ALTKIRCH until May 16
Christoph Keller / Simon FAITHFULL
CRAC Alsace, Rhineland Art Center Contemporary
18 rue du Chateau - Altkirch (68)
March 1989 59 August 1982 http://www.cracalsace.com/
Admission free Tuesday to Friday from 10am to 18h
On weekends from 14:30 to 19h
Visit an exhibition is always an extraordinary trip. What will we discover? In what state she will plunge us? With new eyes, to be surprised by the images and sounds, change its mind, agreeing to learn ... At CARC
Altkirch, two artists, Christoph Keller and Simon Faithfull we propose to follow them in their travels through the ordinary and the extraordinary.
Returning to his account the world of science, Christoph Keller continued experiments that have other goals than their implementation. At Crac, it presents one of the most recent reactivations Cloudbuster machine, invented by Wilhelm Reich in the 50s, which would have the ability to change the climate. After extensive studies of archives and several attempts, he exhibits a film, text, pictures and an artist's book as research results. Poetic and offbeat, this experiment was conducted with the seriousness required discipline, said reports questions and sometimes even obscure between science and art, or between science and belief. The rain eventually by fall, but with whom? The Cloudbuster , the song of the rain sung by children or the aura of the artist-shaman?
Christoph Keller, Cloudbuster project Morocco, 2009, video (excerpts)
between documentary and fiction, Simon Faithfull explores territories far and near, in a process resembling a quest of the mysteries of the universe. For Ice Blink , the artist accompanied a scientific expedition in Antarctica. Of his adventure, he returned movies, including 44 ' (1 min of film per day for 44 days at sea), photos, sketches on Palm Pilot .... The result is a set of "Notes from nowhere" telling a possible trip to unexplored territories. Less exotic, the pioneer artist in 2008 organized an expedition to England, during which he followed, using a GPS, the Greenwich meridian line (video below).
Whether burlesque, methodical, offset or romantic, these trips is to construct a new attitude to things, to inhabit its environment, to reactivate the fascination. "Walking is the preferred way to listen to the world pay attention, because moving is also a way to get to hear. "*
Frédérique Foulla
* Thierry Davila. Walking, create. Relocations, strolls, drifts in the art of the end twentieth century . p.16.
Simon Faithfull, 0 ° 00 Navigation , 2008, video (excerpts)
picture from the video 44 ' , 2005.Photos and video clips, courtesy of the artist.
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