MEET THE CURATORS
Dean Inkster and Sébastien Pluot
Tuesday September 3, at 4:30 pm
At the Gallery
FREE ADMISSION

EXHIBITION TOUR
With Michèle Thériault, project collaborator
Thursday September 12, at 3 pm
At the Gallery
FREE ADMISSION

For students. WORKSHOP WITH THE ARTIST RAINER OLDENDORF
September 20, 21, 22 and September 27, 28, 29
At the Gallery

Limited places available
Reservation required

“…something in common…”
Artist Rainer Oldendorf, whose work We Intended to Provoke, Didn’t We? They Just Wanted to Try Something Out. Reading Reading Notes (1974-2013) is featured in the exhibition Anarchism Without Adjectives: On the Work of Christopher D’Arcangelo, 1975-1979, will lead a workshop for students entitled “…something in common…” that will provide a deeper understanding of the work of Christopher D’Arcangelo through both a critique and a continuation of his work. Memory will be rematerialized through the development and use of an archive.

By using his own personal archives (consisting of documents he kept from the ages 13 to 17 years old) exactly covering Christopher D’Arcangelo’s working period from 1975 to 1979, Oldendorf has assembled a ‘tableau’ of photocopied text and image. This process becomes a catalyst for constructing an oral history that will be mirrored in the workshop. The workshop will focus on the same 1975 to 1979 period, this time from the perspective of its participants. The result will be a second tableau that will be included in the current iteration of this exhibition.

Participants are expected to attend and actively participate in all 6 scheduled workshop meetings which are planned over two consecutive weekends in September.

RAINER OLDENDORF
Rainer Oldendorf was born in 1961, in Lüchow, Germany. He is based in Besançon, Paris, and Lörrach. From 1997 to 2004, he taught at Le Quai, école supérieure d’art et de Mulhouse. Since 2009, he has taught at the Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts (ISBA), Besançon. His work has been shown internationally at venues such as the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA), Grey Art Gallery of NYU, Yokohama 2001: International Triennale of Contemporary Art, and the Fundació Antoni Tàpies.

Schedule
Weekend 1
Friday September 20, 1 – 5 pm
Saturday September 21, noon – 5 pm
Sunday September 22, noon – 3 pm

Weekend 2
Friday September 27, 1 – 5 pm
Saturday September 28, noon – 5 pm
Sunday September 29, noon – 3 pm

For students. WORKSHOP WITH THE ARTIST ÉMILIE PARENDEAU
October 18, 19, 20
At the Gallery

Reservation required

Between 1975 and 1979, Christopher D’Arcangelo carried out a series of actions primarily in art institutions in New York, Los Angeles, and Paris. At the time of his death in 1979, no physical works existed. Only notes and documents relating to his actions remained and they now constitute his archives which are housed at the Fales Library of la New York University.

ATTEMPTS TO REVEAL THE WORK OF CHRISTOPHER D’ARCANGELO
A workshop led by Émilie Parendeau

The workshop Attempts to Reveal the Work of Christopher D’Arcangelo is based on the exhibition presented at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery. An analysis of the exhibition and its processes will serve as the subject for a group reflection on alternative ways to convey the history of Christopher D’Arcangelo.

First, workshop participants will engage in a critical analysis of the elements in the exhibition. By studying the archives, video interviews, and works presented, participants will assemble, in part the answers to these questions: What activities did D’Arcangelo undertake between 1975 and 1979? On what issues did he base his work? What means did he use to deploy his ideas?

The pooling of the information gathered by participants will serve as the point of departure for a group discussion aiming to imagine alternative forms for dissemination of his work.

How do we address the transmission of work whose value is situated in exchange, action, and the social environment? How do we emphasize the context within which it is deployed? Where do archives fit in? What can personal accounts contribute to our reflection? Questions such as these will serve as guidelines for thinking about the means through which an updating of D’Arcangelo’s work could take place at the present time.

The discussions will take into consideration the various attempts made by Dean Inkster and Sébastien Pluot (Brétigny, New York, Antwerp, and Montreal), the tribute exhibition organized by Cathy Weiner (Algus Greenspon Gallery, 2011), and a group of works directly related to Christopher D’Arcangelo (by Ben Kinmont, Christopher Williams, Mario Garcia Torres, and others).

Émilie Parendeau’s A LOUER project, which she began in 2008, consists of activating works by other artists. Activating, in this case, refers to the material realization of existing statements in the form of language. Considered a kind of score, their activation therefore becomes an ad hoc and subjective performance in direct relationship with the context of their occurrence. The website www.alouer-project.net includes each of these documents – scores and documentation – produced during the various implementations of this project. She lives and works in Paris.

Schedule
Friday October 18, 1 – 5 pm (at the Gallery); 5 – 7 pm (at Artexte)
Saturday October 19, 12 – 5 pm (at the Gallery)
Sunday October 20, 12 – 5 pm (at the Gallery)

All events are made possible with the support of the Frederick and Mary Kay Lowy Art Education Fund.