NOWs: Towards No Earthly Pole by Julian Charrière

06 September - 03 January 2020 / Nows

Julian Charrière: Towards No Earthly Pole

With Towards No Earthly Pole the Aargauer Kunsthaus is presenting the work of the Swiss artist Julian Charrière (b. 1987). The subject of travel as well as the actual expedition assume a central importance in his artistic practice. Time and again, he seeks out regions that have global significance for our past, present and future. For his latest, monumental film work Towards No Earthly Pole he journeyed to the most inhospitable parts of the planet: the Antarctic, Greenland and Iceland, but also extraordinary domestic topographies such as the alpine glaciers.

The projection that lends its title to the solo exhibition allows the viewers to immerse themselves in fascinating ice landscapes, and transports them into a remote and deserted spot. It shows regions that we think we know thanks to collectively constructed images, but which very few of us have visited in person. The depiction of these places in Charrière’s feature-length film work astonishes with its deliberately subjective, poetic reproduction of these unusual territories.

Other works in the exhibition—photographs, sculptures, videos and installations—are steeped in the artist’s curiosity about understanding the environment: photographs of idyllic palm beaches treated with radioactive material, floating globes stripped of their surface information, or pictures showing Charrière himself melting a glacier. For visitors, the tour of the exhibition becomes a journey through the cosmos of Charrière, who is both artist and researcher, and offers an engagement with the inseparable connection between humanity and nature.

In cooperation with MASI Lugano

Publication
To coincide with the exhibition, in October a comprehensive publication (German/English) will be released on the subject of Julian Charrière’s latest film Towards No Earthly Pole. With essays by: Francesca Benini, Amanda Boetzkes, Katherine Brodbeck, Dehlia Hannah, Scott MacKenzie & Anna Westerståhl Stenport, Shane McCorristine, Nadim Samman and Katrin Weilenmann, as well as a conversation between the artist and the climate expert Konrad Steffen.
Aargauer Kunsthaus, MASI Lugano, Dallas Museum of Art, and Mousse Publishing, ISBN 978-88-6749-434-7

NOWs: Waschtage / Kumi*13 with Yves Mettler et al.

