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PRO ARTE FOUNDATION
FINLAND LAUNCHED
http://www.proartefoundation.fi

Last autumn, a new contributor to the visual arts scene was founded in Finland, Pro Arte Foundation Finland. The Foundation sees art as an essential resource in contemporary, democratic society. It focuses on the visual arts including new, critical art. It aims to promote the status, visibility and accessibility of visual art, and to explore the relationship between art and its audience. The Foundation’s activities are international and cater for everyone with an interest in art.

The Foundation will regularly produce and organise projects in contemporary art, either independently or in collaboration with partners. The nucleus of its operations will be an annual cluster of events known as the IHME Productions.

Each year, the Foundation will invite an internationally recognised visual artist or artist group to realise a temporary public work, the IHME Project, in the Helsinki Metropolitan region of Finland. One criterion for selecting the work is the way it can engage the local community.

The artist selected to carry out the Project will also publish the IHME Edition one year prior to the project. The form and medium of the Edition are to be determined by the selected artist and it will be distributed to the public free of charge.

The first IHME Edition is being created to accompany the launch of the Foundation’s operations at the end of March 2008.

The “days for art”, the IHME days, aim to generate wider discussion on themes and topics surrounding the Project, and will be accompanied by lectures, publications and art education.

The first cluster of IHME Productions will take place in 2009.

THE ARTIST SELECTED TO MAKE THE FIRST IHME PROJECT
The artist selected to make Pro Arte Foundation Finland’s first IHME Project is Antony Gormley, the British sculptor (b. 1950). His work will be unveiled in spring 2009.

Over the last two decades, Antony Gormley has shown exceptional talent in working in public space. He is not only capable of working on a large scale, but also has subtlety to touch the social dimension of a place with his work. His work investigates the nature of collective space, and can catalyse it, creating communities of interest through collaboration and confrontation. Proof of this are many of his large-scale installations such as Allotment (1996, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden), Another Place (1997, Liverpool, UK), Domain Field (2003, BALTIC, Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK) and Inside Australia (2002-2003, Lake Ballard, Australia).

In Helsinki, Gormley’s challenge will be to create a temporary work in a collective space.
The first IHME Edition, devised by Antony Gormley, will be a full-page newspaper announcement made in accordance with the artist’s ideas by the Kokoro & Moi design consultancy and published in major Finnish daily newspapers.

IHME 0 – FILMS AND VIDEOS BY CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS
The Foundation will present its first production at the Bio Rex cinema in Helsinki on Saturday March 29. The IHME 0 – Films and videos by international contemporary artists programme includes a number of works not previously shown in Finland from artists such as Francis Alÿs, Jeremy Deller & Mike Figgis, Matthew Barney, Runa Islam, Christian Marclay, Deimantas Narkevicius and Anri Sala. Participating from Finland are Lauri Astala, Elina Brotherus and Hanna Brotherus with their joint work Minun onneni on pyöreä (My Happiness is Round, 2007).

The Foundation’s activities are being planned by a team led by Museum Director Emerita, Doctor of Visual Arts Tuula Arkio and including art researcher Hanna Johansson, Ph.D.; art historian Kaija Kaitavuori, MA; critic and curator Timo Valjakka; and the Foundation’s Project Manager, Paula Toppila.

For further information, please contact:
Pro Arte Foundation Finland
Eerikinkatu 2, 3rd floor
FI-00100 Helsinki
Tel. +358-(0)9-42899778
Fax. +358-(0)9-2783388
Info(at)proartefoundation.fi
http://www.proartefoundation.fi

Zacheta National Gallery of Art

Zofia Rydet
Private Mythologies, 1980s
private collection

SHE-DOCUMENTALISTS
POLISH WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE 20th CENTURY
18th March - 18th May 2008

Zacheta National Gallery of Art
Pl. Malachowskiego 3
00-916 Warsaw, Poland
phone (+48 22) 827 58 54
rzecznik@zacheta.art.pl
Tues - Sun 12 noon - 8 p.m.

http://www.zacheta.art.pl

The exhibition She-Documentalists – Polish Women Photographers of the 20th Century emerged with the aim of presenting two fields of photography that have up until now been marginalized by the history of Polish photography: the work of documentary photographers and photography done by women.

Polish documentary photography assumed many different forms and varieties, but has never been systematised. We also know little about women photographers. Even experts in the history of Polish photography can usually mention just a couple of names, whereas history knows dozens of them. The exhibition will present the work of fifty Polish women documentary photographers, but we are aware that the selection represents only a fragment of the phenomenon. Even though most of the featured authors enjoyed recognition, or even fame, in their lifetime, they have by now fallen into oblivion.

The contemporary documentary tendencies in art photography create an incentive to analyse the phenomenon in Polish photography as well. This exhibition constitutes one of the possible historical constructions. In chronological terms, it encompasses the period from the 1870s (to which period date the earliest known non-studio documentary photographs) right up to contemporary documentary-artistic projects that have been so often present in recent years in galleries and museums.

