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> Exhibition: 'Back To The Future', CBKU, Utrecht, NL
Opening: 27/01/2012 at 4pm
Open: 28/01/2012 - 11/03/2012
Location: CBKU, Plompetorengracht 4, 3512 CC Utrecht, NL
Louis de Cordier, Golden Sun Disk
Curated by: Wout Hoogendijk & Enough Room for Space
Participating artists: Kristina Benjocki, Louis de Cordier, Edhv., Michael Johansson, Anton Ginzburg, Bruno Mouron & Pascal Rostain, Toine Klaassen, Frank Koolen, Fleur Thio, Leonid Tsvetkov, Maarten Vanden Eynde
"This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours." - Jimmy Carter (Voyager Golden Record)
In 1977 the ‘Voyager Golden Records’ were send into space. The LP’s contain sound and image material that reveal the variety of life and culture on earth that could become exposed to any form of alien life. How will others in the future look back at our times? What will remain for future generations? To what extend does the past influence the present? These are questions that deal with the construction and manipulation of history writing. The exhibition ‘Back to the Future’ presents the artist researcher, who interprets history according to his/her own point of view and who constructs a possible future or imaginary past. Archeology and archaeological sites are an inspiring world for artists. The conclusions made by archaeologists and artists responding to the current state of affairs with fragmented knowledge allow space for interpretation and speculation. By connecting elements of the past with the present the artists develop the heritage of the future and are to a certain extend excavating the future past.
> Exhibition: The Museum Show II, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Opening: 08/12/2011
Open: 09/12/2011 - 19/02/2012
Location: 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA, UK
One of the most curious tendencies in modern and contemporary art has been that of museums created by artists. Museum Show is a large-scale exhibition - a museum of museums - displaying this comprehensive selection of highly idiosyncratic, semi-fictional institutions. Presented at Arnolfini in two chapters, it is the first exhibition to chart this particular tendency in modern and contemporary art.
Artists continue consistently to invent their own institutions. The reasons for practitioners deciding to work in this way have varied greatly between artists - from critique directed specifically towards institutions of art, to more contemporary examples that focus their attention towards wider social and political realms of cultural hegemony.
Across its two chapters, Museum Show will present museums by approximately 40 artists from across the spectrum of career status, canonical to emerging, and from around the globe.
Museum of Contemporary African Art (Meschac Gaba), La Boîte-en-Valise (Marcel Duchamp), Museo Aero Solar, Museum of Conceptual Art (Tom Marioni), La Galerie Légitime (Robert Filliou), Schubladenmuseum/Museum of Drawers (Herbert Distel), Museum of Safety Gear for Small Animals (Bill Burns), Davis Lisboa Mini-Museum (Davis Lisboa), Museum of Projective Personality Testing (Sina Najafi & Christopher Turner), Museum of Revolution (Marko Lulic), Intuitive Galerie (François Curlet), Moon Museum (Forrest Myers), Musée d'Art Moderne, Départment des Aigles (Marcel Broodthaers), Museum for Myself (Peter Blake), World Agriculture Museum (Asunción Molinos), Stemhokkenmuseum/Voting Booth Museum (Guillaume Bijl), A History of Art in the Arab World: Part 1_Chapter One_Section 139: The Atlas Group (Walid Raad), Museum of Ordure, Nasubi Gallery (Tsuyoshi Ozawa), Blackout Leica Museum (Sarkis), "I founded a fictitious museum in New York in '68 and collected 1,000,000 minutes of attention to show", (James Lee Byars), Museum of Failure (Ellen Harvey), From the Freud Museum, (Susan Hiller), Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind (Khalil Rabah), Danger Museum (Øyvind Renberg & Miho Shimizu), Museum of American Art, Museum of Non-Participation (Karen Mirza & Brad Butler), Museum of Television Culture (Jaime Davidovich), Victoria and Alferd Museum (Åbäke), Hu Xiangqian's Museum (Hu Xiangqian), Museum of Forgotten History (Maarten Vanden Eynde), Museum of Incest (Simon Fujiwara), Museo Salinas (Vicente Razo).
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