Centre National d’Art Contemporain

UP COMING!ART IN POP In the galleries of MAGASIN From October 11th, 2014, to January 4th, 2015 !DOOM : SURFACE Contrôle Mathis Altmann, Olga Balema, Max Brand, Aleksander Hardashnakov, Renaud Jerez, Veit Laurent Kurz, Jared Madere, Lucie Stahl !Dans la « Rue » du MAGASIN Du 11 octobre 2014 au 4 janvier 2015 !Performance Proletarians!!! Join Us! !Live broadcast of a 36hours program of performances conceived by Reynaud-Dewar et Benjamin Valenza on www.performanceproletarians.com.From October 9th at 12pm to October 10th at midnight

ART IN POP !In the galleries of MAGASIN From October 11th, 2014 to January 4th, 2015 Opening on Friday 10 October at 6pm

The "Belle Electrique", Grenoble's new amplified musics hall, is scheduled to be inaugurated in just a few months; it is conveniently located next to the hall built by Eiffel that today houses the MAGASIN. To coincide with this opening, the National Centre of Contemporary Art is dedicating one of its autumn 2014 exhibitions to music's relationship with the arts, a theme already touched upon in a few previous exhibitions.  !In 1989, the exhibition "Broken Music" by Ursula and René Block gathered together over 800 artists and designers, while the exhibition "Replay – the punk sphere" (hosted from 4 June to 3 September 2006) presented for the very first time the collages by Linder and the painted banners of "Destroy All Monsters" by Jim Saw, Cary Loren and Mike Kelley next to "Reverse Karaoke" by Kim Gordon and Jutta Koether. The MAGASIN also presented, from 28 May to 10 September 2000, the graphic and painted oeuvre of Gary Panter, a central figure of the Austin music and comics scene. !In the wake of these previous events, the "Art in Pop" exhibition, which opens October 10th, is born of a few simple, commonly shared observations. Indeed, while it is true that up until the 1960s numerous musicians and singers practiced art as a leisure activity, as something akin to their "secret garden of creativity", it is equally true that beginning during this same decade numerous pop musicians benefitted from art school training, this being especially the case in England. Music and the fine arts became intermingled under the combined influence of the breaking down of the borders between high and low culture and the shifting of the production, identity and style codes of the former (the "high culture" of art and the scholarly disciplines) to the second (the "low culture" of television, comics and industrial cultural production in general). Pop music would become a two-fold scene straddling art and music in which the musician was also an artist and vice versa, and from which would notably emerge figures producing not only structures but also meanings and aesthetics. !The upcoming MAGASIN exhibition will take the form of a succession of rooms dedicated to individuals or themes gathering together all types of documents (album covers, filmed interviews or concerts) and works of art. !For instance, one of the exhibition rooms will be dedicated to Don Van Vliet, better known as Captain Beefheart, who was born in 1941 in the Los Angeles suburbs. Combining a great number of different influences (blues, rock, psychedelic music, free jazz, etc.) and breaking with the conventions of rock n' roll, he was considered an avant-garde musician. In 1982, he left the world of music to go live in California's Mojave Desert, where he dedicated himself to painting. There he developed a pictorial oeuvre represented by leading galleries (for instance, that of Michael Werner). He remained in regular contact with other artists, notably Sigmar Polke, with whom he also « jammed ».