07 - 27 September 2020 / Nows ⟶

Man Ray, Moving sculpture, 1922 WaschtageInstallation Parkplatz Zietenstrasse / Ecke Bülowstrasse 07. – 27. September, ganztägig Klatsch mit Kuminist*innen: 10., 17. und 24. 09. von 17.00 bis 20.00 Uhr Wehende Wäsche in einer Momentaufnahme. Ein Bild, das die Zeit einfriert: am Waschtag versammelten sich die Frauen zum Arbeiten und Reden. Das typische Geräusch beim Waschen – das laute Klatschen der ausgelaugten Wäsche, wenn der Schmutz auf dem Stein ausgeschlagen wird – bezeichnet auch das die Arbeit erleichternde Gerede, das Schwatzen und Lästern, – das Klatschen eben. Klatsch ist eine unterschätzte Form der Wissensvermittlung. Die Klatschenden spekulieren über soziale, politische oder sexuelle Überschreitungen und genießen die Indiskretion, man testet soziales Verhalten von sich und anderen, man erfindet sich neu. Der Klatsch zirkuliert unkontrolliert zwischen Leuten, angeblich meist Frauen, er unterläuft subversive den öffentlichen Radar, Klatsch kann nicht zensuriert werden. Versammeln wir uns zu nachbarschaftlichen Klatschtagen in der Zietenstraße. An den Donnerstagen (10., 17. & 24.) sitzen diverse Kuminist*innen auf dem Waschplatz und bieten zwischen 17.00 – 20.00 Uhr Klatsch an und würden auch gerne welchen hören. RESPEKT UND EIN HOCH AUF DEN KLATSCH ! Die Kumi*13 beteiligt sich hiermit an einem Nachbarschaftsprojekt der Initiative Kiez erFahren: Die Initiative hat 5 Parkplätze gemietet und die AnwohnerInnen zeigen dort Vorschläge, welche anderweitigen Nutzungen auf diesen 12 qm großen Autostellfläche denkbar wären. SchöneFläche Nord ist ein Modul innerhalb des Mobilitätsprojektes Kiez erFahren, das das Bezirksamt Tempelhof-Schöneberg in Schöneberg Nord durchführt. Gemeinsam entwickelt mit hochC Landschaftsarchitekten, zeigen die fünf SchönenFlächen im September alternative Nutzungen von Parkflächen. Das Projekt wird gefördert durch das Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit im Rahmen der Nationalen Klimaschutzinitiative (NKI) im Förderstrang „Kurze Wege für den Klimaschutz“. https://kiezerfahren.berlin Kumi*13 – ein Hausprojekt in Selbstverwaltung – Kurmärkische Str. 13 10783 Berlin Man Ray, Moving sculpture, 1922 WaschtageInstallation Parkplatz Zietenstrasse / Ecke Bülowstrasse 07. – 27. September, ganztägig Klatsch mit Kuminist*innen: 10., 17. und 24. 09. von 17.00 bis 20.00 Uhr Wehende Wäsche in einer Momentaufnahme. Ein Bild, das die Zeit einfriert: am Waschtag versammelten sich die Frauen zum Arbeiten und Reden. Das typische Geräusch beim Waschen – das laute Klatschen der ausgelaugten Wäsche, wenn der Schmutz auf dem Stein ausgeschlagen wird – bezeichnet auch das die Arbeit erleichternde Gerede, das Schwatzen und Lästern, – das Klatschen eben. Klatsch ist eine unterschätzte Form der Wissensvermittlung. Die Klatschenden spekulieren über soziale, politische oder sexuelle Überschreitungen und genießen die Indiskretion, man testet soziales Verhalten von sich und anderen, man erfindet sich neu. Der Klatsch zirkuliert unkontrolliert zwischen Leuten, angeblich meist Frauen, er unterläuft subversive den öffentlichen Radar, Klatsch kann nicht zensuriert werden. Versammeln wir uns zu nachbarschaftlichen Klatschtagen in der Zietenstraße. An den Donnerstagen (10., 17. & 24.) sitzen diverse Kuminist*innen auf dem Waschplatz und bieten zwischen 17.00 – 20.00 Uhr Klatsch an und würden auch gerne welchen hören. RESPEKT UND EIN HOCH AUF DEN KLATSCH ! Die Kumi*13 beteiligt sich hiermit an einem Nachbarschaftsprojekt der Initiative Kiez erFahren: Die Initiative hat 5 Parkplätze gemietet und die AnwohnerInnen zeigen dort Vorschläge, welche anderweitigen Nutzungen auf diesen 12 qm großen Autostellfläche denkbar wären. SchöneFläche Nord ist ein Modul innerhalb des Mobilitätsprojektes Kiez erFahren, das das Bezirksamt Tempelhof-Schöneberg in Schöneberg Nord durchführt. Gemeinsam entwickelt mit hochC Landschaftsarchitekten, zeigen die fünf SchönenFlächen im September alternative Nutzungen von Parkflächen. Das Projekt wird gefördert durch das Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit im Rahmen der Nationalen Klimaschutzinitiative (NKI) im Förderstrang „Kurze Wege für den Klimaschutz“. https://kiezerfahren.berlin Kumi*13 – ein Hausprojekt in Selbstverwaltung – Kurmärkische Str. 13 10783 Berlin

