POSITIONS

POSITIONSFive projects in dialogue


2014.7.5 - 10.12
Van Abbemuseum(아인트호벤)

큐레이터 _ Nick Aikens

참여작가 _ Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Céline Condorelli, Bouchra Khalili, Charles van Otterdijk, Koki Tanaka.






Positions is a new exhibition format that sets a series of projects in dialogue with one another in the ten galleries of the museum's old building. With each artist presenting a significant body of work, many produced for the exhibition and others developed through collaborations with art organisations throughout the world, Positions explores different tones of contemporary artistic voices.

The five distinct presentations examine how we position ourselves in the world today – often making visible frameworks, subjects and ideas that are felt but not seen. The exhibition unfolds as a conversation between a series of installations, films and architectural interventions that move between different geographical and political contexts and invite us to consider how agency - collective or individual - is both granted and taken away.







Lawrence Abu Hamdan (1985, Jordan), Tape Echo, 2013-2014
Lawrence Abu Hamdan will present Tape Echo, co-commissioned with Beirut in Cairo and including a new video work produced for Positions. With Tape Echo Abu Hamdan proposes a series of methods for documenting and intervening within of Cairo's dense audio urbanity, looking at how voices are distributed and hearing is damaged within of the city's rapidly changing sonic conditions.

Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Hypocrisy, 2013. Courtesy the artist

Céline Condorelli (1974, France), The Company She Keeps, 2014
Céline Condorelli’s work is concerned with how all human action takes place amidst what she has termed ‘support structures’ – whether emotional, legal or physical – which are mostly taken for granted, and therefore seem invisible. The Company She Keeps presents a series of new objects, installations and interventions in the galleries that develop from her ongoing engagement with friendship as a condition for working and living together. At the centre of the installation is the publication The Company She Keeps(published by Book Works, Chisenhale Gallery and Van Abbemuseum) which includes a series of conversations between the artist and friends on the philosophy, politics and history of friendship.

Céline Condorelli, 2014, installation view at Chisenhale Gallery

Céline Condorelli, 2014, installation view at Chisenhale Gallery.

Bouchra Khalili (1975, Morocco), The Speeches Series, video trilogy, 2012-2013
French-Moroccan artist Bouchra Khalili will present the three-part work The Speeches Series – shown together for the first time in Positions. The Speeches Series is built around three chapters, each comprised of five speeches by migrants that Khalili has collaborated closely with in Paris, Genoa and New York and that focuses respectively on mother tongues and dialects, citizenship, and working class. 

Bouchra Khalili, Speeches, 2012-2013

Charles van Otterdijk (1976, the Netherlands), Double Centre, 2013-14
Charles van Otterdijk’s project Double Centre is based around two locations on the Polish-German border. Through photographs, research material and a highly evocative installation Double Centre addresses the culture of surveillance and the way in which information is controlled and mediated – by the artist himself and, by inference, to society at large. First presented in Stroom Den Haag (2013) this second ‘Situation Report’ from these sites includes new objects produced for Positions. The publication Double Centre was published by Book Works, Van Abbemuseum and Stroom Den Haag in 2013

Charles van Otterdijk, Double Centre.

Koki Tanaka (1975, Japan), Precarious Tasks, 2012 - ongoing
Koki Tanaka’s Precarious Tasks, developed over the past few years in cities throughout the world, are humble acts of collectivity conceived in the immediate aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake in Japan and the resulting Fukushima disaster. In Positions they are presented through an ambitious, architectural installation with documentation, statements and ephemera from the tasks. Tanaka will carry out two new tasks in Eindhoven, commissioned for Positions.

Koki Tanaka, Precarious Tasks, 2012-ongoing.

The projects were realised in collaboration with: Beirut, Cairo; Book Works, London; Chisenhale Gallery, London; Museum as Hub; Pérez Art Museum, Miami; Stroom Den Haag.

