curating

TRANSFORMER LE BAUHAUS

A program conceived by Jean-Christophe Arcos, Anne-Valérie Gasc and Judith Lavagna in the frame of Printemps de l’art contemporain (PAC), Marseille, 01 June 2019.

Kindly supported by La Friche Belle de Mai, the Goethe Institut of Marseille, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Marseille and CEA / French Curator Association.

01 June, 2-3.30 pm, le petit Plateau, Friche Belle de Mai. Image credit: Lyllie Rouvière / Julian Weber.

> Lectures

Joëlle Zask teaches at the University of Provence, where she holds a chair in political philosophy. Translator of John Dewey’s works, her research focuses on the current understanding of political problems in an uncertain world and the cultural conditions of our political representations.

PÉROU (pôle d’exploration des ressources urbaines) is an action-research laboratory designed to link social and architectural action with the inhabitants of the periphery and new forms of cities. They experiment with new urban tactics – requiring the renewal of techniques as well as imaginations – in order to create hospitality.

Dancers Lyllie Rouvière and Julian Weber will present a selection of their choreographic works at the intersection of visual arts, architecture and dance. They will review their recent collaboration as well as their creative and transdisciplinary processes, where both the Bauhaus school and Rem Koolhaas’ junk spaces continue to have an influence on their work.

> Open call: Public Pool#7 Différentes forces – Verschiedene Kräfte

Organised by Lydie Marchi and Constance Juliette Meffre for CEA / French Curator Association, together with Jean-Christophe Arcos, Anne-Valérie Gasc and Judith Lavagna. 01 June, 4-7 pm, le petit Plateau, Friche Belle de Mai.

The Bauhaus has put all its energy into identifying principles of convergence between the vital forces of creation: the unity between the artist and the craftsman, if it was first achieved under the aegis of architecture, has taken advantage of the important contribution of the theatre, notably through the person of Oskar Schlemmer, to return to itself the Wagnerian principle of the Gesamtkunstwerk. One hundred years after its creation in Weimar, more than a synthesis of the arts, it is a crossing of disciplinary boundaries that seems to concern contemporary scenes through the omnipresence of the transdisciplinary term.

With Aymar Batetana Casanova , Arthur Eskenazi, Bérangère Armand, Javiera Tejerina, Sophie Innmann, Anne Bergeaud & Orane Stalpers, Léna Fillet, Inès Koussa Gradenigo, Andrea Günther, Bingjie Luan, Jessica Arseneau, Alexandre Gerard, Marie Lienhard, Won Jin Choi & Julia Martha Müller.

> BAUHAUS OF MODA (House of Moda)

Performative event co-produced by House of Moda, Cabaret Aleatoire and L’Édition Festival, 01 June, 4-7 pm, rooftop ON AIR, Friche Belle de Mai.

With Elkka – Live [Femme Culture], Moesha 13 – DJ Set, Crame et Reno – DJ Set, rRoxymore B2B Abstraxion – DJ set. Performances Le Laboratoire des Possibles : Bettie Bitch!, Kleptä Schwarz, Triphasé. Performances House of Moda : Héléna de Laurens (dance), Matyouz Ladurée (voguing), Sylvain OIlivier (dance), Veida Shimi (creature). Costumes : Anna Mennessier.

Images credits: C-E-A (Public Pool) ; House of Moda (Bauhaus of Moda).

http://c-e-a.asso.fr // http://www.lafriche.org/en // http://www.goethe.de/ins/fr/fr/sta/mar.html

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Notes from a trembling community in a wilful state of flux

Hotel Maria Kapel (HMK), Hoorn NL, 7 September – 20 October 2018.

curated by Irène de Craen, Mahony, Season Butler, Judith Lavagna

with Tomás Bartoletti, Oliver Bulas, Season Butler, Coletivo Kókir, Maurits Koster, Judith Lavagna, David Magnus, Mahony, Gerald Mandl, Luz Peuscovich, Pablo Pijnappel, Esper Postma, Aiko Tezuka, Leo Zhao.

Publication link : SN09
About the project on undercurrents : http://undercurrents.nl/2018/11/21/a-conversation-about-notes-from-a-trembling-community/

Taking its inspiration from the writings of poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant (1928 – 2011) ‘Notes from a trembling community…’ is conceived as a four-dimensional archipelago, giving the audience the possibility to draw their own lines to this ongoing project through work-in-progress, sound, video, performance, images and ideas.

