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Drawings on the Forest Floor Forest the on Drawings 5pm : :

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OPEN STUDIOS YAY-ZEQ: Two Bur mese Ar tists Meet Again Meet tists Ar mese Bur Two YAY-ZEQ:

7pm Clark House Initiative, Bombay presents Bombay Initiative, House Clark NOVEMBER 9– 11, 2012

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7pm – 1 11th, – 10 November Sunday, – Saturday

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02/11/2012 15:53 The International Studio & Curatorial Program international studio & iscp curatorial program (ISCP) Fall Open Studios is a three-day exhibition Participating artists and curators ISCP thanks the following contributors ISCP thanks the following sponsors of international contemporary art. The 36 artists, for their generous support for their generous support

art collectives and curators from 24 countries A Kassen (Denmark), Ambie Abaño (), The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, NY Aage & Yelva Nimbs Foundation, Denmark; Akio Michael Arcega (), Benjamin Armstrong Brooklyn Arts Council, NY Tagawa, United States; Alfred Kordelin Foundation, (Australia), Lauri Astala (), Anastasia Ax Brooklyn Brewery, NY Finland; Anonymous; Artadia, United States; Asian currently in residence present work in their studios. (), Tonje Bøe Birkeland (Sweden), Nanna Debois Consulate General of the , NY Cultural Council, United States; Australia Council for Buhl (Denmark), Wan-Jen Chen (Taiwan), Quynh Dong Consulate General of Sweden, NY the Arts, Australia; BMUKK, Austria; Bunkacho – Agency (Switzerland), Erlend Hammer (), Camille Henrot Czech Center, NY for Cultural Affairs, ; Canada Council for the The studio is a generative space – part production (), Ann Cathrin November Høibo (Norway), Embassy of Australia, Washington, DC Arts, Canada; Celfin Capital S.A., Chile; Conseil des arts Astra Howard (Australia), Moussa Kone (Austria), Flanders House, NY et des letters du Québec, Canada; Consulate General Constanza Levine (Chile), Maria Loboda (Luxembourg), The Greenwich Collection, NY of Norway, United States; Council for Cultural Affairs, site, office, laboratory and situation – and it can be Mads Lynnerup (United States), Kaeko Mizukoshi Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, NY Taiwan; Danish Agency for the Arts, Denmark; Ernst (Japan), Nuria Montiel (Mexico), Francisco Montoya Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Inc., NY & Olga Gubler-Hablutzel Foundation, Switzerland; Cázarez (Germany), Kellie O’Dempsey (Australia), National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC FONCA, Mexico; Foundation for a Civil Society, United argued that it is more significant today for artistic Claudia Passeri (Luxembourg), Marie Perrault (Canada), New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, NY States; Hasselblad Foundation, Sweden; IASPIS – Mario Pfeifer (Germany), Nicolas Provost (), Polish Cultural Institute, NY International Artists Studio Program in Sweden, Andrés Ramírez Gaviria (Dominican Republic), Québec Government Office in New York, NY Sweden; Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, process than ever before. Open Studios invites the Maaike Schoorel (The Netherlands), Mono Schwarz- Royal Danish Consulate General, NY Germany; Ministère de Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Kogelnik (United States), Karen Elaine Spencer (Canada), Royal Norwegian Consulate General, NY Ministry of Culture of the Flemish Community, Dita Stepanova (), Slobodan Stosic Taipei Cultural Center, NY Belgium; The Mondrian Foundation, The Netherlands; public to 36 “studio visits,” to experience art in (Serbia), Jennifer Tee (The Netherlands), Wojtek Ulrich Tom Cat Bakery, NY Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenshaft und (), Chang-Jung Wu (Taiwan), Velimir Zernovski Kultur, Germany; Office for Contemporary Art, Norway; (Macedonia) Stichting Fonds Voor Beeldende Kunsten Vormgeving its place of origin and to share conversations with en Bouwkunst – Fonds BKVB, The Netherlands; Teorama, Dominican Republic; VBK Marketing, LLC, United States; artists and curators from all over the world. Velkoobchod Stepan Kravi Hora, Czech Republic

