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<nettime-ann> Invitation: Opening & Concert 'Beauty Unrealized' 29 January (PSWAR) |
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Public Space With A Roof cordially invites you
Beauty Unrealized: spider webs of personal universes seeking a form
Monday, January 29, 2007
7 pm - Opening Benoit Goupy: Le Source
9 pm - Concert PSWAR in collaboration with DNK Amsterdam presents:
The duo Otomo Yoshihide and Sachiko M with Axel Doerner and Martin
Brandlmayr
In his new work entitled 'Le Source', Benoit Goupy goes back to the source and essence of his artistic
practice. Goupy's works manifest themselves usually as subtle interventions in the space that he sees as live organisms; they always appear "here and there but not anywhere on the surface of the space, as arteries under the skin". Following the architecture of the space, Goupy's marks inside a space are a product of the traces that
the outside reality leaves on his own perception. In the space of the PSWAR library, Goupy allows a new element to step into his work: a sound performance that connects together his intimate story and the
story of the space.
Otomo Yoshihide is one of the most creative sound artists nowadays,
experimenting with both medium and form. For much of the 1990s his
main project was Ground Zero, a large group founded with an ever-
changing lineup. Towards the end of that group's life, Otomo formed
two electronic free improvisation groups: Filament with Sachiko M,
and I. S. O., with Sachiko M and Yoshimitsu Ichiraku. These groups
abandoned the frenetic postmodern pastiche of Ground Zero, and
emphasized small gestures and low volume. The music contained no
samples, being made of sine waves and electronic clicks and hums.
Yoshihide largely stopped using records as a sound source, instead
manipulating the turntable itself with a wide variety of objects and
contact microphones. At the end of the 1990s he founded Otomo
Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble. Besides her work with Yoshihide,
Sachiko M is also one half of the blisteringly silent and beautiful
duo Cosmos with Ami Yoshide. Her earlier work with samplers led to
her current methods of using samplers to produce sine tones which she
very subtly manipulates. Axel Dörner is a trumpet player who along
with musicians like Robin Hayward was involved in the musical current
of extended techniques which came to be known as Berlin Reductionism,
and can also be heard on two recent releases of Yoshihide's New Jazz
Orchestra. The fourth member is the drummer/percussionist Martin
Brandlmayr, a member of two extraordinary bands to come out of
Austria in the last few years, Trapist and Radian, both of which
effortlessly break the boundaries between avant-garde, electronica,
rock and jazz. January 2007 marks a first European tour of this quartet.
The Library is open Thursday to Sunday 3-7 pm or by appointment
About the research project Beauty Unrealized
These two events mark the third part of the PSWAR new project 'Beauty
Unrealized: spider webs of personal universes seeking a form' in
which the sound becomes a main focus. From December 2006 to April
2007, PSWAR dedicates its program to the explorations of the concept
of beauty as well as to the status of objects as carriers of ideas,
sources of inspiration and connections between individuals through
time and space.
As a framework for the whole project, we created a special library in
which visitors can enter and get lost in the world of thoughts,
ideas, questions, possibilities, and puzzles. For this library, we
invited numerous individuals (artists, filmmakers, writers,
theoreticians, etc.) to submit items that have significantly
influenced them and their work.
Inspired by Aby Warburg, this library is “a collection of
questions” rather than “a repository of books, (…) involving not
objects but the tension, analogies, contrasts, or contradictions
among them”. Its inside will be used to host six separate
exhibitions where the invited artists will present their past works,
works in progress, or works produced especially for this project.
Like the majority of the PSWAR projects, Beauty Unrealized will
combine an exhibition with an accompanying series of talks, lectures,
public debates, and a reader. This project is the forth and final one
in the second phase of the work of PSWAR, the result of questions and
problems that have arisen from the previous projects. We regard it as
a closing of an imaginary circle, which is why we have invited all
the artists who participated in the history of PSWAR to be a part of
its closure.
The project consists of 6 parts from January to April 2007
Opening dates: January 13, January 27, February 10, February 24,
March 27, March 24
Project initiated by: Tamuna Chabashvili, Adi Hollander, and Vesna
Madzoski
Guest curator: Angela Serino
Assistant: Mathijs Lieshout
Library installation created by: Tamuna Chabashvili and Adi Hollander
Constructed by: Mathijs Lieshout, Davide Manzoni and Maurice Bogaert
Advising architect: Ofri Earon
The project is kindly supported by: ‘Cine Qua Non’ film shop,
Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, VSB Fonds, Mondriaan Foundation
Location: Public Space With a Roof, Overtoom 301, 1054 HW Amsterdam.
During the exhibition the project space is open Thursday to Sunday
3pm - 7pm or by appointment.
For further questions please email to pswar@xs4all.nl or consult our
website http://www.pswar.org
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Public Space With A Roof
Is a non-profit, artist-run project space
located in the old Film Academy, OT301
Overtoom 301,
1054 HW Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Email: pswar@xs4all.nl
http://www.pswar.org
For an appointment you can reach us by email or call:
Tel: +31 (0) 611174239, Tel: +31 (0) 628128003
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