post-communism and globalization have created specific tensions and eccentric juxtapositions visible in architecture, urban environment and social life. The ways in which people in the city perceive, experience and respond to these tensions define an active public space, which needs to be acknowledged by the cultural discourse and analysed in open debates.

Spatiul Public Bucuresti | Public Art Bucharest 2007 includes a series of artistic projects, public debates, and media interventions that aim at confronting the public with social developments capable of initiating open discussion and emphasizing cultural contributions to the progress of democracy.

Since its launch on 20 April 2007, several stages of the project have been successfully completed: a symposium, two artists’ residencies, the public screening of Anetta Mona Chisa’s work What the Fuck Are You Looking at?! and the launching of the official website, http://www.spatiul-public.ro Now, the project is entering its final stage with a month of events taking place between September 15 and October 15. The events will be accompanied by the publication of two special editions of the Romanian weekly cultural magazines: "Suplimentul de Cultura" and "Observator Cultural." These publications will include contributions by: Marius Babias, Boris Buden, Eduard Constantin, H.arta, Sabine Hentzsch, Oliver Marchart, Ciprian Mihali, Suzana Milevska, Vlad Morariu, Alina Serban, Simon Sheikh, Ovidiu Tichindeleanu and Raluca Voinea.

Events and projects:

Tacerea Mieilor/ Silence of the Lambs — Mircea Cantor
Silence of the Lambs (1998/2003) is a project documenting the ancient Romanian custom of slaughtering lambs in connection to the celebration of Easter in Romania. The stories of the people and traditions involved function as a metaphor for the changes that the post-comunist Romanian society is undergoing as part of the EU integration. The film will premier at the Romanian Cultural Institute in Bucharest and will be broadcast on the public TV station TVR Cultural during October 2007.

A(II)Rh+ — Nicoleta Esinencu
Nicoleta Esinencu’s project is an invitation to explore the suburbs of Bucharest by means of a theatric text about discrimination. The project follows the itinerary of local Roma people who wander the city, every morning, in search of scrap metal.

Project Space — H.arta
Project Space represents both a meeting and information point for Spatiul Public Bucuresti | Public Art Bucharest 2007 and at the same time an invitation to a series of daily events organized by the artist collective H.arta. Their program is structured around four major themes: post-communism, feminism, education and display, and takes the form of presentations, discussions, workshops and performances.

Trams and Institutions — Daniel Knorr
The project Trams and Institutions invites the public transport users of the Romanian capital to discover and board four regular trams circulating in Bucharest that have been decorated with the logos of some national institutions such as the police, the military and the Red Cross.

Monument (History / Hysteria 2) — Dan Perjovschi
Dan Perjovschi’s live sculpture evokes in the memory of the locals a moment from the recent history of Romania — the miner-lead incursions into the heart of Bucharest in the early 1990s intended to stifle democratic protests against the neo-communist government of the time. Monument (History / Hysteria 2) will be performed daily for a week in the same location, University Square, where the events took place 17 years ago.

Contemporary Art Archive / Center for Art Analysis — Lia Perjovschi
CAA (Contemporary Art Archive / Center for Art Analysis) has functioned as archive, open workshop, alternative research and education project organized by Lia Perjovschi between 1985 and 2007. Between September and October 2007, CAA will undergo an inventory at the end of which it will be temporary closed in preparation for its next stage.

hot art 6 - H.C.L.M.B. 10/ 25/01/2001/ Landscape in the City’s Backyard —
Serban Sturdza & Virgil Scripcariu
This project confronts the inhabitants of Bucharest as well as the leaders of public institutions with a moment of reflection on the systemic way in which the green areas of the city are being destroyed and replaced by commercial and residential developments.

A series of artists’ books is published by IDEA Publishing House Cluj and
Walther König Cologne, 2007.

Initiated by the partner institutions Goethe-Institut Bukarest, Institutul Cultural Român (ICR), and Allianz Kulturstiftung. Supported by the Cultural Programme of the German EU Presidency in 2007 provided by the German Foreign Office, Erste Foundation, and the Order of Architects in Romania. Media partners: IDEA, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, Suplimentul de Cultura, Observator Cultural, E-cart.ro.

Contact: ecart.ro@gmail.com

For more information go to: http://www.spatiul-public.ro