In-visibilité Ostentatoire

In-visibilité Ostentatoire Commissaire : Giscard Bouchotte.

Mario Benjamin, Florine Demosthene, Maksaens Denis, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Edouard Duval-Carrie, Adler Guerrier, Sasha Huber, Manuel Mathieu, Ronald Mevs, Michelange Quay, Henry Roy

L’exposition In-visibilité Ostentatoire, en référence aux silences assourdissants de l’Histoire, présente le travail d’une dizaine d’artistes qui explorent les non-dits sur des faits d’hier et d’aujourd’hui ou des événements que la mémoire a oublié ou choisi d’oublier. En relatant certains faits historiques passés sous silence à leur époque, elle évoque les mécanismes à l’oeuvre, les amnésies collectives ou les tabous sociaux qui influencent nos choix et nos silences. In-visibilité Ostentatoire donne aussi à voir le travail de certains artistes qui puisent leur inspiration dans le monde Invisible, celui des “mistè” (esprits) qui semblent tirer les ficelles de la réalité haïtienne. Ce monde invisible et son cohorte de croyances populaires est, pour nombre d’entre eux, une source d’inspiration. L’exposition explore l’”invisibilité ostentatoire” d’Haïti lors des grands rendez-vous internationaux, en insistant sur la visibilité de ce qui aurait dû être évident.

Sophie Calle, The Blind, 1986

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Sophie Calle’s The Blind on wall. Jorge Pardo’s Pallet (Exotic Wood), 1990 on the ground. Installation views of Some Aesthetic Decisions: Centennial Celebration of Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, at NSU Art Museum, by Bonnie Clearwater.

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Les Aveugles” (The Blind), created in 1986, Calle questioned people born blind on their representation of beauty. 23 sets of framed texts, b/w and color prints and shelves. Collection of Stuart and Judy Spence, Los Angeles.
The Blind, a set of 12, is also part of L’art et la matière at Musée Fabre de Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole; an exhibition inviting guests to experience objects through touch, thus friendly to the blind. via Perrotin.

aesthetic techniques that interrogate

Forensic Architecture, collaborated with the Society of Friends of Halit, at documenta 14.

The results of their research, presented here in a video titled 77sqm_9:26min (2017) after the size of the internet café and the length of time that was the subject of police investigation, show that Temme gave a false testimony.

“Art has been very good in the last decades in problematizing the notion of truth, insisting that narratives are more complex than we’re told, that art is about doubt,” Weizman told a small group of press as he presented the project together with Ayse Gülec, of the Society of Friends of Halit, and the project manager of the forensic investigation, Christina Varvia. “We want to show another possibility of art—one that can confront doubt, and uses aesthetic techniques in order to interrogate.”

via artnet.

International City Gaming Conference

International City Gaming Conference in Rotterdam in 2017. via

GAMES FOR CITIES will deliver three concrete outcomes:

1. A guidebook for policy makers and regulators to employ city gaming in their daily work.

2. Activation and growth of the City Gaming community through public events and an online network.

3. A comprehensive City Gaming database on the Games for Cities website.

City-Gaming History

…also, Keynote Extractor.

Forensic Architecture

Forensic Architecture (FA) is a research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London, which is made up of a team of architects, scholars, filmmakers, designers, lawyers and scientists who gather and present spatial analysis in legal and political forums.

We undertake advanced architectural and media research in order to provide evidence for international prosecution teams, political organisations, NGOs, and the United Nations in various processes worldwide. Additionally, we undertake historical and theoretical examinations of the history and present status of forensic practices in articulating notions of public truth.

2011 Seminar.
MACBA.