The exhibition’s thematic scope is very broad, but two most significant themes are topographical documentary photography and social report photography. Report photography was always seen as a strongly masculine field, even though it was one to which contributed many outstanding Polish women photographic reporters, such as Zofia Chometowska, Julia Pirotte, Irena Jarosinska, Anna Chojnacka, Jadwiga Rubis and Dorota Bilska whose works will be on show at this exhibition. Among those who are still active today are Joanna Helander, Anna Beata Bohdziewicz, Anna Brzezinska and Irena Jurkiewicz, while Maria Zbaska stands out amongst the younger generation. The exhibition also covers other themes which can be included within the frame of the concept of documentary photography, such as ethnographic and travel photography, amateur photography produced by aristocratic women, patriotic photography, propaganda photography, war photography or report photography as a form of
artistic photography.

Despite its cross-sectional nature, the exhibition is based on radical choices that have made it possible to construct a logical narrative on the subject of documentary photography. Several projects from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries show the early ties between photography and the illustrated press as well as the medium’s early, purely documentational, functions. The interwar-period projects reflect photography’s ancillary function towards nationalistic ideas, which the exhibition confronts with the rhetoric of communist photography of the early post-war years. The exhibition has been divided into several thematic sections, such as humanistic reportage, which in Poland was inspired chiefly by Steichen’s Family of Man exhibit; photography as witness of history, showing historical turning-point events; and the classic principle of documentary photography – the law of the series (where besides contemporary projects by the Zorka Project duo or Julia Staniszewska
we present earlier ones, which for the young-generation documentalists could actually represent a point of reference: Janina Mierzecka’s Working Hand, Elzbieta Tejchman’s Zamieniecka Street, or Zofia Rydet’s
Sociological Record).

Besides original prints and contemporary ones made from original negatives, the exhibition presents picture albums, books and illustrated magazines, in which works by women photographers
were featured.

The exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated bilingual Polish-English catalogue, co-published by the BOSZ publishing company, containing over 300 photographs, academic texts on documentary photography, and detailed biographical notes on all of the featured authors.

curator Karolina Lewandowska

For images and further information please contact Olga Gawerska: rzecznik@zacheta.art.pl

main sponsor of the exhibition Efect
sponsors of the Zacheta gallery: Netia, Klima San
sponsors of the opening ceremony A.Blikle, Freixenet
official carrier PLL LOT
media patronage: Gazeta Wyborcza, Polityka, TVP, TOK FM, The Warsaw Voice, Onet.pl, empik

Mudam Luxembourg

CALL + RESPONSE
25 - 28 APRIL 2008

A SERIES OF EVENTS
HOSTED BY ARTIST
CANDICE BREITZ

http://www.mudam.lu/call+response

Mudam Luxembourg is proud to present Call + Response, a series of events hosted by artist Candice Breitz. Creative innovation has always relied, to some extent, on the logic of call-and-response, a phrase that Breitz borrows from musicologists, who use it to describe the interactive quality that is key to musical experience in various oral cultures. Mudam warmly invites you to share your ideas with a group of artists and thinkers as they explore the logic of call-and-response and reflect on strategies of artistic appropriation and creative recycling during a three-day line-up of performances, panels and discussions. With invited guests Cory Arcangel, Martin Arnold, Pierre Bismuth, Claude Closky, Diedrich Diedrichsen, Iain Forsyth + Jane Pollard, Surasi Kusolwong, Matthieu Laurette, Lawrence Lessig, Gabriel Lester, Bjørn Melhus, Momus, Jonathan Monk, Kaz Oshiro, Guillaume Paris, Paul Pfeiffer and James Webb.

Friday, 25 April 2008 Evening
OPENING EVENTS
Forsyth + Pollard
London-based artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard met and began working collaboratively in 1993. An interdisciplinary approach to art, music, mediation and ‘liveness’ has led to their continued engagement with the soundtrack underpinning contemporary life. Their universal yet highly personal strategies play out ideas of memory, performance and the mediated image in a challenging but highly accessible body of work.

Saturday, 26 April 2008 10am-6pm
Mondo Youtube
This day-long session brings together several artists who have explored the participatory potential of mainstream media such as advertising, the Internet, reality television, video games, MySpace and YouTube. Given the increasingly profit-driven nature of most of these formats, is it possible for a challenging culture of call-and-response to exist within these nascent public spheres, or inevitable that all criticism and innovative thought introduced into these new formats will immediately be instrumentalized towards commercial ends? Invited artists will supplement discussions of their own work with examples of mainstream media that have interested them, influenced them, or into which they have actively intervened.
with:
Cory Arcangel, New York
Matthieu Laurette, Paris
Bjørn Melhus, Berlin
Guillaume Paris, Paris
Gabriel Lester, Amsterdam/Brussels

Sunday, 27 April 2008 10am-6pm
After Images
This day-long session brings together several artists who have engaged in explicit call-and-response relationships with other artists or works of art, addressing the crucial exchange and dialogue that motivates artistic practice. Each artist will talk about their own work in relation to those artists or works of art that they respond to or dialogue with in their work.
with:
Surasi Kusolwong, Bangkok
Jonathan Monk, Berlin
Claude Closky, Paris
Kaz Oshiro, Los Angeles
James Webb, Cape Town
Keynote Speaker :
Lawrence Lessig, San Francisco

