Ei Arakawa, JXXXA HFBK HH & Yuki Kimura
dal 23/6/2011 al 5/8/2011
Segnalato da
23/6/2011
Ei Arakawa, JXXXA HFBK HH & Yuki Kimura
Daad Galerie, Berlin
Abstract-Mad-Stir-Delirium-Copper-Bottomed-Work-Stick-Shop. The project is part of the artists' ongoing inquiry into the potential of artistic collaboration and the momentary disintegration of authorship in improvisational performances and actions in different constellations of engagement.
Abstract-Mad-Stir-Delirium-Copper-Bottomed-Work-Stick-Shop is a project by Ei Arakawa, Yuki Kimura and
JXXXA HFBK HH (Jutta Koether in collaboration with students of the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg). A
performance scheduled for Friday, 24 June at 8pm, will be the source and motive for a collaborative exhibition at
the daadgalerie.
The project is part of the artists’ ongoing inquiry into the potential of artistic collaboration and the momentary
disintegration of authorship in improvisational performances and actions in different constellations of
engagement. A number of partly painted metal poles are the formal elements that will motivate a series of
individual and collective actions translate knowledge and subjective identification into corporality and movement.
Within the same time unit and using the same makeshift objects, different artistic propositions and seemingly
contradictory concepts are introduced in order to “shape and re-shape one’s thinking with an unusual
treatment/handling of pictures/objects” (Koether). In the process, the scripted and non-scripted acts - shifting
between constructing and destroying an activated communal space of performance - produce the material for the
project’s subsequent transformation into an exhibition. Abstract-Mad-Stir-Delirium-Copper-Bottomed-Work-Stick-
Shop is a continuation of a collaborative installation by Yuki Kimura, Jutta Koether, and Ei Arakawa conceived
earlier this year for a group exhibition at the Contemporary Art Center in Mito, Japan.
Ei Arakawa (*1977 in Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan) lives and works in New York. Recent exhibitions and
performances include Hurt Locker Instruments, Casco - The Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht, The
Netherlands (2010); Quasar <> Lanterns, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2009) (with Sergei Tcherepnin); Non-solo
show, Non-group show, Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland (2009). Recent group exhibitions include That ́s the Way
We Do It, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2011), The Other Tradition, Wiels, Belgium (2011), Greater New York,
MoMA PS1, New York (2010) (as Grand Openings). In 2009, Arakawa was a guest of Berliner
Künstlerprogramm/ DAAD.
Yuki Kimura (*1971 in Kyoto, Japan) lives and works in Kyoto. Recent solo exhibitions include Untitled, Izu Photo
Museum Shizuoka (2010); Year 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday, Taka Ishii Gallery Tokyo (2009);
POSTERIORITY, Daiwa Press Viewing Room, Hiroshima (2009). Recent group shows include Kaza Ana / Air
Hole: Another Form of Conceptualism from Asia, The National Museum of Art, Osaka; Quiet Attentions:
Departure from Women, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito.
Jutta Koether (*1958 in Cologne, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. Since 2010 she has been a professor at
the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg. Recent solo exhibitions include Jutta Koether: The Thirst, Moderna
Museet, Stockholm (2011); Berliner Schlüssel, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin (2011); Leibhaftige Malerei
JXXXA, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway (2008); Fantasia Colonia, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2006). Recent
group shows include Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2009); Jutta Koether / John
Miller, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2008).
Press:
artpress – Ute Weingarten
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Performance: Friday, 24 June, 8pm
daadgalerie
Zimmerstr. 90/91 - 10117 Berlin
Mon-Sat 11am-6pm