With his book ‘Poetics of Relation’ (1990) Glissant offers us a tool to reimagine the most pertinent questions of our time. ‘Instead of fixed places of origin, he offers sites of connectivity, where multiple histories and ways of being can coexist. Instead of roots, he offers the dynamic process of creolization, a poetics defined by its openness to transformation. Instead of a world of nations, he offers the archipelago, an image of the world in which we are all connected while remaining distinct.’ One of the guiding principles in Glissant’s thinking, as well as this exhibition, is the concept of opacity (opacité). Opacity, unlike transparency, welcomes the untranslatable and unknowable. Glissant claims a ‘right to opacity’ and invites people to accept that which they don’t understand.

The starting point for the project lies in a residential house in Berlin where a fluctuating group of artists, social scientists, children, musicians, curators, workers and thinkers came together last July (Common-place). Here, they inaugurated a process of research into the poetic borders distinguishing and connecting them.

The installation at HMK is not meant as the final stage of the project, but as another phase of a longer dialogue using Glissant’s ideas as a methodology and praxis, connecting multiple voices while keeping their distinctiveness.

This exhibition is made possible with the help of Mondrian Fund and Gemeente Hoorn.

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Common-place (2018-2020)

Common-place is a series of lectures, discussions, screenings, and lunches taking place in a residential house under renovation in Berlin. An important inspiration for the immersion into the questions during Commonplace is the writings of poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant (1928-2011) – in particular his concept of the ‘poetics of relation’. His book with the same title defines poetics not just as poetry, but as a way of imagining, living, and acting upon the world and translation as relation. For Glissant, commonplaces (lieu-commun) are not preconceived opinions, but, places where one idea about the world meets another one. As well as a study of Glissant’s thinking, the project is an attempt to conceive of possible ways of working collectively and reimagining the process of exhibition making. Common-place in Berlin was the first tentative step towards a public presentation to be opened at Hotel Maria Kapel in Hoorn in the beginning of September 2018.

Pictures: workshops with Mahony, Irene de Craen, Judith Lavagna, Season Butler, Rachel Alliston, Tomás Bartoletti, Rob Blake, Raphaël Grisey, David Magnus, Gerald Mandl, Luz Peuscovich, Esper Postma, Jerop Seurei, Sári Stenczer, Aiko Tezuka, Jasmijn Visser, Bruno Watara, Leo Zhao, 18 – 21 July 2018.

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Schwulitäten, Tomás Espinosa

Curated by Judith Lavagna. Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), Absolventenaustellung
3 – 10 July 2015

Berlin-based artist Tomás Espinosa (1985, Bogota, Colombia) presents ”Schwulitäten” a selection of works which investigate the field of sculpture and ‘time-making’ productions towards the performative. Taking place in public or private spaces, the artist creates scenarios affected by the stories of their location and the circumstances of possible encounters.

By provoking awareness towards unexpected interactions, Espinosa creates gestures, objects and expands artefacts that flirt with the audience as a kind of ‘conversation starter’ or as a tool to be activated. A permeable border between the creation of artworks and the emergence of actions in which the audience is challenged. Focusing on the scrubbing of fragile spaces that requires an act of closeness but also of exposure, the artist emphasises the ambiguities within our social positions and the sense of our presence through a body of work that intangibly slips from being objects to be seen to being objects to be used.

‘Schwulitäten’ has been nominated for the Start Point Price 2015 at the National Gallery of Prague.

Tomás Espinosa studied Visual Arts at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota (2002 – 2007) and at the Berlin University of the Arts (Institut für Raumexperimente, under the direction of Olafur Eliasson, 2010 – 2014).

Full pdf here: Those obscure objects of desire_ Tomas Espinosa by Judith Lavagna

Image credits: Tomás Espinosa. 1. Exhibition view, UDK Berlin. 2.’Geschlossene Gesellschaft’, 2h performance in collaboration with Diego Agulló, 2014. Neue Nationalgalerie, festival of Future Nows, 2015. 3. ‘Zwischen Uns (Between Us)’, installation and performance, 2014-2015. Clay, wood, metal, dimensions variable.4. ‘Nachbarschaftsbeziehungen’, photograph printed on dibond, 80 x 56 cm, 2015.

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WHILE WE WORK: A Temporary State of Affairs

Project conceived by Judith Lavagna in the frame of AFFECT 2016 Program for Collaborative Artistic Practices.

