— Delphine Bedel

Foam Amsterdam 10th Year Anniversary. Debate on the future of photography organised by the museum, with lectures by Fred Richtin, Tony Chambers, Charlotte Cotton, Thomas Ruff, Adam Broomberg & Olivier Chanarin, Joachim Schmid, Markus Shaden, Hans Gremmen, Richard Hsu, Lidewij Edelkkort, Lisa Openheim, Laurel Ptak, Christiaan Alberdingk Thijm,… Moderated by Jorg Colberg, Frits Gierstberg, Anne Celine Jaeger, Aaron Schuman, Michiel van Iersel, with 100 professional guests in the field of photography, photographers, museum curators, journalists and publishers.

Expert’s meeting. 19 March 2011, Foam Museum, Amsterdam

‘This year Foam Amsterdam celebrates its 10th anniversary. For us it is a time to reflect, not about the past, but about the future of photography. In short, ‘What’s Next?’ is about the future of a medium and of a society in transition. During the course of 2011 a series of activities involving a variety of experts will address the question, ‘What’s Next?’. Leading figures from artistic, technological and sociological fields are all asked to think with us and formulate an idea, a dream or a vision about what they believe the future holds. Based upon their specific knowledge, each expert will be asked to make a short, but inspiring statement on ‘What’s Next?’.’

Foam Museum, What’s Next Conference

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Yannick Bouillis et Thomas Buxó ont choisi de présenter le travail éditorial initié par Delphine Bedel. Artiste, curator et directrice artistique, Delphine Bedel enseigne à la Haute École d’Art et de Design de Genève. Elle est la directrice de Monospace press, une plateforme de production et de distribution dédiée à l’art contemporain, au design graphique et à la théorie, et a édité plus de 40 livres d’artistes et multiples.

Sera présentée une série de 29 éditions, co-réalisées en 2009 et 2010 par des artistes (Arnhem) et les designers de Werkplaats Typografie, ainsi que la collection Hard Copy, constituée de sept livres publiés en 2010 et résultant d’une collaboration entre le département Communication Visuelle, l’Atelier de Micro-édition et le Work.Master de l’HEAD. Ces livres sont un bon exemple de collaboration entre graphistes et artistes : ni transposition mécanique d’un contenu dans un contenant, ni ré-interprétation d’un travail par un graphiste, mais production d’un “tout” nouveau, le livre ne se réduisant pas à la somme des apports.

Conférence Mercredi 15 décembre 2010, 18h
École supérieure des beaux-arts, Toulouse (amphi A)
Sélection à partir du 15 décembre, ICI, Toulouse

Yannick Bouillis & Thomas Buxó, Conférence & sélection de livres
Yannick Bouillis est un libraire on-line basé à Amsterdam. Il a organisé en novembre 2010 Offprint Paris, un salon dédié à l’édition photographique indépendante, et organisera un salon du livre d’artiste à Amsterdam en mai 2011. Thomas Buxó est graphiste et travaille en Hollande où il collabore avec de nombreuses structures et artistes. Il a notamment réalisé le site web d’Offprint Paris ou encore travaillé avec le photographe Juul Hondius.

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Hard Copy Discussion avec Seth Siegelaub et Daniel McCLean,
Stuart Bailey, David Reinfurt et Delphine Bedel

LiveinyourHead, Genève, 3.11.2010, 18.00

Lectures: Une proposition de Laurence Boissier, Boutheyna Bouslama, Sarah Burger, Grégoire Fontana, Renaud Loda, Carla Leòn et Ceel Mogami de Haas

Hard Copy est un projet éditorial mené par Delphine Bedel dans le cadre du work.master, en association avec Barbara Fedier. Collaborant avec un groupe d’étudiant-e-s sur la production d’un multiple travaillant texte, image et archive au travers de la forme du livre dans son acception la plus étendue, cette collection présente sept éditions limitées. Une soirée spéciale de lancement accueille une lecture / performance collective des éditions devenant ainsi des partitions à interpréter. Autour d’une installtion présentant les publications, leurs sources et leur processus de conception, les participant-e-s mettent à nouveau en jeu leur projet. Hard Copy est composée des propositions de Laurence Boissier, Boutheyna Bouslama, Sarah Burger, Grégoire Fontana, Renaud Loda, Carla Leòn et Ceel Mogami de Haas.

