SALA REKALDE - EDITION III, EPISODE 2
Episode 2 of Edition III - Masquerade took place in Sala Rekalde in Bilbao. The second episode includes a presentation in the Abstract Cabinet of Sala Rekalde, on show until the 19th of April, and a programme of performances on the 12th and the 13th of March.
The programme includes different approaches to the live moment, to the addressing of audience and to negotiating the notion of site. Jon Mikel Euba will work with students from the University of the Basque Country and other young artists from Bilbao on a ten-day lock-in experiment. Suchan Kinoshita will develop a new performance for attending visitors that considers the performative nature of the art space. Keren Cytter will present a theatrical performance on changing roles and modes of sexual assignation. Sarah Pierce will research the potential and agency of a gathering, while Joachim Koester focuses on the gestures of the individual. Olivier Foulon will narrate a story of painting and the models and masks it produces.
The exhibition in the Abstract Cabinet of Sala Rekalde will elaborate on each of these individual projects-in-development, including works in progress, documentation of previous stages, sources and related printed matter.
PROGRAMME EPISODE 2 of EDITION III - MASQUERADE
PRESENTATION
Keren Cytter, Jon Mikel Euba, Olivier Foulon, Suchan Kinoshita, Joachim Koester, Sarah Pierce, documentation, notes, sources, sketches...
[ongoing] December 18 - April 19, Abstract Cabinet, Sala Rekalde
JOACHIM KOESTER: Figures Of Different Characters
Thinking about the unconscious gesture, Joachim Koester is exploring in a new series of works the terra incognita of the body and mind. READ MORE
March 13 - introduction to the project, Abstract Cabinet, Sala Rekalde, 20.00-21.00
KEREN CYTTER: Performer/Audience/Mirror
The character of Cytter’s work employs the formulation of an alienated theatricality and a highly stylized vernacular of acting. Here these elements find form in a series of performances and films under the umbrella title 'History in the Making' which all spring from the same story and will lead from one to the other during the project’s development. READ MORE
March 12 - performance, Centro Cívico San Francisco, 18.00-18.30
March 13 - performance, Centro Cívico San Francisco, 19.00-19.30
JON MIKEL EUBA: RE:WRITING RE:HORSE
Jon Mike Euba's multi-faceted performance 'Re: Horse', described by him as a "live concert of images", fuses elements of a live impromptu filming with the mistake-filled context of the rehearsal. A white horse, live present in the space, and a projection of the legendary recording made by Andy Warhol of a rehearsal of the Velvet Underground ('Symphony of Sounds') are connected by a score that is executed by two cameramen. In the film they shoot, numerous connections are made between man and woman, human being and animal, object and limb etc. READ MORE
February 23–27, March 2-6 - lock-in experiment, Abstract Cabinet, Sala Rekalde
OLIVIER FOULON: The Soliloquy of the Broom
Olivier Foulon’s project 'The Soliloquy of the Broom' focuses on the concept of masquerade in relation to painting. Central to this work is the portrait 'Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl' painted by Gustave Courbet in 1865 in Trouville. It shows a lady named Jo, mistress and model of the artist James Whistler, looking at herself and her hair in a mirror. Due to great demand Gustave Courbet copied the painting several times.
The four versions belong nowadays to the Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, the National Museum of Stockholm and to a private collector. Olivier Foulon brought the four paintings together with the help of 16mm film and visualizes not only early forms of mass production in art, but works with the concept of a model that is used as a template for a painting which itself then becomes the model for another painting. Olivier Foulon's artistic work shows arrangements through which art history can be renegotiated and interpreted anew. READ MORE
March 12 - lecture performance, Abstract Cabinet, Sala Rekalde, 19.30-20.00
SUCHAN KINOSHITA: Choreographies of detours. Public IV with special skills
In her project for If I Can't Dance..., Suchan Kinoshita will throw certain 'roles' of director, viewer and performer into play. Through staged choreographies she will think about the institutions' role as an art centre and as a public space. A space in which visitors can enact different roles through 'detours' proposed by the artist. Within the spectrum of the roles of spectatorship, represented by the extremes of either distant inquiry or vital embodiment, Kinoshita aims to activate different 'registers'. READ MORE
[ongoing] February 23 - April 19 - screening and installation, Main Space and Abstract Cabinet, Sala Rekalde
SARAH PIERCE: We won’t fade away
Since 2003, Sarah Pierce has used an umbrella term - 'The Metropolitan Complex' - to describe her art practice. Despite its institutional resonance, this title does not signify an organisation. Instead, it demonstrates Pierce's broad understanding of cultural work, articulated through various discursive working methods, involving papers, interviews, archives, talks and exhibitions. READ MORE
March 12 - introduction to the project, Abstract Cabinet, Sala Rekalde, 20:00–20.30
Soytomboi in collaboration with Savage Girl: Soytomboi wall
March 13 - action, Titanio, 23:00 -23:3
Reading Group (Bilbao)
Sala Rekalde has initiated a Reading Group. The gatherings are on a monthly basis and are co-ordinated by Aimar Arriola.
Below: 'RE:WRITING RE:HORSE', Jon Mikel Euba, lock-in experiment, Abstract Cabinet, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, February 23-27, March 2-6, 2009
