[artinfo] Fwd: INVITATION (fwd)

Andrea Szekeres asz@c3.hu
Thu, 04 Oct 2001 10:35:10 +0200


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>Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 15:45:54 +0200
>From: Grazer Kunstverein <office@grazerkunstverein.org>
>To: Museen engl. <office@grazerkunstverein.org>
>Subject: INVITATION
>
>
>TIMEWAVE ZERO /
>THE POLITICS OF ECSTASY
>
>steirischer herbst 2001=8BGrazer Kunstverein (October  6-November  4)
>Curated by Lionel Bovier & Jean-Michel Wicker
>
>OPENING ON SATURDAY THE 6TH OF OCTOBER, 5.30 PM
>
>The title of the exhibition refers to researches by scientists, university
>scholars, artists, and activists on drugs as a tool for expanding
>consciousness out of Western rationally - based constraints. The show is
>conceived as a "vision machine" (cf. F. Kiessler)=8Bproviding, through the
>artworks on display, a basis for reconstructing the foundations of these
>researches. Since the visual arts have always dealt with the limits of
>perception, the show intends to bring back the long time-repressed question
>of what's "beyond" perception and visuality. The works will not illustrate
>the issue, but rather embody it through the constant use of an abstract
>visual vocabulary.
>
>The show is designed as an unitary visual proposal bringing together a
>series of elements selected from a variety of moments, histories and media.
>Like John McCracken's "planks", which generate a complex perception of
>surfaces and colors from an elementary geometric vocabulary, the show
>proposes an experience of changing visions. Like Angela Bulloch's light
>cubes, it organizes, without special effects, a sucession of perceptual,
>dynamic and variously colored micro-differences. What is thus offered to=
 the
>visitor is an occasion for creating his/her own combinations through static
>images, films, objects, and sounds. This "psycho-geography" brings to light
>what really remains of the consumption of psychotropic substances: an
>individual, sensory-based experience that cannot be transmitted through
>language.
>
>Participating artists are: Lisa Beck (USA), Angela Bulloch (UK), Charles=
 and
>Ray Eames (USA), Vidya Gastaldon (F), Isa Genzken (D), Jack Goldstein=
 (USA),
>Brion Gysin (USA), John McCracken (USA), Sidney Stucki (CH), and John
>Tremblay (USA).
>
>"Drugs", a compilation of films and videos realized by Carsten H=F6ller=
 (D),
>will take place in the Caf=E9 Harrach.
>
>A book will be realized, in collaboration with Mai-Thu Perret, to accompany
>the exhibition: it will be conceived as a reader on drugs (among others:
>Timothy Leary, Sadie Plant, Diedrich Diederichsen, J=F6rg Heiser, Michel
>Foucault, etc.), and published by the Grazer Kunstverein, Revolver and JRP
>Editions.
>
>The book will be presented  by Christoph Keller (Revolver) on 20th of
>October.
>
>
>Grazer Kunstverein
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