ARC at the Covent des Cordeliers
ARC/Musee d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
The Musee d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, closed for safety improvement, continues its activities in other locations.
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1. Ailleurs, ici
(Elsewhere, here)
17 January – 29 February 2004
For its first exhibition at the Covent des Cordeliers, an historical building dating from the 14th century, ARC was inspired to bring together young international artists whose works are based on the notion of “space-jacking” and the appropriation of space. Through installations, performative actions and films, these artists re-activate spaces and invest them with new functions.
The Franco-Portugese architect Didier Fiuza Faustino has chosen to respond to the invitation with a fleeting architectural installation, Revolutions, that employs the silver and gold surface of a survival cover in unexpected ways. This structure acts as both an exhibition space and a space for discussion and debate ( “Le Club des Cordeliers”).
Nick Relph and Oliver Payne present their films, shot together since 1999. Influenced by Skate & Punk cultures, the two British artists re-appropriate a world controlled by consumer society through wanderings that sketch out a new psycho-geography of London and its suburbs.
The German artist, Tino Sehgal proposes a new ” sculpture ” that uses museum guards as actors. Opposed to the work of art as an object, he inscribes the body in the space while adapting contemporary dance principles to the temporality of the exhibition.
In accordance with their collaborative practice, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, artists of American and Cuban origin respectively, create a number of participatory installations or scenarios in connection with the architecture, the history of the Covent and the Parisian urban context.
Curators: Laurence Bosse, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Angeline Scherf, Anne Dressen, Vivian Rehberg assisted by Ana Janevski
Publications :
Catalogue of the exhibition
(In French only)
Graphic design: Pierre François – PIF- letue
Published by Steidl Publishers With the support of Paris Musees
ISBN : 2-87900-821-2 (Paris Musees)
ISBN : 3-86521-003-1 (Steidl)
Stairway to heaven
by Didier Fiuza Faustino / Bureau des Mesarchitectures
150 pages, 140 x 225 mm
2. ” Le Club des Cordeliers ” : conferences, discussions, performances
1st programme proposed each Tuesday by the writer and philosopher Federico Nicolao.
Giorgio Agamben et Mario Dondero: La flânerie du regard
20 January 2004
Laura Erber: Interferences
27 January 2004
Antonia Birnbaum: Le vertige d’une pensee
3 February 2004
Federico Ferrari et Jean-Luc Nancy: L’etincelle obscure d’un sujet (Iconographie de l’auteur)
10 February 2004
Alfonso Cariolato et Gianni d’Elia: L’image du temps
17 February 2004
15, rue de l’Ecole de Medecine, 75006, metro Odeon
B. Collections
1. Thematic cycles based on the collections in Paris
6th district Mayor Office
The ” Nouveaux Realistes “
8 march – 26 april 2004
13th district Mayor Office
” Figuration narrative “
june – july 2004
9th district Mayor Office
Around Andre Breton
september – october 2004
18th district Mayor Office
Montmartre and ” l’Ecole de Paris “
october – november 2004
20th district Mayor Office
Abstraction in the 50′s
to be confirmed
in United States
Art Deco Furniture and Paintings from the Musee d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, 6 march – 11 july 2004
More than ninety 1930′s works (furniture, paintings, objets d’art and paper works).
2. ” Les Intrus ” (“Intruders”)
This series presents singular works in a new context:
La Mer de Ange Leccia at Musee national de la Marine
U-Control IIl de Panamarenko at Musee des arts et metiers
Detrompe l’il de Daniel Spoerri
Rhinoceros, Ragondins, Pantheres de Gilles Aillaud
Kimbo de Koo Jeong-A
Büsi de Peter Fischli & David Weiss at Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature
Compass of love de Thomas Shannon
Euclide de Luciano Fabro at l’Observatoire de Paris
25 films de Sache de Sarkis at Musee national Eugene Delacroix
Deux volumes plats et allonges de Jean-Pierre Bertrand at Musee Gustave Moreau
Theâtre d’ombres de Christian Boltanski at Musee d’art et d’histoire du Judaisme
Perceptions singulieres (video de Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tania Mouraud, Rosemarie Trockel) at la Societe d’Encouragement pour l’Industrie nationale
Exposition Pascin at Musee d’art et d’histoire du Judaisme
We are pleased to inform you of the collaboration with :
THE ART OF LISTENING
Live Broadcasting at www.radioartemobile.it
by RAM and JANUS, with a series of connections, sound projects and installations
Starting: 6.00 p.m. EU time(Mexico 11.00 a.m; NY noon; Moscow 8.00 p.m.)
6.00 p.m. Presentation of the program by RAM and JANUS in the occasion of the new issue of the magazine
dedicated to Sound, containing the cd audio The Art of Listening curated by Riccardo Giagni
Presentation of Storytellers for RAM, a project by Cesare Pietroiusti
Sound projects from The Art of Listening
Connection: Moscow, Palais Berg, with Yuri Rodkine
Connection: Ljubljana, Moderna Galerija, with Igor Spanjol
Sound projects from The Art of Listening
Connection: Catania, Palazzo Fichera and Grid/Internet 2, with Giovanni Iovane and Cane CapoVolto
Roma, RAM headquarter, with Giuliano Compagno
7.00 p.m. The Square Root Piano by John Koermeling performed by Danilo Cherni
Connection: Munich, Staedtische Galerie im Lembachhaus, with Helmut Friedl and Stephan Huber
Connection: Paris, ARC at Les Cordeliers, with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Federico Nicolao
Sound projects from The Art of Listening
Connection: Stockholm, Faergfabriken, with Jan Aman
Connection: Bregenz, Palais Turm und Taxi, with Wilhelm Meusburger
Sound projects from The Art of Listening
Connection: New York, Sculpture Center, with Anthony Huberman, Seth Price and Douglas Ross
Connection: Monterrey, Alianza Francesa, with Alban Corbier-Labasse,.Marco Granados and Angel Sanchez Borges/Blanca Medelin
Excerpts from Fluxus Anthology by Maurizio Nannucci
8.30 p.m. Connections from Belgium, various locations, curated by JANUS
The Art of Listening will be broadcasted from the new Roman headquarter of Radioartemobile, open to the public in via Conte Verde 15, an environment created by Mario Airò, Massimo Bartolini and Annie Ratti, with additional installations by: Bruna Esposito, John Koermeling, Cesare Pietroiusti, Vettor Pisani, Michelangelo Pistoletto, and Gert Robijns.
Jan Fabre and Achille Bonito Oliva, with Paolo Balmas, Angelo Capasso, Cecilia Casorati, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, and Riccardo Giagni will present the new issue of the magazine JANUS at 3.00 p.m. – Rome University, Department of Architecture, via Flaminia 70 (Aula II).
