Simon Denny appears in I Am A MAN
Friday, April 18, 2008
April 15, 2008
Portikus and MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst
I AM A MAN
Parade by Arto Lindsay and students at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule–, Frankfurt
A project by Portikus and MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst for Frankfurter Positionen 2008
Date: April 19, 2008
Begins at 3 pm
Start at Portikus–across Alte Brücke–down Fahrgasse to MMK
Street festival outside the MMK begins at 6 pm
http://www.portikus.de
http://www.mmk-frankfurt.de
I AM A MAN is a parade by Arto Lindsay and the students of the Städelschule in Frankfurt.
This parade was conceived as part of the Frankfurter Positionen whose theme this year is Inventing Life.
The title of the parade is taken from signs carried in a demonstration led by Dr. Martin Luther King during the garbage workers strike in Memphis during the 60’s and will feature various groups that allude, some more abstractly and some less abstractly, to the notion of a body both liberated by and at odds with improvements visited on it.
Marchers will include a Spielmannszug (a german brass band), a local parade band, and a group of robot dogs (the recently discontinued Sony Aibos) that carry speakers, one dog per instrument.
Among other groups we will have a small crowd of philosophers carrying on a debate on the subject of the language specificity of philosophy instigated by Heidegger’s well known remark that among modern languages only German is suitable for philosophy. Some lindy hopper, some bonsais and some cheerleaders will add to our heterogeneity.
The parade will also feature virtuoso dancer Richard Siegal, until recently a member of the Forsythe Company, Marivaldo Paim, master percussionist from Ilê Aiyê in Bahia and Nico Vascellari, a young Italian hard core punk musiician and artist.
Arto Lindsay is an American musician and artist who lives in Salvador, Bahia in Brasil. He began performing in New York in the late late 1970’s with his band DNA.
Lindsay has collaborated with visual artists such as Vito Acconci, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and, on a carnaval parade in Bahia, with Matthew Barney.
A project by
Portikus
Alte Brücke 2 / Maininsel
D-60596 Frankfurt am Main
http://www.portikus.de
and
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst
Domstraße 10
D-60311 Frankfurt am Main
http://www.mmk-frankfurt.de
As part of
Frankfurter Positionen 2008
http://www.frankfurterpositionen.de
THREE IDEAS FOR THE STATE
Thursday, April 17, 2008
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Gambia Castle presents:
Tao Wells
Three Ideas For The State.
25 April - 17 May 2008
Opening: Thursday 24 April at 6pm
Tao Wells is a conceptual performance artist whose practice is directed towards institutional critique, assessing inherent and hidden ideologies.
For his new exhibition, Three Ideas For The State, Wells presents three distinct proposals for the future betterment of New Zealand and Australia. Respectful in tone, the proposals offer concrete and practical solutions to topical issues as large as race relations and the environment. Like his politically charged but deceptively ‘dumb’ objects and infamous antagonistic performances, these works inhabit an open-ended space - inviting, even relying upon, an audience to intervene. Three Ideas For The State provides an opportunity for an individual, or a group of individuals, to contribute to the positive transformation of society, or to negotiate with Wells to undertake this contribution on their behalf.
You are invited to attend an informal discussion with Tao Wells at Gambia Castle on Saturday 26 April at 12pm.
Tao Wells is an artist that lives and works in Wellington, New Zealand. He recently undertook a residency at Gertrude Street Contemporary Art Spaces in Melbourne, where he presented the exhibition Shot Red Crosses.
For more information please contact: info@gambiacastle.net or +64212442243.
academy
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Academy
Kate Newby and Ryan Moore
2-5 April 2008
TCB
Level 1/12 Waratah Place
Melbourne VIC 3000
Australia
open Wednesday-Saturday 12-6pm
opens 6pm 2 April 2008. Please join us for drinks after the opening at the container bar, Tattersalls Lane, Chinatown.
Academy is pleased to announce a project at TCB, Melbourne.
Academy was formed in October 2007 by Ryan Moore and Kate Newby as a project intended to deal constructively with shared anxieties of material artistic production.
At present, Academy takes the form of a self-defining discursive forum, with contributions from writers and practitioners of a range of backgrounds and areas of expertise. Academy is conceived as something akin to a propositional institution, where the hypotheses for testing are the potential shapes, functions, and capacities of frameworks which could act as forum or facility for practices resistant to the generation of material outcomes.
Under discussion and consideration are the potentials and possibilities of available forms for practices and modes of production that consider form as production employing material properties in realisation, but not finding materialisation in material output. A focus of Academy is to reposit debates around dematerialisation in order to consider the possible materialisation and legitimation of form. The intention is not to reforge object making on a trajectory toward obsolescence, but instead to reconsider the focus of where an object can find itself materialised.
For the show at TCB, Academy is equipped with conventional resources: a gallery space, and a certain amount of time, presenting a situation that forces the participants to deal with some fundamental questions of how a practice can operate. What is a good use of this time? What do we do? What are the expectations, and what do we hope to achieve?
Academy will take up residence at TCB from 2 ? 5 April 2008, during which time it may or may not be open to the public. The venue will be a working space and facility to allow the functions of administration and shared dialogue amongst participants. Under consideration will be the normalising capacities of these kinds of environments, and their impacts upon related modes of practice.
TCB is a project-based artist run gallery initiative established in 1998, presently located in Melbourne’s Chinatown district. This will be Academy’s first public project in a gallery environment.
Where appropriate, some documentation and related material will be available to view online during the course of the show.
For any enquiries or further information please contact Academy direct:
email@academy.org.nz
http://www.academy.org.nz
ph +64 21 980 945
ph +64 21 1828 394
PO Box 68808 Newton, Auckland 1145 New Zealand.