Absent-minded young typist
22.11 - 20.12.2014
⨗ works by :
Sadie Benning, Xavier Boussiron, Karl Holmqvist, Brendan Anton Jaks, Valéry Larbaud by Ron Padgett, Guillaume Maraud and a.o., Paulien Oltheten, Contingenza Veti.
⎛As we wake we lift up our screens, from wooden floors. Nested in nervous palms, they are moist and glowing with inner backlit powers; we slide the unclock. Light and short-sighted, humming tunes in hot showers, double soaked, steamy glasses.
We share thoughts, eyelids, kisses, playful kicks and ashtrays. Mornings come and mornings go, restless dials and coffee trials. None of us is fully present. We debate on clothes, journals, news.
Will we manage to keep the rooms we live in? Will the connection fall in the bin? We debate about the ages to come, longing for information. It reaches us through the flat and the noisy, the colorful, the spoiled.
Some send messages, eyes off, straight from the pockets; we speak out the first talks, they come out queer from the edge of the throat.⎞
Many years before he was affected by a stroke, which left him with a severe aphasia,
French poet and translator Valéry Larbaud wrote Rldasedlrad les dlcmhypbdf.⨗
Sadie Benning is an american artist that lives in New York. When she was a teenager in the late 80’s she got a Fisher-Price Pixelvision camera and shot many videos. Later on, she co-founded Le Tigre, a great feminist post-punk band. Her work is widely exhibited.
Xavier Boussiron is a french musician, playwriter and artist. He lives in Paris where together with Sophie Perez he makes up baroque danse-macabre styled theater plays. He just released a new albym, Les Mikrokosmos, an interpretation of Béla Bartók together with his own compositions.
Karl Holmqvist is swedish but most of his art speaks english with some accent. His text-based works are to be seen as much as read and listened to. He just released the album NYC Romance Mash-up with White Columns in New York, and we proudly got it signed, as you can see.
Brendan Anton Jaks was born in a small town in Northern California, called Yuba City. His practice concerns itself with late capitalism and technology. Phenomena of mass production, marketing and branding are the underlying strategies through which he examines the socio-cultural mechanisms that allow any given object’s use value to fluctuate based on its cultural currency.
Valéry Larbaud was a poet and the first french translator of James Joyce. He wrote many books under fictious names. Late in his life he suffered a stroke which left him unable to speak, the only words coming out of his mouth being: Bonjour les choses d’ici-bas! (goodmorning to the things here below!)
Guillaume Maraud is a french artist. You will not find many information about his work on the internet, but he put some strange and beautiful tunes on an obscure blog. Together with Julien Laugier they invented a fictitious project space, At L’age d’or.
Paulien Oltheten is just back in Amsterdam after a year in NYC at ISCP. Her images, stills and video works, which are sometimes spontaneous, sometimes (semi)staged, capture human relations, the tensions and shifts of patterns in everyday life.
Contingenza Veti (forbidded by contingency) is the anagram we used to re-interpret a work by late italian artist Vincenzo Agnetti: Auto-telefonata, from 1972.
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⨗ works by :
Sadie Benning, Xavier Boussiron, Karl Holmqvist, Brendan Anton Jaks, Valéry Larbaud by Ron Padgett, Guillaume Maraud and a.o., Paulien Oltheten, Contingenza Veti.
⎛As we wake we lift up our screens, from wooden floors. Nested in nervous palms, they are moist and glowing with inner backlit powers; we slide the unclock. Light and short-sighted, humming tunes in hot showers, double soaked, steamy glasses.
We share thoughts, eyelids, kisses, playful kicks and ashtrays. Mornings come and mornings go, restless dials and coffee trials. None of us is fully present. We debate on clothes, journals, news.
Will we manage to keep the rooms we live in? Will the connection fall in the bin? We debate about the ages to come, longing for information. It reaches us through the flat and the noisy, the colorful, the spoiled.
Some send messages, eyes off, straight from the pockets; we speak out the first talks, they come out queer from the edge of the throat.⎞
Many years before he was affected by a stroke, which left him with a severe aphasia,
French poet and translator Valéry Larbaud wrote Rldasedlrad les dlcmhypbdf.⨗
Sadie Benning is an american artist that lives in New York. When she was a teenager in the late 80’s she got a Fisher-Price Pixelvision camera and shot many videos. Later on, she co-founded Le Tigre, a great feminist post-punk band. Her work is widely exhibited.
Xavier Boussiron is a french musician, playwriter and artist. He lives in Paris where together with Sophie Perez he makes up baroque danse-macabre styled theater plays. He just released a new albym, Les Mikrokosmos, an interpretation of Béla Bartók together with his own compositions.
Karl Holmqvist is swedish but most of his art speaks english with some accent. His text-based works are to be seen as much as read and listened to. He just released the album NYC Romance Mash-up with White Columns in New York, and we proudly got it signed, as you can see.
Brendan Anton Jaks was born in a small town in Northern California, called Yuba City. His practice concerns itself with late capitalism and technology. Phenomena of mass production, marketing and branding are the underlying strategies through which he examines the socio-cultural mechanisms that allow any given object’s use value to fluctuate based on its cultural currency.
Valéry Larbaud was a poet and the first french translator of James Joyce. He wrote many books under fictious names. Late in his life he suffered a stroke which left him unable to speak, the only words coming out of his mouth being: Bonjour les choses d’ici-bas! (goodmorning to the things here below!)
Guillaume Maraud is a french artist. You will not find many information about his work on the internet, but he put some strange and beautiful tunes on an obscure blog. Together with Julien Laugier they invented a fictitious project space, At L’age d’or.
Paulien Oltheten is just back in Amsterdam after a year in NYC at ISCP. Her images, stills and video works, which are sometimes spontaneous, sometimes (semi)staged, capture human relations, the tensions and shifts of patterns in everyday life.
Contingenza Veti (forbidded by contingency) is the anagram we used to re-interpret a work by late italian artist Vincenzo Agnetti: Auto-telefonata, from 1972.
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