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Shady El Noshokaty, STAMMER: Research
Audio-video performance
ACCRETIONS
August
4
– September 3, 2010
Artists:
Roman Dziadkiewicz,
Hassan Khan, Sinisa Labrovię, Shady el
Noshakaty, Honza Zamojski
Accretions refers to rhizomatic growth
and build up in biological organisms
which, if translated into the social
world, could be used to imply expansive
growth. We appropriate the word as an
operational term to both question and
intervene into the very construction of
aesthetic communities, which is a
process of coming together and building
up. The starting point of our inquiry is
related to artistic sources and
references and the ways in which
singularity of experience can be shared
through a particular presence in
specific spatial and temporal
configurations of an artistic event. And
perhaps the very indeterminacy of these
configurations has the potential to
bring together an aesthetic community.
Thus, the outcome as such cannot be
predicted, nor obvious, even for the
curators.
Within the division of labour in the art
world, exhibition making has often
proven to be a practice that entails
expectations for professionally
established and structured procedures of
curating. This includes networking,
conceptualization, selection of artists
and works, and organisation of events,
both creatively and bureaucratically.
However, what happens when the process
of pre-conceived and pre-designed
curating itself becomes dependent on
artistic processes and marks a failure
of every predetermination? In this, the
final product does not come together
through professionally defined
considerations but through friendship,
or political and aesthetic kinship,
leaving aside politically correct
considerations of representing
identities and geographies. Within the
temporal span of curatorial work and the
exhibition as the ultimate result, there
are often transformations,
transmutations and transmogrifications
which are not always obvious in the
final presentation.
In Accretions, we propose to construct a
reflective space for communal engagement
which is directly involved with the
artists` proposal for a work of art,
performance and other forms of
interventions in a designated time and
space.
We have invited five artists from
locales in which the curators
practice—Roman Dziadkiewicz, Hassan
Khan, Sinisa Labrovię, Shady el
Noshakaty, and Honza Zamojski to
collaborate on the accretion of a series
of events. We are working with artists
who perceive their positions and
subjectivity as part of a broader
aesthetic community, who question the
way in which knowledge and artistic
skills emerge and are disseminated, and
who are able to translate through
diverse registers of knowledge.
We would like to test whether these
broader concerns on which the artists
were invited to reflect become a
departure point for public engagement.
The latter includes questions related
not only to the (direct and indirect)
involvement of the audience/public in
the construction of aesthetic
experience, but also within the
historical, spatial and communal locale
of Galerija ©kuc in Ljubljana.
Negotiating with the Gallery’s specific
history and legacy, but also with its
evolving present, we propose to turn the
gallery into a space in which
situational social and artistic
relationships are given a space to
reflect upon the very institutional and
artistic frameworks of the coming
together of an aesthetic community
through continuous engagement in
conversations, attachments and
detachments.
The structural and formal questions
which the exhibition as an event
addresses are questions that complicate
the distinction between the process of
art production and its final destination
or reception. Throughout the event, each
day is reserved for a single work
produced or enacted by one of the
invited artists. Each work is exposed or
choreographed (written in time) for a
given period to a specific audience
which attends an ‘opening’ event every
day. Thus what choreography and
accretion share is a temporal build up
and construction of experience through a
process. After this exposure, the work
finds a place in the gallery, awaiting
other works to occupy the space after
each opening. We envision the exhibition
as an event through a collection and
accumulation of experiences and traces;
the art work becoming a trace of its own
presence. Through the processual
structure of the event, the ultimate
result in the form of the final product
is never arrived at. In this way, art
can potentially become a vehicle to
create an aesthetic/political community.
In short, we would like to curate a
social space, an event or an exhibition
as a living organism which evolves and
transforms through time. The event
always already takes place post-factum;
hence, the exhibition as an accumulation
of experiences, bodies, spaces and
gazes. This exhibition marks an opening
for collaborative potential, rather than
for presenting the results of
collaboration which has already taken
place. Collaboration will continue in at
least one another location – Muzeum
Sztuki in Lodz in 2011.
The idea of the project is
inextricably related to the
circumstances under which the curatorial
team was formed, that is the Summer
Seminars for Curators in Yerevan.
Curators:
Angela Harutyunyan, Tev¾ Logar,
Joanna Soko³owska
You are
kindly invited to attend a series of
public events
to be held between Wednesday, August the
4th and Sunday, August the 8th, 2010 at
20.00 at Galerija ©kuc.
Wednesday,
August 4 at 20.00 at Galerija ©kuc.
Hassan
Khan
The Big
One. Live Concert
Thursday,
August 5 at 20.00 at Galerija ©kuc.
Honza
Zamojski
Ghosts
Friday,
August 6 at 20.00 at Galerija ©kuc.
Sini¹a
Labrovię
An artist
selling his skin
Saturday,
August 7 at 20.00 at Galerija ©kuc.
Shady El
Noshokaty
STAMMER:
Research. Audio-video performance and
virtual 4 chanel sound sculpture
Sunday,
August 8 at 20.00 at Galerija ©kuc.
Roman
Dziadkiewicz and the Coming Community
Multisensual Band
The
Patchwork Performance
A
guided tour
with one of the curators will take place
on Tuesday, August 10th and Thursday,
September 2nd at 18.00.
The
programme of ©kuc Gallery is supported
by Ministry of
Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
and
Cultural Department of the City of
Ljubljana.
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