Arte Contempo
Lisboa
R. dos Navegantes, 46A
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Anton Vidokle
dal 24/6/2009 al 17/7/2009

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24/6/2009

Anton Vidokle

Arte Contempo, Lisboa

Cycle Estates-General. The artist has experimented with a number of economic and cultural models ranging from a library to a video rental shop, from a school to an art journal to a cafeteria. For this exhibition he will present several new works in the form of an archive.


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'Estates-General' is pleased to present EXHIBITION AS SCHOOL, an exhibition of recent works by Anton Vidokle. The exhibition will open on Thursday, June 25th and will stay on view through July 18th, 2009. Together with a large group of collaborators that includes Julieta Aranda, Boris Groys, Liam Gillick, Martha Rosler, Walid Raad, Nikolaus Hirsch, Brian Kuan Wood, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Hila Peleg, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Jan Verwoert, among others; Vidokle has experimented with a number of economic and cultural models ranging from a library to a video rental shop, from a school to an art journal to a cafeteria.

In projects such as Unitednationsplaza, Martha Rosler Library, e-flux video rental, Pawnshop, Night School, e-flux journal and New York Conversations, Vidokle has constructed temporary yet fully functional situations capable of existing both within and without institutions of Art. Together, these projects constitute a body of work that re-imagines the poetic and organizational potentialities of concrete social forms. By converting an exhibition into a school, a panel discussion at an art fair into a courtroom or an artist's private library into a public reading room, Vidokle has continuously attempted to question the parameters and conditions around the discourse, production, and circulation of art, while recognizing this act of questioning as itself a distinct art practice.

For his exhibition at 'Estates-General' Vidokle will present several new works in the form of an archive: a scale model of the building which housed Unitednationsplaza in Berlin—a free year-long school initiated by the artist in 2006 following the cancellation of Manifesta 6 on Cyprus; a video database comprising nearly 100 lectures, talks and seminars organized by Vidokle throughout the past 3 years in Berlin, Mexico City and New York; New York Conversations, a new feature film shot at e-flux's Lower East Side storefront during a three day public editorial session for issue #18 of A Prior magazine in Summer 2008 in which the storefront was transformed into a temporary free restaurant; a print version of e-flux journal; and various publications from his diverse projects.

A lecture by Berlin-based critic Jan Verwoert on artistic authority will take place as part of the exhibition on June 27th at 9:30 PM.

Anton Vidokle was born in Moscow and is based in New York and Berlin.

opening june 25th, 2009

Arte Contempo
R. dos Navegantes, 46A - Lisboa
Free admission

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Anton Vidokle
dal 24/6/2009 al 17/7/2009

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