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Subject: "I Am Future Melancholic" at Tate Modern
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 11:38:34 +0000
From: Alice O'Reilly
To: alice smith
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Matthieu Laurette, Déjà Vu: The 2nd International
Look-alike Convention at Castello di Rivoli (2001-2002)
Courtesy Matthieu Laurette - Blow de La Barra
* I Am Future Melancholic
**Tate Modern / 20th January 2007 - 7pm
www.tank.tv / 15th January - 28th February 2007 *
This show presents moving images by artists whose practice reflects a
vision of tomorrow. The structures and systems of reality are examined
to reveal glimpses into what we call 'the future'. This ineffable and
intangible concept, that constantly haunts the present, here provokes a
wealth of musings and imaginings.
tank.tv is happy to announce in addition to its online
exhibition a screening at the Tate Modern
, 20
January. The Artist Mathieu Delvaux, Matthieu Laurette and Susanne
Bürner with musician Steve Trafford (ex member of the Fall / member of
Tycoons Follies), will also be present to introduce their work.
Tate Modern, Saturda y, 20 January 2007, 7pm, £5.
In 'Bruxelles 4023', Mathieu Delvaux & Xavier van Huffel perform street
interviews to ask the public what they think Brussels might be like in
4023. The answers, as varied as the people themselves, reveal the
concept of the future as a screen for hopes, fears and fantasy.
Astarting point into an exploration of tomorrow...
Challenging, doubt-inducing and transformative aspects of 'the future'
can be perceived in Vito Acconci's repetitive acts, recorded in a super8
film 'Break-Through' or in Philippe Meste's detonative video 'LHRB'.
Rachel Reupke's 'Infrastructure' is born of a fascination with movie
special effects and narrative devices. And Carsten Höller's 'One minute
of doubt' and 'Punktefilm' induct a representation of our 'timeless
everyday', and magically echo the playful nature of his present turbine
hall insta llation. Laurent Montaron shows us a fictive exploration of
time and travel through his `Readings', while Matthieu Laurette's
impressive cocktail of celebrity lookalikes brings us into confusion at
a blured vision of the limits between performance and observation. Mai
Yamashita and Naoto Kobayashi's star, in 'When I wish Upon a Star' gives
us time we need to wish upon.
Artists include: Erwin Wurm, Haris Epaminonda, Xavier Veilhan, Carsten
Höller, Philippe Meste, Susanne Bürner, Laurent Montaron, Chris Cornish,
Mathieu Delvaux & Xavier Van Huffel, Bernard Gigounon, Matthieu
Laurette, Rachel Reupke, John Latham, Vito Acconci and Mai Yamashita &
Naoto Kobayashi.
"I am Future Melancholic" is at Tate Modern at 7pm on Saturday 20
January 2007 and online on www.tank.tv from 15
January to 28 February 2007
Curated by Anne-Sophie Dinant and Laure Prouvost
"I Am Future Melancholic" is kindly supported by:
www.tank.tv
www.tate.org.uk
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