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Famous pro wrestler , Exotic , Adrian Street, and his father minor in 1973. Photo : Dennis Hutchinson.

From a revolution to another
Carte Blanche à Jeremy Deller
with Ed Hall, Alan Kane, Scott King, Matt Price, William Scott, Andrei Smirnov, Marc Touché; White Columns

September 26- January 4 2009

Show opens
Thurday September 25th, 2008
From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.: press visit
From 8 p.m. to midnight: public opening

http://www.palaisdetokyo.com

CARTE BLANCHE
Every year the Palais de Tokyo gives an artist carte blanche. This carte blanche is a powerful concept that structures the Palais de Tokyo’s programming. The artist, placed at the center of the decision-making process, is free to devise and stage more than an exhibition, a real program. This carte blanche to an artist, revealing a kind of map of the artist’s brain, desires and influences all at the same time, is an opportunity to tackle the processes of creation and esthetic cross-fertilization from a novel angle. Artists are never where we expect them to be. The way they look not only at our reality and our everyday life, but also at the works of their contemporaries is unique and illuminating.

Jeremy Deller
After Ugo Rondinone in 2007, this year Jeremy Deller is being offered carte blanche to come up with an exhibition. Born in 1966 in London where he lives and works, Jeremy Deller was awarded the prestigious Turner Prize in 2004. His multi-form body of work brings several artistic disciplines into play, combining a passion for music, social phenomena and popular traditions. Jeremy Deller succeeds in bringing these separate realities into dialogue with one another by creating unexpected meeting grounds. Thus for the project Acid Brass (1997) he got a traditional brass band from a Manchester factory to play pieces of acid house music.

From one revolution to another
Taking as his starting point the “Folk Archive” collection which assembles British folklore items and documents, such as customized motorbike helmets, collections of tattoos, or banners from demonstrations, D’UNE RÉVOLUTION À L’AUTRE (From one revolution to another) follows a path that takes us from the British Industrial Revolution to the contemporary digital revolution. Thus we witness in turn the history of electronic music in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, the birth of rock-’n'-roll in France based on the Golf Drouot in the 1960s, and life in industrial Northern Britain in the 1970s. The exhibition, devised in collaboration with 9 other guests – Peter Clare, Ed Hall, Alan Kane, Scott King, Matthew Price, William Scott , Andrei Smirnov, Marc Touché, White Columns – invited by Jeremy Deller, presents archives, previously unpublished photographs, films and audiotapes in which Eddy Mitchell, Léon Theremin, glam-rock singers and English wrestlers, the Happy Mondays, a
mechanical elephant, etc. are all muddled up together.

Thursdays at From a revolution to another/
From the factory to the Factory

AGAINST YOU
Unique concert of Against You in the exhibition space. (tbc)
September 25th, 08:30 pm

JEREMY DELLER AND FRIENDS
Discussion with Jeremy Deller and curators of the exhibition
October 02nd, 7:30 pm

GRAPHICAL SOUND
Andrei Smirnov, founding director of the Theremin Centre for Electroacoustic Music of Moscow, and Nikolai Izvlov, specialist of Russian cinema, talk about the discovery of graphical sound in 1920s USSR.
October 09th, 7:30 pm

GLAM & QUEER
A lecture on gender and performance by Eve K. Sedgwick, followed by the screening of Cracked actor, a BBC documentary on David Bowie. (tbc)
October 16th, 7:30 pm

ACID BRASS
Jeremy Deller’s piece, Acid Brass (1997) invites England most prestigious traditional brass band, Manchester’s Fairey Band, to play a selection of acid house scores. In relation with Openings, a program of performances devised by the FIAC, Auditorium du Louvre and the cultural service of the Musée du Jeu de Paume.
October 26th (sunday), 2:30pm, cour Napoléon du Louvre

HERTTA LUSSU ÄSSÄ
First Part : Kang Hyun Ahn.
Finnish folk concert proposed by In Famous Carousel.
October 30th, 8:00 pm

SOCIOLOGIE DU ROCK
Lecture on popular music by Simon Frith, author of Sociology of Rock.
Partnership with Paris 8 and la Maison des sciences de l’Homme-Paris Nord
November 06th, 7:30 pm

