CLARK invites you to two evenings of performance by French artist Gérald Kurdian on Thursday the 16th and 23rd at 8 pm. |
A performer and radio artist, Gérald Kurdian creates musical performance work, which has been presented in a variety of contexts and several European countries. At Clark, he will present his project, 1999.
The 1999 project grows out of the 48 episodes and scenarios of the television series, Space 1999, and attempts to extract their imaginary, kinesthetic and political dynamics in order to use them as a -- or several -- scores in self-producing musical performance.
The various apparatuses assembled for 1999 attempt to draw parallels between the utopian dimensions of sci-fi film and self-production. They are conceived of using the “framework” of the music industry and reprise the “roles and stages” of making a record from recording to distribution: the musician, singer, sound engineer, graphic designer, photographer, video director, etc. It is a kind of miniaturized model of an over-sized world, questioning itself about the feasibility conditions for an amateur music industry.
Voluntarily low-fi, 1999 considers the possibilities of access – for creators and audiences – of work in and with the “spectacle,” and looks forward to re-envisioning its methodologies and/or technologies on the basis of the notion of porousness. 1999 sees itself, in this light, as a near-spectacle and hopes to leave to its audience the choice of how far they invest in it.
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Gérald Kurdian’s work has been presented in numerous exhibitions and festivals in Europe. He was last seen at the Centre d’art et de diffusion CLARK in 2007 in 8 personnages engagés pour peupler scénario de drame psychologique by the artist Julie Favreau. He is presently working on a musical performance project entitled I never went to Las Vegas, which will be presented in June 2009 at the In-presentable festival in Madrid and the following month in the Tanz im August 09 festival. Simultaneously, he is directing several radiophonic projects exploring the performativity of sound and the political dimensions of hearing/listening. Gérald Kurdian lives and works in Paris.
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