Donnerstag 2. Okt 2008, 11.00 Uhr

Chad Keveny

http://thesubjectasaquestion.blogspot.com
Dublin | Irland

Damals vor zwei Stunden

ausstellable

Malerei und Zeichnungen

Ausstellung vom 3. Oktober bis 25 Oktober 2008

chad keveny

Back before digital, taking a photo was a conscious action, reserved for special occasions (apparently there all special moments now). As a result we took photos because we were so, happy or because this is a moment to remember ! What Iam interested in, are these moments to remember. The example that always comes to my mind is “that’s me” on Santa’s knee ( but no it’s not, it’s some poor child blissfully unaware that he’s sitting on the knee of an alcoholic disguised as Father Xmas).
I asked my friends for such old photos. Why has the past of my friends suddendly become important ? Simply we have come to know one another of the past few years and it is with them that I would build the possibilities that are our futures. The question is how can we conceive of going anywhere together, when we have come from cultures ( languages, climates, lifestyles and histories) that are so different ? We don’t have a common past, thanks be to God, but there needs to be some kind of understandings with regards to these disparate positions in order to produce possibilities of the future and that can only be found through dialogue.

For the exhibition in the -able Gallery, the idea is to construct a network of images (thus inspiring a narrative reading), that because of the absence of signification shall encourage the spectators to project themselves by questioning their subjective memories. Rather than highlight either similarity or difference between subjective souvenirs and their collective cultural identities, the work aims to deterritorialise these souvenirs (objects of identity creation) by giving the possibility of agencement to the spactator, leaving them with the ultimate power to reterritorialise. Simply put you’ve decide how to understand this. Is it like you or different ? How does it give you meaning ?”

Chad Keveny was born 1981 in Dublin, Irland
lives and works since 2007 in Warsaw, Poland


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Mittwoch 1. Okt 2008, 17.27 Uhr

Projektion - “Signers Koffer”, ein Film von Peter Liechti

sichtable

am Donnerstag 16. Oktober 2008

Signers Koffer is a kind of road movie across Europa. From the swiss Alps to eastern Poland, from Stromboli to Iceland. Always following the scenary’s magically charged contours. Immersing yourself, letting yourself be infected, then travelling on.
Roman Signer determines the route that we are moving on and the film improvises along the way. Being on the road also means tracking down the right places. Signer brings them alive using his own personel instruments, brilliantly simple operations full of subtle humour. “Simple” poems being transmitted into space with instruments a gunpowder, fuse, ubber boots, balloons, stool, small table… and a three wheelded Plaggio.

Signers Koffer is also a journey through the state of mind. A tightrope walk between fun and melancholy. Danger, also mental danger, becomes the stimulus of  the senses. Sudden crashes, abrupt chagnes of mood determine the rythm and atmosphere of this cinematic journey.

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