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18/11/2010

For Real!

Different venues, St. Gallen

with San Keller, Raphaël Julliard, Norma Jeane, Tim Etchells, Fouad Bouchoucha and Lenka Clayton & Michael Crowe

«For Real!» is looking into the question of the effect of art on the real world and aims to enthuse and involve a wide variety of artists, activists, visionaries, workers and other interested people in cooperation. «For Real!» is an unconventional exhibition because it is not centred on the idea of art as object or manufacture.

The project wants to offer real experiences, mix formats (interventions, artworks, rumours) and form a ‘community’ which is committed to a critical examination of current phenomena and the urban context. At the same time interaction between the actors and audience as well as multimediality and interdisciplinarity should be encouraged. In the process we do not only wish to permit ourselves a view of the complexity of today’s world and society but to open up a space for radical experiments.

«For Real!» was initiated by Norma Jeane and Giovanni Carmine (in cooperation with Mai Abu ElDahab) and sees itself as an open source project capable of evolution. It will not only take place in St. Gallen; only the first impulse was generated there (one of the project’s next locations is scheduled for Objectif Exhibitions in Antwerp in spring 2011).

Already the methodology of the project development was open, for example through a platform for online collaboration where everyone involved could follow the development stages of the project and where lively discussions took place. The community formed during the preparation phase was so strong that it has permitted the realisation of a radical exhibition idea.

As part of «For Real!» various projects and events are taking place in St. Gallen both in exhibition spaces of the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen as well as in public space.

Norma Jeane starts off with «Der Schlafraum» («The Sleeping Room»): a rescue shelter in the town centre invites passers-by to lie down in public space and share an experience of sleep or repose with other people. The social experiment and the intimate experience show new perspectives of the relationship between a lifestyle based on private property and the general human condition.

San Keller is summoning an «Exil-Parlament» («Exile Parliament») in the Kunst Halle made up of 63 artists which, in three sessions, will address the items on the agenda being dealt with simultaneously in the St. Gallen City Parliament. The Exile Parliament is not only open to visitors during its sessions but also as an installation during the Kunst Halle’s regular opening times.

Raphaël Julliard will deal conceptually with the theme of group formation by initiating an endless series of meetings with a continually growing number of participants in his contribution «Simulation». His second project («Painting») – the other side of the coin – is an action painting workshop for the «For Real!» artists, whose results will be on show at the Kunst Halle. In December Fouad Bouchoucha will be turning the spotlight on a subculture and organising a meeting for tuned-up cars. In conclusion the world-famous English theatremaker Tim Etchells invites to an hour of noise in the streets of the city.

Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen is pleased to be able to provide its public with ‘another kind of art experience’ and to define its exhibition space as a venue for open experimentation.

Art Lunch
Thursday, 2 December 2010, 12 a.m.
Guided tour with lunch prepared by the Palais Bleu team (Trogen)
Admission: CHF 25.-/members CHF 22.-
Please sign up: info@k9000.ch

The interventions and events

Norma Jeane, «Der Schlafraum» («The Sleeping Room») Location: 'Graben-Pärkli', corner Oberer Graben/Poststrasse, St. Gallen Friday, 19 November, 12 a.m. until Monday 22 November, 12 a.m. (open 24 hours!)

San Keller, «Exil-Parlament» («Exile Parliament»)
Location: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen
23 November until 7 December 2010
The topics on the agenda worked on by the Exile Parliamentarians in their first session are on show.
Tuesday, 7 December 2010, 4 - 7 p.m.
2nd session of the Exile Parliament
Tuesday, 18 January 2011, 4 - 7 p.m.
3rd session of the Exile Parliament followed by presidential inauguration (The Exile Parliament installation can be visited during the whole period of the exhibition.)

Raphaël Julliard, «Painting»
Location: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen
20 November 2010 until 23 January 2011
(«Simulation» is by invitation only!)

Fouad Bouchoucha, «Goodbye Horses»
Location: to be announced
Saturday, 18 December 2010

Tim Etchells, «Hour of Noise»
Location: to be announced
Saturday, 22 January 2011

For further information about times and locations, please go to: http://www.k9000.ch

«For Real!» is part of Circular Facts, a collaboration between various institutions supported by the European Union Culture Programm.

«For Real!» is made possible by the friendly support of Schweizerisches Rotes Kreuz; Thönig AG Bettenhaus, St. Gallen; Fürstenlandhaus AG, Oberbüren SG, Romuald Brühwiler Baugeschäft, Oberbüren SG; Fleury-Art Künstlerbedarf, Basel; Sign + Shine Beschriftungen, Schaffhausen.

The Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen is supported by St. Gallen City Council, Kulturförderung Kanton St.Gallen, Swisslos, Federal Office of Culture, Migros- Kulturprozent, Fondation Nestlé pour l’Art (Partenariat), Martel AG, St. Galler Tagblatt. The educational programme is made possible by Raiffeisen.

Informationen to the press: If you have any further questions or need picture material please contact Giovanni Carmine (carmine@k9000.ch) or Maren Brauner (brauner@k9000.ch).

Press preview: Friday, 19 November 2010, from 11 a.m.
Opening: Friday, 19 November 2010, 6 p.m.

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