martedì 22 novembre 2011

GAZIRA BABELI






















Come Together

OPENING
sabato 26 novembre 2011, ore 18
26 novembre 2011-13 gennaio 2012
15-19 tutti i giorni escluso festivi
OPENING
saturday, November 26, 6.00 pm
November 26, 2011-January 13, 2012
3.00-7.00 pm everyday except holidays


Su www.fabioparisartgallery.com è possibile scaricare il pieghevole della prossima mostra

You can find next exhibition' brochure on www.fabioparisartgallery.com

BRUNO MUZZOLINI



Missing Landscape

Bruno Muzzolini, Anri Sala, Artan Shabani, Fani Zguro

The Promenade Gallery
Blvd. Cameria Skele Uii I ftohte, L. Pavaresia, Vlora (Albania)
November 25, 2011 h 18.00

Group show with the partecipation of Bruno Muzzolini, Anri Sala, Artan Shabani and Fani Zguro. Bruno Muzzolini in the video “Anema e Core” (2008) represents the nucleus of this exploration. Set in a volcanic area of Iceland, the video features the volcanologist Gudmundur Eggertsson, against a desolate landscape of black rock and wind singing Anema e Core, an icon of the canzone napoletana which has always been one of the great passions of t his energetic Northern character. Anri Sala in the video “Missing Landscape” (2001) represents an action like the theatre convention where the actor moves from the kitchen to the waiting room through the trapdoor, even though there are no walls or visible boundaries between the rooms in the scene. The actor considers the entrances to the different spaces. Each time the children enter the playground through the goals, considering a space in a space where there are no walls. They are unconsciously cutting the playground off the world surrounded by the mountains. They are playing the game and the play! Artan Shabani in the photography “Missing Landscape” (2009) represents the fields of gold, a landscape burned from the human regeneration process. A metaphor of our territory in continues change. The old school we miss under the laboratory of production and self destruction. The map of our time under the urbanism ambition of tomorrow. Fani Zguro in the video “U Turn” (2006) represents a remake sports between the artist and the film’s sole protagonist sharing the same goddamned dialogue lines, even before Columbus’ arrival. “U Turn” operates and recycles analogous stories and places. The video tries all along to reach the fulcrum of history, that history continuosly repeating over the same interview or dialogue as in that fucking afternoon, always out there waiting for us.

Bruno Muzzolini was born in 1964 in Brescia. Lives and works in Milan and Brescia. He study at Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, and from 2003 he is professor of digital video at the same academy. He works on video and photography. At 2008 he was the winner of Venice Video ArtFair and also the 3rd Prize at International Onufri Prize. He has exhibited at 54th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Listasafni ASI Reykjavik, Valenzuela and Klenner Gallery Bogota, Videoart Yearbook Bologna, The Mercahandise Mart Chicago, The National Gallery of Arts Tirana, The National Gallery of Arts Prishtina, Museo de Arte Moderna Medellin, Fabio Paris Gallery Brescia, The Living Art Museum Reykjavik, San Jerónimo 31 Mexico DF and Artissima Turin.

giovedì 17 novembre 2011

UBERMORGEN.COM










The Oil Show
curated by Inke Arns



We have reached Peak Oil – the maximum capacity of global crude oil extraction and production. After Peak Oil, the total global oil production cannot be increased. In the future, demand will always exceed supply. The global struggle for resources will intensify. Despite this our dependency on oil is growing further. We cannot, or do not seem to want to do without oil. We are seriously dependent.
The works in the exhibition deal with our dependency on oil and the economic, political, and social entanglements and consequences of this growing dependency.


Artists
Ursula Biemann (CH), Christian von Borries (DE), Mark Boulos (US/NL), Heath Bunting (UK), Bureau d'Etudes (FR), The Centre for Land Use Interpretation (US), Chto Delat? (RU), Carl Michael von Hausswolff & , Thomas Nordanstad (SE), Werner Herzog (DE), Mark Lombardi (US), Michael Mandiberg (US), George Osodi (NG), Natascha Sadr Haghighian (IR/DE), UBERMORGEN.COM (AT/CH)


