23.09.2009

MASTERCLASS ART ET DÉVELOPPEMENT / PALAIS DE TOKYO

Mardi 22 septembre 2009 de 19H30 à 22H00

En partenariat avec 1.618 et Parnasse, Coal présente une soirée Art et développement durable.
Intervention de Alice Audouin et Lauranne Germond
Trois artistes invités présentent leur travail Philippe Terrier Hermann, Camille Goujon, Marie Denis 

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Photos: Marie Denis

 

21.09.2009

Recyclage electro

 Projet initié et piloté par Loïc Fel.

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15.09.2009

Life Forms





Tue Greenfort 
Closed Biosphere, 2003 
Courtesy Johann König, Berlin 



16 September 2009 - 10 January 2010

Micol Assaël, Charles Avery, Rosa Barba, Andreas Eriksson, Ane Graff, Tue Greenfort, Henrik Håkansson, Helen Mirra, Katie Paterson, Jani Ruscica, Tomas Saraceno 


Bonniers Konsthall
Torsgatan 19, SE-113 90 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 8 736 42 48
info@bonnierskonsthall.se

http://www.bonnierskonsthall.se 

The autumn's major exhibition, Life Forms, invites us to a discussion about how nature is viewed in contemporary art. The exhibition brings together 11 noted, internationally active artists who depict the relationship between nature and culture, the artificial and the organic, art and landscape. The exhibition includes a series of seminars, a film programme and an extensive anthology.

In a time of environmental pollution and climate change, Life Forms is intended to reveal the way contemporary art imagine our life on earth. Is it an unmitigated apocalyptic landscape, trashed and exploited, that contemporary art travels through? Or is there, in art, room for new utopias, in which art can contribute to the discovery of new life forms? A desire to find a way back to an imagined, more original state, or does it present images of completely new worlds and life forms in which the centre stage is not occupied by human beings?

Life Forms has links with the land art and installation art of the 60s and 70s. The participating artists and their predecessors share an interest in the time spans of the universe, the Earth's geological movements and the slow development and destruction of organisms. The exhibition includes painting, drawing, installation, photography, video and large-scale sculpture. On display are Charles Avery's project The Islanders, in which the artist has created his own world of unique flora and fauna, and Katie Paterson's map of the 27,000 dead stars that people have discovered in the universe. Henrik Håkansson's hundreds of orchids cover the Konsthall from floor to ceiling. There is also a contribution from Jani Ruscica, whose video installation samples sounds made by bats with beatboxers from New York.

In the exhibition architecture Klas Ruin and Ola Broms Wessel from the Spridd architectural practice have made a sun screen powered by solar energy. The heat of the sun unfurls a balloon of spinnaker cloth that, when needed, will cover the Konsthall's southern façade. The sun's powers visibly influence the exhibition's architecture and give it a living, moving aspect that responds to the fluctuations of the
day and to the intensity of the sun.

Curator Sara Arrhenius

Participating artists
Micol Assaël, Charles Avery, Rosa Barba, Andreas Eriksson, Ane Graff, Tue Greenfort, Henrik Håkansson, Helen Mirra, Katie Paterson, Jani Ruscica and Tomas Saraceno.

Film programme
Bruce Conner, Nancy Holt, Gordon Matta-Clark, Ana Mendieta and Robert Smithson.

Publication
The exhibition is accompanied by the production, in collaboration with publishers Albert Bonniers Förlag, of an extensive anthology, the contributors being Swedish and international authors, theorists and the participating artists. Contributors: Donna J. Haraway, Lars Jakobson, Åsa-Maria Kraft, Tuija Nieminen Kristofersson, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, W.G. Sebald and Robert Smithson. Editors: Sara Arrhenius and Magnus Bergh.

Programme
21 Oct, 6 pm Transformation, Decay and Increasing Disorder
With artist Andreas Eriksson, publisher Magnus Berg and writers Tuija Nieminen Kristofersson and Åsa Maria Kraft among others
4 Nov, 6 pm Possible Impossible Worlds
With artist Tue Greenfort and writer Lars Jakobson among others
11 Nov, 6 pm To Retrieve New Places
With director Sara Arrhenius and artist Rosa Barba among others

Interview d'Alice Audouin sur l'art et le dévelopement durable

Veille.pdf

Marketing Magazine, Dossier : "Vers un monde tout vert"

WOOLOO.ORG: PARTICIPATE OR DIE


 

NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN 
Contemporary Art Festival 

CALL FOR ARTISTS 
Deadline:
 October 1st 2009 


http://www.wooloo.org/festival


NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN 
Wooloo.org is organizing the people of Copenhagen to open their homes to 5.000 environmental activists during the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference in Denmark this December. 

Utilizing this large-scale human meeting as its exhibition platform, the NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN festival invites artists and curators to submit work proposals.

New Life Happenings. Propose a happening or event for the thousands of NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN hosts and guests during the UN Conference. Your concept should involve collective action and will be implemented alongside works by artist groups Superflex (DK), Signa (DK/A) and Raketa (SE) among others. 

