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27/10/2006

Love and Anarchy

K3 Project Space, Zurich

Art as provocation, appropriation, event, action and process

The exhibition “Love and Anarchy", curated by Lucia Farinati and Miriam Steinhauser, brings together London and Zurich-based artists in a project that somehow attempts to re-visit a Dadaistic spirit and attitude by means of art as provocation, appropriation, event, action and process.

The project takes its cue from the film Love and Anarchy (1973) by acclaimed Italian director Lina Wertmuller. Set in the fascist-dominated Italy of the 1930s, the film tells the story of an anarchist who comes from the country to Rome with the intention of assassinating Mussolini.

The K3 Project Space will be transformed into a performative space. Text-based work will be displayed and performed, drawings will interweave, music will be played live, idiosyncratic and emotional displays will be staged and projected in a lively, intense and free exchange of values and ideas.

Works

In “A Speech by Malcolm X" Andrea Crociani (London) investigates the appropriation of texts, freedom of expression and political thinking. The work consists of a series of large sheets of paper glued directly onto the wall, on which the words of one of the last speeches given by Malcolm X before he was murdered in February 1965, are printed in alphabetical order.

“Human suffering from being very rich, human suffering found dead in a ditch" so sang Duncan Dung (aka Duncan Jack 1965-1998) singer and ‘musician’ with the anarchic 80s DIY band “What is oil". For the opening of the exhibition the song Human Suffering will be performed live by Richard Crow (London) as an act of love, loyalty and outrage at the premature death of a one time friend and comrade.

Esther Eppstein (Zurich) founded “message salon" in Zurich in the 90s, a vivid space for exhibitions, concerts, and performances. Besides her curatorial practice, she operates as DJ SISTA ESTA, and, once again, she will perform at the opening her “Disco installation", a late-night celebration of Love and Anarchy.

In the black and white drawings of Ingo Giezendanner (alias grrrr, Zurich), urban scenarios of the metropolis, familiar, overlooked and marginal spaces are recorded obsessively. For the exhibition he will create a new wall drawing alongside a video animation.

In Walking After Acconci (Redirected Approaches) 2005, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard (London) reference a seminal video work made in 1973 by performance artist Vito Acconci. In it, Acconci paces the length of a corridor, talking to an absent ex-lover. Forsyth and Pollard worked closely with Plan B (679 Recordings), a sharp-tongued young MC, to update the script and re-shoot the video, liberally adopting the style and aesthetic of contemporary urban music videos.

Paula Roush’s (London) installation for K3 is a collection of vinyl LPs documenting her ongoing project Protest Academy, an inquiry into Tactile Audio and the sonification of protest. From political demonstrations to intimate acts of personal resistance, the project examines the relationship between sound and political intention and pinpoints emerging forms of audio organisation including artistic collaborations, activist practices and ad-hoc impromptu performative actions.

Miriam Steinhauser (Zurich) interrogates strategies of globalised economic power. She takes pictures of corporate buildings and then transforms these photographs into 3-D objects. For the exhibition at K3, she has produced a new series of large-scale cardboard models of corporate headquarters in Switzerland.

A series of objects related to love and anarchy, radio recordings taken in 2001 after 9/11, merchandising, text and pictures constitute the specially created installation by Susann Walder (Zurich).
As Walder has stated she “does not know what Anarchy means", she just said a few words about Love: “love hurts, love kills, love is love is love is love".

Private view: Sat 28 October 2006, 8pm till late

K3 Project Space
Hardstrasse 219 - Zurich

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