THIRTYSECONDSLIVEQUAKE

Suppose you arrive in town tonight. Suppose you don’t know anybody. Suppose you’re an artist, a curator, a gallerist, a collector. You’ll make your way to an opening. You’re not nowhere; you’re not a stranger anymore. In the white cube you’re at home. You know the codes, you share the language, you participate to a ritual induced by the space which you are occupying: the gallery.

THIRTYSECONDSLIVEQUAKE brings together for the first time in Berlin the work of three London-based artists which respond to and build onto the symbolic specificity of the space whereon art is exhibited, looked at, discussed, sold.

Lisa Prior (U.S.A.) is known for her videos, based on the interplay of daily life and the strategies of production and distribution of art. Using the language of TV, Prior addresses and involves the viewer in her exploration of the complex aspects and contradictions of the art world as such. Her thirtyseconds computer-generated video becomes a comment on the show in itself, a possible justification for the marginality of the works, a reason for the deliberate emptiness of the gallery.

Manuela Ribadeneira (Ecuador) uses different codes in order to explore the geographies of art. Her works stand inbetween an ‘how to’ and a gadget, a surviving kit and a code-trouvée. Moving from site-specific installations to context-specific objects, Ribadeneira elaborates tools that aim to both analyse and criticise conventions and habits of the artworld. With Live she addresses (and ironically frustrates) the ritual of preview attendance.

Giles Perry (U.K.) works with different media to develop strategies for the investigation of the ambiguous narratives that an exhibition space contributes to create. His oeuvre pinpoints its fallacy and its credibility. Subtly subverting the fictional and the real, Quake traps us in a quasi-narcissistic regard of the space in which we are framed, forcing us to rethink our position in time, to reflect on the representations of the space, to reconsider our relationship with the artwork.

THIRTYSECONDSLIVEQUAKE aims to shake the gallery-goers’ beliefs, subvert the rules of the art world, question the space of art, read it, react to it, enact it. The gallery stripped bare, the frame is thus subject matter of the show, where three interventions work as notes on the margin of a discourse.

Cecilia Canziani (Pressetext)

THIRTYSECONDSLIVEQUAKE
Lisa Prior, Giles Perry, Manuela Ribadeneira
kuratiert von Cecilia Canziani