La présentation de cette collection fait l’objet d’une réflexion spécifique sur l‘exposition du livre comme forme, selon différents modes, lectures et discussions, exposition et diffusion en association avec le projet LapTopRadio / His Masters Voices, une expérience radiophonique en ligne menée par un groupe d’étudiant-e-s du work.master avec les artistes et curateurs Laurent Schmid, Samuel Gross et Daniel Suter. Delphine Bedel propose ensuite invités de marque : le galeriste, collectionneur et éditeur américain, acteur majeur de l’Art Conceptuel Seth Siegelaub et l’avocat, curateur et éditeur Daniel McClean.

 

Exposition ‘Re-Applied Art’, Dexter Sinister,
Dexter Sinister présente Re-Applied Art, une nouvelle présentation de la collection, qu’ils décrivent comme une « constellation » d’objets, d’imprimés, de formes diverses, amassés depuis dix ans autour de l’univers foisonnant de leur désormais culte Dot Dot Dot Magazine. Entre art, design et architecture, musique, philosophie et littérature, cet ensemble d’indices constitue autant de points d’entrées dans le monde de signes, d’histoires et de notions qui nourrit les nombreux projets de David Reinfurt et Stuart Bailey : tous, à un moment donné, ont servi, ont été utilisés, reproduits ou détournés dans le cadre de la production de DDD.

LiveInYourHead propose donc une nouvelle étape de cette archive en cours permanent de constitution, cette documentation en mouvement et en expansion. A une collecte qui mènera à l’enrichis-sement d’une bibliothèque pensée autour de leurs travaux, collaborations et influences à vocation de rencontre, d’échange et de pédagogie, The Serving Library, s’ajoute un exercice d’interpréta-tion. Le duo propose en effet à un groupe d’étudiant-e-s du programme work.master de s’approprier cet ensemble de plus cent items, de penser et d’effectuer, en dialogue avec les artistes, l’accrochage temporaire « à l’aveugle » (l’exposition ne comporte aucun cartel) de la collection. Le résultat devient l’objet d’une discussion sur les choix opérés, sur les résultats immédiats de cet exercice du regard.

Informations

Live in your Head, Geneve

LiveInYourHead
Institut curatorial de la Head – Genève
Rue du Beulet 4, 1203 Genève
www.hesge.ch/head
Vernissage le mercredi 3 novembre à 18 heures
Exposition du 4 au 24 novembre 2010

et aussi Mardi 2 novembre, 18 h
The Final Dot Dot Dot, Forde, Geneve
Dexter Sinister présente l’ultime numéro de Dot Dot Dot Magazine avec Stuart Bailey et David Reinfurt
www.fordesite.com

Re-Applied Art de Dexter Sinister est réalisé en coopération avec Kunstverein, Amsterdam, le Centre Pompidou / Département du Développement Culturel, Paris et Forde, Genève.
Hard Copy est produit dans le cadre d’une lab.zone du programme work.master, menée par Delphine Bedel en collaboration avec Barbara Fedier (atelier Micro-édition), Hervé Laurent et la filière Communication visuelle de la Head – Genève. Les éditions ont été réalisées avec la participation des graphistes de la filière Communication visuelle : Camille Decrey, Sophie Gagnebin, Maud Hortala, Julien Mouron, Julie Petter, Stéphanie Pilet et Linda Voyame. Marc Hollenstein, graphiste suisse basé aux Pays-Bas, a conçu les flyers et le packaging de la collection.
LapTopRadio est développé dans le cadre d’une lab.zone du programme work.master de la Head – Genève, His Masters Voices, menée par Laurent Schmid, Samuel Gross et Daniel Suter.

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Conference Delphine Bedel, Le Cinquième Département, Fragments
With Dexter Sinister (Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt) and Valérie Pihet (École des Arts Politiques, Paris, directed by Bruno Latour).
31 October 2010, 3 pm

A discussion of the place of research and of oral transmission within the institution, on the basis of historical and contemporary examples. Delphine Bedel revisits the experience and the legacy of the short-lived but crucially important Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques (1985-95). Under the directorship of Pontus Hulten and then Daniel Buren, this institute was once envisaged as a research department for the Centre Pompidou, the so-called ‘5th Department’. Delphine Bedel traces back the history of the Institut to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Moderna Museet in Stoklholm in the 60’s, and the influence of artists close to Pontus (Duchamp, Tinguely, Niki de St Phalle), and graphic designer and museum director Willem Sandberg. The transmission of experience, the ‘studio situation’ and breakthrough exhibitions like ‘She’, ‘Dylaby’ and ‘Bewogen/Bewegen’ will be evoked, and put in relation with contemporary practices and new education projects. The discussion will be followed by a screening of Robert Filliou‘s ‘Teaching and Learning as Performing Arts, Part 2’, Video University (1979).

