14.03.2010 — FORTHCOMING PERFORMANCE OF L'ENTRETIEN (THE INTERVIEW)
The theater play "L'Entretien" written by Thomas Boutoux and Guillaume Leblon, and published by Paraguay last Fall, will be performed on Sunday, March 14th at 3pm, at Le Grand Café, Centre d'art contemporain, in Saint-Nazaire, France.
Actors: Renan Carteaux et Volodia Serre.
This event takes place on the occasion of Guillaume Leblon's solo exhibition "Someone Knows Better Than Me" at Le Grand Café (January 23 - March 21 2010). This is a free event.
Le Grand Café, Centre d'art contemporain
Place des Quatre z'horloges, 44 600 Saint-Nazaire – France
T + 33 (0)2 44 73 44 00
grand_cafe@mairie-saintnazaire.fr
www.grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr
For more information about l'Entretien.
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13.02 - 20.03.2010 — THE MEANING OF EVERYTHING at TANYA LEIGHTON, BERLIN
Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri's self-reflexive endeavour continues in the form of a gallery exhibition at Tanya Leighton in Berlin. Titled The Meaning of Everything. One Step Forward Two Steps Back, it is part of ‘Forum Expanded’ — a programme within the International Forum of New Cinema at the 60th International Film Festival of Berlin.
From the press release: "The second volume of The Meaning of Everything appears as a collection of elements for a newspaper and continues the rumination on crisis begun in the first volume. At the time when Volume 1 was being written, the pressures of the crisis were palpable, and the eventual crash of financial markets in the autumn of 2008 was only the perennial tip of the iceberg. Volume 2 grapples with the economic fallout while attempting to place it within a larger historical context. The notes, scraps of paper, headlines, and questions are gleaned from lectures and various texts related to capitalism, neoliberalism, financialization, crisis, value, ideology, communism, power and desire. The research and thoughts that comprise Volume 2 is the beginning for another work examining the period between 1989 and 2009 — what came before and might come after."
Tanya Leighton
Kurfürstenstraße 156
10785 Berlin
www.tanyaleighton.com
The Meaning of Everything. Vol 1 published is by Paraguay Press
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15.09.2009 — NEW RELEASE: PARAGUAY PRESS #004
STEAL THIS BOOK
Dora García
A tribute to Abbie Hoffmann’s pamphlet of the same name, Steal this Book documents eleven recent performative projects by Spanish artist Dora García. Edited by François Piron, the book presents the private correspondence of the artist with the various interpreters of the situations she sets up in the public space. It proposes a documentation of a body of work without an overview, nor an official line, since it takes neither the artist point of view nor the critic’s. Instead, it discloses questions, misunderstandings and arguments, making this book part suspense story, part user’s manual, part script for a stand-up comedy. Steal this Book is presented in exhibitions as a Dora Garcia sculpture meant to be stolen, but can also be found in selected bookstores worldwide.
2009. Edition of 15000.
Softcover, 136 pages. 11 x 18 cm.
Texts in English, Spanish, German and French. B&W illustrations.
Coproduced with CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain ; 10e Biennale de Lyon
Design by Alex Gifreu, Barcelona.
ISBN: 978-2-918252-04-7
Price: 12 €
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09.09. 2009 — NEW RELEASE: : PARAGUAY PRESS #003
THE INTERVIEW / L'ENTRETIEN
Thomas Boutoux and Guillaume Leblon
The Interview is a theatrical play for two actors in six scenes, written in collaboration between the artist Guillaume Leblon and the critic Thomas Boutoux. It stages the ongoing conversation between an artist and a critic that begins when the former commissions a text from the latter. Their dialog soon develops into a dramatic series of misunderstandings, agreements and discord about writing, art-making and publishing, but also about Egyptian sepulture, drinking in the afternoon, artistic paranoia, the uses of time, the artist as Average Joe or institutional critique, as The Interview follows their desperate attempt to write a new Tristram Shandy.
2009. Edition of 500.
Paperback, 112 pages. 20x13 cm.
Bilingual French/English. With color illustrations.
Design by Bowling Club.
ISBN: 978-2-918252-02-3
Price: 12€
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