FOLK ARCHIVE
William Fowler (BFI curator) shows films related to Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane’s Folk Archive project.
November 13th, 7:30 pm

DE LA FACTORY à LA FACTORY
Symposium on music and industry with: Stéphane Dorin, Philippe Bouquillion, David Hesmondhalgh, Jean-Samuel Beuscart, Marc Touché, Philippe Le Guern, Hugh Dauncey et Gérôme Guibert.
Partnership with Paris 8 and la Maison des sciences de l’Homme-Paris Nord
November 20th, 2:30 pm - 10:00 pm

YOUTUBE BATTLE #2, PART 2
Return battle between the two famous Paris art schools.
November 27th, 7:30 pm

MOTUS
Acousmatic live set around the exhibition, from Russian early electronic music to Glam Rock.
December 04th, 12 :00 pm to midnight

More of from a revolution to another
A special module with Melvin Moti/ Benoit Maire/

Magazine Palais/ Issue 7
New issue entirely devides with Jeremy Deller: a conversation with the artist around the exhibition, an exclusive interview of the glam rock wrestler Adrian Street, an article about eletronic music in the 1920s in USSR, numerous portfolios, and also a complete guide selection.

For futher informations: http://www.palaismagazine.com

Kunstmuseum Bern

James Lee Byars, Releasing ‚O’, 1972, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Photograph: Balthasar Burkhard, Archive Harald Szeemann.
Copyriht Estate of James Lee Byars, Courtesy Galerie Micheal Werner, Berlin, Cologne & New York.

IM FULL OF BYARS
James Lee Byars – A Homage
12 September 2008 - 1 February 2009

Opening: September 11, 2008, 18 - 20 hrs
Tuesday 10 - 21 hrs
Wednesday-Sunday 10 - 17 hrs

Kunstmuseum Bern
Hodlerstrasse 8-12
CH-3000 Bern 7
Switzerland
Ph: +41 31 328 09 44
info@kunstmuseumbern.ch

http://www.kunstmuseumbern.ch

IM FULL OF BYARS
James Lee Byars – A Homage
Kunstmuseum Bern, 12 September 2008 – 1 February 2009

James Lee Byars (1932 Detroit -1997 Cairo) was one of the 20th century’s most unusual and elusive artist figures. The Kunstmuseum Bern is now devoting a large survey exhibition to this American artist.

James Lee Byars loved what was imaginary and fleeting, equating the ephemeral and the immaterial with the material and the everlasting. He was not just an artist, he was a magician, a visionary and a dandy who understood how to cast a spell over his audience.

He was always on the lookout for perfection. Byars often eschewed any kind of materialisation in his works - they were mostly short-lived performances. However, Byars also had a flair for beautiful, solid, gleaming ‘eternal materials‘ – for sandstone, marble, glass and gold. He created numerous sculptures and objects in an almost classical repertoire of forms – using elements such as the sphere, the circle, the gate or the column. Byars as well bombarded his friends and acquaintances with letters of all kinds, thus demanding constant attention. These writings testify to an incredible virtuosity and creativity.

“Im full of Byars” will facilitate a survey of Byars’ work which is a symbiosis between Fluxus, Minimal and Concept art and which has forfeited nothing of its mystery and poetry to this very day. The exhibition will include a precise selection of sculptures and room installations from all the periods in Byars’ creative life as well as film documentations of his performances, which have never been shown before. The presentation will be complemented by works from the stocks of the Kunstmuseum Bern (from the Toni Gerber donations and the Hermann and Margrit Rupf Foundation) as well as numerous works on loan from private and public collections.

Curator: Susanne Friedli, phone +41 31 328 09 05, e-mail susanne.friedli@kunstmuseumbern.ch

Further Showings: Milton Keynes Gallery (4.4. – 21.6.2009), Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (September – December 2009).