Another example : John Miller, who was born in 1954 in Cleveland, and lives and works in New York and Berlin. His protean oeuvre (photographs, paintings, sculptures, videos), enlightened by his prolific production of critical texts, has ever questioned the values of our societies, both in the global societal sphere and in the more specific realms of media and art. !His exhibition room will present an ensemble of documents retracing his musical career, as well as a few other oeuvres, such as the video "Life of Phillis" by Tony Oursler. Since studying at the Rhode Island Art School, he has been the member and occasionally the founder of diverse groups : !. The Foot Notes (Rhode Island School of Design with J.D. King, Michael Bloom, Randy Ludacer, Margie Politzer and David Bowes, the leader with a neo-expressionistic practice), 1976-77. . The Coachmen (J.D. King, Thurston Moore, Dan Walworth), 1977. . The Poetics (Mike Kelley, Tony Oursler, John Arnheim, Bill Stobaugh/Szymon Choynowski), 1978-79. . Robot (Takuji Kogo) since 2000. . xxx Macarena (Jutta Koether, Tony Conrad, sometimes Greg Parma Smith, Mike Kelley and Kim Gordon, once), 2008-2012. . Dirty Mirrors (Aura Rosenberg, Dan Walworth, Jon Kessler, David Humphrey) (Berlin lineup: Aura Rosenberg, Frank Lutz), 2006-2012. . The Cornichons (Aura Rosenberg, Dan Walworth, Jon Kessler, Jose Martos, Servane Mary) since 2013. !The exhibition will include rooms organized around : David Thomas – Pere Ubu, Malcolm McLaren, The Red Krayola, Daniel Johnston, Alix Lambert. John Armleder will curate a room for an exhibition of his creation that he was never before able to pursue, with Genesis P-Orridge and Alan Vega. !Other exhibition rooms will present smaller ensembles of works and documents organized around Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead), and Cris Kirkwood (Meat Puppets). !Curator : Yves Aupetitallot along with John Armeleder, Young Kim & Paul Gorman and John Miller. !!

John Miller Semblance, 2013

Robot (Takuji Kogo + John Miller), Personal Assistant, 2014

Alix Lambert, Platipussy still, 1994 Photo credit  : Carl Saytor !

Daniel Johnston, Life in hell, 1998 courtesy arts factory

California Mission,  1993 Courtesy of Jerry Garcia's daughter, Keelin Garcia and Jerry's wife, Manasha Garcia !Facets I,  1985 58,4 x 72,3 cm Courtesy of Jerry Garcia's daughter, Keelin Garcia and Jerry's wife, Manasha Garcia !Facets II,  1985 58,4 x 70 cm Courtesy of Jerry Garcia's daughter, Keelin Garcia and Jerry's wife, Manasha Garcia !Fish,  1990, 33 x 48 cm Courtesy of Jerry Garcia's daughter, Keelin Garcia and Jerry's wife, Manasha Garcia !Green Arches,  1988 37 x 57 cm Courtesy of Jerry Garcia's daughter, Keelin Garcia and Jerry's wife, Manasha Garcia !Landscape,  1990 33 x 48 cm Courtesy of Jerry Garcia's daughter, Keelin Garcia and Jerry's wife, Manasha Garcia !Megaliths,  1989 44 x 46,3 cm Courtesy of Jerry Garcia's daughter, Keelin Garcia and Jerry's wife, Manasha Garcia

Jerry Garcia New York at night

Courtesy of the Garcia Weir Gallery

David Bowes Der Zerstreut Liebhaber, 1990

Jerry Garcia (The Greatful Dead) Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was born in 1942 in San Francisco and died in 1995 in California. He was an American musician who was best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead. He also founded and participated in a variety of side projects in rock, folk, bluegrass, etc.

David Bowes David Bowes is an American painter, born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1957. He participated in the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999. His work is held in the collection of the Walker Art Center and the Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA. He was leader of The Foot Notes.

Der Zerstreut Liebhaber, 1990 164 x 127cm Collection Daniel Varenne

INVITED ARTISTS

David HumphreyCement truck, 2012

New York at Night,  1992 37 x 57 cm Courtesy of Jerry Garcia's daughter, Keelin Garcia and Jerry's wife, Manasha Garcia !Shaman,  1988 33 x 48 cm Courtesy of Jerry Garcia's daughter, Keelin Garcia and Jerry's wife, Manasha Garcia !Snail Garden,  1993 43 x 56 cm Courtesy of Jerry Garcia's daughter, Keelin Garcia and Jerry's wife, Manasha Garcia !Woman with a Headdress,  1989 33 x 48 cm Courtesy of Jerry Garcia's daughter, Keelin Garcia and Jerry's wife, Manasha Garcia !Dawn at the Ritz  Carlton,  1992 57 x 78,7 cm Courtesy of Jerry Garcia's daughter, Keelin Garcia and Jerry's wife, Manasha Garcia !Save the Bees Etching,  1990's by Keelin et Manasha Garcia 19 x 28 cm Courtoisie of Jerry Garcia's daughter, Keelin Garcia and Jerry's wife, Manasha Garcia !DOCUMENT  : !Photograph «  Jerry inspired at home in San Anselmo, Ca. (During a family painting session, Keelin thought this was a great place for a Christmas tree ornament.)*  » 1991, Courtesy M.Garcia !

