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23/1/2009

Three exhibitions

Argos - Centre for Art and Media, Bruxelles

Vito Acconci - Language Works : Video, Audio and Poetry
Exhibition
27 January - 11 April 2009

The work of Vito Acconci (b.1940) is characterised by a thorough approach to research based on (communication) theories about the relationship between artist, image and recipient. The all-encompassing exhibition ‘Language Works – Video, Audio and Poetry’ gives an insight into the practice of this influential artist during the first half of the 1970s, and the importance of the work to subsequent generations, including the present one. In a dozen videos, several audio works, graphic transcriptions and poetic works on paper, Acconci, as a performer, enacts an intense dialogue between the artist and the viewer or listener, their body and psyche, public and private space, subject and object, availability and unavailability, in the form of stream-of-consciousness monologues. The formal renewal of Acconci’s work is thereby of secondary importance to its analytical approach.

Lecture
Vito Acconci – From Word to Action to Architecture
18 February 2009, 8.30pm
Kaaistudios – Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Vaakstraat 81 Rue Notre-Dame du Sommeil, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Entrance fee: 3 euro

Starting out from the language-based works exhibited at Argos, Vito Acconci is giving a talk on his work, from poetry through video and performance art to architecture and design. It seems that the step from one medium to the next is not such a big one – the focus is always on language and body in relation to space.

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Karl Holmqvist - I'm with You in Rockland
Exhibition
27 January - 11 April 200

The work of Karl Holmqvist (b.1964) revolves around inter-human communication, experiments with language in all its aspects, and texts that he presents in printed as well as sonic form. In his performances and videos both the spoken and written word feature centrally. In his works Holmqvist often refers to other artists and figures extracted from popular culture, in particular to the world of rock and pop, as well as religion and politics. His work thereby often smacks of social involvement. Holmqvist’s interactive game of language and text attempts to measure the temperature of our everyday life. As a contemporary counterpart to Vito Acconci’s historically important language based oeuvre that is being shown in parallel, Argos presents Holmvqist’s ‘I’m with you in Rockland’, a video work that is exclusively composed of a black image with white subtitles, where the artist on the soundtrack navigates between extraneous quotes extracted from the media and pop culture.

The work of Karl Holmqvist (b.1964) revolves around inter-human communication, experiments with language in all its aspects, and texts that he presents in printed as well as sonic form. In his performances and videos both the spoken and written word feature centrally. In his works Holmqvist often refers to other artists and figures extracted from popular culture, in particular to the world of rock and pop, as well as religion and politics. His work thereby often smacks of social involvement. Holmqvist’s interactive game of language and text attempts to measure the temperature of our everyday life. As a contemporary counterpart to Vito Acconci’s historically important language based oeuvre that is being shown in parallel, Argos presents Holmvqist’s ‘I’m with you in Rockland’, a video work that is exclusively composed of a black image with white subtitles, where the artist on the soundtrack navigates between extraneous quotes extracted from the media and pop culture.

Performance
Karl Holmqvist – You Blew Up my House
13 February 2009, 10pm
Kaaistudio's, Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Vaakstraat 81 Rue Notre-Dame du Sommeil, 1000 Brussels

A spoken word reading that mixes pop culture with song lyrics and political slogans. This text was first written by Holmqvist for The Serpentine Gallery Manifesto Marathon (London, October 2008) where artists were encouraged to present manifestoes for the 21st century.
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Steve Reinke : Boy / Analysis: An Abridgement of Melanie Klein's "Narrative of a Child Analysis"
Screening | Blackbox
27 January - 7 February 2009

Disrupted identities and unconscious dynamics are ever-recurring motives in Steve Reinke’s work. With great rhetorical suppleness he ties together observations and speculations on ego, sexuality, nostalgia and artistic practice. The content of the rogue computer animation ‘Boy / Analysis’ is perfectly illustrated by the integral title, namely, a drastic abbreviation of Melanie Klein’s 1961 key study on child psychology. The initial 93 sessions the psychoanalyst booked with a ten-year-old boy, are reduced down to 16 by Reinke, and thoroughly illuminated. Tumbling around, appearing and disappearing against a black background, are text fragments. A score from Benjamin Britten orchestrates this semantic ballet in which the most arbitrary associations can be made. Colour illustrations, a copy of a drawing of the child that was recorded as an appendix in Klein’s book, and comparable naive sketches that Reinke received from artist Emily Vey Duke, follow as coda. Seldom did Reinke – always working with archival material, found footage or his own memories – go so far with his irony as to instil new life into dead material. The destabilising of the individual, one of his fixed points of interest, rises to the top here with an unsurreptitious lightness. The black background against which the text fragments appear in folds, give one, as viewer, the oceanic sensation of a universe, thought from the devouring black hole of the unconscious.

Image: Vito Acconci

Opening: 24.01.09 // 18:00 – 21:00

Argos Centre for Art & Media
Werfstraat 13 Rue du Chantier, 1000 Brussels
Tuesday to Saturday // 12.00 - 19.00

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