THE LIVING DEAD
Monday, June 1st, 2009The Living Dead
(A Celebration of Collecting Art as the Esperanto of Globalisation)
Professional preview opening: Wedensday 3 June at 18:00
Public opening: never
Private party for the loosers and hobos from the Nordic Dubais Venice Pavillion at Podium. Remember strict dresscode and hardcore mingling while DJ Trond Reinholdtsen gives us italian-flavored grooves inducing the psychogeography of Venice. The avantgarde of Scandinavian lounge aestethics, IKEA, gives us a transnational interscandinavian globalised art event. As a celebration of the living dead left behind in the collectors storage space.
Curatorial statment
The public might be guided on a tour through a small storage space for an eclectic art collection, while being told stories of Marcel Broodthaers hauntings of the place. A remake of his work from 1964 “Casserole and Closed Mussels” will lead the visitors to the neighboring Nordic Dubai backyard – a flamboyant graffiti extravaganza. Inside they will encounter mysterious installations, free drinks and the chilled theoretical grooves from tekstfuckers – in an environment that could be a case study motif taken from a Francis Bacon painting.
As the title of the show indicates, the living dead will approach the topic of collecting, and the phrenology behind the practice of expressing oneself through metaphysical objects.
We are currently in the process of indexing the collection – more will be annouced tomorrow.
Confirmed artist in the storage space:
Arne Borgan, Al Hansen, Josefine Lyche, Ignas Krunglevicius, Marte Hodne Haugen, Anders Eiebakke, Vigdis Fjellheim, Shwan Dler Qaradaki, Inger Johanne Rasmussen, Espen Lomsdalen, Anders Smebye, Håkon Gullvåg, Steinar Haga Kristensen, Ole Christian Ellestad, Tom Daniel Reiersen, Kjetil Røed, Lars Petter Hagen, Marthe Walthinsen, Kjartan Slettemark, Bodil Furu, Snorre Hvamen, Thomas Kvam, Kristian Dhal, Lars paalgard, Per Jonas Lindstrøm, Jörg Immendorff, Tommy Olsson, Morten Viskum, Ståle Stenslie.
Discursive activities
Kl 21.00 Tekstfuckers.
Debate: Is feng shui the homeopathy of interior design or the collectors secret weapon in the display of his or hers collection? DJ Trond Reinholdtsen gives us live music telepathically, in realtime, from his audience perspective inside Ida Müller og Vegar Vinge play Vildanden at Bergen International Festival.
Kl 18.00 – 23.00 HAL 9000 in conversation with the collectors inner psychoplasmatic horse. This Q&A is part of the program: Reflections on Intergalactic Modernism (Part 2)
Free drinks with a blend of Slavoj Žižek, zombie galore and a crust of dust
from the collection.
