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31/3/2006

Royal Wedding

Console, Paris

Royal Wedding is a video essay on relationships with reality in contemporary practices in art, infotainment and other associated formats. Expanded broadens this exhibition through new artistic proposals.

<< (…) the broadcast of the royal wedding implied that the British Empire was made to end up as a wonderful television broadcast. >> (see Umberto Eco’s 1983 famous book : << Television : The Lost Transparence >>.)

Royal Wedding is presented on a monitor in Console’s living room (an apartment-gallery in Paris), after its first diffusion in 2004 at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Geneva. The think piece was made by means of postproduction curation. Excerpts and quotations of video work by artists of different generations (among them Dan Graham, Pierre Huyghe, Jonas Mekas, Barbara Visser…) are brought to bear on material from various sources, from the sphere of infotainment (reality TV, documentaries, movies, etc.).

For this second episode expanded, artists are invited to inhabit the various spaces of the apartment, in order to widen video essay’s reflections through photographs, sound pieces, installations, etc. : Julien Audebert, Philippe Million, Yann Se'randour, Julien Cre'pieux, Ottoanna and the platform L’Appareil. Artists’ books are on display in the reading room. Michael Roy, Hsia Fei Chang, Nicolas Simarik… Two listening stands (Vibro and S13) and miscellaneous documentary researches (Marshall McLuhan, Guy Debord…) are at the audience’s disposal.

La Se'ance ( the 9 of April, at 5pm) is an artists’ videos and films projection : Guillaume Se'gur Ici et maintenant, Marie Voignier Western DDR, John Smith The Girl Chewing Gum, Flavio Bonetti Normale, Brice Dellsperger Body Double).

In its endeavor to restore a << raw >> reality, art finds itself on a path parallel to that taken by formats generally associated with infotainment. Live broadcast and its simulation, an obsession with real time, the disappearance of the whole concept of off-camera, the use of shots from different angles and the choice of subjects such as daily life and the disclosure of the intimate, come together to produce reality effects. Contemporary art seems to have seized upon these effects to produce a critical discourse. Art’s borrowings from realistic fiction, reality TV and documentaries (and vice - versa) do not content themselves with operating a passage from an archaic form of realism to a revamped form of hyperrealism. They provoke the sensation that what we are seeing is an aesthetic hallucination of reality. This is the starting point for production of situations, for the production of the real rather than its presentation or representation.

Royal Wedding expanded, a project carried out by Muriel Colin-Barrand and the Session13 of l’Ecole du Magasin : Katia Anguelova, Julien Blanpied, Albane Duvillier, Thierry Leviez, Guillaume Mansart and Cle'ment Nouet.

Royal Wedding, a video essay produced by the Session13 of L’Ecole du Magasin, supervised by Vincent Pe'coil, art critic and independant curator.

Opening: Saturday 1 April 2006

Console
14 rue de la Folie Regnault - Paris
Open from Wednesday to Saturday : 3 pm - 7 :30pm

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