A Guiding Light
Wednesday, December 15 at 22:00
Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 30
10178 Berlin
For A Guiding Light, Gillick and Vidokle invited artists Boško Blagojević, Noah Brehmer, Nadja Frank, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, and Danna Vajda, critic Tim Griffin, and curators Anna Colin, and Shama Khanna to consider the curatorial premise of a large scale international art exhibition: the 8th Shanghai Biennale. The artists gathered these eight participants at a New York television studio, and, combining a curatorial text by Gao Shiming with a structural analysis of a 1952 episode of the television soap opera Guiding Light, staged a production that shifts between analysis and self-critique. Captured by several cameras, the film that results preserves the soap opera’s signature stage blocking and cuts, while highlighting the differences and difficulties that we encounter when attempting to capture the potential of art today.
Produced by Performa & Shanghai Biennial.
Editor: Ken Kobland
With: Boško Blagojević, Noah Brehmer, Nadja Frank, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Danna Vajda, Tim Griffin, Anna Colin, and Shama Khanna.
Berlin premier:
December 15, 2010, 22:00
Babylon Kino
Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 30
10178 Berlin
Liam Gillick and Anton Vidokle will be present
Organized by Clara Meister
with thanks to Esther Schipper, Berlin
Free Admission