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Group Show for Saal Biennaal

With works by Maria Metsalu, Iggy Lond Malmborg, Jennifer Lacey, Krõõt Juurak, Alex Bailey, Mårten Spångberg, Valentina Desideri, Audrey Cottin, Pontus Petterson, Jan Ritsema, Jonathan Burrows, Diego Tonus, Angela Goh. Flowers by Alexender Kartozia Group Show

A group exhibition curated and performed by Galerie, an immaterial gallery for immaterial artworks. Group Show is an exhibition of immaterial artworks in the format of a performance. The artworks span over a wide range of media like dance, therapy, poetry, conflict and others. All of which could fit into the category of what we call immaterial artworks, artworks that can not be reduced the a material object or the documentation of an action. From relational aesthetics, over social sculpture or “situations”, contemporary art practices have been addressing the production of subjectivity in the realm of experience economy, using life as means and ends. A conversation, a behaviour, a movement, or a mood has become the brush, but also the painting. What are the relations between the objectification and the production of life in art and society? What happens to art when life is capitalized into new forms of production?

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Humourology, Alex Bailey, 2015-

Custom-made socio practical mantra (joke)

Conditions of activation: A humourology reading session will be held over the telephone or in person. The reading will result in a custom made joke which will be made by the artist and will become the property of the purchaser to be retold at their discretion.

Documentation: Retellable

Not resellable

Humourology is the study of humour related communications and the occult manner in which it reflects certain aptitudes and character tendencies. By integrating our physical artistes into the cosmic plan of humourolgy the value derived relates to a comic vibration. The comic vibration is the manifestation of our bodies as humour. Humourolgy is used to provide the interrelation of vibrations between content and affect. By examining our physical attributes and the sums that result from our character, purposes in life, and where are talents lie humourolgy determines the content and form of our humour derived communications. It is a component in our discovery into a language of affective laughter with those in our comic plan.

The formula behind humourolgy takes the cosmic energy of an individual and 'bends' this into a mathematical climbing frame that seeks and sources related humour specific to the individual. By engaging in humourology it condenses time and affect into (what we know) a joke and importantly, a joke that is know to the individual and can be told as such.

Alex Bailey has been counseled by Gabriel Lester. During there post-premonition channels, Humourology (2016) the social practice based on the divine ascription of cosmic energy into comic synergy was in part attributed to this dialogue. Bailey has pioneered a water based singing technique utilising a 2 stop valve 'emotive' throat reflex. Recitals, concerts and workshops demonstrating this technique have been shown across the Baltic states. He has written a dieting book entitled “How to lose 10 pounds” retailing for £10. His practice of practical jokes, performances for pets and water based singing recitals are by no means sustainable but have shown to be perpetual. He was also a youth academy footballer for Aston Villa FC. He currently resides in Vienna and has previously lived in Tallinn, Philadelphia and Birmingham.

More about Alex Bailey

#Alex Bailey #humourology #Group Show

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Squatting*, Pontus Pettersson, 2011-

Located Practice

* when activated the name of the location is added to the title.

Documentation: The located practice might produce leftovers. Resellable: The located practice can be resold within the acquired time frame

Conditions of activation: The work must be located in time and place, with a minimum duration of one night and a maximum of three months. Squatting involves the taking over of the space by the atist and thus the artist can redefine the accessibility of that same space

Pontus Pettersson proposes a continuous work in which Squatting is a temporal visit and an expression. Every squat takes the name of its temporal ”home” as well as making it the site of the performance, the space unfolds simultaneously as the work. The artist occupies locations with his practice - Squatting points to the function of the artist as well as his undetermined doings. Practice is taken as the notion of occupation, both in relation to space and to activity. Each Squatting being singular while being part of a larger body of work: his labor, his practice, his life.

