Friedl vom Gröller, Redskins 2023 - Courtesy Sixpackfilm

Week 2 : Shamelessness – Anticipating a state of nature

From 20/11/2024 to 25/11/2024

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

Nilbar Güres, The Moment, 2024

Based on a brainstorm and research with Simone Florio
Performance for a 1842 Square Meter Drawing
Untimely
Kontakt Collection

The daily practice of hand-drawing by Nilbar Güres inhabits the walls and nooks of the space for a week. The artist performs with rudimentary means on the scale of the 1,842 m2 of the exhibition space.

Eva Barto, La caisse noire du palais de Tokyo, 2024

Untimely

Facts and rumours (research in progress)

Courtesy Eva Barto

Florence Jung, Jung59, 2018

Untimely
Centre national des arts plastiques / Inv. FNAC 2021-0242

Anyone who agrees to enter the room must sign a performance contract. The purpose of the contract is as follows: from the moment one enters the room to the moment one leaves, all gestures and sounds produced within the exhibition space are legally considered as part of Jung59

Matthieu Saladin, Rumeur #1, 2022

Courtesy of the artist and Salle principale, Paris.

Collection Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2022-0117

Citations loupées, 2017

IKHÉA©SERVICES
Untimely

Július Koller, Kontakt (contact),1969

Pad printing on cardboard
Kontakt Collection
Untimely

In his singular artistic practice starting in the early 1960s, Július Koller has deliberately multiplied and varied his works, dignifying worthless objects of common use with his personal signature and thus undermining the art world’s principles and rules or commodity.

Luka Savić, Spatial Vibrations, Florence, 1970

OHO by Luka Savić
Untimely
Kontakt Collection

I chose a simple linear grid as seen in the drawing and marked the points on the ceiling. I attached the ends of the cords one by one with tesaflex at these points and let the cord go down to make a pattern on the floor (the cords must be long enough). I stuck plastic sheeting over the pattern to prevent visitors from smudging the patterns.

Guillaume du Boisbaudry, Comme si, 2012

IKHÉA©SERVICES (Guillaume du Boisbaudry)
Untimely

Luka Savić, Intercontinental group project, 2024 

OHO by Luka Savić
Untimely

A grid is drawn on the wall with 4 rows at the top and 12 rows at the bottom using black chalk. Four participants draw a line in the square every day. Each day, the participants send a scan of a line in a square via email, which is later drawn on the grid on the wall. The duration of the performance is 12 days with 4 participants (one in Paris, one in America and two in Slovenia).

les gens d’Uterpan with the École des Actes, Danseurs de l’étranger, 2017 

Untimely
Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2014-0063

The choreographers respond to an invitation to perform by foregoing their travel and passing on their fee to people living in the country illegally, who are invited to come and perform a dance typical of their cultures in the context of the event.

Marina Xenofontos, Pinocchio, 2008-2009

Untimely

Try to wear a long prosthetic Pinocchio nose without it falling off your face.

Marina Xenofontos, To Egon Shiele, 2008-2009

Untimely

Stand against a white wall and reanact the painting Standing Woman in Red by Egon Shiele. Walk away.

Marina Xenofontos, Am I a Puppet?, 2008-2009

Untimely

Tie two strings to your elbows like a puppet.

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

Luka Savić, Spatial Vibrations, Florence, 1970

OHO by Luka Savić
Intempestif
Kontakt Collection

I chose a simple linear grid as seen in the drawing and marked the points on the ceiling. I attached the ends of the cords one by one with tesaflex at these points and let the cord go down to make a pattern on the floor (the cords must be long enough). I stuck plastic sheeting over the pattern to prevent visitors from smudging the patterns.

