presentation of publications and performance with:
Emma Hedditch, Anthony Iles, Howard Slater, Mattin
and possibly Esther Ferrer
CAC Brétigny
Centre d’art contemporain de Brétigny
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France
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20.00 PRESENTATION
Presentation of the CD by Esther Ferrer “ZAJ Concert for 30 or 60 voices” and the book Uconstituted Praxis
20.30 PERFORMANCE:
Mattin, Emma Hedditch, Anthony Iles,
Howard Slater and possibly Esther Ferrer
« …Regarding textual psychosis, I would like to try to understand how it is created and whether there could be ways to use language in a way that it does not produce personalising effects - that one does not feel attacked or described by it. It is simply material that is there; a language without interpolation.
These are difficult and abstract questions, but some of the ways that we have been working deal with this, even though this happens through deep personalisation. When we 'check in' at the beginning of meeting together, what is said/performed in public - everybody who is there has access to those descriptions, so people can relate to them even though they might not feel the same experience…»,
INFO OF PUBLICATIONS:
CD
“ZAJ Concert for 30 or 60 voices”, Esther Ferrer, 1980
CAC Brétigny, saturday 25 september 2010
The “ZAJ Concert for 30 or 60 Voices” dated at the beginning of the eighties in Spain under the aegis of Franco's system. The Concert has been realized in public for the first time, in France, initiated by Mattin's invitation during the exhibition “Noise & Capitalism – Exhibition as concert at CAC Brétigny on September 25, 2010.
Edition of 500 ex.
Total time : 39 min
Design graphic: Vier5
Edited by : CAC Brétigny
Label w.m.o/r
2012
Recorded on the 25 September 2010
by Eric Maurin & Jean Jacques Palix
Mixed by Mattin
Mastered by Taku Unami
cat # w.m.o/r 37
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Esther Ferrer, Mattin and CAC Brétigny team would like to thank the 39 participants: Oskar ALEGRIA, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Saïda BURGOT, Ferdinanda CAMPORESI, M. CARTIGNY, Philippe CARRE, Anne-Marie CORNU, Blandine CRESTIN BILLET, Julien Duc-Maugé, Marie-Claude DUMAS, Thomas FALIU, Adeline FAYEIN, Esther Ferrer, Myrtuis FLAMBEAUX, Diana GAY, Flora GOUSSET, Delphine GOUTES, Marie GOUYON, Brigitte GUY, Eva KARBAUM, Ingrid KOFLER, Tristan LAFON, Sophie LAPALU, Mattin, Perrine MAURIN, Pierre PAULIAN, Lino TONECOTTO, Véronique VEZINET, Maria Cecilia WINTER, Selma TOPRAK, Beatriz SETIEN, Didier Schwechlen, Pierre Simon, Christine SPEEG…
BOOK:
Unconstituted Praxis
By Mattin
With contributions by:
addlimb, Billy Bao, Marcia Bassett, Loïc Blairon, Ray Brassier, Diego Chamy, Janine Eisenaecher, Barry Esson, Ludwig Fischer, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Michel Henritzi, Anthony Iles, Alessandro Keegan, Alexander Locascio, Seijiro Murayama, Loty Negarti, Jérôme Noetinger, Andrij Orel & Roman Pishchalov, Acapulco Rodriguez, Benedict Seymour, Julien Skrobek, Taumaturgia and Dan Warburton.
Edited by: Anthony Iles
Published by CAC Brétigny & Taumaturgia, A Coruña, 2012
http://www.cacbretigny.com/unconstituted_praxis.pdf
Extraits de la publication en francais:
http://www.cacbretigny.com/praxis_nonconstituee.pdf
BIOGRAPHIES :
Esther Ferrer, Esther Ferrer is best known for her performances, which have been her principal form of artistic expression since 1966, both as a soloist and as a member of the radical and conceptual group ZAJ. She has also been quite active in the plastic arts: reworked photographs, installations, canvases and constructions based on the prime number series. He has performer in Europe, Asia and America. In 1999 she was one of the two artist representing Spain in the Venice Biennale and in 2008 she received the Spanish National prize for Fine Arts.
http://www.estherferrer.net
Mattin is a Basque artist working with noise and improvisation. His work seeks to address the social and economic structures of experimental music production through live performance, recordings and writing.
http://www.mattin.org
Emma Hedditch, is an artist and writer based in South London, who often works collaboratively with other artists and groups of individuals with an interest in process over products. Heavily influenced by politicised conceptual practice and feminism, her work often forms collectively produced films, fanzines as well as 'social situations' such as workshops, screenings and events.
Anthony Iles, is a cultural engineer and writer researching and making experiments in the disappearing public sphere. He is Assistant Editor of Mute magazine.
http://www.metamute.org
Howard Slater Howard Slater is a London-based writer and researcher. His texts have appeared in Datacide,as part of the collaborative TechNet project, and under pseudonym in Alien Underground, Shimmer and The Techno Connection. He is the editor of 'Break/Flow'. http://subsol.c3.hu