Catalogue: IM FULL OF BYARS, authors Thomas McEvilley, Viola M. Michely, Peter J.Schneemann & Nicola Müllerschön, Matthias Frehner and Susanne Friedli. Kerber Verlag Leipzig, 264 pages, German/English, with numerous coloured and b&w illustrations. ISBN-Nr.:978-3-86678-155-9.

Fotomuseum Winterthur

Henry Bond
Untitled (Panther Panties), 2001
C-Print on aluminium Collection Jean-Michel Attal. Courtesy of Galerie Almine Rech, Paris.
Copyright Henry Bond.

Darkside
Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed
6 September - 16 September 2008

Fotomuseum Winterthur
Grüzenstrasse 44+45
CH-8400 Winterthur (Zurich)
Switzerland
Phone: +41 52 234 10 60

http://www.fotomuseum.ch

Darkside
Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed

Photography is present everywhere. It plays a formative role in all societies and in private, public, intimate, commercial, and “free” areas of our lives. It is also present in the closed off areas, there where it is “dark”, where we withdraw from society, or where acts are excluded from society. For ero¬ti¬cism, sexuality, desire, and identity, photography is a central visual tool: as document, stimu¬lation, instrument of power, and as artistic form of expression.

The exhibition and book project Darkside will discuss photography as an instrument of represen¬tation and as an important visual catalyst of sexuality. Photography shows and stylizes lust and passion, fantasy and desire, power and violence, voyeurism and self-presentation in sexuality. Fantasy and desire form a thrilling pact with photography: sexual fantasies demand representation; they seek to be revealed—and photography, with its voyeuristic streak, makes use of the power of (pictorial) eroticism for its own ends, in order to gain power and be seductive.

Darkside presents this photography and discusses it in numerous detailed essays. The exhibition and book are dedicated to photographs of ideal, natural and grotesque bodies, among others. The project conceives of sexuality as part of existence, presenting photographs of sexual practices, desires and phantasms. Sexuality is discussed in surrealism and reflected in its objectivisation and fetishisation; voyeurism is confronted with exhibitionism; sexuality and the body are dealt with within the context of gender debates and, finally, as power and as business.

In the process, it is always about the images that we make of “sexuality”, and about the endless blurring of fantasy and reality in photography that has taken place in the last one hundred years. The room has long been dark and dark is the night that gives the city and desire freedom and strength; “dark” is above all else the metaphor of connecting, flowing, swallowing up—of body, soul and spirit—which has taken place since time immemorial at the centre of life, of events, yet been excluded from society. That is, at least until pornography at the end of the twentieth century began to cast a cool, harsh economic light into the dim and warm areas of the body.

With works of more than 150 photographers, such as Brassaï, Bill Brandt, Hans Bellmer, Man Ray, Pierre Molinier, Germaine Krull, František Drtikol, Claude Cahun, Christer Strömholm, Anders Petersen, Ed van der Elsken, Walter Chappell, Peter Hujar, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, Nan Goldin, Valie Export, Carolee Schneemann, Urs Lüthi, Hannah Villiger, Nobuyoshi Araki, Daido Moriyama, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Arno Nollen, Paul Armand Gette, and many others.

Main sponsor: George Foundation

A book will be published by Steidl Verlag to accompany the exhibition: Darkside I – Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed. Edited by Urs Stahel, 344 pages, hardcover, with around 250 photographs and bilingual texts by Dominique Baqué, Henry Bond, Elisabeth Bronfen, Martin Jaeggi, Urs Stahel, Ulf Erdmann Ziegler, and Stefan Zweifel.

Darkside II—Photographic Power and Photographed Violence, Sickness, and Death will follow one year later in September 2009, dealing with the other central powers which intensely and persist¬ently form our bodies and minds.

