Cross-fades. Reconstructing the Future __________________________________________________________
Exhibition Opening: Friday, 8 October, 2010 Exhibition: 9 October - 23 December, 2010 Opening Times: Tue - Fr 1 - 6 pm, Sa - Su 12 am - 6 pm with: Zbynek Baladrán (CZ), Rossella Biscotti (I/NL), Daniela Comani (I/D), Christoph Draeger (CH/USA), Karen Geyer (D/CH), Hofmann&Lindholm (D), Knowbotic Research (A/CH/D), Uriel Orlow (CH/UK), Suzanne Treister (PL/ UK), Sarah Vanagt (B), Miriam Visaczki (D) Curated by Anke Hoffmann und Yvonne Volkart Lately, history and the past have become topics in art to an ever greater extent. Just as the science of history has faced up to these challenges and overhauled its premises art, increasingly, takes part in the debate and continues to write or even rewrites history, clearly comprising the present debates in the theory of history, which, among others, today even deems subjective narratives and biographical research valid topics. History can be viewed as something that is not given but as a multi-layered bunch of many narrations. It should be told differently, should be rewritten again and again We perceive politically engaged art, as extraordinarily apt, ideally suited for this new approach in historiography since art always has been a field developing aesthetical procedures and strategies in opposition to the prevailing culture and its potential predomination. The title Cross- fades refers to an artistic strategy which we would like to put emphasis on. It means that we, today, put the past into a perspective that may possibly lead to a film of the future. ______________________________________________________________ Events ______________________________________________________________ Film & Talk with Sarah Vanagt (in conjunction with the Cross-Talk) Friday, 12 November, 7 - 9 pm The artist and filmmaker Sarah Vanagt from Brussels is a (hi)story- teller. Her films reflect the barbarous colonial history of Belgium in Central Africa, history lessons in Ruanda and tell world history from a perspective of immigrants. Excerpts and screening of the films: Begin, Began, Begun, 2004 and Boulevard d'Ypres/ Ieperlaan, 2010. Cross-Talk Art, Science, History Saturday, November 13, 4 - 8.30 pm The historian Beat Näf (University Zurich), the art theorist Ute Vorkoeper (Hamburg), der curators Raffael Dörig and Katharina Dunst (Shift-Festival, Basel), the Shedhalle - curators Anke Hoffmann and Yvonne Volkart as well as the artists of the exhibition Suzanne Treister (London), Christoph Draeger (New York), Sarah Vanagt (Brussels) and Miriam Visaczki (Berlin / Weimar) will explain their individual approaches and discuss their differences in methods. Noticable is, e.g, that the exhibited artistic positions present historic events - in opposition to historical science - often obscure, superimposed or even absent. Guided Exhibition Tours Friday, October 22, 6 pm with Yvonne Volkart, curator Friday, November 12, 6 pm with Anke Hoffmann, Yvonne Volkart and the artists of the exhibition Friday, November 26, 6 pm with Angela Wittwer, assistant curator Sunday, December 12, 3 pm with Anke Hoffmann, curator For more information please see: www.shedhalle.ch _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
