Faculty of Invisibility
dal 9/7/2010 al 7/8/2010
Segnalato da
Benjamin Colle
Laurie Cohen
Maaike Engelen
Clemence Freschard
Jeanne van Heeswijk
Ingela Johansson
Achim Lengerer
M7red
Mauricio Corberlan
Pio Torroja
p-r-o-x-y
Dagmar Reichert
Darren Rhymes
Jan Rolletschek
Elske Rosenfeld
Simone Schardt
Johan Siebers
Tanja Widmann
Sonke Hallmann
Inga Zimprich
9/7/2010
Faculty of Invisibility
Verein Shedhalle, Zurich
In its curatorial guest project the Faculty of Invisibility engages with the political place of the assembly. Along moments of institutionalisation it traces the question which possibilities of assembly the contemporary art institution suggests and allows for. The exhibition room conveys a series of settings similar to those that direct roles and spaces of speech in institutional entities.
Curated by Sönke Hallmann and Inga Zimprich
With Benjamin Cölle, Laurie Cohen, Maaike Engelen, Clemence Freschard, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Ingela Johansson, Achim Lengerer, M7red (Mauricio Corberlan, Pio Torroja), p-r-o-x-y, Dagmar Reichert, Darren Rhymes, Jan Rolletschek, Elske Rosenfeld, Simone Schardt, Johan Siebers, Tanja Widmann and others
Loans by Robert Havemann Gesellschaft, Archiv Grünes Gedächtnis der Heinrich Böll Stiftung
Design by Maartje Dros, Francois Lombarts
In its curatorial guest project the Faculty of Invisibility engages with the political place of the assembly. Along moments of institutionalisation it traces the question which possibilities of assembly the contemporary art institution suggests and allows for. The Faculty of Invisibility proceeds by investigating forms of political speech, moments of inscription and acts of enforcement that make social articulations binding and recognizable. If the institution marks the threshold where articulations are inscribed into the realm of the visible and communicable, to question the institution’s political capacity today requires to exercise the institutional as a function of speech and to assemble within its mechanisms of showing and issuing.
The exhibition room conveys a series of settings similar to those that direct roles and spaces of speech in institutional entities. These spatial set-ups draw on such acts as the address, the foundation, the protocol, the delegation and the declaration to ask: What does it mean to gather within the language-based apparatus of the institution - within those places the institution provides, but which in turn reproduce the institutional itself? What can it mean to gain articulation in them, to have a voice within them? How could one open a space of speech inside the institutional realm in which one’s own being-in-language becomes apparent and available?
EVENTS
16/17/18 July, daily 8pm
Like the exhibition, the series of public events examines formats of assembly. The Faculty of Invisibility convenes with Benjamin Cölle (cultural theorist and filmmaker, DE), Laurie Cohen (historian, AT), Maaike Engelen (psychotherapist, UK), Jeanne van Heeswijk (artist, NL), Ingela Johansson (artist, SE), Dagmar Reichert (researcher, CH), Darren Rhymes (artist, UK), Johan Siebers (philosopher, UK) et al to address institutional experiences within the different work fields of the participants.
23/24 July, 2 – 8pm
Based on her artistic and auto-biographical research into the events of 1989/1990 in East Germany, Elske Rosenfeld (artist and author, DE) develops a public workshop that uses the transcripts of the Central Round Table of the GDR to discuss the specific moments of founding, legitimation, institutionalization and delegation from the history of this short-lived political institution.
30/31 July, 1 August, 2 – 6pm
(participation also online at www.reading.department.cc)
The Department of Reading follows traces of text and image emerging in this exhibition project. It questions the production of images of the discursive and it works along lines of concepts of mass and movement. With Helmut Draxler (theoretician and curator, DE, tbc), Achim Lengerer (artist, DE), p-r-o-x-y (CH), Jan Rolletschek (theoretician, DE), Johan Siebers (philosopher, UK) und Tanja Widmann (artist, AT).
7 August, 4pm
A questionnaire issued as part of the correspondence of Shedhalle in 1991 discussing the institutions conceptual and curatorial re-orientation forms the center of a concluding conversation with guests, adressing the political capacity of the art institution today.
The exhibition project Faculty of Invisibility: Assembly is made possible with the kind support of Präsidialdepartement der Stadt Zürich, Bundesamt für Kultur, Migros Kulturprozent, Appenzeller Bier, Mineralquelle Gontenbad, Delinat, Het Blauwe Huis.
For more information you can also visit http://www.faculty.cc
Image: The Economic and Social Council, 1982. UN Photo/Milton Grant
For press information and foto material please contact:
Yvonne Volkart: Tel. 044 481 5950 volkart@shedhalle.ch
Shedhalle
Rote Fabrik Seestrasse 395/Postfach 771 CH - 8038 Zürich
Opening Times
Wed–Sun 1pm to 6pm (on days with event programme the opening times will be prolongued)