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Press release Berlin, July 2013 Studio/audience A series of new video works commissioned by Ikono TV, curated by Nadim Samman: Studio/audience is a series of video portraits of artists at work, and in their work- places. A creative blurring of the boundaries between documentation and perfor- mance, probing the construction and clichés of artistic identity, Studio/audience is television for the 21 st century. Hans Namuth photographed Jackson Pollock at work. His images would do much to establish the painter’s public persona – smoking, pacing, without pretension. De- spite their documentary form, the shots were as much a creation of Pollock’s myth as unmediated records of his process and subjectivity. In 1950, Namuth began to film Pollock in action. However, one winter’s day the project came to an abrupt con- clusion, with each man accusing the other of being ‘phoney’. The staging and per- formance of the so-called creative act was at issue. As this episode demonstrates, the documentary genre of the artist at work in their studio has its conventions and fictionalizing strategies – which that can run counter to some conceptions of au- thenticity and identity. This series of newly created videos for Ikono TV, curated by Nadim Samman, explores such tension between documentation and performance. Studio/audience is a series of video portraits of artists at work, and their workplaces. Seeking an equitable ex- change between the camera, the artist and the audience, Samman has invited par- ticipants to direct the representation of their studio world. Only the following ques- tions serve as prompts: What is the most relevant way of looking at you workplace? Which details are important? What key perceptual/creative processes might a vid- eo capture and how? Studio/audience stretches the television format, questioning the representation of creative work and probing the construction and clichés of artistic identity today. Featured artists Atelier van Lieshout Dora Budor Constant Dullaart Emil Holmer Helga Wretman Darri Lorenzen LuckyPDF Brenna Murphy Jaakko Pallasvuo Andrew Norman Wilson Harm van den Dorpel PAGE 1 OF 4 ikono Elizabeth Markevitch Founder Christine Gückel Presse & Kommunikation Wattstraße 10 13355 Berlin Tel: +49 (0)30 443 560 43 Fax: +49 (0)30 201 632 869 [email protected] www.ikono.org
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Press release Berlin, July 2013
Studio/audience A series of new video works commissioned by Ikono TV, curated by Nadim Samman: Studio/audience is a series of video portraits of artists at work, and in their work-places. A creative blurring of the boundaries between documentation and perfor-mance, probing the construction and clichés of artistic identity, Studio/audience is television for the 21st century.
Hans Namuth photographed Jackson Pollock at work. His images would do much to establish the painter’s public persona – smoking, pacing, without pretension. De-spite their documentary form, the shots were as much a creation of Pollock’s myth as unmediated records of his process and subjectivity. In 1950, Namuth began to film Pollock in action. However, one winter’s day the project came to an abrupt con-clusion, with each man accusing the other of being ‘phoney’. The staging and per-formance of the so-called creative act was at issue. As this episode demonstrates, the documentary genre of the artist at work in their studio has its conventions and fictionalizing strategies – which that can run counter to some conceptions of au-thenticity and identity.
This series of newly created videos for Ikono TV, curated by Nadim Samman, explores such tension between documentation and performance. Studio/audience is a series of video portraits of artists at work, and their workplaces. Seeking an equitable ex-change between the camera, the artist and the audience, Samman has invited par-ticipants to direct the representation of their studio world. Only the following ques-tions serve as prompts: What is the most relevant way of looking at you workplace? Which details are important? What key perceptual/creative processes might a vid-eo capture and how?
Studio/audience stretches the television format, questioning the representation of creative work and probing the construction and clichés of artistic identity today.
