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Bendati / Blindfolded

Posted by LoveHowlMuse on November 15th, 2007 - Add a comment

Bendati/Blindfolded

An open, collective performance on Sunday, November 18 at 10amSculptureCenter, New York, 44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City, NY(1) - 718.361.1750 - http://www.sculpture-center.org

10am New York; 11am Buenos Aires; 12pm Sao Paolo; 3pm London; 4pm Cairo, Rome; 5pm Addis Ababa; 9pm Phnom Penh; 10pm Shanghai

Everyone, all over the world, is invited to take part in the action Bendati/Blindfolded from wherever they happen to be, at the same time.

Participants are asked to remain blindfolded for one hour. This is to identify with the state of mind of Luigi, who, for over a year now, has had trouble with his eyesight. He must remain in complete darkness, or keep his eyes closed for long periods of time.Those contributing are free to stay still or move, do something or not, work or rest. Participants are also invited to identify with Luigi’s condition and simply experience the loss of sight for an hour.

After the performance impressions can be posted on http://forgottensculptors.blogspot.com a space where analogies, coincidences, and individual thoughts may appear; where images and voices seen or heard during the action can find an echo.

Forgotten Sculptors
Bendati/Blindfolded is the last action in a series of events that make up Forgotten Sculptors. Forgotten Sculptors is a project by Fantin, Negro, Norese, and Pietroiusti, produced by SculptureCenter for PERFORMA07. The project began with a series of short email stories; and the second part consisted of a live performance by the four artists with the participation of Joan Jonas and Steve Piccolo, which took place at SculptureCenter on November 3, 2007. For more information about Forgotten Sculptors, please email forgottensculptors@sculpture-center.org

With the support of the Italian Cultural Institute, New York.

For additional information please contact SculptureCenter: (1) 718.361.1750 or info@sculpture-center.org

Media contact: Katie Farrell, kfarrell@sculpture-center.org

About SculptureCenter
Founded by artists in 1928, SculptureCenter is a not-for-profit arts institution dedicated to experimental and innovative developments in contemporary sculpture. SculptureCenter commissions new work and presents exhibits by emerging and established, national and international artists.

SculptureCenter is five minutes from Midtown by subway. Please visit the website for details.

PERFORMA07 (November 1-20, 2007) is the second biennial of new visual art performance presented by PERFORMA, a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century. http://www.performa-arts.org

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Cunning Chapters at the British Library

Posted by LoveHowlMuse on November 14th, 2007 - Add a comment

Cunning Chapters is a collaborative artists’ book curated by Susan Johanknecht and Katharine Meynell. Thirteen chapters are thematically linked by concerns of ‘well madeness’, loss and conservation in the production of artwork, using a combination of technologies.

Stephen Bury has written a manifesto for the artists’ book as an introduction. William Cobbing works in ‘posthumous collaboration’ with Bob Cobbing using faulty photocopying techniques, burial and excavation. Georgios Boudalis writes about repair of book bindings in his archaeological work on St. Catherine’s Library in the Sinai. Clippety Clop’s deaf lead singer Aaron Williamson accounts for acoustic information passed between the hearing and the non-hearing. Redell Olson and Drew Milne (Electric Crinolines) release their first single as (non functioning) pianola roll. The work of Finlay Taylor uses ‘text’ which is eaten away by snails in treated areas of paper. Sigrid Holmwood works with pigments, combining unearthly colours dating from Tudor recipes to modern Day-Glo. Susan Johanknecht reworks diagrams from science textbooks and lists descriptions of armour using staples that will rust. Katharine Meynell’s chapter is based the life of Santa Chiara, performance artist and patron saint of television. Kate Scrivener began with the desire for the wild within the urban, two painted London twigs are surrounded by a haze of digital dots. Louisa Minkin handset the narrative of a clockmaker to explore experiences of time, craft and craftlessness.In putting these chapters together their relationship to each other produces a range of concerns played out through the ‘thingness’ of the book. The whole has been Coptic bound by Kelly Wellman in an edition of 60 copies.

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