A selection of the Empty Stages
photographs I've been doing with Hugo Glendinning since 2003 are part of a group show during the spectacular Printemps de Septembre— à Toulouse. You can find the Empty Stagesat Musée les Abattoirs, 76, allée, Charles-de-Fitte, 31300 Toulouse. 24 September - 17 October 2010. Opening times
Monday to Friday, from 12 noon to 7 pm - Saturdays and Sundays from 11 am to 7 pm. Nocturnes:
Friday 24 and Saturday 25 September, Friday 1 and Saturday 2 October, to 12.30 am.
In the same show my solo sound work Brief Reminder plays with the form and expectations of the kind of PA system announcements often heard in public spaces. I'm also a small part of very nice mini-exhibition of instructions-related artworks, curated by Charles Aubin and titled Walk Like An Egyptian.
Over the Table is a 5-day long collaborative project by Tim Etchells and
Vlatka Horvat. Following their previous collaborations - the hour-long
improvised videos Insults & Praises (2003) and Threats &
Promises (2008), as well as the 5-week long 'faxing performance' To
Bring Down a House (2006/2008) - Over the Table is conceived as a
continuous process of call and response between the two artists.
Conducted in a gallery space which they occupy together for the duration
of the piece, Over the Table takes the form of a series of playful and
competitive exchanges which unfold within a set of pre-arranged
performative frames.
Visitors may arrive, depart, and return at any point during gallery
opening hours and will always encounter the artists engaged in one or
another of their collaborative activities and tasks. The space of the
gallery itself will change from day to day, as evidence of the artists'
diverse activities gradually fills the space, accumulating alongside
whatever is currently happening.
My solo show FogGame, at Künstlerhaus Bremen continues until 21 November, City Changes is part of LONELY AT THE TOP: Modern Dialect
at M HKA (Antwerp) until 14 November, my Drama Queens collaboration with Elmgreen and Dragset is at LOOK – Container Cinema – 1061 Budapest, Andrássy út 1until 26 September. The Quiet Volumemy 'autoteatro for two people in a library'collaboration withAnt Hampton is part of Ciudades Paralelas, festival of portable theatre curated by Stefan Kaegi and Lola Arias
at HAU, Berlin until tomorrow. More detail on this and other stuff at the listings link above.
Drama Queens – a play by ELMGREEN & DRAGSET, text by Tim ETCHELLS ///// LOOK – Container Cinema – 1061 Budapest, Andrássy út 1 ///// from 18 to 26 September 2010, open from 12 to 8pm /////
More information: www.look.org.hu
Drama Queens is the filmed version of Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset’s performance with text by me - a play without actors that was first shown at Skulptur Projekte Münster in 2007. Seven 20th Century superstar sculptures find themselves trapped on a theatre stage and out of their usual context. How do they interact with this new environment and with each other? The drama unfolds through a series of clashes and crossovers between the various >isms< and aesthetics which these sculptures represent.
Container Cinema is a newsstand temporarily transformed into a 6-person film theatre located on the corner of Andrássy and Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út. Screenings start every hour.
My piece City Changesis in the show LONELY AT THE TOP: Modern Dialect at M HKA (Antwerp) alongside work by Corey McCorkle, Marte Johnslien, Luc Kheradmand, Mark Macken, Jef Verheyen, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, Erik van Lieshout, Kris Fierens & Tinka Pittoors, David Diao, Susanne Kriemann and Pavel Büchler. It runs 10 Sept 2010 - 14 Nov 2010.
Subtitled: Contemporary artists look at the work of Renaat Braem, the show is curated by Win Van den Abbeele. The description goes like this:
"Looking back at an oeuvre that united architecture, commitment, politics and reflection as an art form. August 2010 marks the centenary of the birth of one of Belgium’s best-known architects, Renaat Braem, and this is being celebrated in ‘Renaat Braem 1910-2010’. Part of it is an exhibition called Modern Dialect that will be held at three venues: the top floors of the M HKA (LATT), CC Nova in Hoboken and on the Braem site itself. It brings Braem’s modernist formal idiom face to face with work by contemporary artists. Their sculptures and installations expose a number of paradoxes and create a multifaceted view of modernism and the social utopia of that movement, which still has an influence on international architecture today."
My collaboration with Ant Hampton - The Quiet Volume - best described as 'autoteatro for two people in a library', premieres in Berlin in English and German as part of Ciudades Paralelas, a festival of portable theatre curated by Stefan Kaegi and Lola Arias at HAU. The piece is in Berlin September 16 - 25 and already has presentations lined up for Buenos Aeries, Gent and Zurich. We have some extraordinary libraries lined up as locations. It's been a long process... and one I really ought to have written about. Despite my relative silence the results are exciting though - we've been doing the final recordings in the last week or so.
"The Quiet Volume is a whispered, self-generated and 'automatic' performance for two at a time (in line with Hampton's other Autoteatro work), exploiting the particular tension common to any library worldwide; a combination of silence and concentration within which different peoples' experiences of reading unfold. Two audience members / participants sit side-by-side. Taking cues from words both written and whispered they find themselves burrowing an unlikely path through a pile of books. The piece exposes the strange magic at the heart of the reading experience, allowing aspects of it we think of as deeply internal to lean out into the surrounding space, and to leak from one reader's sphere into another's."
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