Painting, photography, video and new technologies, with its twenty-eight galleries of exclusively contemporary art and nearly 200 artists, Show Off (read our previous article), will be rich in artistic discoveries. The presentations in the galleries will be accompanied throughout the fair by an important ensemble of videos and daily performances, in the fair and in the movie house open to the public, the Show Room.
Video programs
The Show Room will host very varied videos, such as Sketch01.Night (Commissioner Alexandre Pollazzon), Emerging (Commissioner: Marie Magnier), a Swiss Retrospective Video Program (Commissioner Michel Ritter/Nicolas Trembley) in collaboration with the Swiss Cultural Center in Paris, A Certain French Touch (Commissioner: Brent Klinlum), Plug and play (Commissioner: Carine Le Malet). To this we can add a video program Spécial Collectionneurs (Collectors special) in which six collectors chose a video among the works of their collection. At the same time, the 28 participating galleries present a selection of videos in the Vidéo Galleries program. Last but not least, five international commissioners have accepted to prepare a program of their choice, Vidéo Curators, to be shown every day.
Performances
There will also be performances. During the opening of Show Off, Gil & Moti will invite the public to have their hair done as theirs. The volunteers will don headsets and have their hair sculpted while looking on a lap top computer at a video, Letters to Leila. These letters speak of the relations between persons from different communities, Palestinians and Israelis. The aim of this performance is to greatly modify the perception the spectators may have of a subject such as this one while their own aspect undergoes a major change. In another performance Philippe Tourriol pays a tribute to Yves Klein through a Judo demonstration, while the spectators look at Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen who appears as a ballerina losing control of his body. With Madonnabramovic Lucky Star, Pascal Lièvre questions Marina Abramovic’s act in 1975, when she traced a Communist star on her stomach with a razor blade. In Intoxication Télévisuelle (Television Intoxication), Zevs accuses television of being the number one instrument in alienating individuals to images.
Illustration :Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen, My Cat and I, Vidéo, Duration 5mn, 1999 Courtesy Gallery Quang
THE COMPLETE PROGRAM
Tuesday 24 October 2006
14h-15h: Video program special Collectors
15h15-18h: Video program special Galleries
18h15-19h45 : A Certain French Touch
19h: Performance : " New Conclusions ", Gil & Moti, (the performance will take place in the Fair)
20h15-21h30: Retrospective Swiss video program
Wednesday 25 October 2006
12h30h-15h30: Video program special Galleries
15h45–16h45 : Emerging, video program
17h-18h: Plug and Play , video program
18h15-18h45: Sketch 01.Night, vidéo program
9h00-20H15 : Retrospective Swiss video program
Thursday 26 October 2006
12h-14h45 :Video program special Galleries
15h-17h30 : An oedipian triangle: interactions and influences between critics /artists/galleries Participants : Paul Ardenne, Christophe Domino, Philippe Piguet, Elizabeth Couturier, Damien Sausset
18h-18h30 :: Sketch 01.Night
19h: Performance Philippe Tourriol - " I declare lspace "
20h: Performance Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen : "Twirl”
21h: Video program special Collectors
Friday 27 October 2006
12h-14h45 : Video program special Galleries
15h-16h30 : A Certain French Touch
16h30h-18h30 : Plug and Play
19h: Performance James J. Williams III : "I'm sure you've had it in the ear before"
20h : Performance Pascal Lièvre :" Madonnabramovic Lucky Star "
Saturday 28 October 2006
12h00-15h :Video program special Galleries
15h15-16h15: Plug and play
16h30-18h : A Certain French Touch
18h-18h30 : Discussion with the featured artists
19h :Performance Zevs " TV Intoxication "
20h: Performance Eric Pougeau " Macadam cowgirl ex cowboy + Pearl And John " Concert for about an hour
Sunday 29 October
10h45-11h30: Présentation by Jean-Conrad and Isabelle Lemaître of their approach as collectors of vidéo works
11H30-12h30: : Video program special Collectors
12h30-13h30 : Emerging, video program
13h45-15h : Retrospective Swiss video program
15h15-15h45 : Sketch 01.Night
16H-17h: Présentation of jaideuxamours.fr, a new website of art critics
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