Outre mesures et programmes radio (Maps, timelines, radio programmes)
Artists: Tarek Atoui, Cevdet Erek, Mohssin Harraki, Maha Maamoun, Otobong Nkanga, Ossama Mohammed, Hassan Soliman
28 May–23 July 2011
Opening:
Friday 27 May 2011, 6:00–9:30 pm, performance by Tarek Atoui at 8:00 pm.
Free shuttle bus leaving from Paris at 7:00 pm
Curator: Ala Younis
La Galerie Contemporary Art Centre
1, rue Jean Jaurès
F-93130 Noisy-le-Sec, France
T +33 (0)1 49 42 67 17
lagalerie [at] noisylesec.fr
lagalerie-cac-noisylesec.fr (under construction)
Access by train in 10 min. from Paris: RER line E from Saint-Lazare/Haussmann or Gare du Nord, then 10 minutes walk
Open Tuesday to Friday: 2–6pm and Saturday: 2–7pm
Closed on Thursday 2 June and Thursday 14 July
Admission free
Outre mesures et programmes radio (Maps, timelines, radio programmes) is a two-part deliberation on the apprehensive construction of history. Basic tools of interpretation such as maps and personal timelines have been re-invented by the participating artists to reference a state, or to record the pulse of a societal body in perpetual change. The first part of this project is an exhibition showing artworks that explore individual positions within the larger collective and that construct specific narratives within general and mutating social, economic and political contexts. While collective history is unmade and rewritten with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated, personal narratives are inherited, lent and borrowed across epochs and generations.
The second part of the project is a series of workshops in which local residents and young visitors to the exhibition are invited to study elements of the works on display, and experiment with producing sound pieces themselves, to be broadcast on local and web radios. The radio culture and industry peaked in the mid twentieth century, its accessible nature has earned it a revival as a media for experimentation and documentation of contemporary art and revolutionary projects.
Annual residency programme for curators at Noisy-le-Sec / Paris, France
Since 2006, La Galerie has hosted foreign curators for an annual three-month residency, in order to support an exhibition in a French contemporary art centre and allowing a discovery of the Île-de-France contemporary scene (artists, professionals, other organizations…). The annual residency for curators at La Galerie is receiving the backing of DRAC Île-de-France (Ministry of Culture).
Forthcoming programme at La Galerie:
Meris Angioletti, solo show
17 September–19 November 2011
Georges Tony Stoll, solo show
Coproduced with Villa Arson, National centre of contemporary art (Nice)
Associate curator: Jean-Marc Avrilla
3 December 2011–11 February 2012
La Galerie Contemporary art centre is financed by the city of Noisy-le-Sec, with the support of the Ile-de-France/Ministry of Culture and Communications Regional Cultural Affairs Board, the Seine-Saint-Denis Département and the Ile-de-France Region.
La Galerie is a member of:
tram, Paris/Île de France contemporary art network: www.tram-idf.fr
d.c.a, French association for the development of art centres: www.dca-art.com
