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Blank Book Makers In Memoriam Michael Gibbs
2nd to 17th June 2012
13h-19h Tuesday-Sunday

Appropriation, "corrected" press release

Appropriation
ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS
Maxstr. 1

artists: Johannes Regin, Jonathan Monk, Michalis Pichler, Pierre-Olivier Arnaud, and Roisin Byrne

In an art critical context, it does not make sense to seek a lineage in what we categorize as “appropriation art” that predates Marcel Duchamp’s readymade gesture. Dating here is an issue, as it’s not possible to see this gesture as having been understood prior to Duchamp’s Pasadena show in 1963. But dating aside, there is no need for confusion, for it is possible to be very clear: appropriation is not simply the borrowing of a style.

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a cura di Emanuele De Donno/Giorgio Maffei
progetto di VIAINDUSTRIAE / STUDIO A’ 87

mostra / apertura: sabato 14 aprile 2012 ore 16.00
presso Palazzo Trinci, piazza della Repubblica, Foligno
durata mostra: 14 aprile | 20 maggio 2012

libri-progetti di • a constructed world • A/traverso/Bifo • Maia Asshaq/Danielle Aubert • Lisa Anne Auerbach • Darren Bader • Dave Hullfish Bailey • Lothar Baumgarten • Bernadette corporation • Andreas Broeckmann/Knowbotic Research • Joseph Beuys • Luther Blisset • John Cage • Giuseppe Chiari • Continuous Project • Critical Art Ensemble • Koenraad Dedobbeleer • Jeremy Deller • Nico Dockx • Eric Doeringer • eclectic electric collective • Cvedet Erek • Matias Faldbakken • Fillip 16 • Ryan Gander/Stuart Bailey • Jochen Gerz • Gilbert & George • Liam Gillick • Dan Graham • Agnieszka Grodzinska • Hans Haacke • Thomas Hirschhorn • Joe Jones • Brian Kennon • Ben Kinmont • Information as Material • Institute for Applied Autonomy • Junk Jet • Sol LeWitt • Armin Linke • Max Malandrino • Anthony McCall&Andrew Tyndall • Aleksandra Mir • Jonathan Monk • Antoni Muntadas • Maurizio Nannucci • Carsten Nicolai • Katja Novitzkova • Seth Price • Primary Information • Michalis Pichler • Linda Pollack • Richard Prince • Publication Studio • random press • Yann Serandour • Serving Library • Strano network • Superflex • Temporary Services • The Institute of Social Hypocrisy • Wolfgang Tillmans • tiqqun • Tommaso Tozzi • Jalal Toufic • UFO • Ultrared • Vague • Danja Vasiliev/Gordan Savicic • Stephen Willats • 80*81

January 5 - 31, 2012  Dworkin Goldsmith Monk Pichler

January 5 - 31, 2012

In 1969 Seth Siegelaub organized an exhibition (and publication) with the title January 5 – 31, 1969, one of the first exhibition projects of conceptual art, with the participation of Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth and Lawrence Weiner.

Head Image taken from Johannes Dryander. Anatomiae, hoc est, Corporis Humani Dis

Dear All/Queridos todos/Cari tutti,

Crux Desperationis 2 Mental Issue, An Index of Potencial Works     is downloadable here:  
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CRAIG DWORKIN
Inscience
An autobiographical work recounting everything you can remember learning,
composed exclusively from the words you do not know (there are probably about
200,000 for a college-educated English speaker). Articles and prepositions exempted.
You may use a dictionary.

RICHARD KOSTELANETZ

„Une séconde d’éternité“ , Michalis Pichler 2009, Marcel Broodthaers 1972

The beginning of the system of lies (J'ai le mouvement qui déplace les lignes)
Exposition littéraire autour de Stirner et Baudelaire
01.03.2012 – 25.03.2012

Michalis Pichler

(deutsche Version unten)

The beginning of the system of lies (J'ai le mouvement qui déplace les lignes)
Exposition littéraire autour de Stirner et Baudelaire

03/01/2012 – 03/25/2012

„It appears to me, that the signature of the author, be it an artist, cineast or poet, is the beginning of the system of lies, that all artists try to establish to defend themselves, I do not know exactly against what.“ Marcel Broodthaers

The web of lies around the signature of the artist starts out in the streets of the fourth district. Posters spread like satellites on crucial street corners (Wiedner Hauptstrasse, Schleifmühlgasse, Kettenbrückengasse, Naschmarkt…). This web of references is typical for all of Pichlers work. The signature is the questionable “sign” (Markenzeichen) of the individual. The artist’s signature even has a direct relation the a material value. Somehow similar to the trade markes of clothes, cars and jewellery who dominate the public space.

