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Subject: Calvert 22 presents Raising Dust: Encounters in Relational Geography
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Date: Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 7:37 AM
December 8, 2010
Calvert 22
Navroze Contractor, "Street sweeper in Jodhpur," 2009.
Photograph, dimensions variable.*
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Raising Dust
Encounters in Relational Geography
8 December 2010 – 20 February 2011
Participating Artists:
Rasheed Araeen, Ranko Bon, Dumitru Budrala, Navroze Contractor, Yiannos
Ekonomou, Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid, Isa
Rosenberger, Sašo Sedlaček, Vlad Nancă, Zbyněk Baladrán
Curated by Richard Appignanesi, writer, theorist and editor Raising Dust is a
provocative multi-media exhibition
which explores contemporary notions of identity and relativity by inviting a
group of predominantly Eastern European
artists to respond to the poetry and politics of place.
Arguably, the very idea of Europe is in itself a dislocation, a 'nomadic
horizon' which responds differently to the
shifting perspectives and desires of its inhabitants. Each artist in Raising
Dust has contributed work which
addresses this proposition and foregrounds the urgency of creating an
autonomous 'space for life' that overrides
dominant mainstream distinctions. Three of the artists (of Indian, Cypriot and
British-Pakistani descent) have extended
the encounter with Europe even further east so as to question our ideas of what
comprises this continent.
A central symbol and point of departure for Raising Dust is the broom.
Appignanesi was invited to write a text
on this simple household object in response to a collection of locally handmade
brooms exhibited at the Arna-Jharna
Museum in Rajasthan, India. The broom, by its very nature, positions its user
in a constant routine battle against chaos
and entropy, and at the same time represents human endeavour and ingenuity.
These conflicting forces of creation and
destruction can be shown to have shaped human destiny and brought us to our
current crisis of natural resources.
Appignanesi also drew parallels between such confrontations with the ambiguous
condition of art. This set in motion the
genesis of an exhibition idea aimed to develop these thoughts further in the
wider configurations of relational
geography. The first version of this show, titled Dust, Ashes, Residua
featuring seven Eastern European artists,
was presented at Open Space, Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Vienna, earlier in
2010.
For Raising Dust at Calvert 22, additional artists have joined the original
participants. The broom remains as
an emblem of basic human endurance in these artists' reflections on waste and
the geopolitical irregularities of Europe.
The exhibition features video-work, photography and installation including
excerpts from Dumitru Budrala's
documentary film The Curse of the Hedgehog which depicts the Băieşi Roma people
in the uplands of Romania who
survive precariously as traditional broom-makers, contextualised by striking
images of broom-making and street sweeping
in Jodhpur by the Bangalore-based photographer and filmmaker Navroze
Contractor. Naked Freedom, a video
film work by Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid, artists resident in Ljubljana,
Slovenia, foregrounds seven
young activists exchanging ideas on local community and the possibilities of a
radical life under a regime of global
capitalism. Other presentations include an installation from a Romanian
artist, Vlad Nancă, which wryly
comments on post-Socialist consumerism by reworking the DIY 'ready-mades' - in
this exhibition, a stand-up birch broom
commonly used to secure parking spaces in congested Bucharest. Sašo Sedlaček,
a Ljubljana-based artist,
presents AcDcWc, an installation piece, which fuses the prosaic with the
glamorous whilst demonstrating how we
can generate electricity from the recycling of human excrement. Austrian artist
Isa Rosenberger, presents a
poetic film work, Espiral: A Dance of Death in 8 Scenes, utilising the
political ballet of choreographer Kurt Jooss.
Zbyněk Baladrăn, a Prague-based artist, offers us an ironic meditation on the
complicity of our desires in his
video essay, 40,000,000. Yiannos Economou, a Cypriot video artist, in his work
Pyrkos, takes us to a remote
corner of Cyprus, where village communities of charcoal-burners face the
extinction of their traditional way of life and
finally, Croation artist, Ranko Bon presents, Residua (1976-2010), an
interactive stream-of-consciousness
archive begun in 1976.
Raising Dust is a timely exhibition that reflects contemporary cross-cultural
and aesthetic developments whilst
interrogating the ways in which we map our geopolitical landscapes, but also
our artistic and cultural territories.
For details of accompanying talks and screenings, please visit www.Calvert22.org
Venue Information:
• About Calvert 22:
CALVERT 22 is the UK's only not for profit foundation dedicated to the
presentation of contemporary Art and Culture
from Russian and Eastern Europe. With five exhibitions a year from both
emergent and more established contemporary
artists as well as a range of contextual events, performances and activities,
Calvert 22 aims to interrogate existing
preconceptions about the art and culture of these regions and propose new
possibilities for cross-cultural understanding
and exchange.
• Visitor Information
Address: 22 Calvert Avenue, London E2 7JP
Opening Hours: Wednesday – Saturday: 10am – 6pm; Sunday: 11am – 5pm
Admission: Free
Contact: +44 (0) 20 7613 2141| i...@calvert22.org, www.calvert22.org
Nearest Tube: Shoreditch High St/ Old St / Liverpool St
*Image above:
Courtesy of the artist.
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