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| 24-HOUR
INCIDENTAL
with: John Armleder, Peter Coffin, Jason Dodge, Annika Eriksson,
Piero Golia, Carsten
Höller, Karl Holmqvist, Koo Jeong-A, Christoph Keller
and Yoko Ono
curated by: Jordan Wolfson
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Swiss
Institute – Contemporary Art
12 noon, Saturday, November 5 –
12 noon, Sunday, November 6, 2005 |
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The Swiss Institute – Contemporary Art (SI)
is pleased to announce 24-Hour Incidental, a one-day
program of simultaneous performance works by ten visual artists,
presented at the SI, as part of PERFORMA05. We are thrilled to be
a part of PERFORMA05, the first biennial of new visual art performance
in New York, which will be held at more than 20 venues citywide
this November.
From noon to
noon, during the opening weekend of the PERFORMA05 Biennial, the
SI will host a veritable marathon of work by ten innovative synthesizers
of visual art and performance. Works will range from the necessarily
interactive, as with Karl Holmqvist’s project involving visitor’s
favorite songs from the Magnetic Fields’ album ‘69 Love
Songs’, to the virtually immaterial, as with Jason Dodge’s
piece ‘Kristin Larson has been to the South Pole’ which
consists simply of an anonymous visit from Ms. Larson. 24-Hour
Incidental will intersect two days, carving out an irregular
passage of time and space. Projects will start and finish, overlap,
interfere and ultimately wash away within the parameters carved
out by the project's curator, artist Jordan
Wolfson.
Artists John
Armleder, Peter Coffin, Jason Dodge, Annika Eriksson, Piero Golia,
Carsten Holler, Karl Holmquist, Koo Jeong-A, Christoph Keller and
Yoko Ono span several generations, representing both the pioneering
generation of Fluxus and Happenings and a younger set whose work
borrows from and builds on the traditions of conceptual art and
performance. Yoko Ono’s historic ‘Yes Ladder’
will share the space with Koo Jeong-A’s construction, made
on the spot, of materials she finds within the SI’s gallery
and storage areas, while Piero Golia will set up a hammock and sleep
through the whole 24-hour event, so that he will have no memory
of the show. Each artist is given full rights over the space, however
all works will function in different dimensions; sound, invisibility,
conversation, construction, hallucination, documentation, contemplation,
and impulse. The program will thus be defined by unpredictability;
at any given moment during the span of the event, performances will
take place concurrently in numerous combinations.
24-Hour
Incidental is a co-production of the Swiss Institute – Contemporary
Art and PERFORMA.
The event has been made possible in part with the support of the
American-Scandinavian Foundation, the Cultural Services of the French
Embassy and IASPIS.
Special thanks to Izze Sodas, Nespresso and Stella Artois for in-kind
donations.
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