Monday, 28 April 2008 9am-8pm
Art Goes To The Movies
Martin Arnold has written that, “The cinema of Hollywood is a cinema of exclusion, reduction and denial, a cinema of repression. There is always something behind that which is being represented, which was not represented. And it is exactly that that is most interesting to consider.” This premise can be seen to inform the work of many contemporary artists who work in video today. This day-long session brings together several artists who have responded to and cannibalized mainstream cinema in their work, addressing the complex call-and-response relationship that exists between commercial cinema and contemporary art. Each artist will have the opportunity to talk about their use of found footage and their relationship to the cinematic images that they recycle in their work.
with:
Paul Pfeiffer, New York
Pierre Bismuth, Brussels
Martin Arnold, Vienna
Candice Breitz, Berlin
Keynote Speaker :
Diedrich Diederichsen, Berlin

Evening
Momus Live
“Ultraconformist, voyager, timelord, tennis and ping pong champion, tender pervert, poison boyfriend, hippopotamus, philosopher, folk singer, star forever.” Nick Currie, more popularly known under the artist name Momus (after the Greek god of mockery), is a songwriter, blogger and a journalist for Wired. Most of his songs are self-referential or postmodern.

- - -
Please register online before 10th April 2008!
Booking is essential due to limited seating.
Mudam can provide assistance with accommodation, food, local transport and other details for students.
Call+Response will take place in the Mudam auditorium and will be open only to registered participants.
All talks will be held in English.
Program subject to modification

Mudam Luxembourg
3 Park Dräi Eechelen
L-1499 Luxembourg
Tel. +352 45 37 85-1
Registration : http://www.mudam.lu/call+response
Information : callandresponse@mudam.lu
Press contact: presse@mudam.lu
http://www.mudam.lu

ART COLOGNE
16th to 20th April 2008

Hidden treasures and discoveries

http://www.artcologne.de

After a thorough upgrading of exhibitor quality, a select group of 140 galleries will be showcasing works in categories ranging from modernism to contemporary art from 16th to 20th April at ART COLOGNE 2008. The special Open Space segment will offer exhibition space to the projects of about 50 artists. Additional highlights of ART COLOGNE 2008 will include previously unknown and newly discovered works on the art market through the special programmes Hidden Treasures, New Contemporaries and New Talents.

ART COLOGNE – Hidden Treasures
In 2008, ART COLOGNE will once again generate momentum and offer practical assistance to collectors who would like to buy promising works of art. Through its annual special show “Hidden Treasures”, ART COLOGNE reminds visitors of artists who have had a major influence on contemporary art and the younger generation of artists, but whose works are hardly to be seen in the current art market or are being sold at prices below their real value. The “Hidden Treasures” of ART COLOGNE 2008 are the works of Norbert Kricke (Galerie Strelow, Düsseldorf/ Galerie Wahlandt, Stuttgart), Ulrike Rosenbach (Galerie March, Stuttgart), Fritz Winter (Galerie Utermann, Dortmund) and Karl Bohrmann (manus presse, Stuttgart).

ART COLOGNE – New Talents
One of the oldest special programmes for sponsoring young artists and innovative new works of art is New Talents. For this year’s ART COLOGNE, a six-member jury chose works by 17 young artists from nine different countries. It was by no means easy for the jurors to make their final selections. Many of the artists whose creations will be on display work in several genres — combining, for instance, sculpture and video art — and use modern techniques. One noticeable trait of this group of artists is their focus on the lives and environments of people on the margins of society and on their own existence as artists. An independent jury will honour the “best of the best” of these new talents with the ART COLOGNE Young Artist Prize. Besides a solo exhibition at the Cologne artothek, the recipient of the prize will also have his or her works published in a catalogue with a total value of approx. 10,000 Euro. The presentation of the ART COLOGNE Prize will take place at 3 p.m. on 1
8th April 2008. The New Talents of 2008 are: Stefaan Dheedene (Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium), Martin Dörbaum (Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne), Nezaket Ekici (DNA-Galerie, Berlin), Lorenz Estermann (Lukas Feichtner Galerie, Vienna, Austria), FFM filderbahnfreundemöhringen (Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart), Johanna Freise (Galerie Thoman, Innsbruck, Austria), Max Frey (Krobath Wimmer, Vienna, Austria), Grit Hachmeister (Fiebach & Minninger, Cologne), Secundino Hernández (Galería Heinrich Erhardt, Madrid), Joseph Hart (Galerie Vidal-Saint Phalle, Paris), Anja Jensen (Galerie f 5,6, Munich), Agnieszka Kalinowska (Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria), Valerie Krause (Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne), Sebastian Rug (Galerie Hübner, Frankfurt), Gregor Russ (Ruzicska /// Weiss, Düsseldorf), Mikhael Subotzky (Studio La Cittá, Verona, Italy) and Yuzheng Cheng (Thomas Levy Galerie, Hamburg).

ART COLOGNE – New Contemporaries
The New Contemporaries programme is aimed at new galleries that have not yet fully established themselves in the art scene but have great potential. The jury invited 19 such galleries to exhibit at ART COLOGNE 2008 in sponsored booths with the generous support of the cultural foundation SK Stiftung Kultur of Sparkasse KölnBonn. The following galleries are the New Contemporaries for 2008: Artfinder, Bracke, Charkasi, Coma, Ferdinand-Ude, Garnatz, Hoelzner, Lange & Pult, Lethert, Lorenz, M29, Murata & Friends, Oechsner, Pfab, Program. Reimann Le Bègue, Sara Tecchia, Scharmann and Winter.

