show continues til 1oth october at Art Chapel :
AC Institute
547 west 27th street, 5th floor, no 519, 529 & North Alcove
New York , NY 10001
Archive for September, 2009
” Muse Me” is a platform I have been developing since 2008, as a method to screen and stream a live performance through the internet, bringing together participants and audiences in different locations together at the same time.
The performance model developed as an answer to how to produce a performance in times of recession, without airplane rides … and instead give food to audiences, and jump boundaries, travel without borders and passports …
” Mass Hysteria, SISTA BLISS; Madness of Crowds” at Pan-demonium
3 September - 10 October
Opening event : 3 rd September, 3 - 8 pm
AC Institute
547 west 27th street, 5th floor, no 519, 529 & North Alcove
New York , NY 10001
Pan-demonium resonates with the current global political, ecological and economic situation—one in which the hegemonic forces of order have been overwhelmed by a dynamic of chaos and disorder, turning the world ‘upside-down’. Maybe Pan-demonium offers a metaphor for a critique of global capitalism and its ‘devils’—its pan-demons—in all their guises (pan-demics included?). Or perhaps it conjures up collective creative forces for political challenge and the re-inscription of Pan in contemporary mythology?
AC Guest Curator, Bricolagekitchen, invited visual, sonic and written responses to some of these ideas and questions. Bricolage has various histories and contexts—from Claude Levi-Strauss on anthropology to Steven Connor on postmodern culture. John Cage’s explorations of indeterminacy and the polarities of randomness/order have an obvious relevance here. Michel Serres’ ideas on noise, clamour and cacophony and Michel de Certeau’s leaky ‘sieve order’ also lurk behind the concept of the project. Serres writes about ‘fuzzy logic’, but ‘mess’ is increasingly being cited as a new paradigm in research methodology and is being transposed to other disciplines and creative practices.
Through an exploration of the multiple meanings, interpretations and understandings of Pan-demonium, this exhibition hopes to open up political as well as its aesthetic potentialities. It brings together an assembled cacophony of over 50 contemporary artistic responses and global voices gleaned via the web in a panorama of sound, text, visual and moving imagery, celebrating the affective power of disorder and noise. Pan-demonium explores the ideas of randomness and mess through the adoption of bricolage in a makeshift bricologue of interactive presentation and responses.
So, what does Pan-demonium mean to you?
From Pan-demonium:
Mass Hysteria, Istanbul, 2009
Participating artists: Abstractus, Colombia/ Adam Burton, UK/ Andrew Erdos, USA/ Andy Clover, New Zealand/ Anne Kolin, France/ Barnaby Dicker, UK/ Beatrix Ward-Fernanderz & Charlie Collins, UK/ Beck & Bright & Jasnoch, UK/ Branka Vidovic-Butler, UK/ Brian Rhodes, UK/ Briony Barr, Australia/ Charlene Chempson, UK/ Corpus Collective, USA/ David Berridge, UK/ David Clarke, Hong Kong/ David Tucker, UK/ Dhaleen Devenish-Bright, UK/ Elizabeth Gower, Australia/ Fabienne Audeoud, France/ Freee, UK/ Georgia Kotretsos, Greece/ Graham Scott, UK/ Gul Kozacioglu ( aka Gul Rose Smil ), USA/ henry Gwiazda, USA/ Jeremy Newman, USA/ Javier Seco, Spain/ Jonny Drury, UK/ Josef Bares, Czech Republic & China/ Koa Okada, Germany & Japan/ Kim Wan, UK/ Krzysztof Topolski aka Arszyn, Poland/ Laura Wild, UK/ Lemeh42, Italy/ Lisa Erb (Laboratorium), Germany/ Lisa Stansbie, UK/ Liz-n-Val, USA/ Louise Marlborough & Olive Barrett, Ireland/ Margarida Sardinha, Portugal/ Maria Zhalnina, Rusia & USA/ Mark Cooley, USA/ Martin Archer & Geoff Bright, UK/ Paolo Consorti, Italy/ Peter Ciccariello, USA/ Pierre-Andre Sonolet, Canada/ Richard Bartle, UK/ Richard Newton, USA/ Robert Cheatham, USA/ Roland Bergere, Germany/ Sndsukinspook, UK & France/ Stephan Weitzel, Germany/ Tony Adams, Australia/ Walt Shaw, UK/ Yelena Popova & David Strang, UK.
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About Guest Curator Bricolagekitchen:
Bricolagekitchen, aka Gillian Whiteley, is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and writer working across critical-creative borders, currently based at Loughborough University School of Art and Design, UK. Her wide-ranging creative/research interests have a focus on the use of trash in visual/material culture and improvisational and collaborative practices. She has researched, published and curated a number of projects linking art and bricolage, junk assemblage and the politics of the social, public and affective imagination. Exhibitions include: Radical Mayhem: Welfare State International and its Followers (Midpennine Gallery, Burnley, UK); related forthcoming publications include: Junk : Art and the Politics of Trash (IB Tauris Publishers), Scavenging from margins to mainstream? Artist as Bricoleur in the 21st Century (University of Paris Press) and the co-edited Telling Stories: Countering Narrative in Art,Theory and Film (Cambridge Scholars Press). The Pan-demonium project is part of her ongoing research into bricolage and improvisatory techniques as a paradigm for research and practice. For more information please see: www.bricolagekitchen.com.
This project has been supported by Loughborough University School of Art and Design.
