Extension series 11

Curated by Andrés Galeano Irene Pascual Furnival. After graduating with a diploma in graphic arts and design in 1968, she was Residency 19-25 Sept. 2011 graduated in Art History (Universitat de Girona, Spain) and Set Design (Institut invited to Stuttgart, Germany, to work with Performances 22 Sept. 2011, 19:30 del teatre, Barcelona, and UdK, Berlin), Hansjörg Mayer, a former mentor at the Documentation 23-25 Sept. 2011 learned painting, drawing and printing academy and one of the first publishers of techniques in EMA and Escola Massana artists’ books by , Richard Lecture 25 Sept. 2011 18:30 in Barcelona and contemporary dance, Hamilton, , André Thomkins, STAND-IN FOR mainly with the choreographer Natalia Emmett Williams and so many others. This experience with the avant-garde by Anna Noël Espinet. Painting and Performance Art are her more than prepared her for the job main techniques. She has done diverse offered her in 1969, to work in New York solo and group exhibitions in Berlin, as assistant to , publisher Extension Series 11 invites two couples, London, Northampton, Munich, Bonn, of the now legendary Something Else Skugga Guðlaugsdóttir (ISL) - Marco Luxemburg and in different towns in Press, where she met Emmett Williams, Dorn (DE) and Johnny Amore (DE) - Mexico and Spain; she also has performed editor-in-chief of the press (and future Irene Pascual (ESP), for developing in Germany, Estonia, Spain, Sweden and husband) and such press regulars as a performance-installation based on England. , , Allan Kaprow, collaboration. The four Berlin based Born in Girona, she works and lives Richard Kostelanetz, and a artists are usually working as a singular in Berlin since 2004 where, besides plenitude of Fluxus artists. artist using different media like sculpture, her artistic activity, is the director of During the seventies, in addition to photography, painting, installation and GlogauAIR, in which she organises and developing her own creative work, she performance. They are challenged to work curates Exhibitions and Festivals. was graphic workshop supervisor at the together as an artistic duo and join their www.irenepascual.com California Institute of the Arts, lecturer in creativity in a synergetic Installation and printmaking at the nova Scotia college of Performance. Art and Design, and Visiting Artist at the Extension Series 11 finishes with the Johnny Amore Carpenter Center for the visual Arts at lecture Stand-In for Fluxus by the artist (1973, Munich) is a multidisciplinary Harvard University. In 1987 she was guest Ann Noël. She is the widow of the Fluxus artist who develops and combines diverse printer at the Machida-shi Museum of artist Emmett Williams and will reflect formats and techniques: Photography, Graphic Arts in Tokyo. about her experiences mixing art and Performance, Video, Installation Her work has been exhibited private life with her husband and other and Letraset. Like in many cases of internationally, and includes recent Fluxus artist. contemporary arts, in Amore’s work projects at the Biennales in Venice, the concept or the idea is demanding Liverpool and Lodz, Poland. She is also which technique the artist is using in author of six artist’s books published by each project. Johnny studied at the State Rainer Verlag in Berlin. Skugga Guðlaugsdóttir Academy for Photography in Munich. He www.ann-noel.com was born in 1985, Reykjavík, Iceland. works and lives in Berlin. He has held Currently lives and works in Berlin. solo and group exhibitions in Germany, In 2010 she received the Mart-Stam Award Netherlands, Finland, Switzerland and Lecture 25. 6., 18h from the Weißensee School of Art. 2011 Estonia. In his Performances he works STAND-IN FOR FLUXUS she finished her Master pupil of Prof.Berdt often in collaboration with the Finnish Wilde, Berlin Weißensee School of Art. performance group MRCVE (Messianic Ann Noël was married to Emmett Her works are researches of the terms Research Centre for Visual Ethics) and Williams, a founding member of the presence and absence. Traces (left over’s) Irene Pascual. Fluxus Group, for over 37 years. She of an absent moment/movement are the www.johnnyamore.de was often called upon to join in with the evidences of a former presence (the act). performances in Fluxus Festivals in Just the perfect connection of material Wiesbaden, Copenhagen, Seoul, Genova and time will leave the evidence that can Ann Noël etc. and over the years she gradually tell the indirect story. (Plymouth, UK, 1944) has lived and developed a repertoire, not only with www.guggaskugga.com worked in Berlin since 1980. Her wide- Emmett Williams, but also later on ranging talents as painter, graphic her own. Ann Noël will talk about her designer, printmaker, photographer and experiences as a somewhat reluctant Marco Dorn performance artist bear witness to a rare performer. was born 1983 in Sömmerda (Germany) combination of creative ingenuity, bold and studied sculpture and Mixed Media at experimentation, and up-to-date technical the AKI Enschede (Netherlands). skills. In addition, she has had the good He currently lives and works in Berlin. fortune to know and work with some of the His work is about sovereignty. It’s a more interesting artists of our time. constant attempt to dupe a machine or Her career began in earnest in 1964 Wednesday-Sunday 14-19 h. material by means of an idea. at the Bath Academy of Art in Corsham, Fichte Strasse 2, 10967 Berlin This is a game without winners. The only where she worked on projects with such www.grimmuseum.com possibility is to cultivate the failure. artists as Ian Hamilton Finlay and John [email protected]