Featured artists
Atelier van Lieshout Dora Budor Constant Dullaart Emil Holmer Helga Wretman Darri Lorenzen LuckyPDF Brenna Murphy Jaakko Pallasvuo Andrew Norman Wilson Harm van den Dorpel
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ikono
Elizabeth Markevitch
Founder
Christine Gückel
Presse & Kommunikation
Wattstraße 10
13355 Berlin
Tel: +49 (0)30 443 560 43
Fax: +49 (0)30 201 632 869
www.ikono.org
Press release Berlin, July 2013
About the Curator:
Nadim Samman is an independent curator and art historian based in Berlin. He read Philosophy at University College London before completing a doctorate in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art. His curatorial projects in London, Moscow, Berlin, Venice, Zurich and Marrakech have included presentations of leading modern and contempo-rary artists. In 2012 he curated the 4th Marrakech Biennale with Carson Chan. He is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). Nadim is also Co-Director of Import Projects (Berlin). www.import-projects.org / www.nadimsamman.com
About the Artists:
Dora Budor (b.1983) Dora Budor is Croatian born artist living and working in NYC. Budor merges and remixes digital media, sculptural installation, video and performance to explore and reinterpret universal behavioral and aesthetic patterns coming from contemporary corporate en-vironment and entertainment industry. From 2004 - 2012 she worked as part of an ar-tist duo D+M, and has shown work at Stadium (NY), Higher Pictures (NY), Interstate (NY), CEO (Malmo), Elaine (Basel), Kunsthalle Bergen (Norway), Tanzfabrik (Berlin) and many more. Activities in 2013 include duo show Dear D+M (Arcadia Missa, London) and Hot Rare Signed (HHDM, Vienna), solo shows Skin That Drinks (Perfect Present, Kopenha-gen) and New Lavoro (commission for Palazzo Peckham at 55th Venice Biennale). Re-cent group shows include On Demand TV (the Attic, London), Rematerialized (New Ga-lerie, Paris), Dry Wipe (Nottingham Contemporary, London) and screenings at Fra-me(o)ut (MUMOK, Vienna) and Dream Island (RCA, London). Currently she is artist-in-residence at Quartier21 (Museumsquartier, Vienna, AU).
Harm van den Dorpel (b.1981) Harm van den Dorpel’s work emerges from a continuous dialogue and exchange with the participatory culture of the Internet, encompassing websites, video, collage and sculptures that meld physical and virtual realms. Exploring how their over lap affects aesthetics and objecthood, he often utilizes sophisticated design and programming to create works that return materiality to digital form. He has exhibited in many venues, including The New Museum (New York), Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst (Amster-dam), Spencer Brownstone Gallery (New York), Atelierhof Kreuzberg (Berlin), RABK (Amsterdam), Artnews Projects (Berlin), and the Internet Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2009.
Constant Dullaart (b.1979) Working across video, sculpture and digital mediums, Constant Dullaart’s work explo-res contemporary modes of access, visibility and (mis)representation associated with the global spread of information technologies. His works are widely seen and dis-cussed online on blogs such as vvork.com, rhizome.org, artinamerica.com, todayand-tomorrow.net, trendbeheer.com, etcetera. Dullaart has taught at the Rietveld acade-mie and (co)curated several events in Amsterdam, Berlin and New York, including the periodic Lost and Found evenings (with his final event in the New Museum). His work is shown internationally in places such as the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Art in General and MWNM gallery,New York, the ICA London, NIMK, de Appel, W139, the Stedelijk Museum,
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ikono
Elizabeth Markevitch
Founder
Christine Gückel
Press & Communication
Wattstraße 10
13355 Berlin
Tel: +49 (0)30 443 560 43
Fax: +49 (0)30 201 632 869
www.ikono.org
Press release Berlin, July 2013
Ellen de Bruijne projects, and Gallery West. Dullaart lives and works in Berlin and Ams-terdam.
Emil Holmer (b.1975) Emil Holmer explores the origins of language in brightly colored abstract paintings that incorporate traditional mediums, like oil and charcoal, with collaged scraps and spraypaint. His works appear at first chaotic, but derive unity through use of repetitive forms and existing symbols, revealing Holmer’s quest to evoke a primordial experience of signs and communication. Born in Karlstad, Sweden, Holmer studied at the Academy of Arts in Umeå and at the UdK in Berlin, where he was a guest student in the class of Tony Cragg. In recent years, Holmer had several solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Australia and South Africa.