Invited artists: Nicolas Puyjalon, Michelle-Marie Letelier, Anne Fellner & Burkhard Beschow and Paul Barsch.

Participants: Bea Rodrigues, Clark Beaumont (Nicole Beaumont & Sarah Clark), Yuliya Chernysh, Nicole Economides, Johanna Gilje, Mo Ossobleh, Heekyung Ryu and Kim Upstill.

Am Sudhaus 2, 12053 Berlin, OPENING Friday 27th May (18h-24h).

WHILE WE WORK: A Temporary State of Affairs has been exploring the context of Agora’s new space with the making of an exhibition together and the future expansion of this project online.

Conceived as a time-based structure for one night, WHILE WE WORK operates as a storyteller and as a score that oscillates between the liveness and the memory of our work in relation to the building – a space in constant mutation, where working phases and changes of plans are part of its daily construction, as well as the multiple informations, stories and rumors that we have been encountering. A work within a work that witnesses different momentums of labor in a vast area in the state of transformation (the Kindl Brewery).

Structured towards active frameworks and production phases throughout a month-long workshop inside AFFECT 2016 Program for Collaborative Artistic Practices, the research process included the contribution of the following Berlin-based artists invited by curator Judith Lavagna to co-facilitate the workshop: Nicolas Puyjalon (scores, time-based exhibition), Michelle-Marie Letelier (exploration, topography and site-specificity), Anne Fellner & Burkhard Beschow (living archive and online/offline dialogue) and Paul Barsch (curatorial post-production and setting).

The materials produced and collected during the workshop will be tracked online, taking the shape of a survey witnessing the production’s process itself – a sort of online editing and safety where the exhibition project could be activated and backed up at the same time.

A Production of AFFECT 2016 Program for Collaborative Artistic Practices. Developed by Agora Collective e.V. Coordinated by Paz Ponce. Agora Collective e.V. is member of CAPP (Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme) from Creative Europe.

All images copyright: Agora Collective and the participants of AFFECT 2016.

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dance rising stone dropping

Project by artists in residence Victor Ramere, 
Maia Nichols
, Esjieun Kim, Luda Lima
, Vinzenz Reinecke
 and Leon Eixenberger

Facilitated by Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, Yves Mettler, Sarah Lewis, Judith Lavagna (curating) and coordinated by Paz Ponce. Photos by Joana Dias.

Residency 23.09.-12.12.2014. Opening 13 – 14 December 2014 at Agora

Agora´s Program for Collaborative Artistic Practices AFFECT Module III, Berlin

AFFECT Module III is supported by Instituto Cervantes Berlín, Goethe Instituto São Paulo, Agora Collective e.V. and Kulturnetzwerk Neukölln.

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unbreaken

Project by artists Jol Thomson, Rune Bosse, José Cori, Aviv Benn, Alice Bucknell, Daniel AlmgrenRecén and Kathryn Gohmert.

Facilitated by Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, Yves Mettler, John Holten, Sarah Lewis, Judith Lavagna (curating) and coordinated by Paz Ponce.

Publication: Broken Dimanche Press, Berlin 2014. FUK Design Graphic Studio

unbreaken is a project that imbricates workshops sessions, performative interventions, frameworks and a process-oriented timeline in and out the doors of the residency during the last 8 weeks. unbreaken is an invented formula, a constitutive organism made of overlapping movements and gestures related to unbroken (constant, endless, uninterrupted) and break (alter, crack, breach). It is an embedded experience based on persistence and disruption practiced through a publication, an exhibition project and a program* hosted by the artists-in-residence. Together, they invite the audience to orbit different situations and events happening at L’Atelier-KSR and into public spaces, in order to exercise, perform and transmit their production.

Through multiple entry point and mutabilities, the public is confronted with an experimental collaborative approach to a publication that exceeds its material boundaries and finds its selves taking over spaces, relationships and even dreams. Passages are channeled and activated through a stream of collisions and implosions in and around the space of the exhibition between September 13th to 19th.

Residency 12.06.-20.09.2014. Opening 13 – 19 September 2014 at L’atelier-ksr

Agora´s Program for Collaborative Artistic Practices AFFECT Module II, Berlin

AFFECT Module II is supported by Instituto Cervantes Berlín, Goethe Instituto São Paulo, L’Atelier-ksr and Kulturnetzwerk Neukölln.

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Model Behaviours

Project by Peter Biggart, Merlin Carter, Beth Dillon, Tomás Espinosa, Amie Lin, Raquel Nava, Michael O´Hanlon.

