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Matt Mullican. Meaning of Things

XIX CSAV – Artists Research Laboratory

Open Call for Young Artists
Matt Mullican: Meaning of Things

5th – 29th July 2013

CSAV – Artists Research Laboratory is a project where dialogue and exchange among artists of different generations and nationalities stand at the heart of a unique artistic and learning experience. The lab is open to fifteen young artists of all nationalities, selected among the applicants by a jury. The programme lasts twenty-four days during which the participants attend a daily workshop activity and theoretical seminars run by the invited artist, the director, the curators and guest lecturers, as well as conferences held by artists, critics and experts of other disciplines.

The 19th edition of CSAV, titled Meaning of Things, will be held between the 5th and the 29th of July 2013 and run by American artist Matt Mullican.

During the laboratory, Mullican will discuss of the emotional interpretation of pictures and signs, that faculty of a picture to grab our consciousness and create an experience. This ongoing investigation of the relationship between perception and reality, between the ability to see something and the ability to represent it, will be examined along with other key themes of Mullican’s practice like the nature of the theatrical experience, its capacity to transform extreme emotional states, and the trancelike phenomenon that is the core of Mullican’s performances.

Matt Mullican (1951, Santa Monica, California) for over four decades has created a complex body of work concerned with systems of knowledge, meaning, language and signification. He creates artworks across a variety of mediums ranging from drawings and graphic works to sculptures and banners. He has developed a classification system through which he makes an attempt to observe and categorize all human experiences. In the 1970s Mullican began to experiment with trancelike states and hypnotism in order to experience the uncharted depths of everyday life, creating a state of hyper-consciousness that allows him to better catalogue human behaviour.
Mullican’s work has been exhibited internationally since the early 1970s in venues including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Haus Der Kunst, Munich; National Galerie, Berlin; Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, Netherlands; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; his work was also included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Mullican has taught and lectured at: Columbia University, New York; The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam; Chelsea College of Art and Design, London; University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg.

Lien http://jlggb.net/blog3/?p=4114

Jeremy Deller. Joy in People

   
http://camstl.org/exhibitions/main-gallery/jeremy-deller-joy-in-people/
«The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM) is pleased to present Jeremy Deller: Joy in People, the first mid-career survey of one of Britain’s most significant contemporary artists. Over the past two decades, Jeremy Deller has redefined the rules of contemporary art and become a profound influence on artists emerging today. His practice puts everyday life and experience at the center of his internationally recognized collaborative and interactive work, celebrating how people’s activities transform mass culture or become part of the popular imagination itself. Deller’s statement that « art isn’t about what you make but what you make happen » is reflected in the way that he assembles things, stages events, and orchestrates and directs ephemeral yet galvanizing situations.

Joy in People will radically and dynamically transform CAM’s entire museum space and features a comprehensive selection of Deller’s major installations, photographs, videos, posters, banners, performances, and sound works. This presentation includes Open Bedroom (1993), a life-size reconstruction of his first exhibition staged in his parents’ house while they were away on vacation, and Valerie’s Snack Bar (2009), a functioning replica of a Manchester café, originally created as a parade float (complemented by large-scale parade banners and a video of the procession).

Many of Deller’s projects over the years have dealt with the social meanings of popular music. Joy in People presents a number of his pioneering works, such as The Uses of Literacy (1997), an installation incorporating art by fans of the Welsh rock group Manic Street Preachers, and Our Hobby is Depeche Mode (2006), a video and archive based on the international devotees of the 1980s electro-pop band.

Deller’s work also incisively explores how the use of power by those in authority affects everyday people. His epic 2001 project, The Battle of Orgreave, is a two-part installation about a violent 1984 confrontation between striking coal miners and mounted police—an event he re-staged with historical re-enactors and former miners. More recently, Deller has explored the more arcane aspects of American culture and the legacy of the British glam wrestler Adrian Street.

An extensive array of public programs is planned to complement the exhibition, including a live performance of Deller’s pivotal 1997 work Acid Brass, in which acid house techno music is played by a traditional brass band, as well as a discussion between the artist and key participants in It Is What It Is, his 2009 project about the Iraq War. CAM’s museum store, CAM POP, will also be specially curated to reflect Deller’s exuberant embrace of both high and low culture.

Jeremy Deller (b. 1966, London; lives in London) will represent Britain at the 2013 Venice Biennale. He studied art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art and University of Sussex and, in 2004, won the Turner Prize. His work has been presented in solo exhibitions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2009), the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2008), and the Kunstverein in Munch (2005), and in major group exhibitions such as September 11 at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York (2011), the Sao Paolo Biennale, Sao Paolo, Brazil (2010), and the 54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2004), among many others.

