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"Slought in Berlin: The New Epistemology"
Galerie Heike Curtze Berlin
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Exhibit Duration: February 16 - March 02, 2007
Location: Galerie Heike Curtze (Mommsenstrasse 11/1. Stock D - 10629 Berlin, Germany)
Reception: Friday, February 16, 2007
Slought for Export Series
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A. Levy, J.M. Rabaté, O. Romberg
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Slought Foundation is pleased to announce “Slought in Berlin / The New Epistemology.” The exhibition will be on display at Galerie Heike Curtze in Berlin, Germany from February 16-March 2, 2007, and will feature work by artists William Anastasi, Arakawa + Gins, Günter Brus, Hélène Cixous, Braco Dimitrijevic, Fred Forest, Hermann Nitsch, Dennis Oppenheim, David Stephens, and Marjorie Welish, each of whom have collaborated with Slought Foundation since its inception in 2002. It will also include retrospective materials documenting over 200 past performances, public conversations, exhibitions, and publications at Slought Foundation that explore new futures for contemporary political and cultural life.
Galerie Heike Curtze is located at Mommsenstrasse 11/1. Stock D – 10629 Berlin (T: +49-30-3759-1996 / F: +49-30-3180-3135). The public reception for the exhibition will take place on Friday, February 16th, 2007 from 6:00pm. This exhibition has been organized by Slought Foundation curators Aaron Levy, Jean-Michel Rabaté, and Osvaldo Romberg, and will be accompanied by a hardcover publication, Slought in Berlin, 2002-2006 (contact us to purchase a copy). Please note that in conjunction with the Berlin program, a corresponding display has been organized at Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, on display from February 16-March 2, 2007.
“What Slought has done is something civic-minded with theory—if that sounds terribly pedestrian, it is, in the most literal sense of the term. Its location does promise something to the flâneur of Walnut St., the curious person just out for a walk. Rather than wander a campus with map in hand looking for such and such a building, the potential audience member of Slought might have wandered in from off the street. This aleatory encounter with something anachronistic like a 'society' or 'academy' or a cult takes place in a white cube space meant for the display of contemporary art. Theory has proven disappointing not because it has not necessarily led to great social, political or cultural change, but because it seems to have been fully institutionalized. But there is still the possibility that something happens within this way of thinking and talking that is both expansive and explosive when it addresses the instability and the historicity of the institutions in which it finds itself precariously at home.”--Catherine Liu, from 'Auditions for the Future' (Rrrevolutionnaire, Slought Books, 2006)
This exhibition features work by artists including William Anastasi, Arakawa + Gins, Günter Brus, Braco Dimitrijevic, Fred Forest, Hermann Nitsch, Dennis Oppenheim, Hélène Cixous, David Stephens, and Marjorie Welish, as well as documentation of Slought Foundation projects by artists, theorists, and architects including but not limited to: Marina Abramovic, Rashied Ali, Marshall Allen, Maya Bajevic, Cecil Balmond, Franziska Baumann, Samuel Beckett, Luis Benedit, Raoul Björkenheim, John Boskovich, Peter Brötzmann, Didi Bruckmeyer, Charles Burns, Dave Burrell, Eduardo Cadava, Uri Caine, Maria Chevska, John Coltrane, Rebecca Comay, Robert Creeley, Daniel Dayan, Guy Debord, Pascal Dombis, Johanna Drucker, Robert Duncan, Shahram Entekhabi, Hal Foster, Edward Fry, Allen Ginsberg, Carlos Ginzburg, Michael Gitlin, Anthony Grafton, Giorgio Griffa, Julio Grinblatt, Hervé Guibert, Hans Haacke, Lorand Hegyi, Gary Indiana, Sejla Kameric, Matthias Kaul, Thomas Keenan, Komar & Melamid, Michael Milunovic, Oleg Kulik, Jacques Lacan, Thomas Y. Levin, Daniel Libeskind, Lukas Ligeti, Catherine Liu, Lenore Malen, Joseph Masheck, Steve McCaffery, Thomas McEvilley, Sunny Murray, Brian O'Doherty, Charles Olson, Gian Carlo Pagliasso, Bob Perelman, Marjorie Perloff, Sun Ra, Klaus Rinke, Avital Ronell, Renata Salecl, Remko Scha, Rafi Segal, Elliott Sharp, Dani Shoshan, Nebojsa Seric Soba, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Burkhard Stangl, Tomasz Stanko, Judith Stein, Susan Stewart, Ken Vandermark, Anthony Vidler, Miroslav Vitous, Barrett Watten, Samuel Weber, Eyal Weizman, Slavoj Zizek, and Tom Zummer.
