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NEW EXHIBITION - The Saints, and Music & Films by Amy Granat - 26 April to 30 May 2008

Une exposition de mémoires / Une discothèque silencieuse - 3 mai au 9 mai 2008 (DOJO NICE)

Opening the 26th of April, at 14.00, with ‘Emotional Music’ a performance with Amy Granat, Emily Sundblad and Stefan Tcherepnin.
The exhibition runs until the 31st of May 2008, 10am – 5pm

Une exposition de mémoires / Une discothèque silencieuse - 3 mai au 9 mai 2008 (DOJO NICE)

Exposition collective de & avec BENJAMIN BICHARD, ANNA BYSKOV, ZORA CAHUSAC, MARION CHARLET, CAMILLE DEBRAY, ALYS DEMEURE, MAILYS D.PERRET, LOUP GANGLOFF, SOPHIE GRANIOU, LAURIE GERARDO, YASMINA HATEM, CINDY LELAURIN, SANDRA LORENZI, AURELIE MENALDO, MARYLINE M'GAIDES, STEPHANIE RAIMONDI, COLINE VECTEN, sur une proposition de MATHIEU COPELAND, avec NOËL DOLLA & PASCAL PINAUD

Cette réflexion est née d'une collaboration entre les étudiants de la Villa Arson et Mathieu Copeland, curateur d'exposition.
"Une exposition de mémoire"... s’ouvre sur un paradoxe et propose de penser d'après cette notion générique, comment poser des termes précis pour entrevoir et exposerl’impossible réalité de cette substance.

Penser une exposition comme on écrit une partition, ou la polyphonie des œuvres génère une création homogène et globale... "Une exposition de mémoire" met en place un mouvement auto générateur qui repense la realite d’un centre d’art alternatif niçois, le Dojo.

Les œuvres d'artistes, les archives du lieu et les espaces de travail sont utilisés et réactualisés, générant ainsi de nouvelles productions. "Une discothèque silencieuse" est mise en place et le souvenir de ce lieu unique se fond dans l'installation. Les résidus, les déplacements, les citations éclatent le sens et activent le processus de mémoire.
L'enjeu dépasse ainsi l'idée de représentation, s’offrant la mémoire d’un lieu et l’accumulation de mémoires fictives. S'insérant dans le cadre d'une exposition, cet environnement met en valeur les modes de productions inhérents à chaque engagement artistique : les contextes spatio-temporels, la médiation effective entre l'œuvre et le spectateur, et finalement les traces produites.

Les cartels de toutes les œuvres exposées depuis les débuts du Dojo, enveloppent l’idée de mémoire et invitent les spectateurs à déambuler à travers le lieu.
L’espace du Dojo est fractionné en deux axes symétriques, comme un espace bipolaire se réfléchissant. Le rocher, fil conducteur de toutes les expositions, s’offre comme la mémoire d’une idée, idée énoncée, projet évoqué puis abandonné, dont le souvenir est incarné par une plaque. Un second rocher en sucre conserve le souvenir du premier comme une réminiscence de neige en mai. Des interventions au cours de l'exposition invitent les spectateurs à questionner leur mémoire immédiate de l’œuvre.

LE DOJO

22 bis bd Stalingrad
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Le Dojo est ouvert
du lundi au vendredi
de 9h à 18h,
le samedi sur rendez-vous

EXHIBITIONS

A CHOREOGRAPHED EXHIBITION - KUNSTHALLE ST GALLEN 1/12/07 - 13/01/08

A Choreographed Exhibition / Eine Choreographierte Ausstellung
With Jonah Bokaer, Philipp Egli, Karl Holmqvist, Jennifer Lacey, Roman Ondak, Michael Parsons, and Fia Backstrom & Michael Portnoy. An exhibition by Mathieu Copeland.

