Le Truc
14 September – 20 October 2007
Opening 13 September at 6pm</p>
Project Arts Centre Dublin
Artists: Ulla von Brandenburg, Paul Elliman, Mario Garcia Torres, Amy Granat, Karl Holmqvist, Donghee Koo, Olivia Plender
Special Dead Guest: Lucio Battisti
Texts by: Ina Blom, Aaron Schuster
Curated by: Alexis Vaillant
If you had a choice, would you stay in a society built around transactions, which commands: “Flash. Give me adoration. Flash. Give me a break” (Chuck Palahniuk)? Imagine that – through a collapsing of personal and metaphysical circumstances – you become suddenly invisible to the world. What if this isn’t personally catastrophic, but more symptomatic of finding yourself in the perpetual twilight of a predictably fast-but-not-furious society, where you are stuck between e-fluxing (basis for a common $ space) and the proto-dread of the forthcoming (the one-man cult) – would you look for a way to reinvent yourself? And knowing what you know, would it be possible to live this life unpredictably, randomly? Could you opt for chance operations, a free-floating existence, a complete derangement of the contemporary control that inhabits bodies, imaginations, ideas and futures? Or, would you prefer to be activated by Flash?
If “the best way to predict the future is to invent it” – as asserted by Bureau of Inverse Technology a few years ago – what might emanate from a show curated around “unpredictability”?
Perhaps a big pile of ‘The Financial Times’ subdued by a genuine crystal ball (Karl Holmqvist); a naked guy, spinning like a top on a table belonging to a Korean secret society, who hides his ID behind an eye-punched sack (Donghee Koo); a mini-skeleton’s macabre dance to be discovered behind a penthouse sized Harlequin curtain (Ulla von Brandenburg); a Chemical Scratch Film made by chemically altering celluloid, as if it was driven by Black Noise (Amy Granat); an invisible plinth to be honoured by who-knows-what subsequent artwork (Mario Garcia Torres); Silvia’s italian phone number to be dialed in case you want to talk to someone you don’t and won’t know (Paul Elliman); two written exposures (Ina Blom, Aaron Schuster); a board game inspired by the 16th century Royal Game of the Goose for which rules have been formulated by chance with a dictionary and closed eyes (Olivia Plender). All are exposed and could be suddenly recovered by a group of zombie pre-electronic voices (Lucio Battisti) that could make Le Truc a creepyminimalistic show which takes chances galore to make you aware of what you know but don’t know that you know.
– Alexis Vaillant
Project Arts Centre’s exhibitions investigate the social, political and artistic responsibilities of contemporary art production.
Please contact Publicist, Aisling McGrane for further information and images: aisling@project.ie or Curator, Tessa Giblin by contacting the gallery.
Project Arts Centre is funded by the Arts Council – An Chomhairle Ealaion and Dublin City Council.
Project Arts Centre
39 East Essex Street
Temple Bar
Dublin 2
Ireland
