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Slought in Transit at Kasa Galeri, Sabancı Üniversitesi, Istanbul
Previously at Galerie Heike Curtze, Berlin and Zone:Contemporary Art, New York (2007),
la maison rouge, fondation antoine de galbert, Paris (2008),
and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem (2010)
March 10-March 31, 2010
at Kasa Galeri, Sabancı Üniversitesi, Istanbul
Reception on Wednesday, March 10, 2010
; 6:00-8:00pm
Free,
reservation not required (Contact Info)
Slought for Export Series
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Slought Foundation is pleased to announce “Slought in Transit," an archival exploration into the activities of Slought Foundation in Philadelphia. The installation will be on display at Kasa Galeri, Sabancı Üniversitesi in Istanbul from March 10-31, 2010, with remarks on March 10th at 6pm by the curatorial staff of the Slought Foundation, followed by the exhibition opening. In conjunction with the installation, Viennese Actionist Hermann Nitsch will speak on March 10th at 3pm on Austria and the Post-war Cultural Milieu in conversation with Osvaldo Romberg; Aaron Levy will lecture on March 11 at 11am about Beyond the Biennale, in conversation with Lanfranco Aceti; followed by Jean-Michel Rabate at 2pm on The Ethics of the Lie. For more information, please contact Asli Cetinkaya at Kasa Galeri, Sabancı Üniversitesi.
Philosophers, theologians and scientists have historically maligned curiosity, and the experimental disposition more generally, as a lack of specialization, a sort of intellectual futility or vacuousness. At Slought Foundation, we have diverged from this conceptualization, arguing instead for curiosity as a curatorial methodology. Curiosity, for us, entails a resistance towards entrenched hierarchies, the fostering of dissent, and the discouragement of habitual forms of thinking. In the spirit of the conceptual information shows of the early 1970s, this instantiation of the Slought Foundation at Kasa Galeri takes the form of an archival exploration into curiosity as the driving force of the organization. The information displayed revisits past exhibitions and events with today's pioneers in conversation about contemporary art, architecture, and social theory. Juxtaposing video documentation of projects with artists such as Peter Weibel, Gary Hill, Dennis Oppenheim, Werner Herzog, and Vito Acconci alongside posters, publications, and a series of live discursive events, we communicate Slought Foundation's signature mix of art, culture, and politics to the public of Istanbul.
Catherine Liu, in her essay 'Auditions for the Future,' in Rrrevolutionnaire: Conversations in Theory, (Slought Books, 2006), argues that "What Slought has done is something civic-minded with theory—if that sounds terribly pedestrian, it is, in the most literal sense of the term. Its location does promise something to the flâneur of Walnut St., the curious person just out for a walk. This aleatory encounter with something anachronistic like a 'society' or 'academy' or a cult takes place in a white cube space meant for the display of contemporary art. Theory has proven disappointing not because it has not necessarily led to great social, political or cultural change, but because it seems to have been fully institutionalized. But there is still the possibility that something happens within this way of thinking and talking that is both expansive and explosive when it addresses the instability and the historicity of the institutions in which it finds itself precariously at home."
"Slought in Transit" has previously traveled to Galerie Heike Curtze, Berlin and Zone:Contemporary Art, New York (2007), la maison rouge, fondation antoine de galbert, Paris (2008), and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem (2010). Each articulation is accompanied by a hardcover publication published in conjunction with the institutional affiliate.
Galerie Heike Curtze, Berlin, Germany (February 16-March 2, 2007)
Mommsenstrasse 11/1. Stock D – 10629 Berlin
www.heikecurtze.com
Public reception on Friday, February 16th, 2007 from 6:00pm
Zone:Contemporary Art, New York (November 29-December 15, 2007)
601 West 26th St #302, New York
www.zonecontemporary.com
Public reception on Thursday, November 29, 2007
Associated events included We Have Decided Not to Die, on November 29th at 7pm, featuring Arakawa + Gins, Arthur C. Danto, and Don Idhe in conversation, and In Defense of Sloth on December 7th and 8th, Slought Foundation and Cabinet Magazine, in partnership with The Cooper Union, Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, present a two-day event exploring histories and metaphors of sloth--one of the most philosophical of vices.
la maison rouge - fondation antoine de galbert (March 11-13, 2008)
10 boulevard de la bastille, 75012 paris france
www.lamaisonrouge.org
Public reception on Thursday, March 13, 2008
Associated events included a conversation about Slought Foundation on March 11 at 7:15pm at Sciences-Po with the organization's curatorial staff; on March 13 at 2pm at la maison rouge - fondation antoine de galbert with featured artists Fred Forest, Braco Dimitrijevic, and Carlos Ginzburg in dialogue with the public, accompanied by a day-long film program; and a seminar entitled Dissidanses (on Nancy Spero) by Hélčne Cixous on March 13 at 5pm, followed by a conversation with Marta Segarra and Joana Masó on Hélčne Cixous' work with contemporary artists.
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (January 3-9, 2010)
60 Salame Street, Tel Aviv, and Mount Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel
www.bezalel.ac.il
Public reception on Sunday, January 3, 2010
Associated events included a seminar about Slought Foundation on January 3-4 at Bezalel in Tel Aviv with the organization's curatorial staff, followed by a seminar by Peter Weibel on Rewriting History. Events also included a seminar on January 6 in Jerusalem about the history of the Venice Biennale for architecture by Aaron Levy, followed by a conversation on the contemporary curator and the art of bureaucracy with Peter Weibel.
This program is made possible in part through the generous support of the Society of Friends of the Slought Foundation and the presenting organizations. Support for development of the exhibition series provided by the Helena Rubenstein Foundation, and the Russell Bergman Foundation in funding the 2007-2008 RBSL Bergman Foundation Curatorial Seminar in the Departments of the History of Art and English at the University of Pennsylvania.
Special thanks for design and coordination assistance: Melanie Kress.
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