Bon Noir Alien
A performance / madrigal for floating entities by Anna Bromley
Composition and musical directing: Jeremy Woodruff
premieres at the Editor`s Talk of Look at me - Celebrity Culture at The Venice Art Biennale (Ed. Mona Schieren, Andrea Sick, Nürnberg, 2011), by invitation of the editors
Wednesday, June 1st 2011, 16:26 p.m.
Premiere of Bon Noir Alien and Editor`s Talk
Enter Motoscafo linea 52 at
- Giardini at 16:21
- S Zaccaria at 16:26
The performance will start just after setting off from S Zaccaria (Jolanda).
Leave Motoscafo at S.Marta for walking to the Editor`s Talk at 17:00 p.m.
IUAV, Terese, Dorsuduro 2206, Aula A.
Thursday, June 2nd 2011, 10:45 a.m.
Performance: Bon Noir Alien, Booklaunch
Enter Motoscafo #51 at
- FERROVIA S.LUCIA at 10:25 a.m.
- P.ROMA PARISI at 10:28 a.m.
- S.Marta at 10:34 a.m.
- Zattere 10:41 a.m.
The performance will start after setting off from Zattere.
Arrival Giardini 10.53 a.m. for the Booklaunch at the 54. Venice Biennial
Giardini Vaporetto Stop
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The Book:
Look at me. Celebrity Culture at The Venice Art Biennale
Mona Schieren, Andrea Sick (Eds.)
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, May 2011, ISBN 978-3-86984-177-9, 200 Seiten, English, Format: 24 x16 cm
Look at me highlights the rules and mechanisms of celebrity culture taking the example of the oldest, most venerable of the biennials – the Art Biennial in Venice. Staging and appearance are important factors of success – in the celebrity and in the art world alike. Increasing one's attention so as to achieve acclaim within the regime of visibility is therefore crucial. Venice is the perfect place for profitable strategies to unfold, the movie-like setting inspiring a perpetual game of staging and excess.
On discourse stars, glamour, attention, taboo, market.
Featuring contributions by Dorothee Albrecht, Carlos Basualdo, Andreas Bernhardt, Beatrice von Bismarck, Jolanka Boeke, Luc Boltanski, Paola Bonino et al., Anna Bromley, Régis Debray, Pamela Church Gibson, Elke Krystufek, Rachel Mader, Jana Riester, Jörg Scheller, Mona Schieren, Andrea Sick und Wantanee Siripattananuntakul, Jeremy Woodruff, Beat Wyss.
Extracts:
Pamela Church Gibson: Fashion, Art and Celebrity at the Venice Biennale
"… The new relationship between art, fashion, celebrity - and commerce - which has provided different and significant benefits for all the participants, has grown in strength, increased its influence and adopted new modes of expression. Some individual fashion designers, with Miuccia Prada well to the fore, seem very anxious themselves to be perceived as among the leading patrons of art in this new millennium. So successful have they been that an anonymous
newspaper article did actually ask: Is Miuccia Prada the new Peggy Guggenheim?. But as the review quoted shows us, she faces stiff competition here, just as she does in the fashion world. For while design houses such as hers prize their independent status and cling to it proudly, the two giant conglomerates straddle the world of high fashion like twin colossi and are constantly searching out new acquisitions …"
Regis Debray: Agianst Venice
"… Venice has style. She even has too many, seven or eight, but the layoutof the mosaics and the predominance of a singular material, white Istrian stone, makes her heterogeneity of facades and architectures acceptable. (...) On the shores of the lagoon, where everything has become conventionalized, even the best photo will still tend to pastiche: quasi-painting or resurgent museo-mania. Cartier-Bresson would have had to turn in his “one-shot gun” for a “two-stroke pencil.“ Even if he is on the spot and passionate about meticulous rendering, the scrupulous artist in Venice will end up drawing the memory of the place from memory. (...) In the city-island with its little finger in the air, where the entire planet gathers to hold its salons, the “people of quality” act plebeian …"
Andrea Sick: Stuck in the Quagmire of Attention. Artistic Spectacle and the Chain of Events
"Attention resembles a spotlight which can be switched on and off. But what prompts the spotlight to be switched on? The spot on which the light shines appears subsequently to determine the positioning of our attention and is increasingly discussed in the various discourses, as has
become apparent …
… By means of social networks, self-management techniques and the biographical effort demanded
by the applications of Web 2.0, everyone becomes a mini celebrity in their own right. Conscious and purposeful concern for one’s self-esteem prompts us to pursue giving and taking as a game of sorts, in which we utilize our own attention in order to court the attention of others. It renders the exchange a sort of game involving supply and demand …
… These attentive scenes are sites and arenas lit by spotlights in which something underneath the design of the game itself is at stake and in which not just rule-bound actions are completed, but operations are also conducted that do not conform to standard rules. Ruptures and transgressions are made …"
Elke Krystufek: Elke krystufek Less Male Art- Below The Male Belt
"Hitting below the masculine belt, Luise F. Pusch and Gustav Metzker are disrupting German
order. This exhibition seeks adequate production conditions for women in the art business. This exhibition is directed against masculine, capitalistic expressions of power in relation to the production of art. Should art association directors be examined by those responsible for appointing them as regards their cocaine consumption? Somewhere the money for these …"
Unpacking the World with Biennials, Interview with Dorothee Albrecht – Mona Schieren
"For all that, it seems to me that art locations and art trading centers are enamored with the celebrity culture, and that the latter has an influence on biennials even though Venice stands out exponentially. It is also the case for other Manifestas and triennials that if you want to remain in the business – you have to attend. Celebrity not only operates at the star level but rather this desire for attention regarding yourself or your work as an artist or curator is partly a means of survival and ensures you get the next job."
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University of the Arts Bremen www.hfk-bremen.de
Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg www.vfmk.de
Andrea Sick www.andreasick.de
Jeremy Woodruff www.jeremywoodruff.de
