Bcc #5: A RETROSPECTIVE OF REMIXED DREAMS

A proposition by Martha Kirszenbaum

October, 21st 2011 at 8 pm

Conceived in the framework of the one-day events hosted by Berlin-based collective Bcc, during which a curator is invited to materialize digital files sent by artists, A Retrospective of Remixed Dreams is a night of projections and performances articulated around ideas of presence and absence. Playing out with digital ubiquity and physical absence that determine our social relations dictated by Internet communication, four artists are invited to present their performative works, while questioning the representation of the body in virtual reality.

Matthew Lutz-Kinoy's (USA/Germany, b. 1984) contribution is a projection of his video work Grape Face, depicting him and collaborator Chelsea Culp lying on a couch and sending text messages. The artist intervenes via Internet on his video, adding to the projected image a live soundtrack. The duo of Berlin-based artists Prinz Gholam(Germany, b. 1963 and 1969), which recent works stand for an allegoric embodiment of danced pictures, present a lived performance projected via Skype challenging the real and virtual presence of the body. The series of videos Snakes and New Video by Leidy Churchman (USA/The Netherlands, b. 1979) implies the artist's body as it emphasizes its absence. Filmed from above, Leidy Churchman spreads paint on the floor, using diverse tools (a hook, a wooden snake) as an extension of a body invisible on screen. Finally, A Retrospective of Remixed Dreams hosts a gestural and textual re-interpretation of a video performance by Ryan Trecartin (USA, b. 1981). Conceived as an echo to the artists' exhibition at Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, this remix is performed by Paris-based actors on the basis of the literal translation of the original English text. It therefore interrogates the possible re-interpretation of a performance, and the question of the translation of web language and its authenticity outside of cultural codes.

The title of the event is inspired by Random Exhibition Title Generator, a project created by MIT's Department of Art Theory students offering a database of random exhibition titles generated by a software.

Martha Kirszenbaum is an independent curator based in Paris.

-1 is an artist-run space located in a renovated garage at 71 Boulevard Richard Lenoir, Paris 11e. Every three months -1 invites a curator to transform the studio into an exhibition space. www.moinsun.com. Photos: Anais Barelli

Bcc #3

HARD COPY

May 25th 2011, PMgalerie, Berlin

Contributors:

Stéphane Barbier-Bouvet, Martin Born, Gaël Charbau, Code 2.0, Alice Dusapin, Entrisme, Francesca Gavin, Bahbak Hashemi-Nezad, Anne Horel, Haw-lin, Florian Ludwig,  Niklas Maak, Frank Michels, Motto Distribution, ohyescoolgreat, Daniel Otero-Torres, pleaseplay.net, Oliver Rohe, Vanessa Safavi, Clemence Seilles.

curated by Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel and Raoul Zöllner

in collaboration with

Larry's

Hard Copy is a a propaganda project constituted around futuristic forms of disastrous mistranslation, tremendous cultish mannerism and friendly speculation on pre-fabricated life in post-industrial contexts - produced by the pleasure of having a rich family. The one-off exhibition as image-based on-site production-performance will be hosted by PMgalerie on 25th may.

This third edition of the exhibition series Bcc is co-curated by Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel and Raoul Zöllner in collaboration with Larry´s. Initiated by Aurélia Defrance, Julie Grosche and Aude Pariset, Bcc is a series of exhibitions based on the concept of curators materializing digital files sent by invited artists.
This time contributors of many natures sharing a common background in contemporary visual culture will supply a curated selection of appropriated web-images as raw material.

Artist and self-publishing-collective Larry´s will convert them into an edition of mess-produced spam-sculptures and a print on demand issue. Hard Copy is an investigation of the consumption culture of web-based images focusing on appropriation through de-and recontextualization of visual fragments as curation of the self and confusion of references, as a result of the heavy eclectic bastardization and universalization of globalized visual vocabulary.

Bcc #2

PRETTY FRESH
(A SUNDAY COFFEE CONFIDENTIAL)

May 22nd 2011, Bäckerei Ladevig, Berlin

with

Chris Evans
Christian Frosi
Danai Anesiadou
Danny McDonald
Derek Maria Francesco Di Fabio
Dieter Roelstraete
Federico Maddalozzo
Kjersti Vetterstad
Yngve Holen

and a text by

Vincenzo Latronico

curated by Marco Bruzzone

from top:

Yngve Holen
-Breakfast point of view

Danai Anesiadou

Derek Maria Francesco Di Fabio
-Quando c'è il sole, la sua faccia a la forma di casta sta fuori a prenderlo esaminandolo come un passante per poi stenderlo

Dieter Roelstraete
-Etica de Ginga e ao som de Tinga

Federico Maddalozzo
-Built to upset them and whip with an onion stem

Christian Frosi
-IIIIIIIVVVVVVVIIIIIII

Bcc #1

April 13 th 2011, PMgalerie, Berlin

with

Joel Holmberg
Thomas Julier
Dafna Maimon
Marlie Mul
Tabor Robak
Patrick Tuttofuoco

contributions by Vittorio Brodmann and Mathis Altmann

curated by Aurélia Defrance, Julie Grosche and Aude Pariset

database

Patrick Tuttofuoco
(detail)