Exhibition Fun Palace 21 – 31.10.2010, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Curated by Tiphanie Blanc, Yann Chateigné Tytelman & Vincent Normand.
Display by Stéphane Barbier Bouvet.
With Lars Bang Larsen, Delphine Bedel, Étienne Chambaud, Céline Condorelli, Dexter Sinister, Dolphins into the Future, Luca Frei, Karl Holmqvist, Junior Aspirin Records, Monster Island, Sarah Pierce, Michael Stevenson, Camille de Toledo and Tris Vonna Michell.

Informations:
Centre Pompidou, Les Rendez-Vous du Forum

Fun Palace
The Forum, subterranean womb of the primitive utopia of the Centre Pompidou, is to house a temporary structure developed in collaboration with a team of artists, publishers, musicians, labels, writers and curators of varying backgrounds. In this space once open to the city, this mechanical arena entirely dedicated to the experience of the present, Fun Palace offers a series of explorations at the margins of the past and present activity of the institution, of its hidden dimensions, in the gaps severing the heterogeneous discourses and acts that have inhabited the place.

The title refers to Cedric Price and Joan Littlewood’s never realised project for a mobile and shapeshifting Fun Palace (1961), which served as a theoretical model and working title for the Centre Pompidou. The present Fun Palace attempts a form of discontinuous transmission, organised in ten sequences, each offered to a different guest, invited without preconditions to examine this archive and to come up with a secret history or fictional rewriting.

Oral narratives, alternative legends, and forgotten or immaterial archives sketch an invisible and fragmentary history of the Centre. This mode of interpretation looks to the traces of unfinished experiments and of abandoned ideas that still haunt the institution. A prism that disperses the written history of the Centre into an ensemble of divergent elements, the Fun Palacespeaks to that history’s blind spots and dead zones. Drawing on the shades of history and collective myth, the exhibition invents its deficits, putting into question the suspension of history that Swiss sociologist Albert Meister called – in a science-fiction story written in 1976, as the Centre began to rise from the ground – ‘The so-called utopia of the Centre Beaubourg’.

With appearances by Vito Acconci, Joseph Beuys, Daniel Buren, David Byrne, Louis Capet, Henri Chopin, Le Cinquième Département, Guy Debord, Destroy All Monsters / Cary Loren, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Filliou, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, Brion Gysin, Jonathan Horowitz, Pontus Hulten, Allan Kaprow, Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, Mauro Lanza, Lefevre Jean Claude, Le Mur du Fond / Jean-François Bergez, David Markey, Gordon Matta-Clark, Albert Meister, Bruce Nauman, Giovanni Passannante, Raymond Pettibon, Cedric Price, Eliane Radigue, The Residents, Jean Rouch, Raymond Roussel, Philippe Seguin, Leslie Thorton, Lawrence Weiner and Frank Zappa.

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Since 2009, I’m lecturer at The HEAD, Geneva University of Art and Design, where I initiated a publishing course and the artist’s book series Hard Copy. These editions are produced in collaboration with Barbara Fedier and various departments of the schools, as well as Swiss graphic designers. This position also involves thesis supervision and organising events in relation to Hard Copy. The first seven edition were released in 2010, with a talk with Seth Siegelaub, Daniel McClean and Dexter Sinister, and reading performance by the artists at LiYH in Geneva. The talks can be heard back on the Laptop Radio website.

WORK.MASTER is addressed to students-artists who wish to broaden and develop their practical work within a framework which promotes a transversal approach, multiple perspectives and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Combining research and artistic practice (individual, collaborative or collective), the programme is structured around the realisation of full-scale personal projects.

The programme gives students the opportunity to contextualise their work through real life artistic interventions (in the public space, exhibitions, publications, radio programmes…). For WORK.MASTER, art is above all “in action”.

