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14/2/2007

Doomsday celebration

castillo/corrales, Paris

Group show

curated by Thomas Boutoux and Oscar Tuazon

Artists: Vito Acconci - Jay Chung - Maurice Girodias - Gardar Eide Einarsson

A project that went too far, got out of hand, completely fucked up your life. If you could describe it (you can't) anyway who would believe you, no one else could understand, what would be the point? For a particular kind of disastrous confusion of fiction and reality, there's nothing to communicate-- Leave a message. A funny/pathetic sheet of emergency instructions, found on the Anti-Defamation League website, reprinted as a poster by Gardar Eide Einarsson, acts as a kind of standard 'last words': a useless backup plan, plan B, the 6 P's… In 1970, Vito Acconci had two girlfriends. He tried to make an art project out of it, and this is what's left: an aborted 'piece': a couple of pages torn from a diary, documents of an impossible, deranged, satanic project. Finally, maybe there just isn't much to say? Jay Chung sends an invitation to a party we weren't invited to, or that never happened. "comment un livre peut précipiter son éditeur dans la déchéance totale"-- the story of a man playing a tragic character in his own autobiography, more book than man, Maurice Girodias.

But that's the risk, isn't it?— you wrote yourself as a character in your own biography, now live it... It's after hours at the gallery—the roll down door is closed, the heating is off and it's cold, it's dark. A private viewing, a small party, a funeral. Come in through the back door, if you can find it, and down the dark hallway/pissoir. The final show, retirement party, closing up shop, going out of business sale, nothing more to say: we are going into business.

Opening: Thursday February 15, 18:00--22:00
February 16-17, 12:00-19:00
until March 23 by appointment only

castillo/corrales
65 Rue Rebeval - Paris
Free admission

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