Two exhibitions
dal 5/3/2004 al 10/4/2004
Segnalato da
5/3/2004
Two exhibitions
Ellen de Bruijne, Amsterdam
At Ellen de Bruijne Projects Michael Smith will show his video 'do it' (or How to Curate your Own Group Exhibition), produced by the Museum in Progress. Kangaroo Productions (Elissa Santiago & Voin de Voin): Kangaroo Productions are back. This time in a sublime catwalk of their changing faces, crushing ice, thinking of glass.
Michael Smith
6 March - 10 April
Michael Smith is a video and performance artist who invokes the routines of
popular comedy to articulate the banality and hype of mass consumer
culture, and the isolation of those whose inner lives are defined by it. In
a series of videotapes, performances and installations, which he has
produced since the late 1970s, Smith chronicles the trivial dreams and
adventures of his eponymous alter-ego, the bland, deadpan "Mike," a
postmodern Everyman who believes everything and understands nothing in his
media-saturated world.
The tragicomic tales of this underdog hero are performed by Smith within
the parodic context of pop cultural formats: sitcoms, music videos, TV ads,
variety and game shows. Smith's cunning lies in turning the media back on
itself, in connecting the worlds of art and pop, culture and kitsch, an
ironic approach that prompted
J. Hoberman of The Village Voice to call him "a lower Manhattan cross
between Rodney Dangerfield and Joseph K."
At Ellen de Bruijne Projects Michael Smith will show his video "do it" (or
How to Curate your Own Group Exhibition), produced by the Museum in
Progress. Also on view the slide show "The Second Annual Finals of the
U.S.A. Freestyle Disco Championship". And his latest video work "Famous
Quotes From Art History", produced by the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. In this
short video, Smith parodies the sort of cultural and educational
programming interlude that one might see on European or American public
television. Famous Quotes From Art History presents the bon mots of Henri
Matisse as drolly recited, in French, by Smith, who then executes Matisse's
suggestions with hilarious literalism.
Michael Smith was born in 1951, he lives and works in New York.
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AT DOLORES:
Kangaroo Productions (Elissa Santiago & Voin de Voin)
6 March - 27 March
Kangaroo Productions are back.
This time in a sublime catwalk of their changing faces, crushing ice,
thinking of glass.
They walk posing questions of the emotional capacity of freedom to the
local citizens/social realism-a fundamental failure and inability to
confront their own characters. They play with parenthesis of
'the pleasure tendency'.
Decline of pleasure; rise of leisure 'pleasure is defined as
self-determination and un-paid for enjoyment' whilst leisure is 'managed,
mediated and paid -for recreation.'
Dogs bark, the caravan travels on...their art's superfluous, on fire,
so they build a tower of New Babylon.
Performance: 6 March, 17.00- 19.00h (during the opening)
Installation: 6 - 29 March
Opening: Sat. 6 March 17.00-19.00h / Exhibition: 6 March - 10 April
Opening times: Tuesday - Saturday 13.00-18.00h, 1st Sunday of the month
14.00-17.00h
Ellen de Bruijne
Rozengracht 207 A
1016 LZ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
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fax. +31(0) 20 530 4990