‘A Choreographed Exhibition’ is an exhibition only composed of movements. For over a month and a half, three dancers from the Tanzkompanie Theater St. Gallen are present in the kunsthalle during the opening hours to perform in space the choreography of movements, patterns and choreographed gestures, following the scores and instructions as provided by the invited artists, dancers, and choreographers.

Kunsthalle St Gallen, Davidstrasse 40, CH-9000 St. Gallen
Open from Wednesday until Sunday: Wed/Thur/Fri: 14-18 ; Sat & Sun: 13-17

A Spoken Word Exhibition & A Series of Spoken Word Retrospectives - 1st / 7th of November 2007

Guest curator Mathieu Copeland presents “A Spoken Word Exhibition” at the Swiss Institute - NY. The exhibition consists of artworks repeated by the Institute‘s staff. By leaving the gallery space empty and making works available only on demand, an exchange is initiated between spectators and the gallery staff. An exhibition of the same nature & material as that of the artworks that it is constituted of, which are words. Artworks only spoken, exchanged as a verbal gesture from one person to another, generating ultimately an exhibition that only last the time it takes to hear it.

Artists contributing to “A Spoken Words Exhibition” include Vito Acconci, Robert Barry, James Lee Byars, Nick Currie (aka Momus), Douglas Coupland, Karl Holmqvist, Maurizio Nannucci, Yoko Ono, Mai-Thu Perret, Emilio Prini, Tomas Vanek, Lawrence Weiner, and Ian Wilson.

Through the artist’s voice and words, The Spoken Word Retrospectives present us with the whole of an artist’s career, generating a mental retrospective in the mind of the one who hears it, as said & seen by the artist. A spoken word retrospective begins with everything, and produces nothing more, only everything.

Artists contributing to “A Series of Spoken Words Retrospectives” include David Medalla and Gustav Metzger.

Biennale de Lyon, invited artist Mai-Thu Perret

Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon, 19 septembre 2007- 6 Janvier 2008- artiste invitée Mai-Thu Perret avec 'An Evening of the Book'

L’œuvre pensée pour la biennale par Mai-Thu Perret se trame avec en toile de fond ‘An Evening of the Book (une Soirée pour le Livre)’ (1924), une pièce de théâtre agit-prop. Mis en scène par Vitalii Zhemchuzhnyi, cette propagande pour le livre aux décors et costumes conçus par Varvara Stepanova s’organisait comme une expérimentation dans l’agitation artistique pour les masses par le livre avec des étudiants de l’Académie de l’Education Communiste. De plus, il est à noter le parallèle entre cette histoire et le présent livre d’histoire, autant formellement de par l’importance de leurs graphismes que dans cette volonté d’écrire au présent une histoire en cours. Tout comme ‘An Evening of the Book’ présente le conflit entre les héros des livres pré-révolutionnaire et ceux de la nouvelle révolution, les personnages sortant tous au fur et à mesure des pages d’un livre géant présent sur scène ; Cette biennale se matérialise dans un livre ou l’histoire de l’exposition devient l’histoire d’un livre d’histoire (d’histoires ?). Il nous reste à espérer que tout comme dans cette pièce des années vingt, l’écriture en cours voit la victoire revenir aux héros révolutionnaires.

Mai-Thu Perret’s installation ‘An Evening of the Book’ finds its origins in the agit-prop theatre piece ‘An Evening of the Book’ from 1924. Directed by Vitalii Zhemchuzhnyi, this propaganda for the book whose costume and set was designed by Varvara Stepanova was organised as an experimentation on mass artistic agitation through the book, with the students from the Communist Education Academy.

An exhibition with Loris Gréaud and Arnaud Michniak, by Mathieu Copeland

Hong Kong, Hong Kong City Hall, 14th of May - 27th of May 2007 - Launch : Sunday the 13th of May, 7.15, Agnes b Cinema / Hong Kong Arts Centre - Screening followed by a public discussion

The exhibition appears as a moment frozen in time. A place where the viewers constantly celebrate the opening of an exhibition in a gallery whose size is gradually reduced, and that in turn reduces the view over the city.

