[echo] KX.: Sonntag, 16.12.07 Finissage und Künstlergespräch

[Goesta Diercks]

Herzliche Einladung zur Finissage der Ausstellung 

One Way Street

am Sonntag, 16.12.07 15-20 Uhr

Ab 16 Uhr: Gespräch mit Amanda Beech, Jaspar Joseph Lester und Matthew   
           Poole



One Way Street is an exhibition of video works by four international 
artists: Amanda Beech, Pierre Bismuth, Jaspar Joseph Lester, Roman Vasseur.

The exhibition is part of a long-term research project between Dr. 
Amanda Beech (Director of MA Critical Writing Curatorial Practice, 
Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges of Art, UAL, London, UK), Dr. Jaspar 
Joseph-Lester (Leader of MA Contemporary Art Curating, Sheffield Hallam 
University, UK), and Matthew Poole (Director of MA Gallery Studies and 
Critical Curating, University of Essex, UK).

This exhibition explores how particular video works take on the 
authority that we have understood to be the domain of architecture, in 
that they produce a sense of the common, the public and sociality, but 
also how they take up and reconfigure public and communal space in 
physical terms in the gallery environment. Taking these two related 
aspects as its foundation, the curation of this exhibition aims to think 
through video as facet of architecture.

The video works in the exhibition produce experiences of power and 
pleasure through the establishing of themselves as 'real fictions'. By 
inhabiting different rhetorical devices they take on monumental and 
cinematic qualities. Here, video has an ability of to move us to 
agreement, to immerse us and to produce what we understand to be our 
commonality. By creating an experiential environment of video, the 
exhibition draws upon the notions of cinematic space as an architectural 
field and explores how our social lives can be understood as a cinematic 
territory.

The title of the show takes its cue from Walter Benjamin's text of the 
same name.1 Benjamin's text intermingles a series of disjointed 
narrative spaces, scenarios, theories and memories. Throughout the text 
we experience the collapse between the monumental, ideological space of 
architecture and the spectacle of cinema. Architecture is now temporal 
fleeting and unfixed from time; a set of cinematic fictional encounters. 
Fleeting 'cinematic' images become dark spectral scenes that take on the 
orthodox ideological power of architecture; they become monuments. This 
world of phantasmagoria is now constituted by the force of 
subjectivities that construct and determine meaning. Within this 
collapse of ideological parameters, the site for experiencing what we 
determine to be 'reality' is constituted by violence, power and 
pleasure. Acknowledging and attributing this Benjaminian sphere of 
experience in its selected artworks and in its curatorial frameworks, 
the exhibition asks in what way does contemporary western culture live 
with, produce and experience constructed fictions as empirical reality?


Öffnungszeiten: Samstag + Sonntag
15 bis 19 Uhr
Künstlergespräch: Sonntag 16. Dezember 16 Uhr

www.kx-hamburg.de

KX.
Mexikoring 9a
22297 Hamburg
info at kx-hamburg.de



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