Facilitated by Diego Agulló (contextualizing), Eric Ellingsen (exploring), Sarah Lewis (nourishment), Rodrigo Maltez-Novaes (conceptualizing), John Holten (publication), Judith Lavagna (exhibition). Coordinated by Paz Ponce.

Model Behaviours presents an assembly of approaches to ideas of the social, the site, and the audience. The artists-in-residence in Agora developed a series of ambiguous situations that explore intersections between art and the social proposed during the different phases of the residency. Conceived as an experience-led event, Model Behaviours presents speculative choreographies of both the space and the audience. The event is orchestrated by actions, instructional signage and object installation that loosely-demarcate the exhibition space of Instituto Cervantes into zones for audience interaction.

Publication by Broken Dimanche Press, 55 pp, 2014, 500 ex.

Residency 20.02.-16.05.2014. Opening 5th June 2014, Instituto Cervantes Berlin, Rosenstraße 18, 10178 Berlin

Agora Collective´s Program for Collaborative Artistic Practices AFFECT Module 1
AFFECT Module I is supported by Goethe Institut Sao Paulo, Instituto Cervantes Berlin, Broken Dimanche Press and Agora Collective e.V.

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Self-monitoring as a curatorial experiment
A collaborative investigation on curatorial practice

Project and zine conceived and edited by Teena Lange, Judith Lavagna and Stefan Aue, Grüntaler 9, Berlin.

Zine printed in 50 ex.,15 pp, Berlin 2014.

‘Self-monitoring as a curatorial experiment’ is a nine days research-residency based on a critical, experimental and cross-disciplinary dialogue focusing on collaborative curatorial strategies. With this exploration and introspection the practice of the curatorial is challenged and shaped in a real-time inquiry. During these days, the curators Teena Lange, Judith Lavagna and Stefan Aue invite artists, researchers and curators to participate in this investigation and to transfer the insights into different time-frames and territories (beyond or other than art). In this ongoing process speculative documents, critical workshops and brain-mapping series have been generated. This think tank puts the spot on various forms of knowledge production in the curatorial field which are worked into the production of a zine as an appearance and materialization of this ideas.

29 August – 06 September 2014

Talks, performances and reading/writing sessions related to the project:

‘Some things about how I wrote most of my essays’, a durational editing session performed by Carl Whetham and Joël Verwimp.
Based on their editing experience using skype during the past four years, Whetham & Verwimp will for the first time negotiate their ‘virtuosity’ in public. This reading and writing session is a prelude to the upcoming Maria de Robe (MdR) presentation series at various Berlin Museum Collections.

‘It’s All There In The Manual’ by Post Brothers.
Performative lecture based on retrocausal information, explanation as composition, preposterous and parasitic protagonists, and the presentational potentials of plasmatic property.

IS THIS ZINE A CURATORIAL PRACTICE WHICH REFLECTS ON ITS OWN MAKING?
by Teena Lange, Judith Lavagna and Stefan Aue
Zine launch and presentation.

Participants

Post Brothers is a critical enterprise that includes Matthew Post—an independent curator and writer often working from elevators in Oakland, Antwerp, Berlin, and Bialystok. Post Brothers received an MA in Curatorial Practice from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco (2009); and a BFA from Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver (2006). He has curated exhibitions and presented lectures and projects in Poland, Mexico, Canada, the United States, Germany, Austria, Lithuania, Belgium, The Netherlands, and China, where he contributed a video and an unrealized screenplay in the 9th Shanghai Biennale (2012). He recently curated “12 Hours” at Galerie Kamm in Berlin (2014), “The Excluded Third, Included” at Galerie Emanuel Layr in Vienna (2014) and “Clinamen” at Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture (Krolikarnia), Department of the National Museum, Warsaw (2013). He has an ongoing library/publication project, “Memoirs Found in a Bathtub”, at Objectif Exhibitions in Antwerp. His essays and articles have been published in Annual Magazine, the Baltic Notebooks of Anthony Blunt, Cura, Fillip, Kaleidoscope, Mousse, Nero, Art Papers, Pazmaker, Punkt, and Spike Art Quarterly, as well as in numerous artist publications and exhibition catalogues. www.postbrothers.org

