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1% WATER
AND OUR FUTURE
29th of June - 28th of September 2008

curators: Ilse Crawford and Jane Withers

arts centre Z33
vleugel ‘58
Zuivelmarkt 33
B-3500 HASSELT

http://www.z33.be

With 1% WATER arts centre Z33 again explores the boundaries between contemporary art and design. 1% WATER focuses on our relationship to water. The exhibition showcases works, concepts and experimental environments by designers, artists and scientists that are beginning to shape a new water consciousness. 



70% of the planet’s surface is water, but only 3% of this is freshwater and only 1% is readily available for human consumption today. Factors such as the world’s growing population and increasing consumption, climate change and pollution mean that even this relatively limited and unevenly distributed resource is under threat.

It goes without saying that water feeds the planet’s ecosystem and flows through our bodies and our buildings. Water plays an important role in religion, spirituality and mythology in all cultures. Yet the bond that once connected humans with the source of life has been broken and the way we have used water in the last century is no longer appropriate for today. The challenge lies in creating new conditions for water’s use that enhance rather than constrain our lives. 


The exhibition explores themes such as AbUse, Sacred Waters and Reconnect through works by artists, designers and graphic designers, as well as key historic pieces. Graphic designers Karlssonwilker were commissioned by Z33 to map and visualize water consumption worldwide.

With: &Made, Atelier Van Lieshout, Brandon Ballengée, Elina Brotherus, Edward Burtynsky, Jordi Canudas, Song Dong, Doshi Levien, Masaru Emoto, Fulguro en TJAW, Ideo, Amy Jenkins, Hella Jongerius, Karlssonwilker, Michaela Nettell, Anouk Omlo, Philip Ross, Studio Orta, Kiki van Eijk, Vestergaard Frandsen, Arnout Visser, Nienke Vording, Kendra Wan, Hiromi Watanabe and many others.

Ilse Crawford and Jane Withers are curators of the exhibition 1% WATER. Ilse Crawford is a creative director and designer. Jane Withers is a design consultant and creative director. They both curate exhibitions and write books.

PARTICIPATE
Contribute to the water archive that will be part of the exhibition 1% WATER. Collect between 100 and 500 ml of water. Add your contact information, all information about the water and include a photograph of the place where the water was collected. Send it to Z33.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Date
29.06.08 – 28.09.08

address
in Z33, vleugel ‘58
Zuivelmarkt 33
B-3500 HASSELT
http://www.z33.be

opening hours
Tuesday – Saturday: 11am – 6pm
Sunday & public holidays: 2 – 5 pm
On August 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th the exhibition will be open until 10 pm.

free entrance

An exhibition guide (in Dutch and English) is available at the exhibition desk.

Satellite program
Alongside the exhibition 1% WATER also contains a documentary program, the installation ‘Projections on the Pool’ and workshops for children.
- documentary films
07.08.2008 – 10.08.2008, at 10.15 pm in the garden of Z33
-Projections on the Pool
15.07.2008 – 15.09.2008, in the Kapermolen swimming pool

More information on http://www.z33.be

press information: contact Karen Swyngedauw: kswyngedauw@z33.be

sala rekalde

Itziar Okariz Irrintzi.
Repetition. Gap of Dunloe. Black Lough .Killarney 2008
Photograph, Ghost Box Exhibition, sala rekalde, Bilbao

ITZIAR OKARIZ
Ghost Box
From 10 july to 21 september 2008

Curator: Leire Vergara

sala rekalde
Alameda de Recalde, 30
Bilbao 48009 (Spain)

http://www.salarekalde.bizkaia.net

Itziar Okariz shows a new installation entitled Ghost Box produced specifically for sala rekalde. The installation comprises various sound and film captures recorded during a series of actions carried out by the artist in the Killarney lakes, a natural park in the south of County Kerry in the west of Ireland. This area is noted for its remarkable topography, since it consists of a chain of rocky mountains and three lakes. This is a natural enclave where some of the most extraordinary echoes in the world can be heard.

In her series of works entitled Irrintzi. Repetition (2006-2008), Itziar Okariz explores the acoustics particular to a number of different locations, in actions that she performs and records on video. The irrintzi is a system of communication at the limits of language, a traditional Basque call that the artist employs with ambivalence in her actions vis-à-vis the connotations of national identity and specific cultural forms of jubilation and exaltation on special occasions. This is the case of previous works such as Irrintzi. Repetition 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96 (2006), Irrintzi. Repetition Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2007) and Irrintzi. Repetition. Bowery, New York (2008) where the artist uses this cry as rough material for her performances, firstly removing it from its original context and then confronting it with new referents.

In sala rekalde, Itziar Okariz presents the results of this new production developed in the natural surroundings of the Killarney lakes. In opposition to a faithful reconstruction of the performance, the installation draws together the tensions existing between the action and its recording, thereby exposing the artificiality inherent in every representational process. Ghost Box reveals the specific temporality of the performance and its tendency to disappear. Every video, sound, photographic or textual recording is merely the residue of an action that itself no longer exists. The works that make up the installation at no point explicitly show what has happened. This time we are not provided with the image of the artist carrying out the action; on the contrary, phantasmatically, we are partially offered evidence of what has taken place by her voice, the spontaneous sounds captured on site, or other visual documentation from the various locations. So Ghost Box is likewise trans
formed into a direct gesture within the exhibition space that reveals the constant phenomenological loss of the performance as an artistic medium.

In recent years, Itziar Okariz has developed an approach in which the artistic action is posited as a way of exposing the regulation and standardisation of identity and its forms of expression. Series of works such as Climbing Buildings or Peeing in Private and Public Spaces look at new ways of altering the relationship between the public and private realms. The use of performance in Okariz’s practice is employed as a symbolic tool that helps to dismember the vectors of power that control identity.