Programme of events accompanying the exhibition “Darkside – Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed”:
More information on: http://www.fotomuseum.ch/EVENTS.30.0.html?&L=1

Still on display unil 12 October 2008 (Collection):
JEDERMANN COLLECTION – Set 5 from the Fotomuseum Winterthur Collection
http://www.fotomuseum.ch/JEDERMANN-COLLECTION.289.0.html?&L=1

For further information please visit our website http://www.fotomuseum.ch

Fotomuseum Winterthur
Grüzenstrasse 44+45
CH-8400 Winterthur (Zurich)
Switzerland

Phone: +41 52 234 10 60
Fax. +41 52 233 60 97
e-mail: fotomuseum@fotomuseum.ch
http://www.fotomuseum.ch

Opening hours: Tue – Sun 11am – 6pm, Wed 11am – 8pm, closed on Mondays

colourblindgallery.com

http://www.colourblindgallery.com/

“At the beginning you see nothing. Black squares…

But we have seen these many times, so let´s move on…

However if the spectator catches the few traces of the hardly observable images of the seemingly impenetrable and inaccessible pictures, then he will be led into a world of timeless and secret beauty. The portraits which always show closed eyes are silent and fragile. That is why the artist characterizes them as undefined. They are full of sensuality and human dignity, but remain at a distance in the dark. They are both at the same time pure observance and orchestration and without being pretentiously dramatic, or using contrast and dynamics, they possess strong emotional intensity…”

Diana Umbeer (Art Historian), Osvaldo Orias (Artist)

throu Oct.2nd,2008

Jonah Freeman, Justin Lowe and Alexandre Singh,
Age Grade Set #3, custom pigment print; courtesy the artists and Ballroom Marfa.

Art Lies
Death of the Curator
Issue No. 59, Fall 2008
http://www.artlies.org

Death of the Curator: A Forensic Analysis of Curatorial Practice
Whenever there is a rupture in the traditional fabric of cultural production, it is not unusual to cry hypothetical wolf. The death of the author, the death of the object, the cyclical zombification of painting, the collapse of the power of the critic: aphorisms abound and rebound, eventually comforting us through inevitable reification. But what if we were to shelve the ivory ping-pong paddles and take up, for instance, full contact paintball? It would certainly liven up the debate—and the playing field. In this spirit, Art Lies, in conjunction with Guest Editorial Contributor Julieta Aranda, hereby announces the Death of the Curator. This is not a coup d’état, mind you, just a “modest proposal” of sorts. Why a forensic analysis…because of its clinical connotation—because of the folds, overlaps and sutures that complicate the distinction between current curatorial and artistic practices. — Anjali Gupta, Editor, Art Lies

Feature Contributors:
Julieta Aranda & Jens Hoffmann
Fia Backström
J.C. Fregnan
David Levi Strauss
Joao Ribas & Matt Sheridan Smith
Raimundas Malasauskas & Gabriel Lester
Naeem Mohaiemen
William Powhida
Martha Rosler
Nato Thompson & Michelle White
Anton Vidokle

With artwork by: Saul Alvarez, Julieta Aranda, Fia Backström, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Stefan Brüggemann, Pablo Guardiola, Shannon Hays, Christoph Keller, Karen Mahffey, Michele Monseau, Yoshua Okon, Steve Powers, William Powhida, Martha Rosler and Wooloo Projects.

And…
Selected excerpts from The Next Documenta Should Be Curated by an Artist
[Jens Hoffmann, Editor, 2003]

Reviews Include:
Austin—Eric Zimmerman on Lawrence Rinder & Cliff Hengst
Houston—Kurt Mueller on Dario Robleto
Fort Worth—Noah Simblist on Kara Walker
Dallas—Michael Odom on Cory Arcangel + Lialina & Espenschied
Los Angeles—Tucker Neel on Phantom Sightings
New York—Christina Linden on Sharon Engelstein
San Antonio—Ben Judson on Oliver Lutz

Cover Image: Jonah Freeman, Justin Lowe and Alexandre Singh, Age Grade Set #3, custom pigment print; courtesy the artists and Ballroom Marfa

Upcoming Art Lies Events:
Issue No. 59 Launch at Ballroom Marfa
http://artlies.org/content.php?id=18&s=6

5th Annual Critics Lecture Series: Christopher Knight
http://artlies.org/content.php?id=14&s=8

PLUS: Join Art Lies at NADA in Miami, December 3-7
With daily performances by a host of surprise guests and contributors

Upcoming Issues:
Issue No. 60—Guest Editorial Contributor Aram Moshayedi, Curator, LA>