Joël Verwimp is an artist and curatorial director at the Maria de Robe Collection, Berlin. Initially trained as a visual artist and cook, Joël Verwimp is currently doing research into forms of complicity and is since 2009 developing together with Nicolas Y Galeazzi the VerlegtVerlag as a framework for performance on paper. In 2011 he co-initiated the MPA (Month of Performance art) in Berlin. Carl Whetham is a photographer currently living and working in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Stefan Aue is working as a freelance curator and publicist in Berlin. Before he coordinated for two years the project „ArteFacts“ of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and developed a transdisciplinary program with a wide range of events and exhibitions on the interface of art and science. After his final degree sociology, psychology and communication sciences (MA) with the focus on spatial sociology and metropolitan studies he was working for international foundations in the field of political education. Since 2008 he was at the Academy where he developed projects in interdisciplinary mediation and science communication. Complementary he is attending since 2013 the MA program “Cultures of the Curatorial” at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig.

Teena Lange is the Artistic Director of Grüntaler9 – a space towards the performative, which is a space in constant transformation, a space dedicated to live performances and time-based art, a space to investigate diverse theories and practices towards the performative. She studied Theatre & Performance Studies & Literature in Leipzig, Paris and Berlin. As a Program Coordinator and Research Associate she worked at the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her current work includes independent Performance Art Curating for Grüntaler9 Berlin, Month of Performance Art Berlin, Art Bosphorus Istanbul, Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival New York, >performance space< London and several more spaces and festivals.

Grüntaler 9 – a space towards the performative
In the frame of the Ungebügelt (II/III) series, supported by Bezirkskulturfonds 2014 of the Bezirksamt Mitte, Berlin.

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new atlantis

curated by Elisa R. Linn, Judith Lavagna, Lennart Wolff

with Francisco Montoya Cazarez, Oval Office, Luc Mattenberger, Antoine Renard, Baden Pailthorpe, Sarah Sweeny, Anne de Vries, Bettina Pousttchi, Stéphane Degoutin & Gwenola Wagon, Sascha Pohflepp & Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.

Saturday, 07.09.2013, 5 pm: Future Apparatus of Loving Grace; readings on Utopia. A performative reading and discussions from a selection of texts with Rodrigo Maltez Novaes (Flusser studies).

When discussing the concept of utopia, questions are raised about the meaning of the future in the present. Designing a fictive society, a utopia searches for the possibility of practical intervention in existing conditions to create accelerated progressive trends and to prevent destructive ones. As one of the first philosophers of his time, Francis Bacon addressed the quantitative quota of knowledge and the infinity or finiteness of progress in his novel ‘Nova Atlantis’, describing a far different and technically advanced civilization.

The exhibition ‘New Atlantis’ focuses on international contemporary artists who address with culturally critical and optimistic approaches the idea of progress and its origin in utopias dedicated to the development and the impact of innovation. They constantly investigate new definitions of the materiality of our consumeristic society and its mechanisms of production. A select few are dealing with evolutionary development processes and are experimenting with the synthesizing of heterogeneous objects and their mutual influence.
Others reveal the importance of new technological additions and how they are used for authoritative purposes through the interaction between economic, politic and military spheres. The aesthetics of intelligent machines and expanded systems is hereby used to disclose the possibility for a diametric definition of their capabilities and functions. Therefore it is up to the viewer to decide on their inherent power as being good or evil.

km temporaer, Kremmener Str. 8a, 10435 Berlin, August 23. September 13. 2013

Kindly supported by Pro helvetia Swiss Arts Council.

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The Performative Curatorial Studio:
Curatorial practice in a collective and performative context or how to perform the curatorial

Project conceived by Judith Lavagna and Lara Merrington.

June 23, 2013, Agora, Berlin.

With Katrina Blach, Ulrike Gerhardt, John Holten, Carlos Leon-Xjimenez, Monte Masi, Pauline Payen, Paz Ponce Pérez-Bustamante, Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Lorenzo Sandoval, To Whom it May Concern Collective (Savvy Contemporary), Joël Verwimp, Jenny Wolka (Mahony).

The Performative Curatorial Studio created a critical and informed dialogue through varied forms of presentation based on collaborative practice and its reinvention of roles between artists, curators and researchers, through the particular theme Performing the Curatorial. The Curatorial is a cross-disciplinary practice within and beyond art that is constantly reworked and reformulated, moving into territories other than art. How can we discuss and create new potentials for remaking the context of the presentation of art and its social interactions?

For this intensive one-day studio we invited visitors to insert themselves into an experimentation on the traditional symposium format through activating discussions and presentation methods in an exploratory real-time study. This happens through presentations and performances, critical workshops and roundtable discussions and the use of architectural forms within the space.

