Florian Zeyfang, Clemens Krümmel, Julie Doucet, Romana Schmalisch, Moritz Fehr
Florian Zeyfang : Clemens Krümmel : Guests Thinking Like A Stone with Julie Doucet, Romana Schmalisch, Moritz Fehr
Opening Friday, November 16, 2012, 7 pm Exhibition November 17 – Dezember 30, 2012 open by appointment on +49(0)179.947 3040
Filmshow & Talk Friday, Dezember 14, 7 pm “Nowhere Man”, Japan 1991, Director: Naoto Takenaka
«The pebble is not an easy thing to define. If we content ourselves with a simple description, we can say first of all that it is a form or a state between a rock and a stone. But this proposition implies a notion of stone that must be justified. I don’t want to be accused here of going back even further than the Flood.» Francis Ponge
CIVIC VIRTUE (a neoclassical revival), in collaboration with Kinga Kielczynska, present their recent work on the topic of divination, pseudo-sciences and self-fulfilling prophesies.
Opening Friday, September, 28, 2012, ab 19 Uhr Performance at 9 pm
Exhibition September 29 – November 3, 2012 open by appointment on +49(0)179.947 3040
Reading the entrails of sacrificial animals was an important religious duty performed by the priests of antiquity. From the level of personal relations to matters of state and conquest, the interpretation of chance embodied an appeal to the authority of the gods. CIVIC VIRTUE asserts that prophecy is a worthy course of investigation, for an understanding of a past which may or may not have already happened, and for an insight into what we may expect from a world yet unborn. Representing the architecture of temples, the ambiguity of oracles and the underlying structures within games of chance, CIVIC VIRTUE explores the potential of narrative evolution in space, the augury of modern economics, and the problems of repeatability.
Based in Amsterdam, CIVIC VIRTUE
was established in 2010 around a shared interest in social communities
who organize themselves around symbols of power and virtue, as well as
the continual re-emergence of these signs over the course of history.
CIVIC VIRTUE seeks to place these symbols and allegories beyond any
specific historical, political or social appropriation. As a platform
for research and performance, CIVIC VIRTUE are currently on their Grand
Tour around Europe, through the entrails of history and past important
monuments of revival.
Kristian Byskov, Pia Eikaas, Martin Haufe, Benny Henningsen, Margarita del Carmen, Anna Ørberg, Vladas Suncovas
‚Research is a collective exhibition put together by seven students
from the School of Walls and Space, at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine
Arts, Copenhagen. The School is led by Professor Nils Norman who
describes the School as: „(…) a multi-layered micro-institution that
encourages the development of an inter-disciplinary research-based
practice.“* It is our ambition to focus on this certain kind of
research-based practice and to take it into an experimental and more
risky field. What ever event occurs in this process will act in an
immediate change in the bodies of the participants and
therefore undoubtedly react into the space. We hereby present what will only be known on the date of the 14th of April (but may be will never be fully understood).
‚Research: Kristian Byskov, Pia Eikaas, Martin Haufe, Benny Henningsen, Margarita del Carmen, Anna Ørberg, Vladas Suncovas
*The apostrophe is a reference to the science of ‚pataphysics, conceptualized by Alfred Jarry, 1893, as: „The science of imaginary solutions…“
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Opening Friday, April 13, 2012 at 19h Exhibition April 14 – May 19, 2012 open by appointment
