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Programme of performances and events of “The Cynics Republic”
To the cynic, true happiness comes from being self-sufficient, from surviving on the barest necessities, from living the life of the dog. Possessions are considered a burden to the expression of freedom. Training in hardiness of both mind and body, the cynic becomes destitute of all luxury.
When Diogenes observed a child drinking out of its clasped hands, he instantly cast away his own cup with the words: “A child has beaten me in plainness of living.”
With : IKHÉA©SERVICES, Glitch, Manuel Pelmuş / Anton Skaaning Thomsen, les gens d’Uterpan (Annie Vigier et Franck Apertet), Georgia Sagri, Delia Gonzalez, Wolfgang Gonzalez, Serapis Maritime, Pierre Bal-Blanc,OHO/Luka Savić, Josef Dabernig, Lenio Kaklea, Jean-Charles Massera, Slaven Tolj, Eva Barto.
Wednesday November 27th
At 3 PM and 7 PM
Solo Nature Study, 2020
Georgia Sagri, Delia Gonzalez, Wolfgang Gonzalez, Serapis Maritime, Pierre Bal-Blanc
Event, duration 45 minutes
Titled Solo – Nature Study Notes – 1969-2019 [Athens Version] 2021, the multipart work includes the practices of several Athens-based artists — a performance by Georgia Sagri, music by Delia Gonzalez, and garments by the art and fashion collective Serapis Maritime — based on a score that Pierre Bal-Blanc composed in collaboration with them. Bal-Blanc appropriated the score’s structure from Cornelius Cardew’s Nature Study Notes (1969), a series of “improvisation rites” that the English composer authored for the Scratch Orchestra, his co-founded experimental ensemble.
Throughout the day
Manuel Pelmuş & Anton Skaaning Thomsen, AER, 2024
Untimely
Kontakt Collection with support of: OCA (Office for Contemporary Art Norway)
AER functions as a lexicon of gestures assembled by moving between selected references from the two collections (KONTAKT & CNAP) and improvised material, through the performer’s personal movement history. AER is interested in the idea of intergenerational modes of memory transmission.
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
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.
Matthieu Saladin, Rumeur #1, 2022
Courtesy of the artist and Salle principale, Paris.
Collection Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2022-0117
Service X, 2013
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).
Répliques, “Plutôt deux fois qu’une !”, 2001
IKHÉA©SERVICES
Untimely
Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 09-235
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.
Thursday 28 November
Starting at 6 PM
Ticket content, 2014-2024
Josef Dabernig with Caroline Dubikajtis, Pauline Langin, Mar Viu, Harold Orban de Xivry.
Event, duration 45 min
The evening will begin with a collective performance of the found-text piece Ticket content (2014/2024). Specially updated for this event, Ticket content consists of readings of tickets to football matches. It will be followed by a screening of a selection of the artist’s latest films in room 37.
Starting at 7 PM
Special screening
Lacrimosa
Josef Dabernig
Room 37, duration 2h
Josef Dabernig’s multifarious oeuvre of films, photographs, objects, installations, performances and meticulously executed handwritings suggest notions of orderliness embedded in conceptual artistic practice. In his films the artist’s take on meticulously planned plots often leads to moments of absurdity, which derive from the specific locales and the situations in which his laymen actors are involved. A rigid formal system, seriality, rhythm, absence and presence form some of the central themes in many of his films, stemming from a modernist logic of clear aesthetic patterns of pictorial creation.
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).
Eva Barto, La caisse noire du palais de Tokyo, 2024
Untimely
Facts and rumours (research in progress)
Courtesy Eva Barto
Manuel Pelmuş & Anton Skaaning Thomsen, AER, 2024
Untimely
Kontakt Collection with support of: OCA (Office for Contemporary Art Norway)
AER functions as a lexicon of gestures assembled by moving between selected references from the two collections (KONTAKT & CNAP) and improvised material, through the performer’s personal movement history. AER is interested in the idea of intergenerational modes of memory transmission.