Through a closed workshop in the morning involving international artists, curators and thinkers on the field, stretching into the afternoon with real-time actions, performances and reading sessions open to the public, The Performative Curatorial Studio provided a working platform where we can discuss, process and create outcomes in a think-tank of minds and experiences coming together. As active participants, the public was invited to contribute their experiences and thoughts throughout the debates as well as submit physical or non-physical material. Informed in part by the input of the invited participants, they created an expanded discourse around the performative aspects of curatorial practice today for which we do not seek answers but seek to question with the intention of active outcomes.
The roles and discourses of curatorial practice are underlined in performative and live critical conversations: reading sessions, talks concerning the performativity of particular book formats, roundtable discussions and the construction of a collaborative research in general.
The Live Library expresses the performative aspects of curating where books and texts are displayed, and where audience were invited to become participants. We were using and displaying our material and presentations with ‘The Narrative Machine’ conceived by Lorenzo Sendoval, an architectural and morphing structure which will change due of the Live Library necessities.

The Performative Curatorial Studio took place inside the framework of the Agora ethos which is strongly focused on collaborative practices. We used this as a space to experiment with pedagogical situations, acknowledging and ‘thematizing’ the tensions between ideas of art as an autonomous activity or as participatory by the sharing, translating, transferring and reshaping of ideas.

Program:

10.30 am – 12.30 pm: Workshop ‘Performing the Curatorial’ (closed session)

1.30 pm: Project presentation by Judith Lavagna and Lara Merrington
Lorenzo Sandoval, The Narrative Machine
Presenting forms of activation and deactivation in and for a performative context.

1.30 – 5 pm: Live Library: Monte Masi, Marathon Critique
Online and interactive performance, San Francisco/Berlin.

2 pm: John Holten, reading session

2.30 pm: Clémence de La Tour du Pin and Judith Lavagna
Performative aspects of the book and exhibition project we outsourced everything and now we’re bored.

3 pm: Performance by Joel Verwimp, My Table is My Cock

3.30 – 4.30 pm: Round table discussions and reading groups

4.30 pm: Performance and outcome by Pauline Payen

PDF here.The Performative Curatorial Studio_Program

With the kind support of Agora, SAVVY Contemporary and the Verein Berliner Künstler.

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Displaying the Instant

Performative exhibition curated by Stefania Angelini and Judith Lavagna

With Chris Bierl, Mirja Busch, Francesco Cavaliere, Pierre-Étienne Morelle, Christian Patracchini, Pauline Payen, Nicolas Puyjalon, Saturn Dogs (Manon Parent & Sto Len)
Anna Schimkat, Performing-Art-Network Vienna (PAN)

‘Displaying the Instant’ is a time-based project investigating performance art in relation to its production of presence. The title refers to the question of how performative action can be exhibited, in consideration of the display of its documentation, protocoles, fragments, relics and artworks. All of these elements are then related to the nature of a gesture process.
Following its first edition in May 2012 during Month of Performance Art – Berlin, ‘Displaying the Instant’ explores the durability of performance exposure and its time reception in a tangible exhibition format. Each artistic work creates its own presence between its appearance and disappearance into the gallery space. If the traces of a performance could be inscribed as a historical continuum of the performance itself, ‘Displaying the Instant’ aims to focus on the ontology of this ‘immaterial labour’, where performance does not end with the experience in front of an audience. It rather constitutes an art form through the production of artefacts and their mediatization, both embodied into a ‘time-bound’ exhibition process.
This project presents a group show exhibiting the works of ten international artists and live performances, including a work-in-progress organized by Performance-Art-Network Vienna (PAN) within the frame of ‘Performance in network’.

Live performances each wednesday 7 – 10 pm
08 May – Pauline Payen, Saturn Dogs
15 May – Anna Schimkat, Francesco Cavaliere
22 May – PAN Vienna
29 May – Pierre-Etienne Morelle, Christian Patracchini, Nicolas Puyjalon

May 09 – 29. 2013, L’Atelier-ksr, Berlin.

In the frame of Month of Performance Art Berlin 2013, with the kind support of Geier Elektronik (Berlin).

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we outsourced everything and now’re bored.

