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20/6/2003

Spectacular, The Art of Action

Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf

June 21, 2003 "THE BIG ESCAPE"
Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset
Followed by a conversation between the artists and Jens Hoffmann

Throughout the last century a lot of effort was put into developing a completely neutral architectural environment for art presentations, something which is obviously not possible. By just re-organizing the very materials that these spaces consist of, we question their objectivity.

- Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset

For the second project of the program SPECTACULAR the museum's collection will be, over the course of a day, dismantled, temporarily removed from its usual location by a professional art handling company, loaded into trucks and reinstalled exactly how it was hung before, after having been taken on a short ride around the museum. This piece directly deals with the most significant part of the museum, its collection and will not add or subtract anything. By this temporary displacement of the permanent collection, Elmgreen & Dragset not only question by simple means the function and dynamics of the museum but they also make a statement about the beauty of doing something absolutely "useless".

The works of Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset deal with issues related to the constitution and deconstruction of power structures within and outside the art world. In particular the artist duo has focused on the white cube as an example of a monomanic public architecture. Since the mid-90's the artists have been among the most important contributors to a new understanding of the term performance. Their work takes issues such as interrelation, duration etc. into consideration and human conditions are discussed not necessarily only through being represented by the body but more often in site specific sculptural works and interactive installations.

Michael Elmgreen (born 1961 in Copenhagen) and Ingar Dragset (born 1969 in Trondheim) recently had solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Zürich and Portikus, Frankfurt a.M. (2001/2003), Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona (2002) and Fondazione Trussardi, Milan (2003). The artist duo has also participated in numerous group shows such as the São Paulo and the Kwangju Biennial (2002); the Istanbul Biennial (2001), Manifesta 3, Lublijana (2000) and they are taking part in this year's Venice Biennial. In 2002 they won the German art prize "Preis der Nationalgalerie für Junge Kunst" at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.

The project of Elmgreen & Dragset is supported by International Art Movers Knab

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SPECTACULAR The Art of Action
April 26 > June 17 > June 21 > August 2 >
September 18 > October 23 > November 8

SPECTACULAR I:
April 26, 2003 6 PM
Pawel Althamer, John Bock, Surasi Kusolwong, Jonathan Monk, Tino Sehgal

SPECTACULAR II:
June 21, 2003
Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset
Followed by a conversation between the artists and Jens Hoffmann

SPECTACULAR III:
August 2, 2003 9 PM
Open-Air Film Screening
Performance-Films and Videos, selected by John Baldessari and Joan Jonas: Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Valie Export, Simone Forti, Gilbert & George, Joan Jonas, Ana Mendieta, Bruce Nauman, Yvonne Rainer and Richard Serra

SPECTACULAR IV :
September 18, 2003 6 PM
Trisha Donnelly, Annika Eriksson, Laura Lima, Kirsten Pieroth, Cai Guo-Qiang, Andreas Slominski, Patrick Tuttofuoco

SPECTACULAR V:
November 8, 2003
Carsten Höller Followed by a conversation between the artist and Jens Hoffmann

Lectures:
June 17, 2003 6 PM
RoseLee Goldberg > The View from Here: A Century of Performance Art

October 23, 2003 6 PM
Dorothea von Hantelmann > Art after Performance

The Foundation museum kunst palast is a Public-Private-Partnership of the City of Düsseldorf, E.ON AG, METRO Group and degussa AG.


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