NOWs: Floating Utopias

05 September - 15 November 2020 / Nows ⟶

Floating Utopiasgroup exhibition Lunds Konsthall Mårtenstorget 3 223 51 Lund Press preview on 4 September at noon Ant Farm, Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkácová, Elise Eeraerts, Eventstructure Research Group, Anna Hoetjes, Franco Mazzucchelli, Dawn Ng, Ahmet Öğüt, Tomás Saraceno, Graham Stevens, SUPERFLEX, Tools for Action, UFO, Artúr van Balen, The Yes Men Floating Utopias presents various inflatable media at Lunds konsthall, accompanied by an intervention in urban space. The exhibition juxtaposes historical and contemporary works and shows how inflatables may be used in artistic and activist practices: formless bundles of material are instantly transformed into voluminous spatial presence. The exhibited works invite us to be playful and to claim space. They demonstrate a potential to forge communities and prompt participation. Floating Utopias indicates that inflatables could and should be used to critique the present order and create better futures. The exhibition navigates the broad cultural history of inflatables in art, activism and architecture, their impact on our collective imagination. The first manned balloon flight in the late eighteenth century shifted the general understanding of the possible, suggested new worlds and encouraged visionary utopianism. The history of inflatables is closely intertwined with industrial development. In the 1930s, the car tire industry found a new market in giant inflatable rubber puppets. Soon these figures hovered above socialist and capitalist parades, used for propaganda and advertisement in cities across the Soviet Union and the United States. In the late 1960s, a time of global political turmoil and the promise of space travel, plastic became widely available as an affordable material and was used in pneumatic experiments. Artists, activists and architects tested new forms of performance, protest and alternative living. Recent artistic practices show how inflatables can be used as tools in activism, as an artistic material to challenge monumental spaces and political symbols, and as vehicles for rethinking our dependency on fossil fuels. Floating Utopias foregrounds contemporary inflatable artworks, reflecting a world defined by technological advances, climate change and increasing political polarisation and offering new approaches to social engagement. Southern Sweden and the Copenhagen Area have a tradition of urban activism, including utopian art projects and happenings with inflatable objects. This legacy is also part of the exhibition history of Lunds konsthall. Futures-oriented exhibitions such as Superlund and New Babylon in the 1960s imagined new roles and habitats for humankind in relation to nature and the city, and Floating Utopias continues this progressive tradition. During the exhibition’s opening weekend, the helium balloon Castle of Vooruit by Kurdish artist Ahmet Öğüt will float over Lund. It will take off from Stortorget Friday 4 September, as soon as wind conditions allow it. Floating Utopias was first shown at nGbK neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst in Berlin in 2018 and then at ArtScience Museum Singapore in 2019. Now the exhibition lands for the third time at Lunds konsthall. It is organised by the three curators Artúr van Balen, Fabiola Bierhoff and Anna Hoetjes. The exhibition design was created in collaboration with Agustina Pascotto and Jazmin Schenone. Floating Utopiasgroup exhibition Lunds Konsthall Mårtenstorget 3 223 51 Lund Press preview on 4 September at noon Ant Farm, Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkácová, Elise Eeraerts, Eventstructure Research Group, Anna Hoetjes, Franco Mazzucchelli, Dawn Ng, Ahmet Öğüt, Tomás Saraceno, Graham Stevens, SUPERFLEX, Tools for Action, UFO, Artúr van Balen, The Yes Men Floating Utopias presents various inflatable media at Lunds konsthall, accompanied by an intervention in urban space. The exhibition juxtaposes historical and contemporary works and shows how inflatables may be used in artistic and activist practices: formless bundles of material are instantly transformed into voluminous spatial presence. The exhibited works invite us to be playful and to claim space. They demonstrate a potential to forge communities and prompt participation. Floating Utopias indicates that inflatables could and should be used to critique the present order and create better futures. The exhibition navigates the broad cultural history of inflatables in art, activism and architecture, their impact on our collective imagination. The first manned balloon flight in the late eighteenth century shifted the general understanding of the possible, suggested new worlds and encouraged visionary utopianism. The history of inflatables is closely intertwined with industrial development. In the 1930s, the car tire industry found a new market in giant inflatable rubber puppets. Soon these figures hovered above socialist and capitalist parades, used for propaganda and advertisement in cities across the Soviet Union and the United States. In the late 1960s, a time of global political turmoil and the promise of space travel, plastic became widely available as an affordable material and was used in pneumatic experiments. Artists, activists and architects tested new forms of performance, protest and alternative living. Recent artistic practices show how inflatables can be used as tools in activism, as an artistic material to challenge monumental spaces and political symbols, and as vehicles for rethinking our dependency on fossil fuels. Floating Utopias foregrounds contemporary inflatable artworks, reflecting a world defined by technological advances, climate change and increasing political polarisation and offering new approaches to social engagement. Southern Sweden and the Copenhagen Area have a tradition of urban activism, including utopian art projects and happenings with inflatable objects. This legacy is also part of the exhibition history of Lunds konsthall. Futures-oriented exhibitions such as Superlund and New Babylon in the 1960s imagined new roles and habitats for humankind in relation to nature and the city, and Floating Utopias continues this progressive tradition. During the exhibition’s opening weekend, the helium balloon Castle of Vooruit by Kurdish artist Ahmet Öğüt will float over Lund. It will take off from Stortorget Friday 4 September, as soon as wind conditions allow it. Floating Utopias was first shown at nGbK neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst in Berlin in 2018 and then at ArtScience Museum Singapore in 2019. Now the exhibition lands for the third time at Lunds konsthall. It is organised by the three curators Artúr van Balen, Fabiola Bierhoff and Anna Hoetjes. The exhibition design was created in collaboration with Agustina Pascotto and Jazmin Schenone.

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