The first movement of the exhibition comes with the present DVD that acts as a catalogue. Widely available, it features two new-commissioned films by Loris Gréaud and Arnaud Michniak both filmed in Hong Kong. The film ‘Celador, un goût d’illusion’ by Loris Gréaud is an advertising for a candy that taste of illusion. The film by Arnaud Michniak “Sound take in a hospital” focuses on arrested moments in the midst of a city in constant movement.

The exhibition at the Hong Kong City Hall appears minimal, if not empty. The films realised for the exhibition are shown sporadically throughout the exhibition. Our experience in the gallery is somehow what we are told of these works. There, everything remains, but nothing is left. Nothing seems to happen. The only element that evolves throughout the exhibition is, paradoxically, the space itself. The art is simply everything else.

" Exhibitions' Ruins / Emotional Landscapes" - "Tilfinningalandslag (rotnandi syning)"

« Exhibitions’ Ruins / Emotional Landscapes »
« Tilfinningalandslag (rotnandi sýning) »

With / Sýningin er unnin á grunni verka frá eftirfarandi listamönnum
Birgir Andrésson, Stefan Brüggemann, Nicolas Garait, Loris Gréaud, Elin Hansdottir, M/M (Paris) & Gabriela Fridriksdottir, Gustav Metzger, Jeremy Millar, Francois Morellet, Olivier Mosset, & Claude Rutault.

At the SAFN Collection / Í Safni; samtímalistasafni, Reykjavik, 17/03/2007 – 12/05/2007

Phill Niblock - The Movement of People Working

“The Movement of People Working”
An exhibition of the films by Phill Niblock,
Curated by Mathieu Copeland

The opening on January 20th featured flautist/bassist Susan Stenger (Band Of Susans/Big Bottom) and guitarist Robert Poss (Band Of Susans), long-time performers of Niblock's music, playing 4 pieces (some of which were composed especially for them).

www.showtitles.com

IT IS WITH GREAT PLEASURE THAT WE ANNOUNCE THE LAUNCH OF THE SHOW TITLES WEBSITE. ACCOMPANYING THE EXHIBITION ‘THE TITLE AS THE CURATOR’S ART PIECE’, AN EXHIBITION THAT USES ONE OF THE SHOW TITLES WRITTEN BY MEXICAN BORN, LONDON BASED ARTIST STEFAN BRÜGGEMANN, THIS WEBSITE OFFERS THE POSSIBILITY TO VIEW, AND TO HEAR, ALL 728 SHOW TITLES WRITTEN TO DATE.

The title as the curator's art piece*, A summer Show by Mathieu Copeland

A publication accompanies the exhibition featuring discussions with artist and musician Nick Currie (aka Momus), curator Raimundas Malasauskas, and artist Claude Rutault.

SOUNDTRACK FOR AN EXHIBITION

Soundtrack composed by/composée par Susan Stenger [Band of Susans] with contributions by/avec des contributions de Robert Poss [Band of Susans] , Alan Vega [Suicide], Alexander Hacke [Einstürzende Neubaten], F.M. Einheit [ex Einstürzende Neubaten], Kim Gordon [Sonic Youth], Mika Vainio [Pan Sonic], Bruce Gilbert [Wire], Ulrich Krieger, Warren Ellis [The Dirty Three, The Bad Seeds], Jim White [The Dirty Three], Jennifer Hoyston [Erase Errata], Andria Degens (Pantaleimon), Spider Stacy [Pogues]

EA C / Expat Art Centre is an ongoing exhibition that takes place when the art centre, the museum... is closed, inserting itself between two exhibitions. With Brian Eno, Pierre Huyghe, Ben Kinmont, Claude Leveque, Didier Marcel, Olivier Mosset, Shimabuku, Dan Walsh, Ian Wilson. An exhibition by Mathieu Copeland.