David Humphrey David Humphrey received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MA in liberal studies from New York University. Humphrey’s work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, the Carnegie Institute, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among others. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, two New York Foundation Grants and the Rome Prize. He played music with the Dirty Mirrors.

Cerment Truck, 2012 183 x 152,4 cm Courtesy Fredericks & Freiser, NY

Daniel Johnston Famous artist of the alternative American scene, Daniel Johnston was born in 1961 in Sacramento. He lives and works in Texas. Supported by Sonic Youth, Larry Clark, David Bowie and Matt Groening, he is considered as the father of the Anti-Folk; a movement which appears in New York in the middle of the 1980s, taking its roots as well from the punk, the rock garage than from the American traditional folk music. He participated in exhibitions in galleries and participated at the Biennial of the Whitney Museum of New York in 2006. The graphic production of Daniel Johnston is particularly abundant: drawings - generally realized in a compulsive way with felt-pen or pen ball - containing Christian, historic and pop culture references.

Life in hell, 1998 felt-pen and pen ball on paper 40 x 50 cm Collection Arts Factory !Travelling time, 2001 gouache and pen ball on paper 40 x 50 cm Collection Arts Factory !Did Jack Kirby put you up to this  ?, 2001 felt-pen and pen ball on paper 40 x 50 cm Collection Arts Factory !The incredible Hulk, 2002 felt-pen and pen ball on paper 40 x 50 cm Collection Arts Factory !Monsters inside me, 1982 felt-pen and pen ball on paper 40 x 50 cm Collection Arts Factory !The unexpected return of Frankenstein, 1976 felt-pen and pen ball on paper 40 x 50 cm Collection Arts Factory !Death of glass eye, 1986 felt-pen and pen ball on paper 40 x 50 cm Collection Arts Factory !Daniel drawing with Laurie, 1995 pen ball on paper 40 x 50 cm Collection Arts Factory !War is hell, 1985 felt-pen and pen ball on paper 40 x 50 cm Collection Arts Factory !Love is the answer, 2003 56 x 71 cm Collection Arts Factory !Untitled, 2003 56 x 71 cm Collection Arts Factory

Daniel Johnston Travelling time, 2001

Courtesy arts factory

Is love lost  ?, 2003 56 x 71 cm Collection Arts Factory !Live and let live 56 x 71 cm Collection Arts Factory !Let's party, 2008 felt-pen on cardboard 50 x 65 cm Collection Arts Factory !Il cheat death  !, 2007 felt-pen on cardboard 50 x 65 cm Collection Arts Factory !It'shining, 2008 felt-pen on cardboard 50 x 65 cm Collection Arts Factory !Untitled I, 1995 felt-pen and pen ball on paper 28 x 35 cm Collection Arts Factory !Untitled II, 1995 felt-pen and pen ball on paper 28 x 35 cm Collection Arts Factory !Dead baibies, 2010 felt-pen on paper 28 x 35 cm Collection Arts Factory !Death to Satan, 2010 pen ball on paper 28 x 35 cm Collection Arts Factory !The beatles said to let it be, 2010 pen ball on paper 28 x 35 cm Collection Arts Factory !I made a big mistake, 2012 pen ball on paper 28 x 35 cm Collection Arts Factory !You're in the army now, 2012 pen ball on paper 28 x 35 cm Collection Arts Factory !Do you wanna dance, 2012 pen ball on paper 28 x 35 cm Collection Arts Factory !Symbolical visions, 2014 70 x 90 cm Collection Arts Factory

!!Daniel Johnston in Deutschland, 2003 poster offset 40 x 50 cm Collection Arts Factory !Austin city limits music festival, 2008 signed offset poster 50 x 65 cm Collection Arts Factory !Captain America & Casper, 2011 silkscreen painting signed and numbered 50 x 70 cm Collection Arts Factory !Dionysos eats music, 2009 numbered offset poster 50 x 70 cm Collection Arts Factory !DOCUMENTS  : !A super hero in Paris, 2003, Olivier Nourisson documentary 40 min Collection Arts Factory !Fear Yourself, 2003 re edition record vinyl 33t from 2007 40 x 40 cm Collection Arts Factory !Artistic Vice, 1991 re edition record vinyl 33t from 2007 40 x 40 cm Collection Arts Factory !Yip Jump Music, 1983 re edition record vinyl 33t from 2007 40 x 40 cm Collection Arts Factory !Is and Always was, 2009 re edition record vinyl 33t 40 x 40 cm Collection Arts Factory !Danny and the nighmares  : death of Satan, 2007 vinyl 45t edited with 2 different pouches 20 x 20 cm Collection Arts Factory !Daniel Johnston & slow death vs instant coffin, 2002 20 x 20 cm Collection Arts Factory !Hi how are you tape, 2003 21 x 15 cm Collection Arts Factory

