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4/5/2007

the backroom

Kadist Art Foundation, Paris

Société Anonyme

the backroom focuses on artist’s interests and inspirations rather than the ‘final product’ of their practice. People are invited to loan source material that they have accumulated because of an interest they have with a subject or phenomena. The contributions could focus on a person, or event, or it may be a number of loosely associated documents, objects, audio or film footage that has relevance for the artist. The materials are sometimes related to a project in development, or they are something that hasn’t made its way into a work but relate to social, cultural or political stimuli.

Through the duration of the project, the archive will constantly be updated by new contributions. A series of projections and presentations will also take place on some Tuesday evenings (dates will be confirmed soon).

the backroom will feature contributions by: Richard Aldrich, John M. Armleder, Walead Beshty, Pierre Bismuth, Anne Collier, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Dennis Crompton (Archigram), Jeremy Deller, Kota Ezawa, Claire Fontaine, Ryan Gander, Mario Garcia Torres, Amy Granat, Felix Gmelin, Hassan Khan, Sam Green, David Hatcher, Paul Ramírez Jonas, William Jones, Stephen Kaltenbach, Thomas Lawson, Jesse Lerner, Lim Tzay Chuen, Nate Lowman, Lu Jie, Marko Lulic, Raimundas Malasauskas, Erlea Maneros, John Menick, Naeem Mohaiemen, Julian Myers, Michelle O'Marah, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Raqs Media Collective, Sean Snyder, Tercerunquinto, Jeffery Vallance, Miguel Ventura

This iteration of the backroom is organized in relation to the exhibition Société Anonyme,in order to question and make visible a situation of research inherent in the installation of an artistic project.

Société Anonyme is an experimental situation, organised around the temporary gathering in Paris of several artistic initiatives and art structures – either run by artists or curators – based in various cities around the world (Antwerpen, Berlin , New York, Prague , Zagreb, Beyrouth , Mexico, Amsterdam , Copenhagen, and Saint Petersburg).

These initiatives, who all work through different channels (journals, exhibitions, publishing, discussion forums, television, sound-making, film production, etc.) are invited to temporarily shift to Paris for a given period of time in order to find there a new relevant context from which they would develop their activities in collaboration with French artists and intellectuals. In this sense Société Anonyme at Le Plateau is envisioned as a kind of harbour where these different groups and structures would provisionally anchor in order to imagine and initiate new projects following each own particular terms, objectives and methodologies with like-minded French practitioners.

Invited artists/organisations are (provisionally list): 16 Beaver / René Gabri & Ayreen Anastas (New York), What is to be done? (Saint Petersburg), Erick Beltran (Mexico DF), tv-tv (Copenhagen), Nico Dockx (Antwerpen), What, How & for Whom (Zagreb), Tranzit / Vitek Havranek (Prague), Be-Books (Berlin), "Curating the Library"/Moritz Küng (Antwerpen), Roma Publications (Amsterdam)

The groups and organisations invited to Société Anonyme have been chosen for the ways they have invented and fostered original approaches towards artistic practices and production in the form of relevant alternatives to the mainstream art institutions (museums, galleries, commercial publishing, academies, biennials, art fairs, etc). As well as, of course, for their proven skills to intervene in local situations different from the contexts that they originate from and are mainly active in, and their openness to share their experiences of production with others.

By transforming, with Société Anonyme, the venue of Le Plateau into a kind of collective office or theatre of operations, the curators want to make visible and intelligible to the French audience the energies that fuel the practices of these different structures and collectives, their respective economic apparatuses, and the various modalities that they have engineered so as to stimulate the work of artists and researchers or to specify the contributions of artistic and intellectual productions to the contemporary world

Each structure will present inside the space of Le Plateau both parts of its past productions and the research in motion carried in Paris, through displays and a programme of public events (that can take the form of conversations, screenings, actions, small exhibits, performances, concerts, lectures, discussions, studio work, collective research situation, dinners, parties, etc). While multiplying the occasions and modes of encounter, exchange, dialogue and sociability with the public of Le Plateau and the French artistic community, we hope to promote a real circulation of ideas, problematics, and forms of dialogue within the contemporary art world, as well as inspire in Paris the imagination of new modes of behaviour, attitudes, practices and will in relation to art today.

All along, France-based artistic initiatives, artists, and art students will be involved as well in the activities and dynamics of the whole project. A publication with contributions that will be generated during Société Anonyme, based on the open-content and do-it-yourself ideas will document this experience.

For More Information Please Visit http://societeanonyme.blogg.org/

Opening: May 5

The Kadist Foundation
19 bis - 21 rue des Trois Frères - 75018 Paris

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