Atelier van Lieshout (b.1963) Joep van Lieshout lives and works in Rotterdam. In 1995 he founded Atelier Van Lieshout (AVL), undermining the myth of the individual artistic genius. Atelier Van Lieshout has attained international recognition for objects that balance on the boundary between art, architecture and design. These works of art are practical, un-complicated and substantial. Recurring themes in the work of AVL are autarky, power, politics and the more classical themes of life and death
Darri Lorenzen (b.1978) Darri Lorenzen is a Berlin based Icelandic artist who works predominantly in the modes of film, video and installation. He attended the Icelandic Academy of the Arts, the Ro-yal Academy of Art and Royal Conservatoire Den Haag and the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions worldwide including Poland, Iceland, Italy, Belgium and Finland.
LuckyPDF LuckyPDF have been active in Peckham, South-East London, since late 2008. They are: James Early, John Hill, Ollie Hogan and Yuri Pattison. Working collaboratively with an ever-changing network of emerging artists, they produce online television program-mes, Internet interventions and live events. In Say Goodbye to Hollywood they will pro-duce a live studio in the gallery.
Brenna Murphy (b.1986) Brenna Murphy uses computer applications to craft digital forms inspired by her ob-servations of the physical world. Made using a variety of programs such as Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Blender, her complex, abstract forms find synthesis between diffe-rent digital disciplines. Murphy combines her digital prints with found objects, colla-ges, videos, and even performance work in gallery spaces, seeking to cultivate relati-onships between these forms and bring digital work into the realm of the physical. “I add and carve until the arrangement is balanced in a way that creates a perfectly co-hesive, vibrating ecosystem,” she says of her process. Her most recent solo exhibition was held at the Kunstverein Düsseldorf.
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ikono
Elizabeth Markevitch
Founder
Christine Gückel
Press & Communication
Wattstraße 10
13355 Berlin
Tel: +49 (0)30 443 560 43
Fax: +49 (0)30 201 632 869
www.ikono.org
Press release Berlin, July 2013
Jaakko Pallasvuo (b.1987) Jaakko Pallasvuo is an internet-based artist dividing his time between London, Berlin and Helsinki. His work has recently been exhibited at Future Gallery (Berlin), AMOA-Arthouse (Austin), Arcadia Missa (London) and W139 (Amsterdam). Pallasvuo’s video work addresses the ways in which identities are constructed and performed in online contexts.
Andrew Norman Wilson (b.1983) Andrew Norman Wilson currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a B.S. from Syracuse University's SI Newhouse School of Public Communication. He is a 2011 recipient of the Dedalus Foun-dation MFA fellowship and the Edward Ryerson Fellowship. His work has been presented at the Images Festival in Toronto, the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Mu-seum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the De Young Museum in San Francisco, the Eastern Bloc Center in Montreal, Yaffo 23 in Jerusalem, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, UCLA, and Reed College. His current work focuses on globalization and its emergent forms and flows of labor, capital, and information.
Helga Wretman (b.1985) Helga Wretman is a Swedish artist and stuntwoman based in Berlin. Working primarily in the field of performance she studied dance at The Royal Swedish Ballet School. Helga has appeared is such Hollyw0od films as Unknown, Hansel & Gretel: The Witchhunters, The Voices and the Booktheif. She has exhibited at Based in Berlin, the Palais de Tokyo, Nada Miami and elsewhere.
About the ikono On Air Festival
Studio/audience is part of the ikono On Air Festival, the first ever international arts fes-tival taking place exclusively on TV and live webstream. From the 6th to 29th September 2013, the ikono On Air Festival will air a daily program of international video artists, fea-turing Bill Viola, Alfredo Jaar, Anthony McCall and over 100 established and emerging artists. The festival will be able to be seen through HDTV channels ikonoTV and ikono MENASA, which currently reach over 30 countries worldwide, and will also be available on all mobile devices such as computers, tablets and smartphones. In Berlin, cafes, bars and cultural institutions will become a part of the event by holding public screenings of the ikono On Air Festival.
More information on ikono.org/festival.
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ikono
Elizabeth Markevitch
Founder
Christine Gückel
Press & Communication
Wattstraße 10
13355 Berlin
Tel: +49 (0)30 443 560 43
Fax: +49 (0)30 201 632 869
www.ikono.org