To accompany the exhibition, sala rekalde will publish a book that documents this new production by the artist. The catalogue includes texts by curator Leire Vergara, by philosopher Beatriz Preciado and by independent curator Moritz Küng.

During the same dates, The Abstract Cabinet of sala rekalde will host the project Here and now! New forms of feminist action. This exhibition is proposed as a space for encounter, reflection, debate and resistance around ways of doing that incorporate feminist thought, queer politics and postcolonial discourses in artistic practice. The exhibition focuses on different editorial practices developed internationally within the format of fanzines, magazines, and other kinds of editorial proposals. The publications included in the show such as Cuntstunt, Iconoclasistas, Artísimas, Tomboi, Malmoe, Prolongue, Grrrrl Zine Network, Girl Like Us, Mujeres Públicas, Belcro, O.R.G.I.A., Regina and Pripublikarrak among many others fit within the parameters of DIY, at the junction between editing, artistic practice, feminism and collaboration

Erreakzioa-Reacción, a collective formed by artists Azucena Vieites and Estíbaliz Sádaba, arose in 1994 as a space for developing projects between art, education and knowledge production around feminism. This group has constituted a pioneering initiative in Spain, as their fanzines introduced key texts and practices in a time that feminism was still entering Spanish Academia.

As part of the exhibition, some activities will take place. For the opening, a concert by the Basque band A duras penas will be offered. Moreover, in September a series of presentations by the collectives: Artísimas, Pripublikarrak, Wiki-historias and Tomboi will be happening together with a talk by Carmen Mörsch, director of the IAE- Institute for Art Education- of Zurich and also director of the Education Department for Documenta XII, who will talk about the role of feminism in art education and Elke Zobl, artist and initiator of the Grrrl Zine Network who will examine Internet femzines and forums as platforms for feminist action.

For further information:
Press Office
Tel. +34 94 406 8707
Fax. +34 94 406 8754
salarekalde@bizkaia.net

Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea

Paul McCarthy and Benjamin Weissman
1 2 boy, 1997 1998 (detail)
inchiostro e carbone sucarta
courtesy artist and Hauser &Wirth Zuerich London

The Rocky Mountain People Show
July 16th - November 2nd, 2008

opening July 15th, 8.30pm

Gillian Wearing. Family Monument
Unveiling of the bronze monument
to the “Typical Trentino Family 2007″
Wednesday July 16th, 2008, 5pm
permanent installation

http://www.workartonline.net

During Manifesta 7, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art that will take place in Trentino-South Tyrol, the Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea of Trento is organizing a varied program for the summer 2008, including the performative project The Rocky Mountain People Show and the unveiling of the Family Monument by Gillian Wearing.

The Rocky Mountain People Show, curated by Fabio Cavallucci and Cristina Natalicchio, will be inaugurated on July 15th 2008 at 8.30pm at the Galleria Civica with both the exhibition of drawings by American artists Paul McCarthy and Benjamin Weissman, and the special project by Brazilian artists Assume Vivid Astro Focus.

A large number of previously unseen drawings created by McCarthy & Weissman will be exhibited on the walls of the Galleria Civica, in Trento. In these collaborative drawings McCarthy and Weissman play with words and images bringing them into inseparable relationships, so the writing, sensible or not, becomes an integral part of the drawing itself.

At the same time, the lower level of the Galleria Civica is destined to house an alternative and joyful dimension, the fantastic and multicolored world of Assume Vivid Astro Focuswhich will involve even the most sceptical spectator. The visitors become participants in an atmosphere where everyone can express themselves in a free and original way, choosing and producing video and music.

The program continues with performance projects outside the walls of the gallery in various places throughout the region:

My Barbarian: their project, called Post-Living Ante-Action Theater, is two things at the same time: a performance art workshop for volunteers and a final public recital that will take place in Trento, in piazza Cesare Battisti, on Sunday 20th July 2008 at 9pm.

John Bock: his project takes place on Thursday 24th July 2008, from 5pm to 8pm, inside the cable car from Trento center to Sardagna. The passengers will find themselves involved in an interactive theatre of marionettes.

Marinella Senatore: from 23rd to 29th August the artist will reach various towns around Trento, armed with a van and the equipment necessary to hold open casting calls. The video portraits will be screened in a square in the city center from 2nd to 8th August 2008.

The program will continue all over the summer until late October with specific projects by other internationally known artists such as Olaf Breuning, Jonathan Meese, Carlos Amorales in collaboration with the fashion designer Carla Fernandez and the emerging Italian artist Michael Fliri.

On Wednesday July 16th 2008, 5pm, in the Gardens of Piazza Dante in Trento, the unveiling of the bronze monument to the “Typical Trentino Family of 2007″ takes place. The Family Monument, a special project by Gillian Wearing, curated by Fabio Cavallucci and Cristina Natalicchio, reaches a conclusion and it is ready to be set permanently in a public place in Trento.

The bronze monument “immortalizes” the Giuliani family in life-size proportions, after having participated in the selection announced by the media, they were chosen by a jury from the finalists who participated in the selection evening of 10th June 2007 at the Teatro Sociale.

“It is the historic moment to ask ourselves what a family is – once said the artist Gillian Wearing, who will be present at the inauguration – because the common visual concept is the one which comes from the media. An artificial image which has nothing to do with a real family. I am trying to objectify and monumentalize reality itself to fight against the stereotype”. The search for the family to dedicate the monument to was actually done through the compiling of statistical profile ad hoc, which would represent the characteristics – number of family members, age, job, lifestyle, assets – of the Trentino family.

Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea
Via Belenzani, 46 - Trento
Tel: +39 0461 985511
Fax: +39 0461 237033
info@galleriacivica.it
http://www.workartonline.net