ART COLOGNE – Open Space
“Open Space” is the public exhibition area at ART COLOGNE. Instead of the traditional presentation of artworks in booths representing individual galleries, this ambitious project showcases a variety of artistic exhibits and media from selected galleries in an open, spacious overall setting. It invites visitors to attend an unconventional and contemporary presentation where they can stroll, chat and (of course) buy works that strike their fancy. This special show will be held directly next to the stands of the leading international galleries for contemporary art. The aim of the project is to present art in an unconventional, discursive setting that meets the changing needs of a well-informed, networked international public and offers them space to develop. It’s an art market that provides a platform for communication as well as commerce and competition.

ART COLOGNE
Date: 16th to 20th April 2008
Opening times: 12 noon to 8 p.m. daily
Vernissage: 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., 15th April 2008
Website: http://www.artcologne.de
Open Space: http://www.openspace-cologne.com

Sala Diaz

Julieta Aranda “You Had No 9th of May!”

Julieta Aranda
You Had No 9th of May!

March 28 – April 27, 2008
Opening: Friday, March 28, 7 – 11 PM
Sala Diaz
517 Stieren
San Antonio, TX 78210
210 852 4492
salad@satx.rr.com

To break with the powerful linear conception of time as a line as a line consisting of Now-points seems to require a spatialization of a new kind. We need richer and more intricate architectural models that allow for temporal heterogeneity and multiplicity: not one line but always many.
Daniel Birnbaum, Temporal Spasms
……………………………………………………………………………………………

Sala Diaz is pleased to present a new work by Julieta Aranda, organized in conjunction with guest-curator Regine Basha. 

Though we are conditioned to experience ‘time’ or the immaterial concept of time, as a linear passage –measured conveniently by clocks, calendars, and other devices, isn’t it possible that the markers that we use to signal it: ‘yesterday’, ‘today’ and ‘tomorrow’ are an imposition ? Can’t we instead be the arbiters of our own experience of time? Can time be bent, sliced, poked through, stretched, flashed, collapsed?

Julieta Aranda’s new work, You Had No 9th of May! underlines the rigidity of our construction of time, and proposes as an alternative several material representations for it. What does the shape of time actually look like?

Aranda’s primary source is the elusive International Date Line (IDL). Zigzagging across the earth, the IDL is an imaginary line on the globe that separates two consecutive calendar days and indicates the boundary between today and tomorrow. Despite its name however, the precise location of the IDL is not fixed by any international law, treaty or agreement (though it is commonly identified on maps as being 180 degrees longitude from the 0 meridian located in Greenwich, England). The peculiar course of the International Date Line in fact bends forward a day and back across the South Pacific archipelago of Kiribati, causing an aberration in our assumed time-space continuum (in 1995, the archipelago decided to move the dateline so that its territory would no longer be split between ‘today’ and ‘tomorrow’).

This temporal spasm in the IDL, and Kiribati’s power to literally ‘move time’ becomes the blueprint for Aranda’s installation and the basis for a configuration of both narrative and abstracted elements including wall drawings, diagrams, models and props, and a newspaper designed after Kiribati’s own (NEWSTAR) which brings together a collection of articles that cover the subject from several perspectives from the 1920s until today. There is also a resource library with a small selection of books dealing with alternative constructions of time including the Chronicles of Magallanes’ Circumnavigation, Borges’ “New Refutation of Time”, Liam Gillick’s “Erasmus is Late” and several essays on Zeno’s Paradox amongst other titles.

Central to Aranda’s inquiry is the idea of a politicized subjectivity and the power over the imaginary: how a little-known impoverished country like Kiribati, (save for when used for nuclear test-bombing by global powers, or when pilfered for phosphate) has the power to choose its own substantive experience of time and cause global temporal disturbances and inaccuracies. There are actions that take place in the political arena, but their poetic reverberations carry them much further than that. Did one of the most significant political and poetic acts of the last century go completely unnoticed?

Julieta Aranda is an artist from Mexico City currently living between Berlin and New York. Her work recently appeared in Transmediale 2008, Berlin, the 9th Lyon Biennial, Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, as well as at Portikus, Kunstwerke Berlin, and the 7th Havana Biennial. With Anton Vidokle, she has conceived the projects, PAWNSHOP and E-Flux Video Rental (EVR).

Regine Basha is an independent curator currently moving from Central to Eastern time.

Sala Diaz is a 501 (C)(3) non-profit space supporting the San Antonio community with exhibitions of local, national and international artists and is located at 517 Stieren, near the intersection of South Alamo and South Saint Marys street in the heart of the Restaurant Supply District. Open weekly, Thursday - Saturday from 2 - 6 PM and every First Friday at 9 PM. Sala Diaz is sponsored by Fluent Collaborative, Liberty Bar, The National Endowment For The Arts and numerous private individuals.

Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und
Kunstbau München

ANGELA BULLOCH
“THE SPACE THAT TIME FORGOT”
February 16 - May 18, 2008

ARTIST TALK AND CATALOGUE PRESENTATION
Thursday, March 27th 2008, 6 pm

Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus
und Kunstbau München
Luisenstr. 33
80333 München
+49 (0) 89 / 233 320 00
http://www.lenbachhaus.de

Angela Bulloch guides through her exhibition at the Kunstbau accompanied by Diedrich Diederichsen and Matthias Mühling. Afterwards they will present the catalogue, which is published on the occasion of the exhibition.

Both will be held in English.

Admission free

The 104 page bilingual catalogue includes a photographic documentation of the Munich exhibition, and essays by Diedrich Diederichsen and Matthias Mühling. Diedrich Diederichsen states a current crisis of space, both in terms of our conception of the uni-verse and our experience of space in our everyday lives, and analyzes Bulloch’s work from this perspective. The second essay describes Bulloch’s works in the Kunstbau, and identifies their scholarly, philosophical and art historical references. Carsten Eisfeld’s photographs, which were produced in close collaboration with Angela Bulloch, provide a documentation of the works in the show. Finally, this publication is the first to include a comprehensive bibliography on Angela Bulloch.

The catalogue, edited by Mathias Mühling, is published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Wal-ther König, Cologne. You can order the catalogue plus forwarding expenses at Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus
( shop at http://www.lenbachhaus.de ), or through your bookstore. ISBN 978-3-86560-426-2

Le Laboratoire

Copyright: Mathilde de l’Ecotais (picture from film)

Within Thierry Marx’s Sphere…
March 29th to July the 21th

Le Laboratoire
4 rue du Bouloi
75001 Paris
http://www.lelaboratoire.org

Imagined and founded by the scientist and Franco-American writer David Edwards, Le Laboratoire is a cultural space dedicated to art and design experimentation inspired by an encounter and collaboration with a leading international scientist.

In fusing artistic and scientific visions, the creative process of artscience redefines itself outside traditional boundaries, no longer belonging solely within one discipline or another.

This interdisciplinary approach becomes a catalyst for innovation that Le Laboratoire seeks to cultivate through its annual experiments.

In this, the fourth of Le Laboratoire’s exhibitions since its opening in October 2007, we present the product of a partnership between Michelin-starred chef Thierry Marx and physicist Jérôme Bibette, an innovative fusion of culinary art and colloidal* science.

* Substances in liquid or gel form which contain, in suspension, particles small enough for the mixture to be homogeneous.

Live the Experiment!

To enter “Thierry Marx’s Sphere” is to pass the border of gastronomical mysteries and to experience new pleasures, both culinary and visual. This exhibition aims to reinvent the spirit of the chef’s table in applying Jérôme Bibette’s latest advances in the science of microparticles.

How can one create spheres whose membranes are as thin as a soap bubble – spheres which, when they burst in one’s mouth, reveal the entire and unique flavor of a food or a dish ? How can one deconstruct a product and then reconstruct it in a contemporary form to release the savor of a recipe in one mouthful?

From this collaboration in artscience, Thierry Marx and Jérôme Bibette have given birth to new sensations brought together in the three recipes created for the exhibition.

The meals are served in bento boxes (traditional Japanese meal-boxes), redesigned with special consideration for these new recipes by Mathieu Bassée and Christophe Dubois, in the context of a workshop with the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle, led by Laurent Massaloux.

Mathilde de l’Ecotais’ visual environment, between beautiful body movements and secrets of composition, narrates the story of an encounter and of an experiment both artistic and scientific.

The soundtrack is created by Ommm, human beatbox group.

Taste the Future…
At any time, visitors may go to the “Whif Bar” to taste aerosolized chocolate alongside an espresso. Designed by Harvard students in collaboration with David Edwards, le Whif is a prototype of a new design to be developed by Le Laboratoire over the course of 2008.

…and join at the LaboClub.
Come discover the new FoodLab and its menu created by Thierry Marx. Open to LaboClub members, but also to the public ( requires online registration info@labogroup.com ). The LaboClub is asking everyone to come together and collaborate to create the menu, which will be offered at the opening of the FoodLab next September.

FOR RESERVATIONS OF THE BENTO BOX:
+ 33 (0)1 78 09 49 50
INFO@LELABORATOIRE.ORG

Partners of the exhibition:
Bonnet
Nespresso
Paris Première
Raynier Marchetti

Opening days and times:
Friday to Monday,
From 12am to 7pm
(Le Laboratoire will be close on March 31th)

Press contacts:
Valérie Abrial valerie.abrial@wanadoo.fr
+33 (0)6 84 37 96 23

With the support of Claudine Colin Communication
marie@claudinecolin.com
+ 33 (0)1 42 72 60 01

Exit Art

Brandon Ballengée, Malamp UK, 2008

E.P.A (Environmental Performance Actions)
March 15 - May 3, 2008

Exit Art
475 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10018

http://www.exitart.org

Brandon Ballengée, Vaughn Bell/Sarah Kavage/Nicole Kistler, Mark Brest van Kempen, Carissa Carman/ Joanna Lake, The Center for Tactical Magic, Susanne Cockrell/Ted Purves, Xavier Cortada, Carrie Dashow/Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg, Erica Fielder, Ozzie Forbes, Futurefarmers, Fritz Haeg, Amy Howden-Chapman, Basia Irland, Scot Kaplan, Carolyn Lambert, Robin Lasser, Kathryn Miller, Miss Rockaway Armada, Matthew Moore, Eve S. Mosher, EcoArtTech: Cary Peppermint/Christine Nadir, Andrea Polli and Joe Gimore with Dr. Patrick Market, Rapid Response (Cobb/Fend/Fischer/Meyer), Agents of Change Project Leader James Reed and Social Sculpture Research Unit/Earth Agenda Projects, Austin Shull, Brooke Singer/Brian Rigney Hubbard, Anne-Katrin Spiess, Chris Sollars

