Catherine Sullivan in BOMB Magazine
In a BOMB Magazine web exclusive, Season 4 artist Catherine Sullivan (pictured top right) and choreographer Meg Stuart discuss mining the history of the avant-garde tradition and emotional overflow in ensemble-based work. BOMB’s Summer 2008 print issue will include the full-length conversation.
The magazine’s online art section, which currently archives 1,206 articles and interviews, features numerous Art21 artists such as Kerry James Marshall, Andrea Zittel (both Season 1), Gabriel Orozco, Paul Pfeiffer, Kara Walker (all Season 2), Arturo Herrera (Season 3), and Pierre Huyghe (Season 4).
Pierre Huyghe’s first Spanish venture
Season 4 featured artist Pierre Huyghe is currently enjoying his first solo show in Spain. A Time Score is on view until September 9 at the MUSAC-Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León in the city of León.
A Time Score was conceived as an event to exhibit different events: a performance (Toison d‚ÄôOr), a celebration (A Smile Without A Cat, Streamside Day), a puppet play (This Is Not a Time For Dreaming), a concert (L‚Äôexp√©dition Scintillante, Act 2. Untitled (Light Show), a journey (A Journey That Wasn‚Äôt), a book (The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote Of La Mancha by Pierre Menard), and even a video game (Atari Light). At the same time, the show aims to enable visitors to journey through the past and future of Huyghe’s career, on a ride driven by concepts such as collective subjectivity, copyright, and especially his commitment to the idea of non-linear time.
Huyghe notes, “usually an artist thinks of an exhibition as an end point, a resolution of something. He‚Äôs working in his studio, and there‚Äôs a process, and at the end of this process he‚Äôs showing his work in what we call an exhibition. I‚Äôm not interested in that. I‚Äôm interested that the exhibition is not the end of the process but a starting point to go somewhere else. In a certain way, that‚Äôs what this is all about. Like a world‚Äôs fair, it‚Äôs a presentation of some news, some novelty.” (taken from the Art in the Twenty-First Century 4 companion book, forthcoming from Harry N. Abrams publishers)
Download the press release and read further details here.
Matthew Barney and Pierre Huyghe in Il Tempo del Postino
On July 12, Season 1 featured artist Matthew Barney and Season 4 artist Pierre Huyghe premiered new work in Il Tempo del Postino, a group show of performance presented at the Manchester Opera House as part of the Manchester International Festival. Curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Philippe Parreno, the event was premised on the question “what if an exhibition was not about occupying space but about occupying time?”
Huyghe’s comical contribution, Hello Zombie, featured aliens playing tennis. Barney’s, on the other hand, was much more baroque and comprised the entire second half of the show. Entitled Guardian of the Veil and produced in collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, this work involved, to varying degrees, a woman’s corpse (not real, of course), a contortionist, a live bull, a dog strapped to Barney’s head, paramilitary antics, and a Cadillac, among other notables.
Il Tempo del Postino will travel to Paris’s Théâtre du Châtelet in February 2008.
Read the Artforum.com diary’s full account here.
Three Art21 Artists in Automatic Update exhibition at MoMA
MoMA’s new media exhibition, Automatic Update, features work by Art21 artists Laurie Anderson (Season 1), Paul Pfeiffer (Season 2), and Pierre Huyghe (Season 4).
Laurie Anderson’s short film about cloning herself, What You Mean We? (1986) screens during the program “Automatic Update: Shorts,” this Wednesday and also Thursday, August 30 at 6 p.m.
Paul Pfeiffer’s installed video loop, John 3:16 (2000, on left) is currently on view in MoMA’s Media Gallery.
Two Minutes Out of Time (2000, right), a video by Pierre Huyghe about purchasing the rights to a Manga character, is screening Thursday, August 30 at 8:30 p.m. as part of the exhibition’s ‚ÄúThe Artist and the Computer‚Äù program.
