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Artist Talk: Claire Fontaine/ Öffentliche Führung: State of High Performance

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Friday, 12.11.2021:
Artist Talk: Claire Fontaine

Samstag, 13.11.2021:
Öffentliche Führung: "State of High Performance"

 
 

More information about the event on our homepage and Facebook.

The talk will be in English.


Image: Claire Fontaine, Patriarchy = CO2, © the artist, Courtesy of Studio Claire Fontaine, Palermo, photo: Daniel Salemi

Friday, November 12, 2021, 7 pm
Artist Talk: Claire Fontaine

We are delighted to welcome Claire Fontaine to basis e.V. for an artist talk on Friday, November 12, 2021 at 7pm.

Claire Fontaine is a collective conceptual feminist artist founded by James Thornhill and Fulvia Carnevale in Paris in 2004. Since 2018 she lives and works in Palermo. Her name is inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s iconic ready-made, the urinal entitled Fontaine, and a famous brand of French notebooks (Clairefontaine); it defines a space where the biographies of the artists aren’t directly connected to their artworks allowing their research to become a space of freedom and desubjectivisation. The use of appropriation and hijacking in her work stems from the same intention: not highlighting the excellence of the artist’s unique singularity but activating the forms and the forces within our visual culture and underlining their political content. Claire Fontaine uses video, sculpture, painting and writing. She has published a comprehensive anthology of her writings with Semiotext(e) in 2020 entitled Human Strike and the Art of Creating Freedom, the artist’s books Some instructions for the sharing of private property with One Star Press in 2011 and Vivre, vaincre with Dilecta in 2009.

The artist talk is part of the accompanying programme of our current exhibition "State of High Performance".

Proof of negative test result (not older than 24 hours), vaccination or recovery is required to attend the event.

 
 


Weitere Informationen zur Ausstellung finden Sie auf unserer Homepage.

Führung in deutscher Sprache
 

Bild: Jakub Choma, Installation view basis, Foto: Angelika Zinzow

 

Samstag, 13. November 2021, 16 Uhr:
Öffentliche Führung zur aktuellen Ausstellung "State of High Performance"

Ausgehend von der Frage, warum wir scheinbar permanent unter dem Druck stehen produktiv sein zu müssen, beleuchtet die Gruppenausstellung "State of High Performance" einzelne Facetten dieses scheinbar allgegenwärtigen Leistungsprinzips. Gezeigt werden künstlerische Arbeiten, von Jakub Choma, Claire Fontaine, Kasia Fudakowski, Martin Kohout, Ariane Loze und Pilvi Takala, die dem Leitbild der Produktivität auf ironische, widerständige oder kritische Weise nachspüren.
Die Führung mit unserer Kunstvermittlerin Hannah Bohr gewährt Einblicke in die Hintergründe der ausgestellen Arbeiten.

Treffpunkt: Foyer der Gutleutstraße 8-12, 14 Uhr, keine Anmeldung erforderlich, Eintritt frei

Impf-/Genesenen-/Negativ-Test-Nachweis erforderlich.