Design by Ben Freeman ([email protected]) iscp is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) public charity

Clark House Initiative, Bombay 1st floor 2nd floor 101 PROGRAM EXIT MAIN BATHROOM OFFICE OFFICE 205 206 207 208 209 210 Wan-Jen Camille Ambie A Francisco Dita Kaeko Chen PROJECT Henrot Abaño Kassen Montoya Stepanova Mizukoshi at ISCP Open Studios N SPACE Cázarez HE Taiwan

TC France Philippines Denmark Czech Japan ISCP’s 2012 institution-in-residence is Clark House Zarganar (whose name means tweezers), it took the form of Living Monument KI Germany Republic DIRECTOR Initiative, Bombay. This annual residency was initiated by stand-up comedy routines. Htein Lin and his performance A performance by Htein Lin and Chaw Ei Thein OFFICE ISCP in 2011 to support cultural exchange by bringing an partner Chaw Ei Thein used its recognizable structure of a Sunday, November 11th, 3pm 211 Kellie international perspective into a local context. Clark House princess and a comedian to create small acts in the streets 110 109 108 107 106 O’Dempsey Initiative is a curatorial practice about a place, which, of Rangoon. Living Monument is a collaborative performance Chang- Nicolas Tonje Bøe Maaike Wojtek Jung Provost Birkeland Schoorel Ulrich Australia in sharing a junction with two museums and a cinema, between Htein Lin and Chaw Ei Thein developed in Wu 105 Belgium Sweden The Poland Maria Loboda & mirrors the fiction of what these spaces could be. Sumesh Clark House Initiative presents rarely seen selections response to recent political transitions in Burma and the Taiwan Netherlands

T Claudia Passeri 204 203 202 201 Sharma and Zasha Colah established Clark House Initiative from Sitt Nyein Aye’s archive, including drawings of his artists’ current positions as persons in exile. The artists Astra Constanza Andrés Nuria 212 in 2010 as a curatorial collaborative concerned with ideas of journey from Burma to and the camps and refugee will don traditional Burmese dance costumes and perform Luxembourg Howard Levine Ramírez Montiel Benjamin FIRE EXI FIRE Gaviria Armstrong freedom. communities in which he lived, as well as his own writing various narratives providing commentary on the historical Australia Chile Mexico and autobiography alongside publications he edited and and current political situation in Burma. The performance Domincan Australia Republic Yay-Zeq produced by means of makeshift printing machines. will remember and recognize times under the previous Two Burmese Artists Meet Again Also exhibited for the first time is a video documenting military dictatorship and doubtfully consider the potential 3rd floor November 9th – 21st the artist Htein Lin’s second performance in 1997, at an of the new democratically elected Burmese government. 221 Marie GALLERY 301 302 303 Hours: 12 – 6pm, Wednesday – Saturday exhibition opening in , kept secret since its creation Perrault Mads Nanna Slobodan Stosic and only returned to the artist this year. The exhibition Translations: Ko Moe and Vicky Bowman. Collaborators: Lynnerup Debois Buhl Serbia Canada Alongside Open Studios, Clark House Initiative brings a is a culmination of conversations, collected archives, Amrita Gupta-Singh Mohile Parikh Center Bombay, Home STAIRS TO United States Denmark Velimir Zernovski 3RD FLOOR program to New York that illuminates the philosophical commissions and translations that began when curator Office Yangon, JJ School of Art Bombay, Asian Cultural Macedonia BATHROOMS 213 EXIT Mono and cultural strategies that have served to withstand or Zasha Colah first met Htein Lin in his studio in 2008. Council New York, Kari Conte and ISCP, New York. The Schwarz- conjure tectonic social and political shifts of upheaval or exhibition will travel to the Kochi-Muziris Biennale with 222 Kogelnik change. In Burmese thought, yay-zeq, a water-drop, signifies the support of Foundation for Arts Initiatives New York Erlend KITCHEN Hammer United States a present or future encounter caused by an act of merit Drawings on the Forest Floor and Stapati Architects Kochi. Norway performed by two people in the past. Yay-Zeq: Two Burmese Htein Lin and Sitt Nyein Aye in conversation LOUNGE Artists Meet Again tells the story of how artist Sitt Nyein Aye Saturday, November 10th, 5pm 214 FIRE EXIT Mario taught law student Htein Lin to draw on the forest floor in Pfeifer 305 an enclosed refugee camp in Manipur in 1988 after fleeing This conversation serves as the first public meeting of Michael 220 219 218 217 216 Germany Arcega Burma during the 8888 Uprising.It also tells the story Burmese artists Htein Lin and Sitt Nyein Aye since they fled EXIT Ann Cathrin Jennifer Moussa Karen Lauri November Tee Kone Elaine Astala of the friendship between Htein Lin and the comedian to the border hills following the repression of the democratic United States Høibo Spencer The Austria Finland Zarganar in Rangoon that began at their university in protest against the military regime in Burma that began on 215 Norway Netherlands Canada the mid-1980s and has survived each other’s multiple August 8, 1988, now known as the 8888 Uprising. Together N Anastasia