!!Daniel Johnston and the Beatles, circa 1985 - photograph wyatt mcspadden, archives johnston family 30x30 cm Collection Arts Factory !Flea and Kurt Cobain, 1992 photograph kevin mazur, archives johnston family 30x30 cm Collection Arts Factory !Daniel Johnston et ses parents, circa 1975 archives johnston family 21x30 cm Collection Arts Factory !Daniel Johnston chez Mc Donald’s, début 80’s photograph David Fox, archives johnston family 21x15 cm Collection Arts Factory !Daniel Johnston backstage, 2010 photograph Peter Juhl, archives johnston family 21x15 cm Collection Arts Factory !Daniel Johnston dans son garage, circa 2002 photo sony pictures, archives johnston family 21x15 cm Collection Arts Factory !Daniel Johnston au piano, circa 1985 photograph John Mcconnico, archives johnston family 21x15 cm Collection Arts Factory !Daniel Johnston sur sa table à dessin, 2012 archives famille johnston 21x30 cm Collection Arts Factory !Daniel Johnston par Matt Groening, 2010 flyer festival atp Londres 21x15 cm Collection Arts Factory !Yip jump music tape, circa 1983 photograph archives johnston family 21x15 cm Collection Arts Factory !Sofa magazine, 2004 28x35 cm Collection Arts Factory !3 Comics de Captain America, fin 60's début 70's 21 x 30 cm (each) Collection Arts Factory !2 Comics de The Eternals, the incredible Hulk, début 70's 21 x 30 cm (each) Collection Arts Factory !3 Comics de Casper the friendly ghost, fin 50's début 60's 21 x 30 cm (each) Collection Arts Factory

Cris Kirkwood (Meat Puppets) Untitled, 2014

Courtesy of the artist and Tif Sigfrids

Cris Kirkwood (Meat Puppets) Christopher "Cris" Kirkwood, born in 1960, is an American musician who is the bassist and a founding member, along with his brother, of the Meat Puppets, an alternative punk rock band. Cris Kirkwood has been creating art for decades, he spent a majority of his life drawing. His art has appeared on the Meat Puppet's various flyers, album sleeves, inserts, and CDs throughout the lifespan of the band.

Untitled, 2014 CK14.16 NO watercolor painting on paper 28 x 35,5 cm !Untitled, 2014 CK14.06 NO watercolor painting on paper 48 x 61 cm !Untitled, 2014 CK14.07 NO watercolor painting on paper 48 x 61 cm !Untitled, 2014 CK14.08 NO watercolor painting on paper 48 x 61 cm !Untitled, 2014 CK14.09 NO watercolor painting on paper 48 x 61 cm !Untitled, 2014 CK14.10 NO watercolor painting on paper 28 x 35,5 cm !Untitled, 2014 CK14.11 NO watercolor painting on paper 28 x 35,5 cm !Untitled, 2014 CK14.12 NO watercolor painting on paper 28 x 35,5 cm !Untitled, 2014 CK14.13 NO watercolor painting on paper 28 x 35,5 cm !Untitled, 2014 CK14.14 NO watercolor painting on paper 28 x 35,5 cm

Randy Ludacer Randy Ludacer graduated in 1977 from Rhode Island School of Design. In 1990 he co-founded Beach Packaging Design. He has designed packaging for clients in a variety of product categories. He also writes songs and played with The Foot Notes.

Alix Lambert Platipussy still, 1994 Photo : Carl Saytor

Robot (Takuji Kogo + John Miller) Personal Assistant, 2014

!!Untitled, 2014 CK14.15 NO watercolor painting on paper 28 x 35,5 cm !DOCUMENT  : !Video Exclusiv interview of Cris Kirkwood by Yves Aupetitallot !

