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Friedl vom Gröller, Redskins 2023 - Courtesy Sixpackfilm

Week 2 : Shamelessness – Anticipating a state of nature

from 11/20/2024 to 11/25/2024

Programme of performances and events of “The Cynics Republic”

Shamelessness is expressed not solely through the exposed body, but also at the level of speech, delivered in a crude manner in the social sphere. Applying the principle of non-dissimulation, a sort of radical candor, the cynic blows up the code with which cultural life is, implicitly or explicitly, upheld.

When Crates asked Hipparchia for her hand in marriage he disrobed in front of her and said: “This is the groom and these are his possessions, choose accordingly.”

With : Nina Canal, Nadia Lichtig, Marie Cool Fabio Balducci, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Sammy Baloji, Eva Barto, Glitch, Friedl Vom Gröller, Nilbar Güres, Trajal Harrell, IKHÉA©SERVICES, Florence Jung, Katalin Ladik / Svetlana Maraš,  Rick Lowe / Maria Papadimitriou, Paul Maheke, Marianne Marić, OHO (David Nez – Luka Savić), Manuel Pelmuş / Anton Skaaning Thomsen, Pope.L, Karol Radziszewski, Jimmy Robert,   Georgia Sagri, Matěj Salavovi, Shikeith, Mark Ther, Štěpán Tuček, les gens d’Uterpan (Annie Vigier et Franck Apertet), VIER5, Lois Weinberger, Marina Xenofontos.

Wednesday November 20th

Starting at 7 PM

Special screening
Vue Tactile
Friedl Vom Groller
Room 37, duration 2 h

The oeuvre of Friedl Kubelka / vom Gröller stems from an analog practice in photography and film, a practice in which the notion of the portrait has become the focus of her artistic and psychological observations. The factor of time and the associated process of aging have been made visible during the artist’s continuous study of her own self and of others. The artist translates the static elements of black-and-white photography into the realm of her films, which often depict only minimal gestures in the faces of the chosen subjects.

Throughout the day

Thursday November 21st

Starting at 3 PM

Untitled
Marie Cool Fabio Balducci

Untitled, plastic shopping bag, racing action, workspace or room, 1996

Untitled, min. 70 x 42 x 21 cm paper shopping bag, workspace or other, 1997

Untitled, wall clock, workplace, 2001
Courtesy of the artists

Arnisa Zeqo write : “this work is embedded in the domestic production of art, where the artists corrupt everyday absurdities with artistic actions. Marie Cool runs around endlessly to create a wind that lifts up the bag. The atmosphere she creates is at once serious, playful and oneiric. The plastic bag is as light as a feather. Yet it takes so much work and movement to make it fly. For me, the action is a translation of all the effort it takes to make ends meet in a house.

Starting at 7 PM

Special screening

Faggy screening
Karol Radziszewski
Room 37, duration 2h

Karol Radziszewski (b. 1980, Poland) is a multidisciplinary artist, working across film, painting, photography and installation. His archive-based methodology crosses multiple cultural, historical, religious, social and gender references. Since 2005 he is publisher and editor-in-chief of DIK Fagazine, and has founded the Queer Archives Institute in 2015.

Throughout the day

Friday November 22nd

At 3 PM and 7 PM

When I State that I Am Anarchist,  2020 

Pierre Bal-Blanc, Sammy Baloji, Eva Barto, Nina Canal, Dean Inkster, Trajal Harell, Pope.L, Paul Maheke, Marianne Marić, Jimmy Robert, Matěj Salavovi, Shikeith, Štěpán Tuček, Mark Ther, Rick Lowe/Maria Papadimitriou, VIER5 

Event, duration 45 minutes
Courtesy of the artists

When I State that I Am Anarchist is an exhibition and performance freely inspired by the work of American artist Christopher D’Arcangelo, devised by Pierre Bal-Blanc for an exhibition space with contributions from several artists. It draws on the chronology of seven actions that marked the artistic biography of this marginal figure in New York performance art.