Exhibitions Views: ICA London, Musée Art Contemporain Lyon, Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, CAC Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius, Kunstihoone Tallinn. © The Artists & Mathieu Copeland.

"Meanwhile…across town", by Cerith Wyn Evans, permeated the centre of London with a Morse code message transmitted from the neon signs of the landmark Centre Point Tower on Oxford Street. Produced by Forma and curated by Mathieu Copeland, witnessed by hundreds of thousands of people who see the Centre Point Tower from across London every day, Wyn Evans used the letters 'o' and 'i' from Centre Point's signs to transmit an extract from The Visible and the Invisible, an unfinished book by the French existentialist philosopher, Maurice Merleau-Ponty [1908-1961]. The building may be seen as a host organism infected with a virus - the code of a dying language that has taken up temporary residence. The text became buried in the urban landscape, where the pulsating narrative of the Morse code signal might even suggest that every other flashing light might be beaming out its own story.

This invasion of the social fabric of the City was at the core of the artist's intentions. "Meanwhile…across town" appeared as an elegant and subtly perverse way of pointing to no more than the communication itself; through the archaic communication tool of Morse code, broadcasted across town, its message became, ultimately, temporarily, an intrinsic part of the cityscape.

PUBLICATIONS

AN EVENING OF THE BOOK - 3 films by Mai-Thu Perret on DVD

It is with great proud that we announce the release of the DVD 'AN EVENING OF THE BOOK', featuring 3 films by Mai-Thu Perret.

Originally produced for The Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art and filmed on location at the Kitchen NY, Evening was conceived as a ‘remake’ of the 1924 agit prop play of the same title that was conceived as an experiment in mass artistic agitation for the book, and dramatized the conflict between old pre-revolutionary and new revolutionary books. Using actors from the academy of communist education, in a set & with costumes designed by Varvara Stepanova, it was a pantomime that culminated in the victory of the revolutionary heroes and a parade of libraries and new editions.

This performance, in which books and letters are actors in their own right, seemed a suitable starting point for the artist’s first array into moving images. Using props sometimes inspired by those of the original evenings, such as the books or the sports costume, sometimes unrelated such as the fluorescent tubes, the cut out from the banner, or the commas, Mai-Thu Perret devised the outline of a choreography which was performed for the camera by a team composed of artist friends such as Amy Granat or Fia Backström, and professional dancers.

A signed limited edition of 30 copies comes with samples of two signed & numbered wall papers cuts screenprinted for the exhibitions. For more information please visit the webpage or contact info@mathieucopeland.net

APPEL çA COMME TU VEUX, un film d’Arnaud Michniak

“Appelle ça comme tu veux” est le premier long métrage d’Arnaud Michniak. Un film sans appel dont la violence sociale est d’une rare actualité. Sans ménagement que ce soit pour les sujets filmés ou l’objet film, “Appelle ça comme tu veux” est direct comme un slam et efficace comme de la télé réalité.

“Appelle ça comme tu veux” utilise la caméra comme un esclave. Tout débute avec le vol d’une caméra. Tout s’articule autour de l’outil qui permet sa réalisation et de ceux qui en croisent la cellule, qu’il s’agisse d’inconnus, de manutentionnaires, de paumés, d’acteurs dont Jean-Pierre Mocky, de proches comme Nonstop, ou plus généralement de tous ceux qui font notre réalité, qui créent notre paysage.

“Appelle ça comme tu veux” ça veut dire : on se fout de ce que tu penses, non pas parce qu’on se fout de toi, ni parce que ce que tu penses est nul, mais simplement parce que ça ne change rien, c’est déjà trop tard, c’est déjà fini.

Comme annonçant un programme, on retiendra cette phrase entendue au court du film, “On est historien, on filme la fin du monde”.