Discussions and debates examine the historical, social and intellectual conditions of artistic action in tutorials (on a one-to-one basis), lab.zones (thematic group projects), seminars (and theory based projects), critical sessions (collective critics) and further offers on a swiss-wide level (master-platform and pool-CH).

Each student receives a strong artistic and theoretical tutorial support. Regular meetings and studio visits give the possibillity for an on-going dialogue, a continous feedback on the work in progress.

WORK.MASTER provides an international platform in which invited artists, theorists and curators of different fields propose lab.zones and seminars. The lab.zones may be organised in periodical meetings or intensive workshops, allowing the contextualisation of the student’s work. They give the opportunity to the participants engage in various forms of public interactions such as performance, art interventions in public space, exhibitions, publications and radio.

The critical sessions are weekly meetings, group critics. They offer a forum to reflect and analyse each others’ practise and to invent modes of presentation. During these sessions, updates of researches are presented and discussed, sharing ideas by making them available to others.

Coordination
Laurent Schmid, head of the programme, Christian Besson and Marie-Antoinette Chiarenza, professors, Ceel Mogami de Haas and Marion Tampon-Lajarriette, assistants.

Professors / Contributors
Delphine Bedel (artiste et curatrice, Amsterdam), Yann Chateigné (curateur et critique, Genève), Mathieu Copeland (curateur et éditeur, Londres), Lili Reynaud Dewar (artiste, Paris), Lina Saneh (metteur en scène et comédienne, Beyrouth), Samuel Gross (curateur, Genève), Christophe Kihm (critique, Paris), Pierre Leguillon (artiste, Paris), Valérie Mavridorakis (critique, Genève), Markus Miessen (architecte et théoricien, Berlin / Londres), Mai-Thu Perret (artiste, Genève), Daniel Suter (curateur et artiste, Berne), Frédéric Wecker (philosophe et critique, Paris)

Collaborations
The three majors of the Masters programme at Head – Geneva are constituents of the Masters HES-SO in Fine Arts which also offers two other majors at Ecal – Lausanne (EAE – European Art Ensemble) and at Ecav – Sierre (MAPS – Art in the Public Sphere). In addition, they are incorporated into the Master- platform.ch which brings together the different Masters in Fine Arts of Swiss universities.

HEAD, Geneva University of Art and Design
Work.Master

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Lectures by Seth Siegelaub and Daniel McClean
Talk with Seth Siegelaub, Daniel McClean, Delphine Bedel, James Goggin, Aernoud Bourdrez [Use-IP], and Yannick Bouillis [Shashin].
12 Artist’s books, performance

The Publications Project is a collection of artist’s books issued by the Master Programmes the Dutch Art Institute and designed in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie. International in its scope, this collection is a unique blend of printed matter. It began as an experimental and innovative research and publishing platform aiming to address the specific process of artist books production, it is now an acclaimed editorial project.

The 2010 edition consists of 12 publications edited by artist and curator Delphine Bedel. In close collaboration with one or more guest authors, artists and designers teamed up to produce an artwork in the form of printed matter. From very diverse perspectives the artists and designers reflect on publishing as a versatile medium. The publications vary from artist books, essays, poster series, performance artefacts and documentary investigations, to autofiction and collages.

Seth Siegelaub will speak about copyright and economic issues concerning independent radical publishing, including art books, based on his publishing experience with the Chilean book ‘How to Read Donald Duck’, the so-called ‘Xeroxbook’ and the ‘Artist’s Contract’. He will specifically address free access to information and the practical problems of distribution in a world of dominated by capitalist property values.

Daniel McClean will discuss copying in art, copyright law, and his role as both a curator and a lawyer, focusing on the tension between practices of copying in art and the constraints imposed upon these practices by copyright law. The recent project ‘Free Sol LeWitt’, which McClean co-curated with Superflex at the Van Abbemuseum questions models of authorship in art. He will also discuss important trials involving artists, including Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons.

Delphine Bedel is curator, artist and writer based in Amsterdam. She is Associated Professor at Th Dutch Art Institute.James Goggin is graphic designer, and Course Director of Werkplaats Typograpfie.

Saturday 03.07.2010, 16:00
De Ateliers, Amsterdam

Further Information:

The Publications Project 2010
Collection editor: Delphine Bedel
Design editor: James Goggin

Artist books by: Lado Darakhvelidze, Taf Hassam, Jimini Hignett, Amanda Koelman, Izabela Oldak, Sevgi Ortaç, Julio Pastor, Viki Semou, Eva Schippers, Ruben van Klaveren, Renaldi Zefi, Veridiana Zurita.