Répliques, “Plutôt deux fois qu’une !”, 2001

IKHÉA©SERVICES
Untimely

Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 09-235

Eva Barto, La caisse noire du palais de Tokyo, 2024

Untimely

Facts and rumours (research in progress)

Courtesy Eva Barto

Matthieu Saladin, Rumeur #1, 2022

Courtesy of the artist and Salle principale, Paris.
Collection Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2022-0117

Luka Savić, Intercontinental group project, 2024 

OHO by Luka Savić
Untimely

A grid is drawn on the wall with 4 rows at the top and 12 rows at the bottom using black chalk. Four participants draw a line in the square every day. Each day, the participants send a scan of a line in a square via email, which is later drawn on the grid on the wall. The duration of the performance is 12 days with 4 participants (one in Paris, one in America and two in Slovenia).

les gens d’Uterpan, Anthropométrie, 2016 

Untimely
Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2014-0063

Each version of Anthropométrie is announced to visitors by the display of a text that is written by hand on the walls of the site in question: “Several people infiltrate the flow of visitors and the spaces of the museum by anticipating and acting out their movements and their pauses, guided only by the architectural characteristics of the site and the scenography of its spaces.

Nilbar Güres, The Moment, 2024

Based on a brainstorm and research with Simone Florio
Performance for a 1842 Square Meter Drawing
Untimely
Kontakt Collection

The daily practice of hand-drawing by Nilbar Güres inhabits the walls and nooks of the space for a week. The artist performs with rudimentary means on the scale of the 1,842 m2 of the exhibition space.

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

Luka Savić, Writing on the wall, 1970

OHO by Luka Savić
Untimely

  1. WRITING THE WORK ON THE WALL
  2. PHOTOGRAPHING IT-DEVELOPING FILM
  3. PROJECTING NEGATIVE ON POSITIVE IN EXACT CORRESPONDENCE
  4. IDEALLY THEY SHOULD NEUTRALIZE EACHOTHER COMPLETING THE WORK WITH ERASURE OF ITSELF
Július Koller, Kontakt (contact),1969

Pad printing on cardboard
Kontakt
Collection
Untimely

In 1965, Július Koller introduced his “Anti-happening” series and soon turned it into a permanent process of demystifying the institution of socialist culture. His dialectical language games, which he distributed as notices—text cards with stamped letters—were disseminated via the mail.

Répliques, “Plutôt deux fois qu’une !”, 2001

IKHÉA©SERVICES
Untimely
Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 09-235

Matthieu Saladin, Rumeur #1, 2022

Courtesy of the artist and Salle principale, Paris.

Collection Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2022-0117

les gens d’Uterpan with the École des Actes, Danseurs de l’étranger, 2017 

Untimely
Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2014-0063

The choreographers respond to an invitation to perform by foregoing their travel and passing on their fee to people living in the country illegally, who are invited to come and perform a dance typical of their cultures in the context of the event.

Luka Savić, Intercontinental group project, 2024 

OHO by Luka Savić
Untimely

A grid is drawn on the wall with 4 rows at the top and 12 rows at the bottom using black chalk. Four participants draw a line in the square every day. Each day, the participants send a scan of a line in a square via email, which is later drawn on the grid on the wall. The duration of the performance is 12 days with 4 participants (one in Paris, one in America and two in Slovenia).

Eva Barto, La caisse noire du palais de Tokyo, 2024

Untimely

Facts and rumours (research in progress)

les gens d’Uterpan, Anthropométrie, 2016 

Untimely
Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2014-0063 

Each version of Anthropométrie is announced to visitors by the display of a text that is written by hand on the walls of the site in question: “Several people infiltrate the flow of visitors and the spaces of the museum by anticipating and acting out their movements and their pauses, guided only by the architectural characteristics of the site and the scenography of its spaces.

Nilbar Güres, The Moment, 2024

Based on a brainstorm and research with Simone Florio
Performance for a 1842 Square Meter Drawing
Untimely
Kontakt Collection

The daily practice of hand-drawing by Nilbar Güres inhabits the walls and nooks of the space for a week. The artist performs with rudimentary means on the scale of the 1,842 m2 of the exhibition space.

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

les gens d’Uterpan with l’École des Actes, Danseurs de l’étranger, 2017 

les gens d’Uterpan with l’École des Actes
Untimely
Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2014-0063

The choreographers respond to an invitation to perform by foregoing their travel and passing on their fee to people living in the country illegally, who are invited to come and perform a dance typical of their cultures in the context of the event.