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imprisonments and exiles. they share their views on art and philosophy, duty and “the Quynh Dong TC KI Sweden artist’s way,” reconnecting with their discussions from 24 Switzerland While at university they reinvigorated the ancient comedy years ago, including Sitt Nyein Aye’s imparting of an art BATHROOM and dance tradition – anyeint – in two directions. For education through drawings on the forest floor.

iscp_oct_2012_10.indd 2-3 02/11/2012 15:53 and environmental meanings depending on the site and perception, they also address the ephemeral nature of 202 Andrés Ramírez Gaviria 205 Camille Henrot (France) context. Passeri’s research has a neo-romantic aspect that memory and the difficulty of fixing a person’s image (Dominican Republic) Camille Henrot’s work blurs the traditionally hierarchical reveals the mechanisms that activate the human creative in the mind. Recent shows include British art show 7, Andrés Ramírez Gaviria’s work emphasizes moments of categories of art production. Her latest works deal with processes, thereby transforming how we view the world. Hayward, , 2011 and Diary, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, discord and dialogue between the constantly changing the fascination of “the other.” For Open Studios, she She recently completed the site-specific project Red Sunset, 2011. Solo shows in 2012 include the Frans Hals Museum, perspective of historical references and an experiential displays new drawings and collages from the Tropics of Emerald Flash… for the Peekskill Project, Hudson Valley Haarlem and Maureen Paley, London. notion of the contemporary. For Open Studios, Gaviria Love series, inspired by the ceremony of Crossing the Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA), New York. Passeri exhibits images from the project Sources, as well as Line, an initiation that commemorates a sailor’s first lives and works in Luxembourg and Perugia, . 108 Tonje Bøe Birkeland (Sweden) models and sketches for other ongoing projects. His crossing of the equator. Henrot has exhibited her work Tonje Bøe Birkeland’s work shows how the experience of a work has been exhibited in BA–CA Kunstforum, Vienna; at the Centre Pompidou, the Musée d’Art Moderne de 105 Maria Loboda (Luxembourg) landscape shapes a character. Her photographs follow the Kunsthaus Graz; Kunsthaus Dresden; Caribbean Biennial, la Ville, Palais de Tokyo and Jeu de Paume, all Paris; Maria Loboda’s work deals with the relationship between adventures of Tuva Tengel, a fictional traveler on her way Santo Domingo; and Transmediale, Berlin. Gaviria lives Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul; Palais des Beaux-Arts, time and history. Each work does not belong to a to Mongolia in 1927. These “fictional” photographs create and works in Vienna. Brussels; and the Centre for Contemporary Images, particular time but rather transcends classification as a tension between the past and present, a human and a Geneva. She lives and works in Paris. past, present or future. Loboda completed her studies character, changing the way we perceive our own reality. 203 Constanza Levine (Chile) at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Bildende Künste- Birkeland received her MFA from the Bergen Academy Constanza Levine’s work is an abstract investigation 206 Ambie Abaño (Philippines) Städelschule, in 2008, and her work has been shown at of Art and Design in 2012 and was the recipient of the of color. Her compositions are charged by spontaneity Ambie Abaño creates portraits by exploring alternative dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, 2012; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Hasselblad Foundation’s 2012 Victor Fellowship. She lives and mood with the goal of bringing color to life. The printing methods, including a variety of textiles and 2012; ICA, London, 2012; and the Athens Biennale, and works in Bergen. distribution of color in her and sculptures found paper, and combining printing with . 