Public School 'Performance Art Today' - Freestate, Ostend (BE), 3 September 2011

Francesco Pedraglio (UK), Hedwig Houben (NL), Sébastien Rien (B), Sofie Haesaerts (B), Dennis Tyfus (B)

In the context of Freestate curator Laurence Dujardyn proposes a Public School class on the status of performance in art today. It is striking that the use of performance and intervention as media often works liberating and that artists use these as a way to break existing categories and systems. As such the history of performance can be seen as a series of waves, related to the periods when art and to extension society wanted to reinvent itself. Many works produced by artists at present witness such a refusal against categorisation, while taking on a position between self-questioning and a sense of responsibility.

Starting at 2pm, the day will consist out of several performances and interventions by artists living in Belgium and abroad, followed by a concluding discussion with all the participants. Throughout the day a Sculptural workshop for foodies will be conducted by Sofie Haesaerts(to participate please subscribe at merel@vrijstaat-o.be) , the results of which will be cooked and served in a communal BBQ dinner starting from 6.30 pm. Following onto that more than 20 bands will be playing a 12 hours FEVER-covermarathon in an old barge next to the warehouse, organized by Ültra Eczema/ Dennis Tyfus.

More info at http://free-state.be

Caribic Residency N33 - Lisbon

Resident 33: FRANCESCO PEDRAGLIO

"[...] So, let’s say that he was. He was, and now he isn’t any longer. This could be it! A start and an end point. Circular. Balanced. Stable. Meaningful in its simplicity. Actually…no! Better. Let’s say that it was a she. So, she was. She was, and now she isn’t any more. Don’t get distracted by such triviality though. It was – it was a she – and now it isn’t...that’s it. This being certainly one of our character’s primary features, it will not be the oddest yet. Far from it, actually. A body as inanimate as all the imaginable items surrounding it, as a stick or a rock, as a chair, a tin can, a vase, an ashtray, a coat-hanger or anything of that sort. All valuable scenarios, all at the same time. Imaginable at the same time. A cacophony of scenarios. A cluster. Incrusted. The character has been there before.She is there again, now, dropped somewhere – a table, a floor, a bathtub, a staircase, a bed, an armchair – cold, motionless, an object awaiting for the story to evolve, to begin or end, which, at this point – at the point reached by our protagonist, item in the midst of other items – is somehow the same."

Terça, 23 Agosto, 15-18h / Quarta, 24 Agosto, 15-18h & 21h-23h

Rua Diogo Do Couto, 5a

1100-195 Lisboa

www.caribicresidency.com

'Detour of the Lot' - Francesco Pedraglio and Laure Prouvost at V22

Francesco Pedraglio and Laure Prouvost present:

Detour of the Lot

1945 2011

b&w colour

In flashback, New York nightclub pianist Al hitchhikes to Hollywood (place doesn't matter, time neither) to join his girl Sue. But on a rainy night (forget the hole), fate forced a Detour to revelry, violence and mystery (panic and confusion...few windows were smashed, a couple of trucks set on fire)!

Al takes another man's identity (I'm reporting here...I never actually found anything valuable out there). Thanks to Vera, a blackmailing dame, all of his moves plunge him deeper into trouble...

(We follow the procedure and the procedure is the same for everyone, no exception made: you shut up and dig!)

45'

Wednesday 28th July, from 7pm

V22 Workspace
F-Block The Biscuit Factory
100 Clements Rd
London SE16 4DG

A clock that runs on mud - an online exhibition curated by Jennifer Teets for NERO

A CLOCK THAT RUNS ON MUD

an online exhibition curated by Jennifer Teets for NERO

With 'muddy time' contributions by:

Mark Aerial Waller, 
Aslı Çavuşoğlu/Burak Arıkan
, Vava Dudu
, FRANCE FICTION (Marie Bonnet, Stéphane Argillet, Eric Camus, Lorenzo Cirrincione and Nicolas Nakamoto)
, Valentinas Klimašauskas, 
Darius Mikšys
, Morten Norbye Halvorsen
, Francesco Pedraglio
, PERENNIAL (Arnaud Hendrickx, Michael Van den Abeele, Richard Venlet)
, Tania Pérez Córdova, 
Michael Portnoy
, Mateusz Sadowski
, Carson Salter
, Fatoş Üstek/Per Hüttner
+counting

Jennifer Teets's exhibition is now online. You can visit the show HERE

Imaginary Artists - Henry Moore Institute - 13 July

Imaginary Artists


Talks Series 
6th July 2011 - 20th July 2011 - 
Henry Moore Institute

This series of talks throughout July has been programmed to accompany the current Institute exhibition 'Savage Messiah: The Creation of Henri-Gaudier Brzeska' (Gallery 4 to 31 July) which looks at the ways in which the life and work of this twentieth-century sculptor was constructed through biographical narratives and, in turn, through film.

Wednesday 13 July: Francesco Pedraglio

A few stories in the shape of abstract objects

Performance as Publishing - South London Gallery - Wednesday 6 July - 7 to 10

This festival across a number of spaces in the SLG investigates the shifting relations between performance practice and discourse, events and writing, exploring the work of artists who use existing text as the base for their performance. Includes Fiona Banner, Nicole Bachmann, Ruth Beale, Eleanor Vonne Brown, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Emma Kay, Jenny Moore, Francesco Pedraglio and Heather Phillipson.

7pm - Emma Kay

7.30pm - Francesco Pedraglio

8pm - Nicole Bachmann, Clore Studio

8.30pm - Heather Phillipson, Clore Studio

9pm - Jenny Moore, Clore Studio

9.30pm - Ruth Beale

7-10pm - Works and installations by Fiona Banner, Daniel Gustav Cramer and Eleanor Vonne Brown are on view in the main gallery

Dirty Literature - Tom McCarthy and Francesco Pedraglio

Francesco Pedraglio, Few stories in the shape of abstract objects (Display), London 2011

Tom McCarthy and Francesco Pedraglio Thursday 16 June, 7 PM National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London WC2H 0HE The event is free but booking is essential, please email bookings@electra-productions.com to reserve a place.

On Thursday 16 June Electra continues Dirty Literature - a series of spoken portraits by artists and writers exploring the moment when language threatens (or promises) to become illegible. Francesco Pedraglio's A few stories in the shape of abstract objects is a performative lecture and plotted treasure hunt mapping abstract objects, ideal language and the memories that accumulate around them. The performance will be followed by Tom McCarthy's readings and reflections on his recent novel C, pursuing the breakdown of narrative coherence within modernity and the possibilities that might emerge from such a collapse.

Disobedient Words: A User's Manual, the reader accompanying the Dirty Literature series which brings together specifically commissioned contributions by Samuel Dowd, Tim Etchells, Will Holder, Karl Holmqvist, Tom McCarthy, Francesco Pedraglio, Sue Tompkins and Tony White will be available free of charge on the evening.

Francesco Pedraglio
A few stories in the shape of abstract objects is a performance based on suppositions and rumours, a narration that uses invisibility and abstraction as red threads to make sense of a number of seemingly chaotic clues. Turning to the help of an Egyptian man and his French alter-ego, a rock, an arrow, a hole in the ground and a stomach filled with earth, Pedraglio will attempt to demonstrate the existence of non-experiential memories and their link with the production of abstract objects.

Tom McCarthy
C is flooded with signals. The novel follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who - as his name suggests - surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him. Affiliated with the abstract language of technical codes and networks, C brings into play questions of systems of transfer and the abstraction of mediated communication. Reading and reflecting on passages of C, McCarthy will expand on the absence and loss of narrative coherence in the three-way relationship between language, technology and subjectivity.