Project by Clémence de la Tour du Pin, Judith Lavagna and John Henry Newton

Anthony Antonellis & HENDRIK, Anne Fellner & Burkhard Beschow,Joseph Buckley, Jack Coltman, Matt Cooper, Nicola Guy, Vida Guzmic, Joe Hamilton, Marian Luft, Katharina Marszewski, Oliver Osborne, Barnie Page, Lucia Quevedo, Blake Shaw, Eric Stephany, Santiago Taccetti, Elvia Wilk & Felix Riemann, Ronny Szillo.

Publication curated and edited by Clémence de la Tour du Pin, Judith Lavagna & John Henry Newton, 164 pp, 100 ex., 2013.
Published with the support of L’Atelier-ksr, designed by Stephane Jourdan, printed by 15 Grad, Berlin.
100 copies numbered and distributed by L’Atelier-ksr, Motto Distribution, Archive Kabinett, ProQM (Berlin), Wiels bookstore (Brussels) and Florence Loewy (Paris).

‘we outsourced everything and now we’re bored’ considers the banality of our everyday life imbricated into unsteady laptops. The project is constructed within a book, a collective show and an online database.

24 March – 24 April 2013, L’Atelier-ksr, Berlin.

Many thanks to the contributors and to Gereon Günter Rahnfeld – galerie B2 (Leipzig), Elda Oreto – Club Midnight (Berlin), James Gardner – Frutta gallery (Rome), Christian Siekmeier – Exile (Berlin) and Stefania Angelini – L’Atelier KSR (Berlin).

PDF of the project here WOEANWB presentation

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New Smoke from Old Fires

Curated by Judith Lavagna and Hendrik Niefeld

With Burkhard Beschow, Henriette Grahnert, Julius Hofmann, Stephan Jäschke, Marian Luft, Dominik Meyer, Laurent Proux, Elke Schindler, Kristina Schuldt, Ronny Szillo, Daniel Caleb Thompson.

Hendrik Niefeld and Judith Lavagna organized a group show involving artists currently working in Leipzig, underlining influences and heritages of local artistic mouvement such as the Neue Leipziger Schule. New Smoke from Old Fires investigates the contemporary positions from the perspective of painting influences as a point of departure including media practices such as installation, digital print, performance and video.

25 – 27 May 2012, FRAPPANT, Hamburg.
With the support of Hamburgische Kulturstiftung, Fonds Soziokultur.

Image credit: Kristina Schuldt.

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Ex Situ

Project exchange initiated by Lindenow, fugitif (Leipzig) and Station VasteMonde (Saint Brieuc).
Organized by Neven Allanic, Judith Lavagna, Falk Messerschmidt (fugitif), Anna Schimkat and Evelyn Jahns (Lindenow).

Publication by Lindenow / Fugitif, text Judith Lavagna, design David Voss, 31 pp, 200 ex, Leipzig, 2012.

With Kata Adamek, Neven Allanic, Katrina Blach, Morgane Demoreuille, François Diridollou, Sylvia Doebelt, Teun de Graaf, Bodo Hansen, Evelyn Jahns, Falk Messerschmidt, Sébastien Montéro, Nina Montini & Jonas Grawert, Arthur Poutignat, Nans Quetel,Anna Schimkat, Daniel Caleb Thompson, Kathrin Von Ow, Eva Walker, Melina Weissenborn, Lars Werner, Daniel Windisch.

Ex Situ is a one year project based on artistic mobility between the cities of Leipzig (Germany) and Saint Brieuc (France). Organized by the non-profit network Lindenow and the residency fugitif (Leipzig), this collective program involved nearly thirty participants and resulted in a monthly residency, two exhibitions, a blog, a publication and numerous public interventions between the two countries.

August 26. – October 02. 2011, Station VasteMonde, Saint Brieuc.
October 14. – November 2011, Westpol A.i.R Space, Westwerk, Leipzig (curated by Judith Lavagna).

With the support of Station VasteMonde, Lindenow network, Fugitif, Westpol A.i.R Space, Région Bretagne, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V. (IFA), Office franco-allemand pour la jeunesse (OFAJ).

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f(ww)

Exhibition and residency program conceived by Jan Apitz and Judith Lavagna, in collaboration with Neven Allanic (fugitif), Leipzig.

Artists: Guillaume Aubry, Geoffrey Crespel, Barbara Eitel, Florian Göthner, Johannes Abendroth & Thomas Prochnow, Antoine Renard, Daniel Windisch, Christina Woditschka.