About DOTOILDOT from UBERMORGEN.COM
DOTOILDOT. This "Rock Art" project is dealing with oil as a luxury good and features a large-scaled installations at HMKV Dortmund and at the Gwangju Design Biennale. The Dortmunder U, this unique exhibition-tower in the former coal-capital of Germany, is excessively piped and serves as a huge oil-refinerey. A series of press-releases announced the exploitation of "unconventional" oil (for local supply) in the city center and wreaked havoc in the towns newsrooms and public offices.
DOTOILDOT pays respect to the dark underground, to the deep underground, to the thousands of pure diamonds drilling deep into our mother earth's womb to spill the black blood of organic life populating our planet millions of years ago. A new age of energy will rise from the ashes. The dawn of a new era. Sunshine in our eyes blinding our vision. The heavy metal beat of great times passed. Chinese single children will drink oil like vampires drink the blood of their creators. Make each drop count!
Parallel to the public interventions and installations, the visitors can embark on a quest for the deeper meaning of existential questions about e
nergy and life or uncover complex mechanisms of mass media aesthetics on the brand new website.
DOTOILDOT is part of UBERMORGEN.COM's KRAFT Series:
Humans use universal KRAFT, but are unable to understand the logics and risks that come with it. Nuclear power and oil have become the achilles tendon of mankind. Humans are drawn to the mystery of the planet's organic history and to the inner workings of the smallest but unimaginably powerful elements in the universe. DEEPHORIZON (2010), DOTOILDOT 2010-11, upcoming 2012: T0IM (nuclear infrastructure
in Japan), H0 (hydraulic fracturing in South Africa).
http://dotoildot.com

DOTOILDOT-being soft means listening to your heart is hard, 2011, digital print on Hahnemuehle Torchon, 850x300cm
Performance: Statoil gas station Stavanger, NO, No© UM.COM, Photos: Dag Knudsen, Videos: Philipp Teister
Gwangju Design Biennale 2011, Courtesy Fabio Paris Brescia, [DAM] Berlin and Carroll / Fletcher London
DOTOILDOT - Self-supply, 2011, Installation & Performance, HMKV at Dortmunder U, No© UM .COM,
Photo: HMKV Dortmund, http://bit.ly/sdPJby




Special Screening
Centre Pompidou Paris


Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid
New cinema and contemporary art


Centre Pompidou
Place Georges Pompidou - 75004 Paris
Subway: Hôtel de Ville, Rambuteau, Les-Halles, lines 1, 4, 11

Prices 6 euros / 4 euros
Accreditations, season tickets: free entrance within the limit of available seats


Friday, November 25
16.00, Cinema 2

http://www.art-action.org/site/en/prog/11/paris/prog_11_25_2.php


In the presence of Hans Bernhard and of Joasia Krysa, curator - Founder of KURATOR/AST (Art and Social Technologies Research)


Presented works:
- Vote-Auction CNN, 2000, http://vimeo.com/19218313
- DOTOILDOT - being soft means listening to your heart is hard, 2011 http://vimeo.com/18748573
- DEEPHORIZON - Variation 1, 2010 http://vimeo.com/12264646
- Superenhanced V1E1 - Familiarization, 2009 http://vimeo.com/23262416
- UGI Trailer, 2008 http://vimeo.com/23045411
- WOPPOW - CRASH COLOR BULLET CHIC, 2010 http://vimeo.com/11078245
- TORTURE CLASSICS - PERFORMANCE SOUTH KOREA - LO-RES ba2a675b-2b4e-4e2c-aa6d-539dcedad25f, 2010 http://vimeo.com/24191366



UBERMORGEN.COM's artistic practice focuses primarily on online actionism. The digital production and publication platforms enable them to develop products into various media, the main being video, digital painting, photography and installation. The 50 min. screening will focus on their video works of the last decade and will use a 27 Min. CNN feature about their Vote-Auction project as underlying narrative to show-case various projects. The following discussion between Joasia Krysa, Hans Bernhard and the audience will deal with the relation of the screened works and their digital actionism. This discourse shall make a deeper understanding of the rather agressive and complex content of their work possible, as well as explain some of the applied media hacking strategies artistically, technically and
legally.
UBERMORGEN.COM is an art duo created in Vienna by lizvlx and Hans Bernhard. Behind UBERMORGEN.COM we can find one of the most unmatchable identities "controversial and iconoclast" of the contemporary European techno-fine-art avant-garde. The permanent amalgamation of fact and fiction points toward an extremely expanded concept of one's working materials, that for UBERMORGEN.COM also include (international) rights, democracy and global communication (input-feedback loops). "Ubermorgen" is the German word both for "the day after tomorrow" or "super-tomorrow". Since 1999 their work has been shown in museums and galleries in Europe, America, Africa, Australia and Asia and include venues such as SFMOMA, Centre Pompidou, Konsthall Malmoe, NTT ICC Museum Tokyo, Gwangju Design Biennale, ZKM Karlsruhe, MUMOK Vienna, Ars Electronica Linz, WRO Media Art Biennale Wroclaw, MoCA Taipei, Witte de With Rotterdam, Lentos Art Museum Linz, Biennale of Sydney, ARCO Madrid and the New Museum New York.


mercoledì 9 novembre 2011

GAZIRA BABELI






















Come Together

OPENING
sabato 26 novembre 2011, ore 18
26 novembre 2011-13 gennaio 2012
15-19 tutti i giorni escluso festivi
OPENING
saturday, November 26, 6.00 pm
November 26, 2011-January 13, 2012
3.00-7.00 pm everyday except holidays


Fabio Paris Art Gallery è lieta di presentare Come Together, la seconda personale di Gazira Babeli in galleria, a cura di Domenico Quaranta. La mostra traccia, attraverso un singolo lavoro, l'itinerario dell'artista che, per prima, ha utilizzato un mondo virtuale come luogo performativo, facendosi riconoscere come identità artistica reale.

