Matter of Fact
dal 4/12/2008 al 13/12/2008
Segnalato da
Jeremiah Day
Renzo Martens
Olaf Nicolai
Adam Pendleton
Falke Pisano
Will Holder
Ricardo Valentim
Krist Gruijthuijsen
4/12/2008
Matter of Fact
Galeria Vermelho, Sao Paulo
Aftermath. The project explores educational aesthetics in performativity. Questioning the transmission of subject matter, knowledge and content, the performer implies pedagogical methods when speculating on the formality of artistic, fictitious and personal politics of history. Curated by Krist Gruijthuijsen.
curated by Krist Gruijthuijsen
The program Matter of Fact explores
educational aesthetics in performativity. Questioning the transmission of
subject matter, knowledge and content, the performer implies pedagogical
methods when speculating on the formality of artistic, fictitious and
personal politics of history. A small 'cast' of contributors are using the
timeframe of the exhibition as a point of departure to reflect upon their
own method of transcending knowledge. Their specificities range from the
pure formality of the conscious, language as a visual spectacle, mediators
of cultural production and epic emancipators of utopian (political)
potentialities.
The program of Matter of Fact was especially designed
for Manifesta 7's 'Principle Hope' and took on a process-based structure
in which each contributor was working towards a 'result'. As Manifesta 7
is coming to an end, Matter of Fact encourages itself to continue
discussing its potential results in a form of an 'aftermath'. This
'aftermath' comprises of a series of performances by Adam Pendleton, Falke
Pisano and Will holder, a series of screenings by Renzo Martens, Falke
Pisano and Ricardo Valentim and various presentations by Jeremiah Day and
Olaf Nicolai. As the initial discourse of Manifesta is debating the
notion of Europe, Matter of Fact stretches its contextual boundaries by
presenting its 'aftermath' in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Contributors: Jeremiah Day, Renzo Martens, Olaf Nicolai, Adam Pendleton,
Falke Pisano/Will Holder, Ricardo Valentim
Opening: 05/12/08 at 18
Program::
19h30 / 20h30 / 21h30 / 22h30: Screening Ricardo Valentim Focus: Latin America
20h: Performance of Falke Pisano/Will Holder
22h: Performance of Adam Pendleton BLACK DADA: A History of Art
Permanently on Display
- Jeremiah Day: Audio compilation of texts/performances
- Olaf Nicolai: All issues of Instructions how to produce a site specific work anywhere (from 2001 on)
- Renzo Martens: permanent screening of "Untitled, fragment of Episode 3 (2008), 12 min. and fragment of Episode 1 (2003), 45 min.
- Falke Pisano/Will Holder: Display of publication + permanent screening of compilation DVD Falke Pisano;
"Chillida - Forms and Feelings" (2006), 14 min.
"A Sculpture Turning Into A Conversation" (2006), 25 min.
"The Complex Object - Affecting Abstraction #3.1" (2007), 21 min.
Galeria Vermelho
Rua Minas Gerais 350 - Sao Paulo