Takuji Kogo Robot is a virtual band run by Takuji Kogo and John Miller. Robot produces songs whose lyrics derive from personal ads found online or in newspapers. All of Robot's music is synthetic, including the vocals.Takuji Kogo is organizing collaborative art projects such as ‘candy factory’ since 1998, established as a gallery space in Japan developing projects in museum or exhibition spaces and also web projects.

!Video-clips on youtube !DOCUMENT  : !CD of Robot

Alix Lambert Alix Lambert was born in 1968 in Washington, DC. She attended the Royal College of Art, Summer Program London, England, the Parsons and has a degree of the School of Visual Arts: BFA. !

Platipussy Photographs Video Albums !!Platipussy trailer lazer-disque !Running After Dear, 2014 Edition of 10 vinyls

Black Acoustical Tile, 1976-1977 painted soud-proof tile 30,48 x 30,48 x 1,27 cm Courtesy Randy Ludacer

Alan Vega Alan Vega, born Boruch Alan Bermowitz in1938, is an American vocalist, primarily known for his work with the electronic punk duo Suicide. He studied Fine art at Brooklyn and began a career as sculptor, especially known for his light sculptures. In 1971, he runs the Project of Living Artists having ‘happenings’. With Martin Reverby, he formed the band Suicide, whose minimalist and aggressive music will open the way to the coming artists of electronic music.

!DOCUMENTS  : !photograph, circa 1977 Footnotes-1 left to right : Michael Bloom, JD King, John Miller (unidentified drummer in background) !photograph, circa 1977 Footnotes-2 left to right: John Miller, Randy Ludacer, JD King !photograph, circa 1977 Footnotes-3 !photograph, circa 1977 Footnotes-4 left to right: John Miller, Randy Ludacer, Michael Bloom, JD King

Mayo Thompson (Red Krayola) Mayo Thompson, born in 1944 in Houston, Texas, is an American musician and visual artist best known as the leader of the avant-garde rock band Red Crayola (Krayola). In 1970, he released his only solo album, while he was working as a studio assistant for Robert Rauschenberg. In the 80s, he was as a member of Pere Ubu.

Tony Oursler Tony Oursler was born in New York in 1957. He completed a BA in fine arts at the California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, California in 1979. His art covers a range of mediums working with video, sculpture, installation, performance and painting. Oursler's work has been exhibited in prestigious institutions including the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Documenta VIII, IX, Kassel, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. The artist currently lives and works in New York City.

Portal, 2014 visitor’s book, computer, table and bench !

Life of Phillils video

Malcolm MacLaren Born in 1946 in England, Malcolm McLaren studied Fine Art at the Goldsmiths Art College, University of London. Recording artist and fashion designer, he came to fame as manager of the Sex Pistols. Later, he recorded several albums of his own material. He opened a boutique shop in Chelsea, initially called ‘Let It Rock’ and later renamed ‘Too Fast to Live Too Young to Die’. He created first fashion collection for Paris together with partner Vivienne Westwood. McLaren stayed busy with several film, television and radio projects. He died on April 8th, 2010 in Switzerland.

Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) Born in 1941 in California, Don Van Vliet is a legendary figure in both music and the visual arts. He draws, paints and sculpts throughout his life, until the early 1960s when music became his main passion. Performing under the stage name Captain Beefheart, together with his Magic Band, Don Van Vliet produced a number of highly unconventional blues- and rock-inspired albums. In the early 1980s, he left the music industry and devoted his entire efforts to painting.

Ming Move, 1985 oil painting and Indian ink on canvas 213,4 x 152,4 cm Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, Berlin !Rolled Roots Gnarled Like Rakers, 1985 oil painting on canvas 214 x 153 cm Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, Berlin !White Floating Man, 1986 oil painting on canvas 214 x 153 cm Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, Berlin !Bromboline Frenzy, 1985 oil painting on canvas 214 x 153 cm Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, Berlin !Fur on the Treillis and Just up into the Air, 1985 oil painting on canvas 213,36 x 152,4 cm Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, Berlin !Striped Light, 1986 oil painting on canvas 194 x 260 cm Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, Berlin !Bird with silver cotton, 1984 oil painting on canvas 148 x 123 cm Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, Berlin !Tidle Wholder, 1984 oil painting, pastel and chalk on wood 150 x 120,5 cm Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, Berlin !DOCUMENT  : !Video clip on youtube

Genesis P-Orridge Genesis P-Orridge born Neil Andrew Megson in 1950, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, poet, writer and performance artist. !

