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Ύλη[matter]HYLE
The Movement post Occupy
David Graeber, Erica Lagalisse
and Georgia Sagri
Wednesday, 30. December 2015 | 8pm
Pireos str. 1, Athens
 
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an evening round table discussion (in english)
between David Graeber (anthropologist),
Erica Lagalisse (anthropologist) and Georgia Sagri (artist)
 
As we reach the end of 2015, the economic crisis in the south part of Europe has become normal, while wars in the Middle East create shock, and social concerns are raised only when there is a threat to stability amongst the privileged corporate and financial independent parts of the globe. Most people who are faced with oppression, unemployment, suffering and lack of any political representation face the overarching question of how to live our lives differently.
Though isn’t the way we understand death also the way we understand life? How come none of the social movements in recent years have focused on understanding death as an inherent part of social change? Isn’t the aim for life and ‘better living’ just another expression of humanist fantasy? What would a social movement that gives equal place to death look like?
Well-promoted from mainstream and alternative media as well as from within, Occupy was described as one of the most innovative movements in regard to organizing life, but is it possible to criticize Occupy and rather see it as the end of human centered organizing? Is it possible to go beyond a form of political activity (party, group ideology) that presupposes an outside, or the Other, by which it is defined and considered to have value?
Are social movements based on anthropocentric causes and effects enough to carry on the leap that needs to happen mentally and materially for the coming planetary and human transformations? What are the planetary transformations and what our movements need to be composed of?
Is it possible for radical thinkers and sensitive beings to confront the long-standing routine of using already-existing patterns and methodologies from within what has become the ‘canon’ of history and thinking?
Georgia Sagri, 2015, Athens
 

GALERIE FREY WIEN

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GALERIE FREY WIEN
CLAUDIA ROGGE | PerSe
Vernissage:
Dienstag, 12. Jänner 2016 | 19 – 22 Uhr
Zur Eröffnung spricht Dr. Ralph Güth.
Ausstellung:13. Jänner – 12. März 2016
Gluckgasse 3, 1010 Wien
http://www.galerie-frey.com

Um Anmeldung wird gebeten: art@galerie-frey.com

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Relation I-III (Ausschnitt), 2013-2015,
C-Print (12-teilig), 150 x 210 cm

PerSe – Das Portrait und der Akt als malerisch inszenierter Filmstill

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Die Bild-Momente im Werk Claudia Rogges kulminieren vorerst in ihren aktuellen Triptychen, die insbesondere die Idee des Porträts und des Aktes neu reflektieren. Diese neue Serie »per se« enthält jeweils ein menschliches Porträt, das wie eingefroren wirkt und damit auch die Entindividuation in einen spannenden Kontext einer Gattung stellt, die geradezu prädestiniert ist zur individuellen Vergegenwärtigung; in der Mitte des sakral tradierten Formats sind Aktdarstellungen kauernder oder interagierender, bis lasziver Menschen dargestellt, die dem Personal der großen Aktserien »Ever After« und »Lost in Paradise« entlehnt sein könnten; die rechte ›Tafel‹ präsentiert ein ausgestopftes Tierpräparat das – obwohl tot – durchaus lebhafte Züge bewahrt hat.

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Claudia Rogge ist sich der kunsthistorischen Quellen bewusst, aus denen sie schöpft. So darf man getrost die Triptychen mit den bezeichnenden Titeln »Element und Gefüge« als zusammengehöriges Ganzes auffassen, dessen Teile aufeinander bezogen sind. Die triadische Struktur fügt sich konsequent in das Werk von Claudia Rogge ein, das von Serie zu Serie aufeinander aufbaute und nun nach einer gewissen Wahrhaftigkeit strebt. Stets fiel das Gefüge auf, das anfangs eher formal, dann mehr und mehr inhaltlich das Bild prägte. In der Bezüglichkeit hat die »per-se«-Serie etwas Grundsätzliches, eben Elementares: Beim Betrachten stellt sich die Frage, wo die Grenzen zwischen Kunst und Wirklichkeit verlaufen, wo sich das lebende Modell vom Präparat unterscheidet. Das erinnert an die Reflexion über Vergänglichkeit (des Individuums) einerseits und Konservierung (in der Masse) andrerseits. Allerdings kehrt die Künstlerin zu einer konzentrierteren Form zurück.