2009. Her solo shows include Bielefelder Kunstverein, reflects ideas about the human condition. Levine studied She presents installations of faces and figures in soft Bielefeld, 2010; Galerie schleicher/lange, Paris/Berlin, 109 Nicolas Provost (Belgium) Art at Finis Terrae University, Santiago. Her most recent sculpture, woodcut on textile and three-dimensional 2011; Maisterravalbuena, Madrid, 2011; and Mini/Goethe Nicolas Provost sculpts with image and sound, reflecting solo exhibition took place in Zapallar, Chile. woodcuts. She is an active member of the Philippine Curatoral Residencies, Ludlow 38, New York, 2012. on the grammar of film language and the relation Association of Printmakers and has had solo exhibitions between the human condition and our collective film 201 Nuria Montiel (Mexico) 204 Astra Howard (Australia) at the Cultural Center of the Philippines and Alliance 101 Wan-Jen Chen (Taiwan) 106 Wojtek Ulrich (Poland) memory. He has exhibited worldwide and earned awards Nuria Montiel’s work is a quest to create new Astra Howard presents a series of ten Action research/ Française de Manille. Abaño lives and works in Manila. Wan-Jen Chen makes animated videos that blur the line Wojtek Ulrich experiments with conceptual film and and screenings at prestigious film festivals including mechanisms of communication and self-organization. performance projects undertaken over the last five months between reality and artifice. His images touch directly video installations in which objects refer to context Sundance, Venice and Berlinale. His feature, The Invader, She uses printing in public spaces as a means of on the streets of New York. These public interventions 207 A Kassen (Denmark) on the discrepancy between authenticity and depiction. rather than aesthetics. Aesthetics serve only as a step recently premiered in Venice and received international exchange and collective expression. Building a portable build upon previous experimental participatory investigations Artist group A Kassen develops collaborative work that The intentionally ordinary scenes are pieced together toward the creation of a new discourse as a way of critical success. He shows his recent videos Tokyo printing press during her residency at ISCP, she works of the city made in Delhi, Beijing, Hanoi, Paris, Coventry, takes the form of performative installation, architectural to reinterpret lost memories and forgotten experiences. developing autonomous concepts that reach beyond Giants and Moving Stories. Recent solo exhibitions in the streets of New York printing words with the New York and various locations across Australia. Using intervention, photography and sculpture. For Open His works have been shown at YES, TAIWAN, 2012 art. What occurs is a shift in perception of context include the Seattle Art Museum; Argos, Brussels; collaboration of pedestrians as a way to understand the performative research techniques, urban and social Studios, A Kassen presents The Color of Things, in which Taiwan Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; through the analysis of cultural, political and economic and Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, . diversity of communities. In 2012, Montiel participated theories are tested within the experiences and spaces various everyday objects are pulverized and mixed with CAFAM•FUTURE, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, 2012; the relationships, modifying our expectations and opinions of in the NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1 and the Art in they describe, evaluate and critique. Howard is based in a binding agent to create paint. Recent exhibitions 7th Busan International Video Festival, Busan, 2010; art. Ulrich received his MFA from the Wroclaw Academy 110 Chang-Jung Wu (Taiwan) Odd Places Festival. Her work has been shown at Museo Sydney. include Reykjavik Arts Festival; Kling & Bang Gallery, and the solo exhibition To Hell with Your Future, IT PARK, of Fine Arts. He lives and works in New York. Chang-Jung Wu’s The KaleidoscoPig Farm is part of a Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo and Galería Reykjavik; Facetime, On Stellar Rays, New York City; and Taipei, 2011. documentary series that records how, in the aftermath of Kurimanzutto, both in Mexico City. La Vie Mode d’Emploi, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels. A Kassen 107 Maaike Schoorel (The Netherlands) the economic crisis, the artist’s family turned to raising is based in Copenhagen. 105 Claudia Passeri (Luxembourg) Maaike Schoorel’s atmospheric figurative paintings pigs to solve their financial difficulties. Her works often Claudia Passeri creates site-specific interventions and give up their secrets slowly. These apparently abstract deal with her personal narrative, created by virtue contextual pieces that explore human perception in canvases contain elusive images that emerge. Intent on of records of her life, daily imagination and memory relation to place, taking on a range of social, political slowing down looking and intensifying the process of in symbols. In 2012, Wu was the winner of the 58th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany.