E.P.A. (Environmental Performance Actions) is a group exhibition surveying recent performance works that take as their cues the spontaneous situations and intermedia of the Happenings and Fluxus movements, and the impassioned energy of environmental activism. Environmental performance actions began in the 1960s when artists, responding to a host of environmental crises and concerns, began organizing both guerilla actions and planned performances to draw attention to those issues and suggest solutions. The legacy of those pioneering artists, like Joseph Beuys, Hans Haacke, Alan Sonfist and Agnes Denes, inspired a second, and now a third, generation of artists to explore the interstice of humans and nature. The documentation of their activities, performed mostly outdoors with a limited audience, has evolved with technological innovations in photography and video, allowing a larger audience to engage in the dialogue created from these artists’ actions. E.P.A. includes a range
of ephemera, artifacts and documentation from thirty recent actions. The works range from theatrical to documentary and capture the multifarious strategies that artists are using to address issues such as climate change, watersheds, urbanization and, ultimately, human survival.

E.P.A. is the first project of S.E.A. (Social-Environmental Aesthetics), an exhibition program and archive of artworks that address social and environmental concerns. It will assemble artists, activists, scientists and scholars to address these issues through presentations of visual art, performances, panels and lecture series. Central to the mission of S.E.A. is to provide a vehicle through which the public can be made aware of this kind of work, to provide a forum for collaboration between artists and ecologists and to inspire them to continue the tradition of work that S.E.A. presents. The S.E.A. Archive will be a permanent catalog of information, images and videos that will be a searchable database for scholars and researchers. S.E.A., E.P.A., and all future projects will occupy a permanent space in Exit Underground, a multimedia performance, film, and exhibition venue underneath Exit Art’s main
gallery space.

This project was curated by Exit Art, ecoartspace curator Amy Lipton, and founder/co-curator Patricia Watts. The S.E.A. initiative and E.P.A. exhibition were conceived by Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman.

PUBLIC PROGRAM

Wednesday, March 26, 7pm
HUMAN/NATURE:

Panel discussion with:
Eve Mosher, artist
David Van Luven, climate change scientist and Hudson River program director at
The Nature Conservancy

Moderator:
Patricia Watts, founder and co-curator of ecoartspace

Presented in collaboration with ecoartspace and The Nature Conservancy

Mosher’s yearlong public art project HighWaterLine involved the artist marking ten-feet above sea level along the New York waterfront with a chalk line to bring attention to the dangers of flooding brought on by climate change. Join us as we discuss the implications of climate change on New York City’s landscape and community – and explore how art can connect human beings with the awareness of larger environmental issues.

ABOUT EXIT ART
Exit Art is an independent vision of contemporary culture. We are prepared to react immediately to important issues that affect our lives. We do experimental, historical and unique presentations of aesthetic, social, political and environmental issues. We absorb cultural differences that become prototype exhibitions. We are a center for multiple disciplines. Exit Art is a 25 year old cultural center in New York City founded by Directors Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo, that has grown from a pioneering alternative art space, into a model artistic center for the 21st century committed to supporting artists whose quality of work reflects the transformations of our culture. Exit Art is internationally recognized for its unmatched spirit of inventiveness and consistent ability to anticipate the newest trends in the culture. With a substantial reputation for curatorial innovation and depth of programming in diverse media, Exit Art is always on the verge of change.

Exit Art is located at 475 Tenth Avenue, corner of 36th Street. Exit Art is open each Tuesday through Thursday, 10 am - 6 pm; Friday, 10 am - 8 pm; Saturday, noon - 8 pm. Closed Sunday and Monday.

For more information please call 212-966-7745 or visit http://www.exitart.org

New Museum

Night School, Public Seminar 3
Liam Gillick: Three Short Texts on the Necessity of Creating an Economy of Equivalence

New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
212.219.1222
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Three one-hour lectures. The outline of a possible text. Five parts will be tested and developed quickly.

Thursday, March 27, 7:30 p.m.: The night before closure of an experimental factory.
Friday, March 28, 7:30 p.m.: Redundancy following the promise of infinite flexibility.
Saturday, March 29, 3 p.m.: Reoccupation, recuperation and pointless renovation.

A QUESTION OF WHERE TO COMMENCE NEW STRUCTURES IN LIGHT OF SOME RETURNS
AND EMERGENCES:

THE POSTWAR AS A FINISHED MOMENT: IN THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT AND GLOBAL CONTEXT VIA COLD-WAR INDENTIFICATIONS (E.G. ILLUSION OF IDEOLOGICAL VICTORY OF THE RIGHT…)

THE INABILITY OF THE ART CONTEXT TO IDENTIFY WITH THE NEW CONDITIONS.