Designed by: Goda Budvytytė, Ines Cox, Gregory Dapra, Anna Haas, Annett Höland, Simone Koller, Lu Liang, Joris van Aken, Boris van den Eynden, Isabelle Vaverka, Lidia Wilkosz.

Guests author and contributors: Emily E. Auger, Mounira Al Solh, Maria Barnas, James Beckett, Delphine Bedel, Lady Equitone, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Funda Bütüner, Jeremy Gilbert, Rob Hornstra & Arnold van Bruggen, Haejun Jo & Donghwan Jo, Annette Krauss & Petra Bauer, Aylin Kuryel, Pierre Leroux, Giorgi Maisuradze, Carlos Motta, Serazer Pekerman, Marco Pasi, Marko Peljhan, Spinvis (Erik de jong), Pelin Tan, Ad van Denderen, Lidwien van de Ven, Rob van Kranenburg, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Loïc Wacquant, Marta Zarzycka.

Book distribution: Shashin Art Bookshop, Monospace Press, Amsterdam

Location: Exhibition Werkplaats Typografie, De Ateliers, Stadhouderskade 86, Amsterdam

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‘Beyond Paradise’ Talk and Film Screening with Delphine Bedel & Ayako Yoshimura.Introduction by Matthieu Laurette. Screening ‘Celebration’ By Quirine Racké & Helena Muskens (2005, 55′)

‘The […] ambivalence of tourism, which also applies to our world in general, is reality and its copy at a time when copies are increasingly more realistic and reality is increasingly penetrated by the illusion of fiction‘ (Marc Augé)

Delphine Bedel and Ayako Yoshimura will present the two-part project ‘Beyond Paradise’ -an exhibition and film programme- they curated at the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam and Maison Descartes – Institut Français des Pays-Bas in 2008. A selection of film excerpts from the project will be presented, followed by the screening of the documentary ‘Celebration’ by Racké & Muskens. Delphine Bedel will introduce her last publication ‘All that is solid melts into air, Notes on Tourism’ (Rotterdam, 2008), a collective research investigating the relation between tourism and politics of memory.

‘Beyond Paradise’ addresses the cultural and social changes that have altered our perspectives on tourism. As sociologist John Urry described in his breakthrough publication The Tourist Gaze, visual culture is central to the tourist experience. It could also be stated that the tourist industry, global mobility and media consumption and especially their abundant visual culture shape our vision of contemporary society. Tourist image production and narratives, as we know them from travel brochures, postcards, advertisements, films, are addressed in the works presented. They reflect on the construction of expectations, experiences and the social imaginary of places evoked by the ubiquitous and pervasive culture of tourism we are living in nowadays. ‘Beyond Paradise’ investigates modes of representation and visibility, starting from the mass production of images – a scheme central to the leisure industry – and the idealized imagery of places, and moves away from the familiar Tourist Gaze to construct unexpected fictional or personal narratives. The promises of these idealistic and seductive images are appropriated and eventually shifted in the works presented , to reveal other realities, and take us beyond paradise in order to question one of the greatest fictions of our times: that of tourism

The film ‘Celebration’ shows six couples in search of utopia. They are the residents of Celebration; the latest version of the American Dream, built in Florida by Walt Disney. Walt Disney always said that dreams can come true. Is Celebration a dream come true in a world gone wrong?

WIELS, Center for Contemporary Art, Brussels. Saturday 20.03.2010, 16:00

Delphine Bedel is curator, artist and writer (http://blog.delphinebedel.com), Ayako Yoshimura is artist and curator. They are both based in Amsterdam. The exhibition ‘Beyond Paradise’ included works by Bik Van der Pol, Patricia Esquivias, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Mustafa Hulusi, Arnout Killian, Matthieu Laurette, Sascha Pohle, Lisl Ponger, Erkan Özgen & Sener Özmen. The film programme presented a selection of documentary, short films and videos addressing various perspectives on tourism in diverse geographical and political contexts. It featured films by Quirine Racké & Helena Muskens, Kamal Aljafari, Olivo Barbieri, Mounir Fatmi, Kwang-Ju Son, Bik Van der Pol and Kai-Ting Lin.

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