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iscp_oct_2012_10.indd 4-5 02/11/2012 15:54 208 Francisco Montoya Cázarez 211 Kellie O’Dempsey (Australia) 214 Mario Pfeifer (Germany) 216 Lauri Astala (Finland) stem from this formal drawing vocabulary. His recent 221 Marie Perrault (Canada) (Germany) Kellie O’Dempsey describes her work as performance Mario Pfeifer presents publication projects currently Lauri Astala’s work places the spectator on a stage, exhibitions include Charim Gallery, Vienna; CUC Berlin; Curator Marie Perrault presents photos and videos of Through a series of objects and performance drawing. Incorporating dynamic gestural line and in production, as well as a lecture documentation on making him/her an active protagonist and dealing Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna; Kunstraum, Innsbruck; recent kinetic installations by Pascal Dufaux, as well documentations, Francisco Montoya Cázarez explores traditional materials with digital projection, she explores his recent work. Pfeifer graduated from Städelschule, with spatial experience and social encounter on the and Art . Kone lives and works in Vienna. as documentation of interactive works by Jean Dubois. different possibilities of the depiction of violent events, notions of expanded drawing and liminal space. Her Frankfurt am Main in 2008 and was a Fulbright Fellow threshold between virtual and real space. He presents Both are multimedia artists from Montréal who exhibit transforming them into regenerative processes. His work practice invites the audience to engage with the visceral at CalArts in 2008 – 09. Sternberg Press published his an interactive video installation and documentation 219 Jennifer Tee (The Netherlands) regularly in digital art events in Canada and around has been shown at the Kunstverein Wolsfburg and in the process of making, enabling inclusivity via performance first monograph in 2011. The Museum für Moderne of previous installations. Astala holds an MFA from Jennifer Tee is interested in evoking spiritual realms the world. Perrault is interested in the way their work Remise of the Kunstverein Braunschweig. Cázarez lives and play. O’Dempsey’s residencies and performances Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, is currently showing his the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His solo with active material experimentation. In her latest explores the role of the individual in digital culture. and works in New York and Berlin. include M on The Bund, Shanghai; MONA FOMA, Hobart, latest installation, A FORMAL FILM IN NINE EPISODES, exhibitions include the Helsinki Art Museum; KUMU Art work, she combines knitted rugs, or floorpieces, with Perrault lives and works in Montréal. Australia; and Art After Dark, the 18th Biennale of Sydney. PROLOGUE & EPILOGUE. Museum, Estonia; Institut finlandais, Paris; and Gallery sculptural objects and choreography. For Open Studios, 209 Dita Stepanova (Czech Republic) Heino, Helsinki. He lives and works in Finland Tee presents a new floorpiece and works in progress. Her 222 Erlend Hammer (Norway) Dita Stepanova’s work is a diary with hidden stories 212 Benjamin Armstrong (Australia) 215 Anastasia Ax (Sweden) and France. exhibitions include the 2004 São Paulo Biennale and the Erlend Hammer is a curator who works with the same behind it. Reflections on a vision of the future that draw Benjamin Armstrong seeks to find a balance between Anastasia Ax’s work revolves around physical 2006 Gwangju Biennial. Recent solo exhibitions include group of artists in many iterations. For the exhibition hazy lines between fiction and reality, each piece creates opposing forces through the tactile and handmade performances that explore different types of violence. 