Molly Nesbit
Dia:Chelsea
Molly Nesbit will speak on Pierre Huyghe’s Streamside Day Follies
at Dia:Chelsea on Wednesday January 7th at 6:30 p.m.
548 West 22nd Street New York
“The Use and Abuse of Utopia (including a long view of relational esthetics)”
There is a larger project being explored by Pierre Huyghe, part of an ongoing experiment that has always included the company of friends as well as strangers. It is a social project focused on the first steps, the beginnings, the fallout, the stutters and the promise. But the promise of what? When asked last winter to make a statement about Utopia, Pierre Huyghe offered this one:
Expedition proposal.
the invention of a
no-knowledge zone.
The real means
to discover it.
six or seven persons.
a radio boat
navigating outside
territorial waters.
a radio ship’s log in the
shape of a musical etude.
discussions and seasons.
at the bottom of the
mountain without a name.
A concert for penguins.
a documentary that
becomes a musical tale.
Pierre Huyghe was born in 1962 in Paris, and graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in 1985. Huyghe has had numerous solo exhibitions at international venues including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2003), the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2002), the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2002), the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Amsterdam (2001), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2000), and the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1998). His work has been exhibited in Documenta 11, Kassel (2002), the Istanbul Biennial in 1999, the Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (1999), the Manifesta 2, Luxembourg (1998), the 2nd Johannesburg Biennial (1997) and the Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon (1995). In 2001 Huyghe represented France at the Venice Biennale, and in 2002 he received the Hugo Boss Prize from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. He lives and works in Paris.
