Artists/Curators Talk with: Komplot October 19, 2006

Guests: Komplot, Messieurs Delmotte, Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost,
> Agnès Geoffray
> Host: Sofie Lebech
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> (This evening's talks will be held in English)
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> 'In the presence or the absence of the artists'Komplot introduces the
> work of Messieurs Delmotte, Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost, Agnès
> Geoffray
> This program is about talk: talking about, over and through art, self
> mythologizing and reinvention. How speech can be sized, appropriated,
> manipulated and spun by artists to create new works, recycle existing
> ones, whether it be their own creations, historical events or the
> discourse of an emphatic art critic. In those works traveling from
> Brussels, a Babel like vision of the perspectives, entanglements and
> clashes that discourse allows is never far away. But if 'art speech'
> may seem 'theirs' in all the meaningful distortions of it's practice,
> the purpose of this confrontation-cum-performance is precisely to make
> it 'ours'.
> The video program will be augmented by a screening of sections from
> 'Sad In Country', a documentary by Kosten Koper (°1970, UK, lives in
> Brussels) & Catherine Vertige, on the subject of artist collectives in
> Belgium, featuring Club Moral (Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven & Danny Devos),
> Building Underwood (Simona Denicolai, Ivo Provoost, David Evrard)
> amongst others. Kosten Koper will introduce the video by a lecture.
> Messieurs Delmotte (°1967, B, lives in Liège) created the four video's
> series 'Fränz ünd Köfon' (12 min) in non-german, non-english and
> french, in 2004, for VOLLEVOX, a project about the voice curated by
> Komplot. Delmotte, a self-declared poser, sneers at the
> institutionalized art world with his mischievous and surprising
> actions, trivial in content and simple in form. He takes the
> appearance of several archetypical cultural disciples - the American
> rock hero, the surly German artist, the DJ freak, the cultural
> politician - and he takes a stance between meaning and nonsense,
> between the identifiable and the surreal. The results are
> uncomplicated and unvarnished, but also pure and most of all
> irresistibly charming. Or, as Delmotte puts it himself: "Je le fais,
> je ne sais pas pourquoi, mais je le fais!".
> Simona Denicolai (°1972, I, lives in Brussels) and Ivo Provoost
> (°1974, B, lives in Brussels) work together since 1998. Stating "We
> like the metaphor of the earthworm, and particularly its relation with
> its context, to talk about our way of working. The earthworm swallows
> its context, digests it and defecates it, in order to survive and move
> in its environment.", their working practice, like many
> collaborations, denies the intuitive artistic touch or the hand of the
> individual artist and involves discussion and re-discussion to arrive
> at the finished pieces. It is what happened after they presented the
> video 'TO BE HERE (HAPPY)' (19 min) at the occasion of the Belgian
> Young Painting Prize in 2005; they published the text 'Warning to a
> young painter ', as a telephone piece, that Marko Stamenkovic had
> written in reaction to the reception of their work.
> Agnès Geoffray's (°1976, F, lives in Brussels) work often aims at
> infiltrating reality by questioning its narratives. Her last video
> 'Comment j'en suis venue à l'art' (2006, 15 min) starts in a
> conventional way as a regular interview with radio journalist Thierry
> Génicot: Talking about her work, and more specifically about her last
> exhibition at La lettre volée, Brussels, Geoffray evokes the way she
> appropriates a fictional universe, recycling elements of "unheimlich"
> ordinary life in her art works, before giving a splendid and
> staggering demonstration of this in the very interview that is being
> filmed. Active in Brussels since 2002, KOMPLOT is a collective of
> curators who organize activities in the field of contemporary art with
> the principal at base of infiltration of public spaces and
> institutions. KOMPLOT works without a "fixed" space to exhibit artists
> works in order to expand the field of its action in various contexts
> and out of the established territories dedicated to
> art.http://www.kmplt.be
> With the Support of the CGRI
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