217 Karen Elaine Spencer (Canada) Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK, and the Stedelijk Curated by Erlend Hammer, at the Hordaland Art Centre in an open space for another possible story. However, the processes of sculpture, drawing and printmaking. He On November 9th at 7pm, she presents a performance Karen Elaine Spencer exhibits research from hey! mike, Museum, Amsterdam. Bergen, Norway, he left the exhibition space empty and overall concept and chosen topics reflect the present presents a selection of recent drawings and a group involving drawing paper, sound, ink and water. In the a project that looks at police violence, homelessness and spent the production budget on a campaign banner for day: fashion, icons, emblems, magazines, obsessions and of prints he initiated in New York and realized in days that follow, the studio is open for visitors to watch poverty through media generated by Mayor Michael 220 Ann Cathrin November Høibo the Socialist Left Party. For Open Studios, he presents missed communications. Australia in 2009. Armstrong recently participated in while Ax re-uses the remains of the installation to create R. Bloomberg and . hey! mike uses (Norway) a new sculptural work by artist Matthew Antezzo. His ROUNDTABLE: The 9th Gwangju Biennale and Becoming: new objects. Ax’s recent exhibitions include Explosion, social media, the mailbox and the street as means of Ann Cathrin November Høibo makes installations that exhibitions include Bunnies it Must Be Bunnies, Lautom 210 Kaeko Mizukoshi (Japan) Worlds in Flux, C24, New York. Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona; Pan Theon, Moderna dissemination. Spencer holds an MFA from the Université rely on layering of disparate elements and combining Contemporary, Oslo and Oh How Time Flies, Bergen Kaeko Mizukoshi creates a space that reconsiders post- Museet, Stockholm; and Step into the Current, AM Art du Québec à Montréal. She was recently awarded the sculpture, framed works and textiles. She was trained at Kunsthall. Hammer is based in Moss. war Japan with newly produced photographic works from 213 Mono Schwarz-Kogelnik Space, Shanghai. Ax lives and works in Stockholm. Powerhouse Prize. Spencer lives and works in Montréal. the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and Städelschule, her project Images in the Process of Being Documented. (United States) Please arrive early to secure a place for the November 9th Frankfurt am Main, where she graduated in 2011. Høibo’s By collapsing pre-existing historical imagery and Mono Schwarz-Kogelnik explores issues of perception and performance. 218 Moussa Kone (Austria) first solo exhibition was at STANDARD(OSLO) followed imprinted forms into an altered perceptive space, the phenomenology within visual art, investigating these Moussa Kone shows a series of ink drawings on paper and by a solo exhibition and accompanying publication at the project forms an ongoing documentary. Her recent issues through a variety of media. He presents works recent artist books. Hard contrasts usually dominate his Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway. She lives exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art, on paper from his X90 Project, as well as several new finely detailed work, which is painstakingly executed and works in Oslo. Shanghai and the Metropolitan Museum of Photography, related photographic pieces. Schwarz-Kogelnik studied using systematically applied rows of penned black-and- Tokyo. Mizukoshi is based in New York and Tokyo. philosophy and architecture and holds an MFA from white cross-hatching. Kone’s objects or installations CalArts. He currently lives and works in New York and has work on view at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna.

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