Yes, we don't
dal 18/5/2011 al 13/8/2011
Segnalato da
Bernard Bazile
Simona Denicolai
Ivo Provoost
Vaast Colson
François Curlet
Jos De Gruyter
Harald Thys
Jeremy Deller
Alan Kane
Francesco Finizio
Richard Hughes
John Knight
Ahmet Ogut
Sener Ozmen
Erkan Ozgen
Julien Previeux
Michael Rakowitz
Santiago Sierra
Javier Tellez
Carey Young
Joel Benzakin
Nathalie Ergino
18/5/2011
Yes, we don't
IAC - Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne
The artists assembled in this exhibition centred on the works of Bernard Bazile and Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost focus on infiltrating systems, occupying zones of temporary actions and inflecting the process of certain realities. Also on view Bernard Bazile (Brillances, 2011), in the context of the Laboratory space brain / Station 6.
curated by Joël Benzakin and Nathalie Ergino
Bernard Bazile, Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost
Vaast Colson, François Curlet, Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys, Jeremy Deller & Alan
Kane, Francesco Finizio, Richard Hughes, John Knight, Ahmet Ogut, Sener Ozmen &
Erkan Ozgen, Julien Previeux, Michael Rakowitz, Santiago Sierra, Javier Tellez,
Carey Young + Links *
* Free access links to other projects, artistic or not
Yes, we don't is a paradoxical affirmation, a suspended 'No' that
openly assumes its absence of illusion and destination. It is not the
resistance of Bartleby who with the famous phrase 'I would prefer not
to' neutralised reality to upset the norms. Yes, we don't is more a
playful and transgressive attitude, sometimes skirting the absurd, the
slogan of a posture in which suspension is affirmed before a decision
about possible destinations and measurement of the amplitude of its
reception...
Yes, we don't is formulated in an unprecedented multipolar, virtual
and globalised period, imprinted with the acceleration—without
limits and without reference points—of data pertaining to both the
media and economics and to science and culture. Our perception of
time is therefore dislocated, precipitated and tense. Time is no
longer a homogenous notion but fragmented in the relation of the
subject to the world and in the complex relationships that we have
with the real.
How can we interact with our times? Is it still possible? What are
the means available, if not upsetting then at least occupying and
infiltrating the present? Is it still possible to talk in terms of
territories that are neither those of particularism nor the abstract
space of globalisation, nor above all those of general support of the
politically correct?
The artists assembled in this exhibition centred on the works of
Bernard Bazile and Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost focus on
infiltrating systems, occupying zones of temporary actions and
inflecting the process of certain realities.
The point today is less that of condemning and documenting than of
marking a critical space and organising the appearance there of
multiple forms of insubordination.
The 'public thing' (political and economic power, the street and
daily life, the world-wide web and the media) is thus material for
transformation, ingestion, deviation, transcoding, individual and
collective micro-actions and so forth. More than a support for
credulous involvement, language is used as a transverse tool at the
service of absurdity and desired ambivalence.
Combining energy and irony, these artists weave subtle strategies
that, while they affirm—'Yes'—, display a degree of
negativeness—'we don't'—clearly showing their subversion, now, and
quickly !
CURATORS:
Joël Benzakin, independent curator based in Brussels
Nathalie Ergino, director of the Institut d'art contemporain
The Institut d'art contemporain gratefully acknowledges the support
of the Ministry of Culture and Communication (DRAC Rhône-Alpes), the
Rhône-Alpes region and the city of Villeurbanne and especially for
the exhibition, the support of the Forum Culturel Autrichien.
ALSO ON VIEW:
Bernard Bazile, Brillances, 2011
Courtesy of the artist
In the context of the Laboratory space brain / Station 6
- 20 May–14 August 2011
- Study day: Thursday 30th June 2011, 1.30 PM
Initiated by the artist Ann Veronica Janssens and Nathalie Ergino,
director of the Institut
d'art contemporain, the Laboratory space brain uses experiments in
art to explore theoretical and practical research linking space and
the brain. This interdisciplinary laboratory will assemble the
thoughts and experiences of artists, scientists (working in
neuroscience, astrophysics, etc.), philosophers, anthropologists, art
theoreticians and historians.
Press contact: Delphine Peyronnet: t. +33 (0)4 78034700 f. +33 (0)4 78034709 d.peyronnet@i-ac.eu
Image: Francesco Finizio, Promise Park, 2010 (detail) Postcard © Francesco Finizio
Opening: 19 May 2011, 6.30 p.m.
Institut d'art contemporain
11 rue Docteur Dolard 69100 Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes
Hours: Wednesday to Sunday 1p.m. - 7p.m.
Admission: full: 4 € / reduced: 2,50 €