At Once
Lecture-performance by Joe Moran
On At Once, the new solo by Deborah Hay
Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
Satuarday 19 December 2009, 7pm
Upon the invitation of visual artist Jesse Aron Green, as part of his artist residency, Joe Moran presents a lecture-performance on his adaptation of At Once, the new solo Deborah Hay, at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw.
PARA_TELE_VISIONS
19.12.2009, 7pm - 1am
Laboratorium Building
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle
PARA_TELE_VISIONS is a home party, an evening in Laboratorium hosted by current a-i-r laboratory residents. A para-opening: Dream or Nightmare space created as part of „Working Title.Tytuł roboczy“ exhibition by Berlin-based collective Raumtaktik will lend its bedroom-travel offce-lounge capacities to six artists. The evening in Laboratorium is to be a series of interdisciplinary meetings, presentations and performances, selection of art-video works in a home setting, with an alternative actions at a kicker table and by a glass of wine. To be completed together with Petit Buffet duet by a dancehall DJ set according to their call that theory is boring without shaking your ass.
Free entrance, number of visitors limited – free invitations to be picked up at info booth on Dec 19th, at the main entrance to the CCA.
Exhibition „Working Title. Tytuł Roboczy“ will be accesible for viewing throughout the evening.
Meetings and presentations in English.
7pm
Jesse Aron Green and Joe Moran
Chorography and Conceptualism
Green – the author of film and video installations, curator and researcher from Los Angeles - will present some of his recent work in light of the Modernist tradition of utilizing chorographic practices as a conceptual tool; that is, the making or following of maps, scores, directions, or indices, of various kinds. During the whole evening his large format HD video installation Ärztliche Zimmergymnastik [2008] will be shown in the auditorium hall. To complement his presentation Jesse has invited Joe Moran, a dance-based artist from London, to give a verbal lecture/performance of a dance score At Once created by Deborah Hay.
8pm
Rudolf Steiner
What what I Do do
The presentation focuses on some key-works of Rudolf Steiner, including the series «Pictures of me, shooting myself into a picture», in which Steiner sums up, in one single image, various questions about the photographic medium. Rudolf Steiner effectively shoots at a dark box containing a large-format transparency, thereby creating a pin-hole camera. He creates an image of himself in the very process of shooting: the hole from the bullet serves as the shutter and aperture. On the other hand, Steiner will give a glimpse into the not yet accomplished body of work he is realising during his residency at the CCA Castle Ujazdowski in Warsaw, including a short animation about the Eichmann-Trial in Jerusalem in 1963.
9 pm
Dubravka Sekulić
Excursion through Europe with the Eurovision glasses on
This presentation by Dubravka Sekulić, an architect and researcher, will show how story of Europe after WW2 told through Eurovision Song Contest can tell more about Europe than that it has a terrible music taste. After the winners and losers were established in the WW2 European countries were not anymore waging war on the battlegrounds, but in the field of technology. As television was a symbol of technological development of the country, each country was developing special protocols for broadcasting to show their technological supremacy, but also to protect the national market. The odd way stimulating the countries to standardise the protocols came with the creation of Eurovision Song Contest by the European Broadcasting Union, standardising body in 1955. It was one of the first mayor events where through competing a new image of Europe that is more united was created.
10pm
Nadja Abt & Katharina Marszewski
Petit Buffet presents contemporary dj set These Girls meet just a few weeks ago and played one evening in the Berlin Bar "Mysliwska". Still this Duet will offer us the pleasures of Djing again. "We figured out fast that we both started to play music cause we we wanted to dance to music that we like the most and do not care so much about the professional style". No more classy bored mix up dj set - instead a maybe not so perfect but flamboyant intelligent ass-shaking one. Dance live shows included!
Notes about the artists
Jesse Aron Green was born in 1979 in Boston, MA. He received his MFA from UCLA and his BA from Harvard University. He lives and works in Boston and Los Angeles, where he is a Programming Advisor for Art2102 and on the Advisory Board for the Genesis Project. His recent exhibitions include a project in the Oil Tanks at Tate Modern and a solo show at Vox Populi in Philadelphia. He was an artist in residence at the CCA Kitakyushu, Japan for 2008/9 as a Henry Luce Foundation Scholar. His work will be featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial.
Joe Moran creates dance and video works for theatres, galleries and public spaces; most recently the solos Decommission and Cecilia Walking for Summer Dancing Festival 2009. In the 2008/09 Dance Art season of dance in London galleries, his work was presented at Wilkinson and Herald St. He recently choreographed Background, a film by visual artist Magali Reus (La Salle de Bains, Lyon/ IBID Projects, London). As a dancer, Joe has worked with a number of distinguished choreographers including Deborah Hay, Siobhan Davies (Bank project) and Christopher House (Toronto Dance Theatre).
Rudolf Steiner, Swiss artist, born in 1964, is the co-founder of “Haus am Gern” – an art enterprise which is open to all fields of art – raised in 1997, in cooperation with Barbara Meyer Cesta. In 2007, together with Joanna Warsza and Beat Gugger, Steiner invited Warsaw residents for a stroll at the chalk-drawn Museum of Imagination, located in the parking lot in front of the Palace of Culture and Science, which is the future site of the planned Museum of Contemporary Art. The artist works in an interdisciplinary fashion, combining photography, video and performance. www.hausamgern.ch (only in German)
Dubravka Sekulić (born in Niš, Serbia) is an architect/researcher with special interest in transformations of public domain. The main focus of her research is into extralegal practices of construction in Belgrade aiming to understand the relationship between formal and informal procedures that take place in the city. Parts of this research focusing on roof extensions of Russian Pavilions in Belgrade is shown at the exhibition “Working Title. Tytuł roboczy” and will be published during 2010. Other projects she is working on at the moment are "TeleVision" (a research into relationship between Europe, television and Eurovision Song Contest), "Department Stores in Yugoslavia" and "Textbook on the City". Her work was included in various exhibitions and currently she is a researcher at Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Petit Buffet
Katharina Marszewski is a class of its own when it comes to improvised arrangement in variety of discipline. Collaborative, engaged, fevered varsovienne emigrant. She is living in Germany since she was five and yet still focuses on Poland through her artworks.
Nadja Abt dances when she is sad or happy or both and tries to convince all the others of her music. Singing is difficult but everything needs to be practiced. She is also a Vladimirovich, sometimes Russian, sometimes Greek with a room in Berlin. Theory is boring without shaking your ass. So good that she met Kasia.
Supported by: Warsaw City Council, Allianz Kulturstiftung, Stiftung für deutsch-polnische Zusammenarbeit, Pro Helvetia, Trust for Mutual Understanding
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle
00-467 Warsaw, ul. Jazdów 2
Laboratorium building: southern wing of CCA’s estate
www.csw.art.pl
At Once. Dancer: Joe Moran
Photography: Davidi Edwards