Come Together fa la sua prima apparizione nell'aprile 2007, in occasione di Collateral Damage, la retrospettiva presentata dalla ExhibitA Gallery di Odyssey, Second Life. Il lavoro consiste in un piedistallo bianco su cui i visitatori della mostra possono salire. Una volta su questa “base magica”, i loro corpi vengono “posseduti” da un software che li costringe a mettere in scena diversi movimenti di danza. Aumentando di numero, diventano parte di un'unica scultura animata e barocca. L'installazione si fa performance ininterrotta partecipata dai visitatori della mostra.

In realtà, Come Together non è né l'uno né l'altro: è codice, software utilizzabile e utilizzato da Gazira Babeli in diverse occasioni, e infine esportato da Second Life e convertito in lavoro autonomo, in cui quindici avatar si esibiscono in una danza dionisiaca e in una serie infinita di combinazioni possibili. Al di fuori della dimensione contingente di Second Life, Come Together si rivela per quello che è: un contributo alla storia della scultura occidentale da parte di un artista del software.

Nella mostra, il progetto è presentato in alcune delle forme che un'opera software, per definizione liquida e variabile, adattabile a diversi contesti e diverse interfacce, può assumere. Alla documentazione video della performance originaria, eseguita in uno spazio pubblico e partecipata dagli spettatori, si affiancheranno il software ed una stampa in digitale tratta dallo stesso.

Gazira Babeli (www.gazirababeli.com) ha vissuto e lavorato come artista in Second Life (SL) dal 2006 al 2010, partecipando attivamente alla nascita e alla vita di Odyssey, la principale comunità artistica di SL. Da sola o in collaborazione con il collettivo Second Front, ha esposto in musei, festival e gallerie di tutto il mondo, fra cui: Performa, New York 2007; Prague Biennale 4, Prague 2009; National Portrait Gallery, Canberra 2009; Kapelica, Ljubljana 2009; MU and Baltan, Eindhoven 2010; Platforma, Moscow 2011.

In occasione della mostra, il progetto editoriale LINK Editions ridà alle stampe il volume Gazira Babeli (con testi di M. Gerosa, P. Lichty, D. Quaranta, A. Sondheim) edito nel 2008 in occasione della prima personale dell'artista in galleria. Maggiori informazioni: www.linkartcenter.eu/linkeditions.



Fabio Paris Art Gallery is proud to present Come Together, the gallery’s second solo show by Gazira Babeli, curated by Domenico Quaranta. In a single work, the show traces the career of the first artist to use the virtual world as a setting for performance art and be recognised as a real artistic identity.

Come Together made its first appearance in April 2007, on occasion of Collateral Damage, the retrospective presented at the Exhibit A Gallery in Odyssey, Second Life, and consists in a white pedestal that visitors to the exhibition were free to climb onto. Once on this “magical platform”, their bodies were “possessed” by a piece of software that forced them to perform various dance moves. As other visitors joined in, the work became a unified, animated Baroque sculpture, an installation in the shape of an ongoing, interactive performance.

In actual fact, Come Together is neither one nor the other: it is pure code, software that can be and has been deployed by Gazira Babeli on a number of occasions, before being exported out of Second Life and converted into an independent work, featuring 15 avatars engaged in a dionysiac dance with an infinite series of possible combinations. Once outside the circumstantial dimension of Second Life, Come Together can be seen for what it is: a software artist’s contribution to the history of Western sculpture.

In the exhibition the project is presented in some of the forms that a software work, by definition fluid and mutable, capable of adapting to different contexts and interfaces, can take. Alongside documentation of the original performance, which was staged in a public area involving spectators, visitors can see the software itself and a digital print taken from it.


Gazira Babeli (www.gazirababeli.com) lived and worked as an artist in Second Life (SL) from 2006 to 2010, playing an active role in the creation and development of Odyssey, the main artistic community in SL. Alone or in collaboration with the collective Second Front, she has exhibited at museums, festivals and galleries all over the world, including: Performa, New York 2007; Prague Biennale 4, Prague 2009; National Portrait Gallery, Canberra 2009; Kapelica, Ljubljana 2009; MU and Baltan, Eindhoven 2010; Platforma, Moscow 2011.

For the exhibition, LINK Editions is reprinting the book Gazira Babeli (with texts by M. Gerosa, P. Lichty, D. Quaranta and A. Sondheim) published in 2008 on occasion of in the artist’s first solo show in the gallery. For further information: www.linkartcenter.eu/linkeditions.