Biais, 1999
IKHÉA©SERVICES
Untimely
Matthieu Saladin, Rumeur #1, 2022
Courtesy of the artist and Salle principale, Paris.
Collection Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2022-0117
Friday November 29th
Starting at 7 PM
Untitled (figures) – studio version, 2023-2024
Lenio Kaklea
Event, duration 45 minutes
‘All women are lesbians, except those who don’t know it.” For this new performance, I decided to embrace all that is lesbian and queer in me through a catalogue of danced figures that pay homage to the capacity of queer cultures to teach us to love the female body.”
Throughout the day
Manuel Pelmuş & Anton Skaaning Thomsen, AER, 2024
Untimely
With support of: OCA (Office for Contemporary Art Norway)
AER functions as a lexicon of gestures assembled by moving between selected references from the two collections (KONTAKT & CNAP) and improvised material, through the performer’s personal movement history. AER is interested in the idea of intergenerational modes of memory transmission.
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
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.
Matthieu Saladin, Rumeur #1, 2022
Courtesy of the artist and Salle principale, Paris.
Collection Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2022-0117
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).
Samedi 30 novembre
Starting at 3 PM
Special screening
L’archéologie du problème de ta génération
Jean-Charles Massera
Room 37, duration 1H30
Some of the films on show are from the collection of the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP).
An artist and writer (P.O.L – Verticales), Jean-Charles Massera (b. 1965) works across the fields of fiction, poetry, live performance, radio, exhibitions and, more recently, film. In his latest film, L’archéologie du problème de ta génération [The Archaeology of the Problem of Your Generation], two young girls, aware that the future of the planet and its inhabitants is less than bright, try to find out where exactly ‘the problem’ comes from. One of them asks an adult to investigate, pointing out the responsibility that previous generations and that ‘men’ bear.
Starting at 7 PM
Craquelure Pavo & Me, 2023
Slaven Tolj
Event, duration 45 minutes
Slaven Tolj’s work exhibits a particular focus on his native Dubrovnik and its frayed social structure, and on the disintegration of Yugoslavia, especially after the siege of Dubrovnik. As a result of the siege he envisaged a broader scope of investigation and engaged in issues related to globalization. The central working motif in his very subtly and delicately crafted work avoids direct language and images and similarly, any sense of intimacy between the artist, the object and the viewer in a process of what he called “perceptive appropriation.”
Throughout the day
Luka Savić, Intercontinental group project, 2024
OHO by Luka Savić
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
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
Manuel Pelmuş & Anton Skaaning Thomsen, AER, 2024
Untimely
With support of: OCA (Office for Contemporary Art Norway)
AER functions as a lexicon of gestures assembled by moving between selected references from the two collections (KONTAKT & CNAP) and improvised material, through the performer’s personal movement history. AER is interested in the idea of intergenerational modes of memory transmission.
Sunday December 1st
Starting at 5 PM
Roulette, 2017
Delia Gonzalez, Wolfgang Gonzalez avec Jenya Kukoverov
Event, duration 45 min
The landmark of Delia’s artistic pursuits is In Remembrance. The exhibition was built around four 16mm ballet dance films, accompanied by music composed by Wolfgang Gonzalez. In her words, “The film is meant to re-create the fleeting sensation of inspiration – that sacred feeling when suddenly your mind clears and you know exactly what you’re meant to create and become.”
Throughout the day
Manuel Pelmuş & Anton Skaaning Thomsen, AER, 2024
Untimely
With support of: OCA (Office for Contemporary Art Norway)
AER functions as a lexicon of gestures assembled by moving between selected references from the two collections (KONTAKT & CNAP) and improvised material, through the performer’s personal movement history. AER is interested in the idea of intergenerational modes of memory transmission.
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.”
Matthieu Saladin, Rumeur #1, 2022
Courtesy of the artist and Salle principale, Paris.
Collection Centre national des arts plastiques / FNAC 2022-0117
Le gardien du même, 2007
IKHÉA©SERVICES
Comme si, 2012
IKHÉA©SERVICES
Untimely