Throughout the day

Saturday November 23rd

Starting at 3 PM

X-EVENT 2.7 Les Salives, 2007 

les gens d’Uterpan with Perrine Gontié, Deborah Larry, Akène Lenoir, Louison Valette, David Zagari
Sound production : Nicolas Martz, based on the voice of baritone Victor Torres
Event, duration 4 h
Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2014-0063

In a given space, five dancers in undergarments stand close to one another. They produce a continuous trickle of saliva that flows over part of a partner’s body. Slowly, the group moves through the space, changing the configuration of individual positions and the relationships between them. This action is carried out over several hours.

Starting at 7 PM

Special screening

Welt des Bauern

Mark Ther
Room 37, duration 2 h

Mark Ther was born in Prague, Czech Republic, into a family with Sudeten German roots on the side of his paternal grandparents. He spent his childhood in Prague, where he later studied painting at the Václav Hollar College of Art and the Prague Academy of Fine Arts, notably in Vladimír Skrepl’s painting studio. His short and often shocking videos explore sexual and social taboos throughout the history of Czech society.

Throughout the day

Sunday 24 November

Starting at 3 PM

Special screening

The Archives of Lois Weinberger

A film by Markus Heltschl
Room 37, duration 30 min

Courtesy of the artists and Salle Principale gallery, Paris.

Based on the artist’s archive, the film shows sequences and interviews about his work which questions hierarchies and contributed significantly to the recent discussion on art and nature since the early 1990’s. To quote him: Grow = Confused & Pretentious. While focusing on the relationship between “nature” and “culture,” Lois Weinberger is concerned with the “peripheral areas of perception”. His formal inventions and linguistic interventions address that place where the artificial and the natural interlock in order to lay bare a cultural process among the shifts and changes.

Starting at 7 PM

Tears in Olympia, 2024

Katalin Ladik et Svetlana Maraš
Event, duration 1h
Kontakt Collection

Katalin Ladik (1942) is a poet, actress, visual artist and performer. She began publishing her poems in Hungarian at the end of the 1960s and acted in Hungarian radio plays (1963–1977) and at the theater of Novi Sad until 1992—at which point she moved to Budapest, where she lives today. Svetlana Maraš (1985) is composer and sound artist active in the field of experimental music. Her work encompasses variety of formats such as live performance, electro-acoustic composition, sound installations and works for the radio.

Throughout the day

Monday November 25th

Untitled
Marie Cool Fabio Balducci

Untitled, plastic shopping bag, racing action, workspace or room, 1996

Untitled, min. 70 x 42 x 21 cm paper shopping bag, workspace or other, 1997

Untitled, wall clock, workplace, 2001
Courtesy the artists

Arnisa Zeqo write : “this work is embedded in the domestic production of art, where the artists corrupt everyday absurdities with artistic actions. Marie Cool runs around endlessly to create a wind that lifts up the bag. The atmosphere she creates is at once serious, playful and oneiric. The plastic bag is as light as a feather. Yet it takes so much work and movement to make it fly. For me, the action is a translation of all the effort it takes to make ends meet in a house.

Starting at 7 PM

Deep Listening (2001)
Georgia Sagri
Performance : app. 60 min

« Soudain, je retrouve la sensation de mes mouvements dans l’espace par le rire. De la gauche de l’espace à la droite, un corps ; je me concentre sur l’intimité, complètement sur le sens de l’intimité de l’écoute ».

Georgia Sagri est née à Athènes où elle vit et travaille. Sa pratique plastique et militante est fondée sur l’autonomie, la responsabilisation et l’auto-organisation. Son engagement dans les luttes politiques l’a notamment amené à participer à l’organisation et à la tenue du mouvement Occupy Wall Street à New York (2011). En 2015 elle ouvre son atelier et logement Ύλη[matter] HYLE pour en faire un espace culturel semi-public. 

19H30

DRAGON FILES, 2024
Nina Canal & Nadia Lichtig
Événement, durée 1 heure

Tissage simultané d’enregistrements sonores de la nature, de la vie sauvage chaotique des animaux et d’autres sons fétiches qui se connectent à d’autres dimensions et les attirent, superposés à la musique électrique et à nos échanges quotidiens, notre scénario.

Throughout the day