For more information about the Slought in Berlin publication, or to purchase a copy:
Slought Foundation ('Sl-aw-t') is a non-profit organization in Philadelphia that broadly encourages new futures for contemporary life through public programs featuring international artists and theorists. Our programs, set in an intimate and participatory environment, are purposely critical and provocative. Out of concern for the market-driven orientation of today's cultural institutions, Slought Foundation is located adjacent to the University of Pennsylvania and has operated with minimal private funding, no public funding, and an all-volunteer staff. At Slought Foundation, we believe that the point of any cultural practice should not be simply to display objects, but to present a problem, not simply to make something coherent but to create something that is purposely critical or provocative. Devising alternatives to traditional forms of cultural display necessarily entails de-familiarizing the practice of 'art appreciation' for audiences, and evading practices associated with most cultural organizations. Instead of encouraging the passive absorption of static information, we invite our audiences to assume a critical orientation towards contemporary life, and to consider criticality itself as a source of dynamism and enjoyment. Through over 200 exhibitions, events and performances, trade publications, and a significant internet presence featuring hundreds of recordings (http://slought.org/), Slought Foundation has been at the forefront of interventionist approaches to cultural production in North America.
German: Als nicht gewinnorientierte Organisation fördert die Slought Foundation neue Wege der zeitgenössischen Kreativität und bietet einen öffentlichen Zugang zur Auseinandersetzung von Künstlern und Philosophen mit unserer Zeit. Kritik und Provokation sind feste, willkommene Bestandteile der Programme, die jenseits des Mainstream und des marktorientierten Kunstmarktes mit geringen Mitteln, ohne jede öffentliche Förderung und dank ehrenamtlicher MitarbeiterInnen zustande kommen.
Die Kuratoren der Slought Foundation vertreten den Ansatz, dass kulturelles Handeln nicht nur in der Ausstellung von Objekten und Kunstwerken, sondern vielmehr unter Hervorhebung einer bestimmten Problematik geschehen sollte. Es geht dabei nicht allein um eine kohärente Anordnung, sondern um das Schaffen eines kritischen Gesamtansatzes. Statt zu einer passiven Rezeption statischer Information anzuregen, werden die Rezipienten so selbst zu Akteuren werdend zu einer kritischen Auseinandersetzung voll Dynamik und Genuss angeregt.
Gezeigt werden Arbeiten von William Anastasi, Arakawa + Gins, Günter Brus, Hélène Cixous, Braco Dimitrijevic, Fred Forest, Hermann Nitsch, Dennis Oppenheim, David Stephens, Marjorie Welish und Dokumentationsmaterial von über 200 Performances, Kunstgesprächen, Ausstellungen und Publikationen der Slought Foundation, Philadelphia.
To Cite this Page using MLA Style:
Galerie Heike Curtze Berlin. "Slought in Berlin: The New Epistemology." Slought Foundation Online Content.
[16 February 2007;
Accessed 6 January 2009]. <http://slought.org/content/11346/>.
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This program was made possible in part through the generous sponsorship of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, which has contributed to travel funding. Editorial assistance for the publication Slought in Berlin, 2002-2006 was provided by Damien Bright, Annie Counter, and Cameron Hu.
 
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