Biais, 1999

IKHÉA©SERVICES
Untimely

Répliques, “Plutôt deux fois qu’une !”, 2001

IKHÉA©SERVICES
Untimely
Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 09-235

Matthieu Saladin, Rumeur #1, 2022

Courtesy of the artist and Salle principale, Paris.
Collection Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2022-0117

Eva Barto, La caisse noire du palais de Tokyo, 2024

Untimely

Facts and rumours (research in progress)

Courtesy Eva Barto

Nilbar Güres, The Moment, 2024

Based on a brainstorm and research with Simone Florio
Performance for a 1842 Square Meter Drawing
Untimely
Kontakt Collection

The daily practice of hand-drawing by Nilbar Güres inhabits the walls and nooks of the space for a week. The artist performs with rudimentary means on the scale of the 1,842 m2 of the exhibition space.

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

Luka Savić, Intercontinental group project, 2024 

OHO by Luka Savić
Untimely

A grid is drawn on the wall with 4 rows at the top and 12 rows at the bottom using black chalk. Four participants draw a line in the square every day. Each day, the participants send a scan of a line in a square via email, which is later drawn on the grid on the wall. The duration of the performance is 12 days with 4 participants (one in Paris, one in America and two in Slovenia).

Matthieu Saladin, Rumeur #1, 2022

Courtesy of the artist and Salle principale, Paris.

Collection Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2022-0117

les gens d’Uterpan, Anthropométrie, 2016 

Untimely
Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2014-0063 

Each version of Anthropométrie is announced to visitors by the display of a text that is written by hand on the walls of the site in question: “Several people infiltrate the flow of visitors and the spaces of the museum by anticipating and acting out their movements and their pauses, guided only by the architectural characteristics of the site and the scenography of its spaces.

Eva Barto, La caisse noire du palais de Tokyo, 2024

Untimely

Facts and rumours (research in progress)

Courtesy Eva Barto

Július Koller, Kontakt (contact),1969

Pad printing on cardboard
Kontakt
Collection
Untimely

Starting in 1970, Koller became the subject of a series of annual portraits known as “U.F.O.-naut J.K.” Koller’s strategy of using real objects, the real world, and everyday life as a given program for displacement gained particular attention; a strategy intended to put an end to aesthetics and to create a “new cultural situation,” resulting in a “new life, a new creativity, and a new Cosmohumanist Culture.”

Carol Cultot, Une minute pour le temps, 2015

Glitch (Carol Cultot)
Untimely

Nilbar Güres, The Moment, 2024

Based on a brainstorm and research with Simone Florio
Performance for a 1842 Square Meter Drawing
Untimely
Kontakt Collection

The daily practice of hand-drawing by Nilbar Güres inhabits the walls and nooks of the space for a week. The artist performs with rudimentary means on the scale of the 1,842 m2 of the exhibition space.

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

Retour à l’ordre, 2015

Glitch
Untimely

Luka Savić, Intercontinental group project, 2024 

OHO by Luka Savić
Untimely

A grid is drawn on the wall with 4 rows at the top and 12 rows at the bottom using black chalk. Four participants draw a line in the square every day. Each day, the participants send a scan of a line in a square via email, which is later drawn on the grid on the wall. The duration of the performance is 12 days with 4 participants (one in Paris, one in America and two in Slovenia).

Eva Barto, La caisse noire du palais de Tokyo, 2024

Untimely

Facts and rumours (research in progress)

Courtesy Eva Barto

Répliques, “Plutôt deux fois qu’une !”, 2001

IKHÉA©SERVICES
Untimely
Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 09-235

 

Nilbar Güres, The Moment, 2024

Based on a brainstorm and research with Simone Florio
Performance for a 1842 Square Meter Drawing
Untimely
Kontakt Collection

The daily practice of hand-drawing by Nilbar Güres inhabits the walls and nooks of the space for a week. The artist performs with rudimentary means on the scale of the 1,842 m2 of the exhibition space.

Matthieu Saladin, Rumeur #1, 2022

Courtesy of the artist and Salle principale, Paris.
Collection Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2022-0117

les gens d’Uterpan, Anthropométrie, 2016 

Untimely
Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2014-0063

Each version of Anthropométrie is announced to visitors by the display of a text that is written by hand on the walls of the site in question: “Several people infiltrate the flow of visitors and the spaces of the museum by anticipating and acting out their movements and their pauses, guided only by the architectural characteristics of the site and the scenography of its spaces.