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Doch auch sie führt die stets neu erarbeitete bzw. gewonnene Erkenntnis fort, die ihr Schaffen wie eine Klammer umgreift: Masse resp. Menge und Individuum resp. Dividuum sind Kehrseiten einer Medaille. Die Dynamik der Arbeiten setzt eine große Bewegtheit voraus, die jedoch einmal im Ornament und ein andermal in der Stille, im Still-Stand innehält. Claudia Rogges Arbeitsweise ähnelt der eines surrealistisch vorgeprägten Filmregisseurs, der sich malerischer Traditionen bedient, um sie fotografisch – als Filmstill eines fingierten Films – festzuhalten. Jedes einzelne Bild, das Teil differenzierter und monumentaler Serien ist, hält einen Moment fest, der vom Betrachter als Augenblick eines Filmes vor- oder weitergedacht werden kann. Die Balance zwischen nüchtern-theatraler Inszenierung und ästhetisierter Emotionalität, zwischen Pathos und Einkehr macht die Faszination ihrer Arbeit aus, die in der jüngsten Serie einen vorläufigen Höhepunkt erreicht hat.

Text: Günter Baumann

Haifa Museum of Art

Haifa Museum of Art
Metropolis:
The Urban Experience
Sat 2.1. 2016 | 10 am
Sat 9.1 2016 | 10 am
Sat 16.1.2016 | 10 am
Sat 23.1.2016 | 10 am
רחוב שבתאי לוי 26, חיפה Haifa
http://www.hma.org.il/eng/

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The city can be compared to a living organism, complex and full of life. We experience it intermittently, as though it were a multisensory sound and light show, unable to embrace its entirety.

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MAK STAR WARS

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Große Filme mit kleinen Mitteln
Erfinde deine eigene Sternensaga!
Sa, 2.1. 2016 | 14–16 Uhr
30.1.2016 | 14–16 Uhr
Stubenring 5, 1010 Wien
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Vadim Sidur Museum

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Manege Museum
Vadim Sidur Museum
Alexander Babulevich “Archiving Sound”
Private view:
Friday, 13. January 2016 | 7 pm
Exhibition: 14. January – 7. February 2016
Vadim Sidur Museum,
37/2, Novogireevskaya str.
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The art and literary scene counts Alexander Babulevich as its active participant, an artist and visual poet who belongs to the generation of the “mixed media” pioneers of the national post-war art.
Babulevich’s works dating to the post-war period are an example of a rare and consistent commitment to the historical ways of avant-garde in its authentic forms, as well as of the development of the classical and ever-relevant themes like crossing the borders between art and life and synthesizing text with visual imagery and sound.
Alexander Babulevich’s exhibition “Archiving Sound” conveys the artist’s views as to the possibility of mixing literature with the visual arts, which he has developed since the early 1960s, as well as his findings following years of experimenting and exploring the visual properties of text and sound recordings.
 
Despite Babulevich’s long-standing interest in avant-garde, his own works had not been exhibited, long remaining unknown outside his inner circle. The Vadim Sidur Museum offers an opportunity to appreciate the remaining graphics by the artist laying out his method and attitudes to art.
About the author:
Alexander Babulevich was born in 1942. He is a member of the Art Expert Association, focusing on futurism, dadaism, abstraction, and the Soviet and Russian art of the second half of the 20th century. He has a long track record as head of the State Literature Museum’s Department of Audio Recordings where he handled the conservation and research of audio recordings of Russian literature. He has featured in numerous exhibitions in Russia, Japan, Australia, the USA, Canada, Belgium, Denmark, former Yugoslavia, Argentina, and Italy. His works are kept in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt and other museum and private collections across Europe.
 
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Adam Wiener R.I.P.

ADAM WIENER R.I.P
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In Liebe und Dankbarkeit nehmen wir Abschied von
Adam Wiener
der am 16. Dezember 2015 im 52. Lebensjahr von uns gegangen ist.
Wir verabschieden uns von unserem lieben Verstorbenen
am Dienstag, dem 29. Dezember, um 14 Uhr
am Wiener Zentralfriedhof, Halle 3, Eingang Tor 3,
1110 Wien, Simmeringer Hauptstr. 234-240.
Lore, Ossi, Una, Sarah, Artur
und alle seine Freundinnen und Freunde

Ab 17 Uhr finden wir uns am Badeschiff Wien,
Donaukanal 1010 Wien, zu einem Erinnerungsabend zusammen.

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Whitechapel Gallery

Whitechapel Gallery
Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966) runs
29 January – 15 May 2016
77-82 Whitechapel High Street,
E1 7QX London, United Kingdom
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Nam June Paik, Internet Dream (1994), video sculpture,
287 x 380 x 80 cm. ZKM | Collection © (2008) ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Photo: Steffen Harms
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Whitechapel Gallery
Harun Farocki
Parallel I-IV (2012-14)
29 January – 15 May 2016
77-82 Whitechapel High Street,
E1 7QX London, United Kingdom
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Harun Farocki, Parallel I-IV (2012-14), still, 2 two-channel videos, 2 one-channel videos, 4 parts video installation: 16min, 9 min,
7 min, 11 min, Courtesy Harun Farocki Filmproduktion
and Greene Naftali, New York
 
 
Whitechapel Gallery presents avant-garde film-maker Harun Farocki’s large-scale video installation Parallel I-IV (2012-2014).
 
