ON THE INVISIBILITY OF PERFORMANCE AND THE RESONANCE OF LIVES - THREE PROPOSALS EXPLORED
April, 15th, 16th, 17th 2010
Futura resident Emily Verla Bovino presented a trilogy of works by portuguese artist Pedro Neves Marques. The Project transformed the gallery space into a reading room for a week of discussions, workshop and lectures.
15 April:
The Escape Route's Design The Escape Route’s Design: Assessment of the impact of current Aesthetics on History, comparative reading of an example close to the city of Berlin (written in collaboration with Mariana Silva) stages a dialogue between the incomplete projects in Ilya Kabakov’s installational works and the series of attempts at crossing the Berlin Wall from East to West from the 1960s to 1989. Through this dialogue the supposition of an already made realization of Ilya Kabakov's proposals, most specifically in ‘The Palace of Projects’, by way of the historical events occurred at the Berlin Wall is advanced. Given the aesthetic revision of these historical events, it is proposed the consideration of a ready-made historical utopia, as well as, through a temporal synapses between art and life, the supposition of a invisible revolution already given in the past. A discussion room will be set at ect.galerie and the proposal read in common with the presence of the artist. Drinks will be served. For details and previous reading, a full version of the artist's text is available to print at http://e-flux.com/journal/view/61. Previous reading is advised.
16 April:
The Wandering Chief (1880-1891) The Wandering Chief (1880-1891) takes as case study the process of abandonment of literature by Arthur Rimbaud and his subsequent life as merchant in the Horn of Africa, Harar and Aden between 1880-1891. Taking as starting point biographer Charles Nicholl's affirmation of Rimbaud's African life as his masterpiece the proposal is made in the vertigo of its understanding as art and its ethico-aesthetical consequences.
17 April, Saturday
The Tigris Expedition (1978) The Tigris Expedition (1978) takes at its core the Tigris Expedition lead by anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl in 1978. The expedition had as main purpose the construction of a reed ship according to Sumerian models dating from 5000 years ago and its navigation through the Persian Gulf and Indic Ocean in search of ancient commercial routes between Sumer, the Hindus Valley and Egypt. After five months of voyage and on not being allowed to follow further into the Red Sea due to conflicts in the Horn of Africa, the expedition met its end on the shores of Djibouti by way of burning the ship as protest against the conflicts and international interests in the region.
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