Daybyday - Another Day
dal 17/2/2006 al 20/5/2006
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Centre international d'art et du paysage
17/2/2006
Daybyday - Another Day
Centre international d'art et du paysage, Ile de Vassiviere
Nico Dockx. For the exhibition the artist accepted to take on the entirety of Aldo Rossi’s cumbersome architecture and to transform it into an evolving laboratory - bringing together sound as well as image, his personal archives and as well as those of his close relations. On this occasion he has invited artists Aglaia Konrad and Mark Luyten with the "Building Transmission" collective to accompany him in producing the exhibition.
Nico Dockx, Aglaia Konrad e Mark Luyten
In spite of its strong vocation for tourism, the Centre international d’art et du
paysage is a place where silence predominates. It conditions the destiny and
activity of the art centre, which, as defined by its particular, archetypal status,
is no ordinary site of transit for artworks but a place for creation and production.
The art, culture, architecture and landscape structure inscribed in the Centre’s
birth certificate obliges the artists to launch into a complex and radical
adventure, to experiment with their own work in relation to these omnipresent and
constituting elements of the site.
This new exhibition by Belgian artist Nico Dockx, opening February 18, 2006, seems
to perfectly incarnate Director Chiara Parisi’s vision for the Vassiviere art
centre. Parisi wishes to engage the Centre more actively in research and, as in
preceding exhibitions, drive it toward site-specific experiments.
Nico Dockx’ practice is particularly varied: artist, archivist, librarian, film
director, curator, graphic artist, translator, performer. For his exhibition at
Vassiviere (as was the case for artists previously invited here), he accepted
to take on the entirety of Aldo Rossi’s cumbersome architecture and to transform it
into an evolving laboratory -bringing together sound as well as image, his personal
archives and as well as those of his close relations.
Dockx’s work continually develops in confrontation with, and in relation to, other
actors. On this occasion he has invited artists Aglaia Konrad and Mark Luyten with
the Building Transmission collective to accompany him in producing the exhibition,
which they intend to enrich with new collaborations and new elements throughout the
duration of the show.
The project "Daybyday - Another Day" is a repetition and an evolution, an
improvisation on the favourable terrain that is time. One thinks of Nietzsche’s
“eternal return", only with an additional element, one more emotion, offered by the
artists each day.
Nico Dockx’s project brings together different processes of production now widely
associated with the exhibition mode: mixing, display, free style, replay.
In this way, The Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’ile de
Vassiviere is becoming a tremendous experimental tool, fully assuming its
function as a centre for art production: no longer showing what has been
accomplished, but that which is in the making, producing the moment rather than the
finished object.
The Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’ile de Vassiviere
becomes a receptacle and platform for rediffusion. The sound material will remain in
the nave of the art centre, but anyone can re-activate Building Transmission’s
project via Internet by visiting http://www.buildingtransmissions.com Other invited
artists will also be able to remix the soundtrack live on Vassiviere Island
and to permanently recreate a different sound for the exhibition.
Five hundred posters published by Nico Dockx form on integral part of the project
and will be distributed to different international contemporary art structures. The
Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’ile de Vassiviere thus
becomes a privileged site for receiving the collection of projects and
collaborations.
The Nico Dockx exhibition, presented within the framework of the Festival
Francophone en France, proposes new ways of entering into contact with
Vassiviere Island and its art centre.
Within the framework of this exhibition, a catalogue is edited by Silvana Editoriale
(Milan). Art direction: Paola Manfrin.
The International Center for Art and Landscape receives support from the Ministry of
Culture and Communication / Drac Limousin, the Limousin Regional Board, the General
Board of la Creuse and the Mixed Regional and Inter-departmental Syndicate of
Vassiviere en Limousin (SYMIVA).
Opening: 18 February 2006 at 6 pm. Live soundtrack performance by Building Transmissions ( http://www.buildingtransmissions.com )
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Ile de Vassiviere
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