Coinciding with the major exhibition Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966), the work charts the evolution of computer game graphics over 30 years. The rapid technological progression from the earliest symbolic forms to the realism of the present day is projected on four screens, each focussing on different aspects of the video game genre.
 
Over 70 years, Farocki created over 100 films and installations showing how image-making technology can be used to shape public perception. His work often tackles controversial topics, from the use of napalm by the U.S. in the Vietnam War in Inextinguishable Fire (1969), to video games and conflict simulation during the second Iraq War in Serious Games I-IV (2010).
 
As part of Electronic Superhighway Season,
Whitechapel Gallery presents free commissions, displays and screenings, alongside talks, events and live performances.
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Artists’ Film International
Rachel Maclean, Tor Jørgen van Eijk and Karin Sander
29 Jan – 29 May 2016
 

Lisson Gallery Milan

Lisson Gallery Milan
Rodney Graham:
Più Arte dello Scovolino!’
Thursday,  28. January 2016 | 7-9 pm
29 January – 4 March 2016
Via Zenale 3 | 20123 Milan
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Rodney Graham pulls at the threads of cultural and intellectual history through photography, film, music, performance and painting. He presents cyclical narratives that pop with puns and references to literature and philosophy, from Lewis Carroll to Sigmund Freud to Kurt Cobain, with a sense of humour that betrays Graham’s footing in the post-punk scene of late 1970s Vancouver. The nine-minute loop Vexation Island (1997) presents the artist as a 17th-century sailor, lying unconscious under a coconut tree with a bruise on his head; after eight and a half minutes he gets up and shakes the tree inducing a coconut to fall and knock him out, and for the sequence to start again. Graham returns as a cowboy in How I Became a Ramblin’ Man (1999) and as both city dandy and country bumpkin in City Self/Country Self (2001) – fictional characters all engaged in an endless loop of activity. Such dream states and the ramblings of the unconscious are rooted in Graham’s earlier upside-down photographs of oak trees. Inversion, Graham explains, has a logic: ‘You don’t have to delve very deeply into modern physics to realise that the scientific view holds that the world is really not as it appears. Before the brain rights it, the eye sees a tree upside down in the same way it appears on the glass back of the large format field camera I use.’ (2005)
Rodney Graham was born in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada in 1949. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1971 and lives and works in Vancouver. Solo exhibitions include Museu D’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2010), Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (2004), Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2002), Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2001) and Kunsthalle Wien (1999). He has participated in group exhibitions such as the 13th, 14th and 17th Sydney Biennales (2002, 2006, 2010), the Whitney Biennial, New York (2006) and the Biennale d’Art contemporain de Lyon, France (2003). He represented Canada at the 47th Venice Biennale (1997) and among awards he has received the Gershon Iskowitz Prize, Toronto (2004), the Kurt Schwitters-Preis, Niedersächsiche Sparkassenstiftung, Germany (2006) and the Audain Prize for lifetime achievement in visual arts, British Columbia (2011).

Lisson Gallery

Lisson Gallery
Line
Thursday, 21. January 2016 | 6- 8 pm
Exhibition: 22 January – 12 March 2016
27 & 52 Bell Street
London NW1 5BU
http://www.lissongallery.com/exhibitions/line

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Drawing is both physical entity and intellectual proposition in ‘Line’, Lisson Gallery’s group exhibition, guest-curated by Drawing Room. Fifteen international artists – whose works span seminal artworks from the late ’60s through to performative and site-specific pieces made especially for this exhibition – take their various lines for a walk off the page to intermingle in the three-dimensional space of the gallery, extending via sound into the atmosphere and reverberating via action and memory across time.

Lisson Gallery’s almost fifty-year history frames the exhibition. Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 157, a diagonal line first drawn according to the artist’s instructions by Nicholas Logsdail in 1973 and re-drawn again for this exhibition, suggests an expanded field for contemporary art through its conceptual premise. Richard Long’s 1980 work A Four Day Walk describes an imaginary line in the ground measuring 94 miles, which shifts the parameters of drawing to consider man’s physical yet transitory relationship with the world. Long’s ephemeral line contrasts poignantly with British artist K. Yoland’s recent photography series, Border Land Other (2013-2014), the result of a residency in Texas, shown alongside a film of her performance of the same name. The performer unfurls an unruly paper line, which refuses to settle in one spot, referencing the complexity of carving up land on a map and the arbitrariness of borders. Here the line describes not one person’s passage but instead a political boundary not to be crossed, namely the border between Texas and Mexico. A recent work by Julian Opie also brings the natural world into the gallery via a black vinyl installation, Pine Forest. The vertical procession of tree trunks can also be read as a parade of silhouetted figures, a stream of barcode data or simply as abstract lines.