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CURRENT/UPCOMINGan inadequate history of conceptual art in Double Bind Dear Silvia...July 2009 Podcast and Pamplet Dear Silvia...July 2009 is now available as a free podcast at
http://fillip.ca/podcast/2010-01-11 Dear Silvia...July 2009 is also available in pamphlet form; published by Fillip Editions, as part of Fillip, Issue 11. This issue also includes a related text by Antonia Hirsch, "Indirect Speech."
For the limited edition LP (edition of 25; $250 each, benefitting Fillip), contact: http://fillip.ca/editions/dear-silvia-july-2009 |
RECENT
"After Hiroshima Mon Amour" and "A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Sound"
May 8, 2009-June 14, 2009
Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
The projection on opposite walls of a colored rectangular space of "After Hiroshima Mon Amour" (2008) and "A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Sound" (2006) allows the spectator to choose a position from which to take in either the Resnais/Duras film "Hiroshima mon amour" (1959), played without sound or titles, or "After Hiroshima Mon Amour." Enclosed in the same visual and aural space, the video and the film have the possibility of transforming each other.
"Nothing and Everything"
One-person exhibition at Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery
Concordia University, Montreal
January 30 - March 7, 2009
http://ellengallery.concordia.ca/2006/index.php
Curated by Michele Theriault
Curator's statement:
This exhibition presents two major works, produced ten years apart, which consider very different contemporary issues. On the one hand, "an inadequate history of conceptual art" (1998-1999) reflects upon the renewed interest in Conceptual Art, and on the other, "After Hiroshima Mon Amour" (2008), engages with American military interventions in Iraq, and the associated criminal neglect of post-hurricane New Orleans. These works offer subtle and provocative explorations of the meeting of unconscious forces with social, political, and historical structures as they are imbricated, not only with these events, but also with forms of art, cinema and writing that have radically transformed existing conventions.
A catalogue of the same title, with a discussion between Theriault and Kolbowski can be ordered from http://ellengallery.concordia.ca/2006/en/publications.php
"After Hiroshima Mon Amour"
One-person exhibition at La><art, Los Angeles
September 20 - November 1, 2008. (web link) (press release)
Curated by Christopher Bedford
"Manifesto Marathon"
Manifesto Marathon, Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist
Serpentine Gallery, London
October 19, 2008 (web link)
All photos © Serpentine Gallery, London and
Mark Blower, photography
"Younger and Stronger Men"
F.T. Marinetti's "Futurist Manifesto" scrambled and turned into a dialogue. A performance including 60 images of mass audiences from around the world, and two actors each reading parts of Marinetti's scrambled manifesto as a pseudo political debate dialogue.
Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
3/9/07 - 4/22/07
Curated by Pawel Polit
Photos 3-11 by Mariusz Michalski
(This 1998/1999 project was reinstalled, with the addition of a Polish audio translation, and a new projection component. Due to the fact that a loan of audio equipment from Bang + Olufsen, required for the original specifications, was not able to be procured, this component was substituted with high-end Polish audio equipment from the 1970s.)
Selected Bibliography
an inadequate history of conceptual art (Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw), 2007. (Includes an interview by Luiza Nader.) (See Publications)
Review, Obeig.pl (April 2007) In Polish
© 2010 Silvia Kolbowski |