Destiny Without Destination,Versus, Oudenaarde (B)

Destiny without Destination, Versus, Oudenaarde (Belgium)

Group show, sept 24-october 24, 2009.

Cabinet Jurino / Potential Estate, MuHKA extra muros, Antwerp

Ars Electronica, Linz (Austria)

Argos is one of the eight European media art archives and collections that is networked within the GAMA portal (Gateway to Archives of Media Art). As such, this provides a common online research platform and an improved access to media art. On the occasion of the launch of www.gama-gateway.eu at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, highlights from the archive collections are being screened. Argos’ director Paul Willemsen compiled for the occasion works relating to the programme theme Psychogeographies. The term psychogeography refers to the architectural or geographical surroundings and the way that these relate to perception and mental experience. A psychogeographical analysis starts from the exposure of relationships, relating a genuine, material environment to an imaginary or potential environment. Each work investigates questions of: documentary versus fiction, private versus public, and the real versus the imagined.

Psychogeographies

Brucknerhaus, September 5 - 8, 2009

A Necessary Music. Beatrice Gibson, 2008, 29'09", video, colour, English spoken.

N12°13.062'/ W 001°32.619' Extended. Vincent Meessen, 2005, video, colour, 8'25", sound.

What I'm Looking For. Shelly Silver, 2004, video, colour, 15'00", English spoken.

Dear Adviser. Vincent Meessen, 2008, video, colour, 8'00", English spoken.

Inch'Allah. Ria Pacquée, 2005, video, colour, 18'40", English spoken.

Splav meduze, Center for Contemporary Art Celje, Slovenia

Participants: HOSTS, GUESTS & GHOSTS

SPLAV MEDUZE seeks to understand the logic of the cannibalistic modes of survival under the laws of capitalism in the times of political disorientation, economic fundamentalism, financial despair, decrease of cultural values and ‘failure’ of historical promises.

It aims to construct a mythology and iconography of its own, based upon a long-term, inclusive and citizens-oriented “democratic” structure, where the art exhibition (September 2009) comprises only a segment of a broader attempt to create the potential for a radically different public opinion. In addition, the political endeavor of the project and its action-plan (among which a series of formal and informal discursive events preceding the exhibition /March–August 2009/, and a series of publishing and communication events following its end /October-December 2009/) revolve around the existence of insular experiences in the continuous global circuit of people, goods and signs.

SPLAV MEDUZE looks for the possibility of individual freedom: of choosing one’s own perspective within a context of the conformist spectacle of institutionalized normativity and a consensus becoming progressively conservative. Escapism and resistance, non-conformism and movement, exile and engagement, sailing and longing for independence, detachment and (non-)belongingness, all contribute to the creation of a virtual and physical,digital and analogue, artistic and political experience of the SPLAV MEDUZE.

Splav meduze, Center for Contemporary Art Celje, Slovenia, september 3-23, 2009.

Curated by Marko Stamenkovic.

Unknown Territory, Museum De Paviljoens, Almere (NL)

From August 21 to November 8, 2009, Museum De Paviljoens in The Netherlands shows Unknown Territory : a cabinet of art with objetcs, visions and observations. Unkwonw Territory 2009 is a advocacy for parallel and interdisciplinary approaches of the architectural environment.

With works by Annesas Appel, Gwenneth Boelens, Nickel van Duijvenboden, Hala Elkoussy, Cevdet Erek, Anne Holtrop, Yasmijn Karhof, Marijn van Kreij, Vincent Meessen and sarah van Sonsbeeck.

Contour Biennale for Moving Image, Mechelen (B)

Vita Nova's exhibition première will take place during Contour Biennale for Moving Images, in Mechelen (Belgium).

"Vincent Meessen’s new film ‘Vita Nova’ takes as its point of departure a cover of the French magazine Paris-Match, from 1955. On this cover, a child soldier is depicted in the act of making a military salute. The artist subsequently embarks on a search for Diouf, the child soldier, weaving an elaborate narrative that brings together phantoms from the colonial past, the writings of Roland Barthes – who wrote about this particular image – and issues that centre on the representation and re-writing of history, its repressed narratives, as well as the spectral nature of photography."

Cabinet Jurino / Potential Estate

Exhibition views, Cabinet Jurino/Potential Estate , MuHKA extra muroas at KMSKA, Antwerp, 27 march- 10 september 2009.

An ongoing project taking place inside the Passing Through Pavilion by Joe Scanlan including works by Jimmie Durham from teh MuHKA collection.