COALESCENCE OF INDUSTRIAL LABOUR IN CHINA (AMONG OTHER THINGS). THE FRAGMENTATION OF LABOUR IN DETAIL. SPECIFICALLY IN LIGHT OF VARIED SO-CALLED FREE-TRADE AGREEMENTS.

THE NECESSITY TO POSIT A NEW FRAMEWORK OF ACTION THAT CAN ACCOUNT FOR THESE LOSSES AND GAINS AND PREVENT THE MOST DYNAMIC WORK FROM BEING UNDERSTOOD AS OPERATING WITHIN AN INSTRUMENTALIZED TERRAIN. (THAT MAY OR MAY NOT ONLY BE CONNECTED TO THE NOTION OF “POST-WAR” SOCIAL DEMOCRACY)

THE BOOK (THE TEXT AS OBJECT VERSUS THE FILE TO BE EXCHANGED.)

IMMATERIAL LABOUR (CULTURAL CONTEXT OF THE COMMODITY)

ANALOGOUS MAPPING (WHERE DO THE DISCURSIVE MODELS EMERGE FROM IN A HEAVILY INSTRUMENTALISED CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT)

CULTURAL ECHOES (WHAT ARE THE DANGEROUS ECHOES OR PARALLEL MODELS: THE JIM
JONES EFFECT?)

SITES OF PRODUCTION (THE SITES OF PRODUCTION STILL REQUIRE WORK. THIS IS THE REASON FOR MISUNDERSTANDINGS AND HIERARCHIES WITHIN EVEN THE MOST DYNAMIC DISCURSIVE MODELS)

AGENCY IN RELATION TO ECO-POLITICS (CARBON EXCHANGE: THE LUKACS QUALITY OF ECO-SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS. THE OVER-RIDING OF THE POLITICSISZED DISCOURSE)

COALESCENCE/RETURN OF CLASSICAL RELATIONS OF PRODUCTION (+ THEIR ERASURE IN A DEVELOPED SENSE – DE-UNIONISZM ETC.)

CONSENSUS MODELS AS A PHANTOM PARALLEL (MODEL OF SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS – AMELIORATED WORKING ENVIRONMENT…)

DETAILED WORK IN THE CULTURAL FRAME (WHO IS DOING IT? WHERE IS THE CONTEMPORARAY DYNAMIC LOCATED? ART CURATING THEORETICAL FOCUS)

Night School is an artist’s project by Anton Vidokle in the form of a temporary school. A yearlong program of monthly seminars and workshops, Night School draws upon a group of local and international artists, writers, and theorists to conceptualize and conduct the program.

Liam Gillick is based in New York and London. Numerous solo exhibitions since 1989 include “Literally,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2003; “Communes, bar and greenrooms,” The Powerplant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, 2003; “The Wood Way,” Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2002; “A short text on the possibility of creating an economy of equivalence,” Palais de Tokyo, 2005. Selected group exhibitions include “Singular Forms,” Guggenheim Museum, 2004; 50th Venice Biennial, 2003; “What If,” Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2000 and documenta X, 1997. Numerous public projects and interventions include Fort Lauderdale Airport in 2002; the new Home Office government building in London in 2005 and the Lufthansa Headquarters in Frankfurt in 2006. Since 1995 Gillick has published a number of books that function in parallel to his artwork including Literally No Place (Book Works, London, 2002); Five or Six (Lukas & Sternberg, New York, 1999); Discussion Island/Bi
g Conference Centre (Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, and Orchard Gallery, Derry, 1997), Erasmus is Late (Book Works, London, 1995) and most recently PROXEMICS: SELECTED WRITINGS 1988–2006 (JRP|Ringier, Zurich, 2007). Gillick has contributed to many art magazines and journals including Artforum, Parkett, Frieze, Art Monthly, and he also writes a regular column for Metropolis M in Amsterdam. He has taught at Columbia University, New York, since 1997. A retrospective series of exhibitions opened in January 2008 at Witte de With and the Kunsthalle Zurich travels to the Kunstverein München in July, and ends at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in January 2009.

All events are free with Museum admission but tickets are required. Tickets can be reserved online or at the Museum one week before the seminar’s start; a limited number of tickets will be available one hour before each event’s start. Tickets are limited, distributed on a first-come-first-serve basis, and must be collected prior to the event’s start time. Unclaimed tickets will be released promptly at the event’s start time. Please check individual events below for tickets and more information.

For tickets see http://www.newmuseum.org/events

Night School is part of the Museum as Hub, which is made possible by the Third Millennium Foundation.

With additional generous support from the Metlife Foundation

Additional support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Endowment support is provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum.

Generous support also provided by the Charlotte and Bill Ford Artist Talks Fund.

PULSE New York

Alina and Jeff Bliumis
Language Barrier
2006
C-print
Courtesy of RuArts Gallery

Third PULSE New York Moves to Pier 40

Thursday, March 27 through
Sunday, March 30, 2008

West Side Highway at West Houston in Greenwich Village

http://www.pulse-art.com

Contemporary Art Fair to Feature Expanded Cultural Programming
Including the Debut of PULSE PERFORMANCE and PULSE PAUSE

PULSE Contemporary Art Fair will return to New York for the third year in a larger venue and with expanded cultural programming, offering the public a dynamic and extensive perspective on the latest developments in visual arts. Held at Pier 40 on the West Side Highway at West Houston from March 27 through March 30, 2008, the Fair will run concurrently with The Armory Show, and will present a selection of 90 established and emerging international galleries, its largest production to date. PULSE New York will also host a series of large-scale installations and sculptures, the debut of its experimental programs PULSE PERFORMANCE and PULSE PAUSE, and the return of PULSE PLAY.