Jeremy Deller: Joy in People is organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, where it was curated by Director Ralph Rugoff. The exhibition is coordinated at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis by Chief Curator Dominic Molon and is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog.»

Fonds d’écran / wallpaper

En cherchant sur le web des nouvelles de Claudia & Julia Müller, dessinatrices suisses, j’ai retrouvé le site de la galerie Attitudes*, créée en 1994 à Genève. Á la date de novembre 2003, on trouve à la page Fonds d’écran / wallpaper, des travaux réalisés par des artistes suisses et notamment par Claudia & JuliaMüller, à télécharger sur nos ordis. http://www.attitudes.ch/wallpaper/fonds.htm

* Les deux directeurs d’Attitudes ont pris la direction du Centre culturel suisse après la mort brutale de Michel Ritter en mai 2007, un homme remarquablement excentrique. Nous avions suivi toute la saison 2006-2007 des expositions du centre, en live, avec lui et Nicolas Trembley, http://www.arpla.fr/canal2/suisse/index.html
J’ai enfin retrouvé sur le web les archives des expositions de l’époque Michel Ritter http://www.ccsparis.com/V1/index.php

Massoud Hassani, designer. The Mine Kafon


http://massoudhassani.blogspot.fr/

http://www.designboom.com/design/mine-kafon-by-massoud-hassani-nears-kickstarter-campaign/?utm_campaign=monthly&utm_medium=e-mail&utm_source=subscribers

In Libération mercredi 9 janvier 2013 : «Un pissenlit de bambous contre les mines afghanes.» Par SABINE CESSOU

«Massoud Hassani, 29 ans, designer industriel à Eindhoven aux Pays-Bas, a mis au point la «mine kafon», une sphère antimines potentiellement révolutionnaire. Son nom est tiré de l’expression «kafondan», «quelque chose qui explose» en dari, la langue maternelle de l’inventeur. Cet engin peu cher pourrait sauver des milliers de vies en Afghanistan, pays d’origine d’Hassani, d’où il est parti avec sa famille à l’âge de 15 ans pour se réfugier aux Pays-Bas.

Propulsée par le vent, cette boule de deux mètres de diamètre est constituée de 150 bâtons de bambous qui se terminent chacun par un disque en plastique adhérant au sol. Elle ressemble à une œuvre d’art contemporain évoquant le pissenlit. Il suffit de la pousser pour qu’elle se mette en marche, faisant exploser les mines sur son passage. Un GPS installé dans sa partie centrale, en métal, enregistre le trajet de la boule. Les bâtons de bambou sont faciles à remplacer, et le prototype a déjà obtenu des tests concluants aux Pays-Bas, ainsi que dans le sud du Maroc. Hassani compte lever 123 000 euros via son site internet pour poursuivre en août ses essais en Afghanistan. Ensuite, il espère passer à la fabrication industrielle.

L’idée de cet appareil a germé en 2010, alors que Massoud Hassani étudiait à l’Académie de design industriel d’Eindhoven et qu’un professeur lui avait demandé de faire les plans d’un jouet de son enfance. Il s’est souvenu de ceux qui, poussés par le vent, finissaient parfois dans des champs de mines et ne pouvaient pas être récupérés.

L’Afghanistan fait l’objet d’un vaste programme de déminage depuis la fin de l’invasion soviétique, en 1989. Pas moins de 650 000 mines antipersonnelles, 27 000 mines antichars et 15 millions d’engins explosifs divers et variés ont été collectés, selon le Centre de coordination de l’action contre les mines en Afghanistan (Macca), financé par les Nations unies. Mais le pays compte toujours plus de 5 000 zones à risques, couvrant une superficie de 588 km2, mettant en danger 750 000 personnes, selon l’ONU. En 2011, 812 Afghans, pour moitié des enfants, ont été tués ou blessés par des mines, selon l’ONG Handicap International. «Chaque mine que nous détruirons peut sauver une vie humaine», affirme Massoud Hassani, déterminé à prendre sa «revanche» sur la guerre qui a contraint sa famille à l’exil.»

Conversation. Qu’est-ce qu’un artiste ?

« un artiste est un intellectuel en marche », statut publié sur Facebook, par Étienne, hier 5 janvier 2013 à 13h 49. 4 personnes ont liké. Puis bref dialogue immédiat entre Camille et Étienne. J’ai  rajouté, deux heures plus tard, en le découvrant, une très longue citation de Warburg, déjà publiée sur mon blog précédemment > http://lantb.net/uebersicht/?p=5292

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