'GESTURE' - FEBRUARY 2009
10 & 11 FEBRUARY: SESSION WITH SARAH PIERCE
Reading: “Notes on Gesture”, in Means without Ends, Giorgio Agamben, 1992. Film screening: Chronicle of a Summer, dir. Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin, 1961.
Reading: “Notes on Gesture”, in Means without Ends, Giorgio Agamben, 1992. Film screening: Chronicle of a Summer, dir. Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin, 1961.
Still from Jean Rouch' 'Chronique d'un été' (1960)
14 & 15 FEBRUARY: VISIT EXHIBITION ‘COALESCE’
Individual interviews with Sarah Pierce in the exhibition 'Coalesce' in Smart Project Space, Amsterdam. Pierce asked the students to collaborate on a new work in relation to 'If I Can't Dance: "I often work with the medium of conversations, we will site this aspect in the exhibition Coalesce now at SMART. Here, the exhibition is an anthropological site masquerading as a film set. 10 conversations with students from the Dutch Art Institute will be focused on questions of production, being a student, the status of student work and the notion of exhibiting or display. The conversations will be filmed and are accessible to a transient audience walking through the show.
COALESCE: HAPPENSTANCE, 10.02.2009 - 22.02.2009
'Coalesce' was the title of an evolutionary exhibition project, initiated by curator Paul O'Neill (Bristol) in 2003. 'Coalesce: Happenstance' at SMART Project Space is the final version of the project and is the culmination of O'Neill's past six years of research and development into the possibility of an exhibition as a form of co-production between multiple agencies. Artists from previous editions (in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Spain) were gathered together for this large cumulative show. 'Coalesce: Happenstance' is an evolving exhibition as a work of art in progress, it posits exhibition-making as a form of artistic practice where the accumulation of actors and actions co-produce a single co-habited exhibition form.
Individual interviews with Sarah Pierce in the exhibition 'Coalesce' in Smart Project Space, Amsterdam. Pierce asked the students to collaborate on a new work in relation to 'If I Can't Dance: "I often work with the medium of conversations, we will site this aspect in the exhibition Coalesce now at SMART. Here, the exhibition is an anthropological site masquerading as a film set. 10 conversations with students from the Dutch Art Institute will be focused on questions of production, being a student, the status of student work and the notion of exhibiting or display. The conversations will be filmed and are accessible to a transient audience walking through the show.
COALESCE: HAPPENSTANCE, 10.02.2009 - 22.02.2009
'Coalesce' was the title of an evolutionary exhibition project, initiated by curator Paul O'Neill (Bristol) in 2003. 'Coalesce: Happenstance' at SMART Project Space is the final version of the project and is the culmination of O'Neill's past six years of research and development into the possibility of an exhibition as a form of co-production between multiple agencies. Artists from previous editions (in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Spain) were gathered together for this large cumulative show. 'Coalesce: Happenstance' is an evolving exhibition as a work of art in progress, it posits exhibition-making as a form of artistic practice where the accumulation of actors and actions co-produce a single co-habited exhibition form.
Installation view of 'Coalesce: Happenstance', at SMART Project Space, Amsterdam.
Sarah Pierce is an artist who lives in Dublin where she organizes The Metropolitan Complex: a project that uses talks, papers, exhibitions, and archives, often opening up these structures to the personal and the incidental. Recent projects include It's Time Man. It feels imminent, at ICA London, de Appel Amsterdam, and Four Dublin; The Meaning of Greatness at Project Dublin, the 2nd Moscow Biennale, and the MuHKA Antwerp; and Monk's Garden in the Irish Pavilion, 51st Venice Biennale. In 2004, she co-founded the Paraeducation Department with Annie Fletcher at Witte de With/TENT., Rotterdam.