This is the virulent starting point for Pichler’s ironic play with signature and authorship, its blurring and erasing. The film „Une séconde d’éternité“ is reduced from 24 to 18 frames per second by transferring it from 35 mm film to Super-8. The original piece by the Belgian concept artist Marcel Broodthaers shows his initials. M.B. The 18th frame finishest he line only for M.P. Leaving out a line changes the authorship. Much like the piece after Richter, that originally was signed “ichter”. Without the t–line the signature says “ichler”, like in “Pichler”.

Main Gallery
1008 Wall Street, La Jolla, CA 92037
 
 Recent Acquisitions
On view February 18-March 24, 2012
Opening Reception, Friday, February 17, 6:30 - 8:30 PM

Free Admission

 

No problem = No problème: Albert Oehlen, Martin Kippenberger
Definitions, David Antin
Being Antinova, Eleanor Antin
Eleanora Antinova plays, Eleanor Antin
Brutus killed Caesar, John Baldessari
Fable, John Baldessari
Throwing three balls in the air to get a straight line, John Baldessari

Fiona Banner Jean-Daniel Berclaz Oliver Breitenstein Franz Burkhardt Geoffrey de

Rossicontemporary, Brussels, 3.12.11 - 21.01.12
Opening Saturday 3 December, 3-7 PM

miss read 2011

MISS READ
25. – 27.11.2011
Opening Party in Café Bravo: Friday, 25.11.2011, 6–12 pm

Opening hours
Friday, 25.11.2011, 3–9 pm
Saturday, 26.11.2011, 3–9 pm
Sunday, 27.11.2011, 12–7 pm

1.    Conceptual readers are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
2.    Rational judgements repeat rational judgements.
3.    Irrational judgements lead to new experience.
4.    Formal reading is essentially rational.
5.    Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically.
6.    If the reader changes his/her mind midway through the execution of the piece he/she compromises the result and repeats past results.
7.    The reader's will is secondary to the process he/she initiates from idea to completion. His/Her wilfulness may only be ego.
8.    When words such as decoding and comprehension are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations on the reader who would be reluctant to make reading that goes beyond the limitations.
9.    The concept and idea are different. The former implies a general direction while the latter is the component. Ideas implement the concept.
10.    Ideas can be works of reading; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.
11.    Ideas do not necessarily proceed in logical order. They may set one off in unexpected directions, but an idea must necessarily be completed in the mind before the next one is formed.
12.    For each work of reading that becomes physical there are many variations that do not.
13.    A work of reading may be understood as a conductor from the reader's mind to the writer's. But it may never reach the writer, or it may never leave the reader's mind.
14.    The words of one reader to another may induce an idea chain, if they share the same concept.
15.    Since no form is intrinsically superior to another, the reader may use any form, from an expression of words (read or heard) to physical reality, equally.
16.    If images are used, and they proceed from ideas about literature, then they are literature and (not) art; numbers are (not) mathematics.
17.    All ideas are reading if they are concerned with reading and fall within the conventions of reading.
18.    One usually understands the reading of the past by applying the convention of the present, thus misunderstanding the reading of the past.
19.    The conventions of reading are altered by works of reading.
20.    Successful reading changes our understanding of the conventions by altering our perceptions.
21.    Perception of ideas leads to new ideas.
22.    The reader cannot imagine his/her reading, and cannot perceive it until it is complete.
23.    The reader may misperceive (understand it differently from the reader) a work of reading but still be set off in his/her own chain of thought by that misconstrual.
24.    Perception is subjective.
25.    The reader may not necessarily understand his/her own reading. His/Her perception is neither better nor worse than that of others.
26.    A reader may perceive the reading of others better than his/her own.
27.    The concept of a work of reading may involve the matter of the piece or the process in which it is made.
28.    Once the idea of the piece is established in the reader's mind and the final form is decided, the process is carried out blindly. There are many side effects that the reader cannot imagine. These may be used as ideas for new works.
29.    The process is mechanical and should not be tampered with. It should run its course.
30.    There are many elements involved in a work of reading. The most important are the most obvious.
31.    If a reader uses the same form in a group of works, and changes the material, one would assume the reader's concept involved the material.
32.    Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.
33.    It is difficult to bungle a good idea.
34.    When a reader learns his/her craft too well he/she makes slick reading.
35.    These sentences comment on reading, but are (not) reading.

Michalis Pichler