Following its critical and commercial success in Miami, which drew a record 16,000 visitors and brought unprecedented sales, PULSE New York will take over Pier 40, an 80,000 square-foot space that allows for more spacious and innovative booth displays. Making their first appearances at the Fair will be CONRADS of Düsseldorf, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery of London, and Espacio Liquido of Gijón, as well as Monya Rowe, Yossi Milo, and envoy of New York, among many others. “We are very happy to welcome the new galleries on our distinguished list of exhibitors. PULSE Contemporary Art Fair will provide them with the most vibrant and professional environment to conduct their business”, says Helen Allen, Director of the Fair.

PULSE New York will also feature an array of cultural programs, which will be on view throughout the pier and will enhance the experience for collectors and the general public. “Our new home will provide us with a tremendous opportunity to introduce innovative programming and open up new avenues for discourse on contemporary art”, says Helen Allen. Among the highlights will be PULSE’s celebrated series of original installations and large-scale sculptures, which will include works by Mark Anstee, Jennifer Burkley Vasher, Graham Caldwell, castaneda/reiman, Leonardo Drew, Ryan Humphrey, John Kalymnios, Mike Latham & Arts Corporation, Lucas Lenglet, Nathaniel Rackowe, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Mark Shetabi, Andy Yoder, and Almond Zigmund.

PULSE PERFORMANCE, featuring the Brooklyn dance troupe Chez Bushwick and artist Mary Coble will make its debut. Chez Bushwick will present The Invention of Minus One, a performance choreographed by Jonah Bokaer with music by Christian Marclay and interpreted by award winning dancers from the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. The product of a year of research using advanced motion-capture technology to study the movements of dancers, the work examines the erasure of the moving body and the trace of its presence.

Artist Mary Coble will perform Blood Script, an endurance act in which a list of graphic, hateful insults will be tattooed onto Coble’s skin without ink over the course of two six-hour long sessions. Contact prints of each word will be created and exhibited for the duration of the Fair.

PULSE PAUSE, a reading room produced in collaboration with Parsons The New School for Design will also debut at the Fair. The space, designed by a group of students from the MFA Program in Fine Arts selected by Independent curator Jeffrey Walkowiak, will serve as a place for relaxation, discussion, and contemplation. In addition to viewing artworks from the MFA Studios, visitors will therefore be offered an insight into the readings and interests of students in today’s art schools.

PULSE PLAY, the video and technology lounge, will return for its second edition, this year featuring Sameness, Difference and Desire, a series of works examining the human eye and its perception of desired objects. The program, curated by Bill Arning, Curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, will include videos by Ann Carlson and Mary Ellen Strom, Maria Friberg, Allen Grubesic, Danny Hobart, Sean M. Johnson, and Gabriel Martinez.

The Lounge of Ethereal Fun, the Children’s VIP Lounge by Jenny Marketou, is conceived as an appealing space designed with a welcoming mix of artwork and children’s artifacts to provide “red carpet” hospitality to children ages 6–14 who love to create and collect art. All children visiting PULSE New York will receive special VIP cards for the Lounge at the Fair’s entrance. The Lounge will feature floating drawings, video programs, easy tunes, artist magazines, a range of creative activities, the artist’s interviews of the children, plus exclusive ethereal guided tours of the Fair.

Malgorzata Romanska, President and CEO of MR Industries, will present the PULSE Prize New York 2008. The PULSE Prize is a cash grant awarded to an emerging artist selected from those exhibiting in the IMPULSE section of the Fair, without restriction on medium, to be selected by a committee comprised of international art professionals. Previous PULSE Prize recipients include: Duke Riley, Travis Somerville, Chris Natrop and Chen Chieh-Jen.

PULSE New York would like to thank the following for their generous support:
Austrian Airlines
New York Residence
Financial Times
ArtReview
Beautiful Decay
MutualArt.com
ARTWARE editions
Parsons The New School for Design
Chez Bushwick
The Hudson River Park Trust
Lavazza
IZZE
Christiania
lwin design
MR Industries
Grolsch, providing “swingtop” beers, is also a supporter of PULSE New York.

General Information:
PULSE New York will take place Thursday, March 27 through Sunday, March 30, 2008, at Pier 40 on the West Side Highway at West Houston in Greenwich Village.

Fair Hours:
Thursday, March 27: 12 noon - 8pm
Friday, March 28: 12 noon - 8pm
Saturday, March 29: 12 noon - 8pm
Sunday, March 30: 12 noon - 5pm

Complimentary shuttle service will be provided between PULSE New York and The Armory Show, VOLTA NY, and the Chelsea Gallery District ( Shuttle locations available at http://www.pulse-art.com ).

For more information about PULSE Contemporary Art Fairs, please visit http://www.pulse-art.com or call +1 (212) 255-2327

Media contact:
For further information, registration to the Fair, visuals, or interviews please contact:

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