John Miller Devil Doctor, 2013

Greg Parma Smith How Many Bananas, 2008

John Miller Born 1954 in Cleveland, Ohio, John Miller lives and works in New York City and Berlin. After attending the Rhode Island School of Design at the end of the 1970s, he participated to the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in New York and ended his studies at the California Institute of the Arts in California. His work, which articulates conceptualism, pop and psychoanalysis, focuses on the question of the body and architecture, systems of representation and of control, and forms of circulation and appropriation of cultural signs. He is also a member, sometimes founder, of several groups of music.

- The Foot Notes: short b&w video produced at the Rhode Island School of Design !- The Coachmen: book : Cinematic Moments !- The Poetics  : Statements (book and video). !- Robot : cd and musics video on youtube !- xxx Macarena: gold relief !

Dirty Mirrors: ! Project #4, 2012 Acrylic painting on wood 122 x 152 x 9 cm !

Cornichons: !Devil Doctor, 2013 Acrylic painting on wood, polystyrene 152,4 x 116,8 x 3,5 cm Courtesy Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe/Berlin !American League, 2013 Acrylic painting on wood, polystyrene 114,3 x 121,9 x 3,5 cm Courtesy Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe/Berlin

Greg Parma Smith Greg Parma Smith, born in 1983 is a Swiss-American artist who lives and works in New York. He received his MFA from Columbia University in 2007. Smith's paintings are derived from his caricature of the decorative and the commonplace.

How Many Bananas, 2008 Oil painting et acryliqu Gesso on canvas 19"x24" Courtesy Gregory Parma Smith

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During the late 1960s and early 1970s, P-Orridge's early confrontational performance work in COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle, which dealt with subjects such as sex work, pornography, serial killers, occultism and P-Orridge's own exploration of gender issues, generated controversy. Later musical work with

Quiet Rock, 2013 album covers Acrylic paint, mounted on aluminum 60 x 60 cm Courtesy Galerie Jose Martos !Quiet Riot, 2013 inkjet print, Acrylic paint, mounted on aluminum 60 x 60 cm Courtesy Galerie Jose Martos

Aura Rosenberg

DOOM : SURFACE Contrôle Mathis Altmann, Olga Balema, Max Brand, Aleksander Hardashnakov, Renaud Jerez, Veit Laurent Kurz, Jared Madere and Lucie Stahl. !In the « Rue » of MAGASIN From October 11th, 2014 to January 4th, 2015

The David Roberts Art Foundation (DRAF) recently gathered together several artists for its exhibition entitled "Geographies of Contamination"*. The notion of contamination, which can be stretched to encompass the very concept of pollution, certainly best applies to emerging practices that Alex Scrimgeour describes as such: "The exhibition as well as the oeuvres are contaminated as much by their entanglement with 'world-images', affects, materials, processes, mechanisms and discourses as by the very site of artistic operations which have themselves become porous, permeable and hybrid". These same practices are also related to a certain "meta-materiality" that could be considered the creative fruit of a generation subject to the commonplaces of a digital society that has altered or modified our very notions of time and space under the influences of the most recent technological revolutions. "While the image has become information (rootless and multipliable), its visible surface has become but an interface, a space for sharing and exchanging. As consumerist technology, the surface is 'clean', but a flat, high-definition screen remains but a deceptive mechanism. The work of art becomes a means for 'buggering' this surface of monetizing data, frozen within the surface's particular materiality." (Alex Scrimgeour). If digital tools are well employed, they are utilized freely, as the commonplace tools of times. The state of ambiguity that nourishes this critical polysemy, and the contradictions it produces, are in line with the project, and the frameworks of its practices that reappear as such, to become indefinable and thereby demonstrate their resistance more to the over-simplistic logic of the marketplace than to its underlying "commoditization". The resulting oeuvres would not or no longer be oeuvres.