Pontus Petterssons choreographic work ranges from fortune telling, cat practicing, writing poetry to dancing, a choreography off and on stage, playing and questions the notions of choreography and dance as two singular entities yet closely entangled. It is a love for dancing with a particular interest in objects that bridge to a choreography that is as much daring, useless, beautiful and something else. Pontus is currently involved with his project The Poeticians, a poetic curational project as well as working with the musical, text and performance project PETS together with choreographer Ofelia Jarl Ortega, dancing for Mette Ingvartsen in her performance 7 Pleasures and La Substance - but in English by Mårten Spångberg. Pontus is a recurring artist at the venue Weld in Stockholm and holds an MA in choreography from the University of Dance and Circus in Stockholm. More about Pontus Petterson

#Squatting #Located Practice #Pontus Pettersson

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The Publication

The Publication Overgaden Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen (DK) 21 - 26 Nov 2017 / Tue-Sat 13-17, Thur 13-20, Sun 13-00 Produced by Dansehallerne The Publication opens on Tuesday and closes on Sunday. Content, defined in conversation with guests and visitors, will be added to the Table of Content throughout the week.

Table of contents

• Welcome by the editors, Galerie Presentation, a few words

13:00

• Introduction and Chapter One of Catherine Malabou's 'Ontology of the Accident, An Essay on Destructive Plasticity', Galerie Reading Group, 18 pages

13:15 •

content to be defined in conversation with guests and visitors

• Here are the tools, now shake: A fermentation for the final hour, Eva Rowson Fermented (i.e. boozy) ginger brew workshop, ~60 min preparation

15:00 •

content to be defined in conversation with guests and visitors

• Poetic intervention on 'Chapter One of Catherine Malabou's 'Ontology of the Accident, An Essay on Destructive Plasticity' , Pontus Pettersson Reading, 30 min.

13:00 •

content to be defined in conversation with guests and visitors

• Companionship and telepathic elegance, Hana Lee Erdman Practice sharing, 60 min.

15:00 •

content to be defined in conversation with guests and visitors

• Kids on Stage? Between zoo and life in the representational frame of art, Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt Lecture and discussion, 60 min.

13:00

• Jan's Secrets, Jan Ritsema and Galerie Skype interview, ~60 min.

14:30 •

content to be defined in conversation with guests and visitors

• Companionship and telepathic elegance, Hana Lee Erdman Practice Sharing, 60 min.

16:00

• Poses asymptote hanging out, Klara Utke Acs Hang out intermezzo, 8 min

18:45

• NIELSEN afsnit 4: Efterliv/Afterlife, Cæcilie Østerby Sørensen Screening, 14' followed by a conversation

18:00

• Fantasmical Anatomy far away version, Anne Juren Somatic podcast fiction

19:00

• Anti-meditation on permeability, Ruth-Johanne Andersson Audio-meditation over Skype, 20 min.

13:00 •

content to be defined in conversation with guests and visitors

• result: recap, Frida Sandström Lecture 30 min.

14:00

• Frida Sandström in conversation with Erik Berg, Frida Sandström and Erik Berg Conversation, 30 min.

14:30

• axels tårar (axels tears), Pontus Pettersson Presentation, ~60 min.

15:00 •

content to be defined in conversation with guests and visitors

• P0$$€ CPH $€$$10N, Klara Utke Acs Dance and reading circle, 2 hours

13:00

• Sleeping Workshop led by a dog, Krõõt Juurak and Alex Bailey Workshop led by Pablo, 60 min.

15:30 •

content to be defined in conversation with guests and visitors

• whatever productions (not materials). and maybe some thoughts on how we might loan a prohibition , Edgar Schmitz and Galerie A follow-up on a conversation started in the summer and to be continued elsewhere, with discussion, 60 min.

13:00

• Bibliography of fictional artists, projects and institutions , Léa Poiré References with discussion, 60 min. with lunch

14:00

• The Artworld and The Artworld, Alina Popa and Florin Flueras Skype Lecture, 60 min.

15:00 •

content to be defined in conversation with guests and visitors

• The Making-of of 'Do you remember that time we were together and danced this or that dance?', Clara Amaral Skype presentation followed by a conversation, 45 min.