To learn more about NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN and to apply for participation, go to: http://www.wooloo.org/festival 


PARTICIPATE OR DIE
From December 7th to 18th, 2009, representatives from 192 nations will gather in Denmark for the UN Climate Change Conference to reach an agreement on a new global climate treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol. In addition to the large number of official UN delegates, thousands of activists and Non-Governmental Organizations are bound for the conference which has been called: "Humanity's last chance to combat a climate problem that is now all but overwhelming." (Tim Flannery, Scientist and environmental activist)

However, there will not be enough hotel space to accommodate most of these visitors, as all hotels in Copenhagen and the surrounding area (including Sweden) have already been booked for the official delegates. Furthermore, even if they were available, many visitors from all over the world would not be able to afford them anyway.

In order to help solve this substantial problem, NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN is running a volunteer-based campaign to get private Danish homes to open their door to the thousands of visitors. Through street campaigns and collaborations with local organizations, NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN aims to reach this goal by November. 


ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE?
At the end of Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth", Gore lists ten simple life rules to combat global warming. These include using less hot water, recycling more, etc. While Wooloo.org supports this sustainable thinking, we also believe that the real problem will not be solved by asking individuals to modify their behavior but only through addressing the wrongs of a global economic system that thrives on exploiting natural resources and people. 

Seen in this way, the climate crisis is not just a threat but also an opportunity: The opportunity to create transnational commitment around radical re-thinkings of a destructive system. The first step to create such change, is to develop alternatives to the current system and our existing cultural codes. 

That is our mission with NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN. 

By asking artists to develop happenings and reflections for a new life - and then request that thousands of participants implement them - Wooloo.org aims beyond the traditional art exhibition to become an active organizer of experiments in civic engagement and social empowerment. 


PEOPLE BEHIND 
NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN is organized by the artists-run community Wooloo.org. 

Founded in 2002, Wooloo.org is today used by more than 13.000 artists from over 140 countries. Wooloo.org projects have been presented in such places as: Artists Space (USA), White Box (USA), Basel Kunsthalle (Switzerland) and the Third Guangzhou Triennial (China). 

For more information, see http://www.wooloo.org and http://www.wooloo.org/festival

For further questions about NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN or Wooloo.org, please contact Martin Rosengaard; email:contact@wooloo.org / phone: +45 6171 6101, Wooloo.org, Pastursvej 46, DK-1778 Copenhagen
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14.09.2009

Humberto et Fernando Campana, Garrafa, La Maréchalerie, Versailles

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Etude pour Garrafa à  La Maréchalerie. Simulation du projet dans l'espace d'exposition. © Campana

 
     

 

Vernissage
samedi 19 septembre 2009 à 19h

Exposition du 19 septembre au 5 décembre 2009

Humberto et Fernando Campana, designers brésiliens, expérimentent les matériaux recyclés, métamorphosent les objets de rebut et enchantent la vie quotidienne. De l'assemblage de bouts de bois naît la chaise Favela, des tissus enroulés façonnent le mobilier Sushi, pneu et rotin deviennent plateaux : les pièces réfèrent à un artisanat de rue et à un contexte de production et d'économie informelle. Pièce unique ou production industrielle, elles sont diffusées dans un circuit économique mondialisé.

La production réalisée pour La Maréchalerie fait suite au workshop conduit en juin 2009 par les frères Campana où 170 étudiants de première année de l'école d'architecture de Versailles ont exploré le potentiel spatial et plastique de matériaux économiques. En contrepoint à la galerie des Glaces du château de Versailles, le projet repose sur le dé sir de travailler sur les transparences de bouteilles plastiques. Près de 20 000 bouteilles deviennent sources d'habitacles éphémères ordonnant un nouveau paysage baroque. A La Maréchalerie, les designers composent un maillage dont la forme hybride et tentaculaire envahit l'espace.

Autour de l'exposition
La Publication
Le livre-dvd Garrafa témoigne de l'expérience des frères Campana à Versailles, du workshop à l'exposition.

Journées du Patrimoine
> samedi 19 et dimanche 20 septembre
Une visite commentée est proposée au public à 14h, 15h, 16h et 17h. Entrée libre.
Réservation conseillée par téléphone ou mail.

Nuit blanche
> samedi 3 octobre
Programme sous réserve.

Hospitalités - Taxi Tram
 > samedi 14 novembre
L''oeuvre et le lieu. Dans le cadre d'Hospitalités 2009, le réseau TRAM propose une visite des expositions d'ORLAN Unions mixtes, mariages libres et no ces barbares à l'abbaye de Maubuisson et des frères Campana Garrafa à La Maréchalerie - centre d'art contemporain.

Départ 11h, Place de l'Etoile/Charles de Gaulle. 
Réservation auprès de TRAM au 01 53 34 64 15 - taxitram@tram-idf.fr

 

La Maréchalerie - centre d'art contemporain
école nationale supérieure d'architecture de Versailles

Accès
Par la cour de la maréchalerie. Gare Versailles Rive Gauche, RER C (Paris-Invalides).
Entrée libre du lundi au samedi de 14h à 18h et le matin sur RDV. Fermé les jours fériés.

5, avenue de Sceaux - 78000 Versailles
01 39 07 40 27

lamarechalerie@versailles.archi.fr
www.versailles.archi.fr/centre_art.php