The initial intention – originating in ideas or originating in shapes, forms – is the production of radical shapes and forms using conceptual methods and tools in the sphere of representation and, for some, of figuration. But the overarching logic prevailing in the design and implementation of the enterprise is contaminated by the peripheries and manipulations, as well as the resulting distortions, diversions. The work is organized as the world is organized, a world itself rendered incoherent by its composite nature resulting from pollution, interference that is at once exterior and intrinsic, constitutive of the confusions and ambiguities of its analysis (industrial, urban, cold and raw, even dirty and dark) – and this within a freedom to work that could lead them to collaborate, should they so desire.  

The art centre’s atrium ("La Rue") will welcome the collective exhibition co-organized with Renaud Jerez, a French, Berlin-based artist belonging to the post-Internet, or post-materiality, generation of artists. The walls of this central exhibition area (totalling nearly 100 metres in length) will be divided into several work surfaces for wall paintings or any other form of desired expression, with each separate work surface being entrusted to an artist of this same generation for an on-site production during the month of September. The group exhibition will gather a selection of artists including Mathis Altmann, Olga Balema, Max Brand, Aleksander Hardashnakov, Veit Laurent Kurz, Jared Madere and Lucie Stahl. !The project could be briefly defined as such:"The main idea behind this show is to have somes different monumental wall work composits, dealing with the idea of molecularisation or atomisation, and pollution inside each own art practice ecology. with congested esoteric systems/artworks, dealing with imminency and blackout". 

* Geographies of Contamination/Olga Balema, Neil Beloufa, Nicolas Deshayes, David Douard, Renaud Jerez, Sam Lewitt, Marlie Mul, Magali Reus, Rachel Rose, Michael E. Smith, DRAF, London, 31.01-29.03.2014.

Mathis Altmann Born in 1987 in Munich (Germany), he lives and works in Munich. He graduated from the Fine Art School in Zurich (Switzerland). !!Olga Balema Lives and works in Amsterdam. Studied sculpture at the University of Iowa. !!Max Brand Born in 1982 in Leipzig (Germany), he lives and works in Berlin. He graduated from the Städelschule in Frankfurt. !!Aleksander Hardashnakov Born in 1982 in Toronto, he lives and works in Toronto (Canada). !!Renaud Jerez Born in 1982, he lives and works in Berlin (Germany). He graduated from the Fine Art School of Lyon (France). !!Veit Laurent Kurz Born in 1985 in Erbach (Germany), he lives and works in Berlin and in Frankfurt. He graduated from the Städelschule in Frankfurt. !!Jared MadereBorn in 1985 in Erbach (Germany), he lives and works in Berlin and in Frankfurt. He graduated from the Städelschule in Frankfurt. !!Lucie StahlBorn in 1977 in Berlin, she lives and works in Vienna (Austria).

Veit Laurent Kurz Fettgrässli (Pleurozia), 2014

Exposition collective à la Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris

Jared MadereUntitled, 2014

View of the exhibition honey that isn't real at Bed-Stuy Love Affair.

Photo : Jared Madere !

Renaud JerezKFN, 2014

Aleksander Hardashnakov The Trap Room 1, 2014

Mathis Altmann  Pain Management, 2014

Max Brand, Vue d’exposition, Jacky Strenz, Frankfurt/Main, Photo : Wolfgang Günzel

PERFORMANCE PROLETARIANS!!! JOIN US! !Live broadcast of a 36hours program of performances conceived by Lili Reynaud-Dewar et Benjamin Valenza.From October 9, 2014 at 12pm until October 10, 2014 at midnight !On www.performanceproletarians.com

A variety of oeuvres and artists linked together by their relationship to entertainment and mass media will be assembled under a single banner, with the nonstop, simultaneous broadcasting of live performances and a live mixed video programme by Benjamin Valenza and Lili Reynaud-Dewar.  The MAGASIN auditorium will be transformed into a studio, where the performances will be filmed and simultaneously retransmitted via a dedicated internet channel: the "Performance Proletarians Channel". 