APPEL çA COMME TU VEUX, un film d’Arnaud Michniak
DVD Toutes Zones (PAL), Français, Couleurs, Son, 4/3.
APPEL çA COMME TU VEUX I (37’53) & II (22’09) ; BONUS (7’32)

The In-Between – Anna Sanders Films
featuring works by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Charles de Meaux, Philippe Parreno, Apichatpong Weerasethakul

The In-Between, the key book about French production company Anna Sanders Films, is now available. This company has blazed a trail for a new breed of cinema – one that is made by visual artists and shown most often in galleries, but increasingly is finding its way into cinemas and film festivals.
Anna Sanders’ films share a general fascination with Asia, exploring place and its relationship to personal narratives. Stunning, often sensual, imagery combine with simple cinema making. Retaining a cool distance form their subjects, the filmmakers create a space for the viewer to become immersed in the beauty of images and their meaning.
Who is Anna? She is too complex to be a mere representation of an
‘every woman’ character: not only is she the creator of remarkable films, she is the fictional subject of ‘a film currently being written’ [Huyghe and Parreno]. She is the personification of the creative talents of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Charles de Meaux and Philippe Parreno. Ultimately Anna is an enigma, an imagined persona posing intriguing questions – like her films – about identity and representation.
Now, with the release of The In-Between, readers will be able to find out the fact and the fiction of Anna. This book delves in-between the films and places Anna into the contexts of film history and current visual art practice. The volume – co-published by Forma – offers a wealth of Anna Sanders film stills, production shots and a beguiling look and feel. It highlights the position of Anna Sanders as an in-between: in-between the economies of the art world and of cinema; in-between cinemas; in between realities, dreams and fictions.
Among the featured artists are Charles de Meaux, whose film Shimkent Hotel was selected as one of the highlights of the 2003 Edinburgh International Film Festival and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, whose Blissfully Yours won awards at Cannes and at the 2003 International Film Festival, Rotterdam and whose new film Tropical Malady produced by Anna Sanders has been awarded the prestigious Cannes Jury Prize 2004.
Other Anna Sanders Films artists, meanwhile, have claimed some of the most prestigious visual art prizes. Pierre Huyghe was awarded the Hugo Boss Prize and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster the Duchamp prize, both in 2002.
In June 2004, the Filmmuseum in Amsterdam celebrated Anna Sanders with a major retrospective as part of the World Wide Video Festival. The In-Between was launched in the UK by Charles de Meaux, acclaimed actor Thibault de Montalembert and Forma, on 24 June – as part of the Artprojx Cinema Season at Prince Charles Cinema.

Anna Sanders - Films The In-Between
Edited by David Metcalfe and Mathieu Copeland
Published by Forma and Les Presses du Réel

Perfect Magazine is a magazine printed with white ink on white paper, the pages of this first and last issue are curated and published by Mathieu Copeland. Perfect Magazine features exclusive contributions by Gilbert and George - Yoko Ono - Cerith Wyn Evans - Lawrence Weiner - Liam Gillick - Martin Creed - Eva & Adele - Christian Boltanski - Hans Ulrich Obrist - Niele Toroni - Art & Language – Simon Patterson - Graham Gussin - Vuk Cosic - Lev Manovich - Sam Samore - Polly Staple - Matthew Higgs - 360 corp - Nick Crowe - Mike Dawson - Steven Parrino - Phoebe Unwin - Jemima Stehli - bank - Guy Brett - Susie Green - Helianthe Bourdeaux Maurin - Christophe Kirsch - Erna Rijsdijk - Emilie Renard - Mark Borthwick - The Wrong Gallery - Tom Morton - Elena Filipovic - Swetlana Heger - Didier Marcel - Eric Troncy – M/M (Paris) - Carine Boyadjan - Tim Albertsen - David Medalla - Angela Bulloch - Daniel Buren – Roman Opalka - Michael Craig-Martin
Perfect Magazine - 128pages - ISSN N°: 977 1761 – 2950 4