March 01.-July 07.2011, Schaubühne Lindenfels, Fugitif, Leipzig.

f(ww) is a program of exhibitions and performance series conceived between the Schaubühne Lindenfels Theater and Fugitif’s residency.
Dedicated to theater, film, dance and performance, the institution established its program in its 2200m2 spaces, and in 2010, its director created a white cube of 7m2 located in the basement in order to develop a visual art program.
Suspended outside time and space of the institution and its official program, used as a reversibility of the cinema’s and theater’s black boxes, artists and curators emphasized a program in reaction to the institution, its mechanism and function, disturbing its activities as well as the public reception.

With the support of Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, Office franco-allemand de la Jeunesse (OFAJ).

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Curated by Judith Lavagna

With Julien Chevy, Matthieu Clainchard, Elshopo, Eric Emery, Pierre Fisher, Vincent Ganivet, Jean-Benoit Lallemant, MA Leledy, Nicolas Muller, Simon Nicaise, Bertrand Planes, Elisa Pône, Lison de Ridder, Eric Stephany, Bojan Stojic, Kuang-Yu Tsui, Julie Vayssière, Adrien Vescovi.

June 10.-26.2010, PMgalerie (Julie Grosche and Aurélia Defrance), Berlin.

With the support of PM Galerie, Kreutzberg Biennale and 48h Neukölln, Berlin.

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Zero-Crossing

Exhibition conceived by Magali Sanheira, in collaboration with Judith Lavagna (curation) and Anne-Marie Spiroux (production)

With Gaël Angelis, Emilie Benoist, Simon Bernheim, Bertran Berrenger, Pascal Bircher, Rada Boukova, Thomas Fontaine, Pier Francesco Lerose, Noé Nadaud, Philippe F. Roux, Nader Sadek, Magali Sanheira, Sayoko, Julien Sirjacq.

17.-26.09.2010, La Générale en Manufacture, Sèvres.

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Le Paradoxe du petit monde

Exhibition conceived by Judith Lavagna in collaboration with Cyril Verde
Publication: Artist book by P. Nicolas Ledoux, 390 pp, 10 ex, Paris, 2009.

With Damien Aspe, Guillaume Aubry, Christophe Bruno, P. Nicolas Ledoux, INRUSE, Caroline Delieutraz, Julien Malfilatre.

Associated events:
Pauline Bastard, Ivan Argote, Sonia Dermience (Born to curate), Christophe Bruno & Christian Salmon, Jean-Marc Chapoulie, Barbara Siriex (Red Shoes Bureau), Jérôme Piques, Samuel Tronçon, collectif Microtruc, Floriane Attal, Frédéric Sonntag et Thomas Rathier (ASANISIMASA)
Jean-Philippe Gross et Gaël Leveugle (UNTM).

By becoming initiators of networks and organizations, artists and agents of the artistic sphere develop working methods and practices that deploy complex systems and sometimes nebulous schemes. From the use of social networks to the development of arborescences, the proliferation of roles and identities to jamming tracks, Le Paradoxe du petit monde is an exhibition and publication project that tends to become the catalyst of these phenomenas.
While some artists use and experience collaboration as a vector of activities in permanently re-definition, others are camouflaged, develop targets and strategies, opt for anonymity or piracy. Through viewing and intronisation, we have become the protagonists of a network system in constant re-construction.

March 04 – 27. 2010, Ars Longa, Confluences, Paris.

With the support of Arcadi and réseau Actes If, Ministère de la culture et de la communication, Drac Ile-de-France.

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Uchronies ou la ville au fond de l’oeil
Uchronies, part. II Changer le cours de l’histoire

Curated by Judith Lavagna

With Armand Behar, Renaud Bezy, Jagna Ciuchta, Thomas Léon, Aline Morvan, Samir Mougas,NG, Michaël Sellam, Nicolas Tilly.

Associated events:
Daniel Foucard & Véronique Levy (Ed. Sens et Tonka)
France Valliccioni & Emmanuel Delpy
Vincent Epplay (Udo Bar)

Based in two sections, this project reflects on the etymological and topological notion of Uchronia. On rereading history acrossing utopia, science fiction and failover time, artists, musicians and writers from Uchronies underlined the ambivalence of historical meanings from various perceptions of interpretation between fact and fiction.

25.03.-22.04.2009, 26.09.-31.10.2009, Ars Longa, Paris

With the support of Région Ile-de-France, Mairie de Paris, L’agence nationale pour la cohésion sociale et l’égalité des chances, Association ARTAIS.