!«  In 1970, Brian de Palma released the black comedy feature film “Hi! Mom” starring Robert de Niro. “Hi! Mom” is a typically post-Macluhanesque tale, narrating De Niro's use of a personal camera, from recording his neighbors' daily life to taking part in a violent live theater performance. This performance, entitled Be Black Baby ! Is the actual climax of the film. It consists of swapping roles between black and white US citizen, with whites blackening and getting beaten up and insulted by whitened blacks. In it, De Niro plays the role of policeman arresting and molesting the crowd of performers. Over the course of the film and its depiction of De Niro's acquainting to the camera, his character (a young vietnam veteran) performs various roles or identities : from aspiring film director to surveillance obsessed guy to violent cop to over controlling partner (he moves with ones of the girls he was spying with his camera) to terrorist. With its final scene showing De Niro interviewed on the national news as a witness for a bomb attack he's actually responsible for, “Hi ! Mom” shows the influence of media on our natural role playing tendencies. !In 2008, in his book On Surplus Value in Art (Witte de With Publishings, Sternberg Press, 2010) Diederich Diederichsen coined the term “Performance Proletarians” to describe a specific “creative class” emerged under the new technological conditions of production and circulation of artistic content. !This labour of this class, Diederichsen writes, is both de-regulated and de-professionalized. It functions not so much as a working force but as a life force, displaying the products of its creative activity as continuous stream of energy, agility, charm, and talent. Needless to say these products are not defined by their originality, but on the contrary by

Chloé Delarue, Zoloft Christian Falsnaes, Influence, 2012

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With these two anchor points, spanning over four decades : from the beginnings of the use of personal cameras to the generalization of internet related methods of performing, our program “Performance proletarians !!! Join Us !” wishes to explore the relations between performance and technology, more specifically the technologies of entertainment. The point is not so much to think about the conservation aspects of performance - in its relation to documentation and recording - but on the contrary to think about performance in terms of its circulation, broadcasting and immediate release. Through this window, we aim to help resurface the various role play and identities generated by such methodological choices, and to focus primarily on the use of a very energetic body as a tool for media exposure.  !We wish to gather a group of artists and

speakers from different generations, who have blurred the boundaries between film, video, performance, live music and television, and who have combined various medium in order to produce work that is aspiring to both challenge and integrate the mass media protocols, its stereotypes and its promise of creative freedom and democratization. » Lili Reynaud-Dewar and Benjamin Valenza !The auditorium of MAGASIN will host a studio for the performances to take place and be broadcasted. The program will be transmitted live on a dedicated internet channel.  !Benjamin Valenza and Lili Reynaud-Dewar will assemble and mix these videos and performances, live. Their students from Head Geneva and Ebabx Bordeaux will be given cameras and will take the responsibility for filming the event continually during 36 hours, from october 9 at 12pm until october 10 at midnight of the year 2014.  This studio will be semi-private, accessible only to the participants in the project. The audience will be sitting behind their computer in their home, favorite bar, or else. !With performances and videos by Verena Dengler, Diedrich Diederichsen, Hadley and Maxwell, Christian Faelsnes, Emy Chauveau, Hendrik Hegray, Guillaume Pilet, Michael Smith, Deniz Unal, Hugo Canoilas, Mathis Collins, Axel Stieffel, Nastasia Meyrat, Chloé Delarue, Lou Masduraud, Lauren Huret & Camille Dumond, Lea Meier, Johanna Viprey (Blanc Alligator), Benjamin Thorel. And a video program (to be confirmed) featuring Alex Bag, Christoph Schliengensief, Sarah Morris, Olivia Dunbar, Erica Eyres, David Robbins, Gaia Vincensini et Sabrina Rotschliberger, Michelle Naismith. Technical development : Sacha BéraudLILI REYNAUD-DEWAR was born in La Rochelle, France, in 1975. Graduate of the Regional School of the School of Fine Arts of Nantes (DNAP), Master's degree of the Glasgow School of Art and Post-diploma of the Regional the School of the Fine arts of Nantes. She won the Prix Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard in 2013. She is one of the founders of the feminist art magazine Petunia. She is currently teaching at the HEAD - Geneva. !BENJAMIN VALENZA was born in Marseille in 1980. He works and lives in Lausanne, Switzerland and Brussels, Belgium. He is a founding member of Galerie 1m3. He has recently exhibited at Form Content in London, Forde in Geneva, Zoo Gallery in Nantes, Palais de Tokyo in Paris and Castillo / Corrales in Paris. !PARTNERS : !DICRéAM - CNC, Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Pro Helvetia, Haute École d'Art et de Design (HEAD) de Genève, École des Beaux Arts de Bordeaux (EBABX), ESAD •Grenoble •Valence.

Deniz Unal, Short Shorts, 2013

Hadley&Maxwell, Ritual for an Untimely Life, 2009