같이 일 하는 법

How to work together

Ella Kruglyanskaya at Studio Voltaire
4.11 - 6.8

Gerry Bibby at The Showroom
4.30 - 6.21

Céline Condorelli at Chisenhale
5.2 - 6.22

런던의 비영리 현대미술화랑 Chisenhale Gallery, The Showroom and Studio Voltaire 세 곳에서 2014년 4/5월간 세 artist commissions를 연다. 이번 전시에는 그들의 신작 협업 프로젝트 <같이 일하는 법>이 발표될 예정이다.

공동작업은

The collaboration results from a pioneering joint application for match-funding granted by Arts Council England and is supported in its first year by Bloomberg, Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Outset Contemporary Art Fund. The initiative will present nine new artist commissions over the next three years across the three London galleries, all responding to the question: How to work together?
The artists who have been commissioned in the first year are Ella Kruglyanskaya at Studio Voltaire (11 April – 8 June), Gerry Bibby at The Showroom (30 April – 21 June) and Céline Condorelli at Chisenhale Gallery (2 May – 22 June). These will be the first solo exhibitions in UK








Ella Kruglyanskaya (lives and works in New York) is best known for her exuberant paintings of women. Depicted in a somewhat cartoon-like style in a range of scenarios, the artist’s work parodies representations of female sexuality and social interaction. Kruglyanskaya’s women are friends and ‘frienemies’, down at the beach, out-and-about, running from a menacing presence: enforced neighbours butting against each other in the tight space of the stretched canvas. This new body of work is in direct response to the proposition ‘how to work together’ and will include a large mural made in situ at Studio Voltaire, works on paper and oil paintings focused on women engaged in work

Gerry Bibby (lives and works in Berlin) will take up ‘residence’ at The Showroom in the lead up to and during his exhibition. Going behind the scenes, he will interrogate the organisation and commission itself by assuming a position that shifts the traditional artist/institution dynamic. From here Bibby will explore the possibilities and limitations of such a dynamic and probe the idiosyncrasies of the organisation’s apparatuses. The project will focus, in particular, on The Showroom’s heating system, the ebb and flow of which provides warmth and a generative tissue throughout the building and the community within it. Bibby’s interventions will explore social modes of production, shifts in function, and forms of intimacy, intrusion and estrangement. He will also be editing his manuscript, a major long-term publishing project, which will continually inform the development of the show.

Céline Condorelli (lives and works in London) will present a new project that considers friendship as a condition for working together. For her exhibition, she is constructing a series of furniture-like objects, which will act as support structures for conversations and interactions within the gallery.
Condorelli’s work is concerned with how all human action takes place amidst countless support structures - emotional, legal or physical, for example - mostly taken for granted, and therefore often appearing invisible. Friendship is conceived by Condorelli as a political relationship of allegiance and responsibility and her exhibition will open with a preview on International Workers Day, 1 May 2014.




The Showroom is a space for contemporary art that operates on the intersections between art, research and participation. For 30 years, we have supported artists to stage their first solo shows in London and been a pivotal force in the development of contemporary practice. A key aspect of our work is a commitment to the Church Street area through Communal Knowledge, an ongoing programme of artists’ projects produced in collaboration with local groups. → www.theshowroom.org



Studio Voltaire is a leading independent contemporary arts organisation; our main activities are the provision of affordable studios, a renowned programme of exhibitions, performances and commissions, and a pioneering education programme – Not Our Class. We place the artist at the centre of everything we do: providing opportunities to produce work in an open and discursive environment and allowing a closer relationship between the artist, production and audience. → www.studiovoltaire.org

How to work together results from Chisenhale Gallery, The Showroom and Studio Voltaire  being awarded a Catalyst grant of £210,000 from Arts Council England to create a joint  commissioning and research programme over three years 2013–2016. The 2014 commissions programme receives additional support from Bloomberg and Outset Contemporary Art Fund. The How to work together Think Tank is supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation.



How to work together is supported by a grant of £210,000 over three years from Catalyst: a £100 million culture sector- wide private giving investment scheme aimed at helping cultural organisations diversify their income streams and access more funding from private sources. The scheme is made up of investment from Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Over the next three years we will match these funds through private donations and sponsorship.

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원문 출처

http://howtoworktogether.org/wp-content/uploads/HTWT_24_March_2014_Press_Release.pdf