BERLIN, Saturday 10 May, 3 to 8pm
BERLIN, Saturday 10 May, 3 to 8pm
Ard Bia Berlin
39 Chodowieckistr.
Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin
You are invited to Production Meeting 3, this Saturday, 10 May 2008,
from 15.00 to 20.00.
The gallery becomes a film set as the Centre of Attention arrives in
Berlin for four weeks.
The exhibition consists of one space dedicated to photographs of
audience members who took part in the previous shoots. Here, the
stills are of four women who played the same role of the female lead.
The other space is given over to the set.
On Saturday 10 May, the Centre of Attention will be filming a number
of scenes, with visitors to the gallery being able to take part. The
rushes will then be screened in the gallery for the duration of the
show.
Production Meeting 3 is at once a work-producing exhibition, a
performance, a participatory event, a screening, a chance to see
artists at work and work with the artists. It is a further attempt by
the Centre of Attention to 'dematerialise' the audience. Using them as
a contingent found material, the artists attempt to fight consumption
with consumption, and selfishly pursue their own creative goals.
This remake or cover version of an older film, one that was produced
in the 1960s, is not aiming for professional film production values.
The lack of realism and naturalism, the use of unprofessional actors,
the artists' approach, focus on the subject as self-fashioning, on art
as portraiture and on life as art or as a role play with a
pre-determined script. They highlight the awkwardness of social
interaction and intercourse.
Production Meeting 3 in Berlin is part of the Centre of Attention's
project to produce a feature-length fine-art video work. This started
in Glasgow and Gothenburg last year. Using the popular template of
audience participation, Production Meeting 3 aims to reveal the
entrapment which comes with empowerment and the lure of escapism
mistaken for freedom.
For more information:
http://www.thecentreofattention.org/exhibitions/meeting.html
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LIVERPOOL, Thursday 15 May, 6.30pm
Martha Rosler Library at Site
Liverpool John Moores University
68 Hope Street
Liverpool L19EB
You are invited to our talk 'Martha Rosler vs the Centre of
Attention' on Thursday 15 May, 6.30 pm. Entrance is free
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STOCKHOLM AND WEBSITE
If in Stockholm, 'Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft' continues at Mejan
Labs, Akademigrand 3 until 15 June:
http://www.thecentreofattention.org/exhibitions/centre.html
Finally you can now view 'Nameless' on the internet. This recent
Centre of Attention video work was performed and exhibited at Cafe
Gallery Projects, London, March-May 2008:
http://www.thecentreofattention.org/centre/cafegallery.html
