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Christopher Green & L.I.E invite..
0fr, 3 Rue Paul Dubois, Paris
2 - 7 June 2015
For six days beginning 2nd June 2015 Christopher Green and
L.I.E (Library of Independent Exchange)
will orchestrate activities at the showroom of the bookstore
0fr on Rue Paul Dubois, Paris. The ground floor
of the showroom will function as an office and provisional
show-space for L.I.E and Christopher Green.
Each day a different guest is given effective carte blanche,
and invited to curate a programme of activity
for the showroom’s basement space.
"It is my hope that this collaborative approach to programming
will enable and encourage host, guest,
and audience to interact with one another; fostering
discussions and an exchange of ideas. Established
relationships are developed, and new ones initiated. I,
Christopher Green, will be present daily, over-
seeing the operation of the ground floor space and acting as
‘ambassador’ for the project." C.G.
Including works and projects by:
Christopher Green, L.I.E, Oliver Griffin, Charlotte Cheetham
& Sophie Demay, Alex Balgiu & Fabrice
Mabime, Thomas Butler, Hannah Quinlan Anderson & Rosie
Hastings, Nelson Bourrec Carter, Kenny
Dunkan, Georges Jacotey, Samuel Kenswil, Jala Wahid, Alain
Brémond, Kersti Jan Werdal, Yvonne
Rainer, Henry Hills, Babette Mangolte, Mast Books, Art Rite, Ed
Dorn, Iggy Pop, Jean Genet, Joann
Kyger, John Giorno, Martha Wilson, Michael McClure, Ray Johnson,
Raymond Pettibon, Tom Clark,
Robert Janitz, Rainoff, Anna Jones, Jina Khayyer.
Tuesday 2 June
SPACE OPENS
Poster designed by Christopher Green
Installation view
Anna Jones, ceramic cups, 2014/2015
Installation view
Christopher Green, untitled, digital C-type print, 15 x 10
cm, 2015
Installation view
Christopher Green 'Paris Poster #1' acrylic and emulsion
on birch panel, 24 x 15 x 1.8 cm, 2015
Christopher Green 'Paris Poster #2' acrylic and emulsion
on birch panel, 24 x 15 x 1.8 cm, 2015
Christopher Green, untitled, digital C-type print, 15 x 10
cm, 2015
Installation view
Christopher Green, untitled, digital C-type print, 15 x 10
cm, 2015
Installation view
Christopher Green 'Paris Poster #3' acrylic and emulsion
on birch panel, 24 x 15 x 1.8 cm, 2015
Christopher Green 'Paris Poster #4' acrylic and emulsion
on birch panel, 24 x 15 x 1.8 cm, 2015
Christopher Green 'Paris Poster #5' acrylic and emulsion
on birch panel, 24 x 15 x 1.8 cm, 2015
Installation view
Installation view
Christopher Green, untitled, digital C-type print, 15 x 10
cm, 2015
Christopher Green, untitled, digital C-type print, 15 x 10
cm, 2015
L.I.E Lists of Ten Books
Installation view
L.I.E Lists of Ten Books
Wednesday 3 June
Book launch for ‘Evaluation of space Part 5d. Fence Panels’ by
London based artist Oliver Griffin, published
by Loose Joints. Part 5d. of Griffin’s project ‘Evaluation of
Space’ takes the form of an essay in pictures and
words about the humble fence panel. Recreated in an edition of
50 are Griffin’s 14 original hand-prints and
proofs from the series.
Oliver Griffin
Oliver Griffin print installation view
Thursday 4 June
Book launch and signing for 'Open Books Volumes - A, B, C, D
and E' by Paris based curator Charlotte
Cheetham & London based Graphic Designer Sophie Demay,
printed and published by Hato Press.
'Open Books Volumes - A, B, C, D and E' can be understood as a
catalogue, a collection of captions,
images, a series of invitations, a bookmark left in places the
editors would like someone to stop. Sitting
between an open book and an exhibition, it accompanies,
completes and supports the research
undertaken by its editors Charlotte Cheetham and Sophie Demay.
Performance 'The Man to be Seen from Mars' - Pierres Flasques
Détaillées" by Alex Balgiu and Fabrice
Mabime at 7pm.
Installation view
Installation view
Installation view
Alex Balgiu and Fabrice Mabime performance
Alex Balgiu and Fabrice Mabime performance
Alex Balgiu and Fabrice Mabime performance
Alex Balgiu and Fabrice Mabime performance
Installation
view
Alex Balgiu and Fabrice Mabime performance
Installation
view
Installation
view
Friday 5 June
'Screen Self-Scripting': Video works by Hannah Quinlan
Anderson & Rosie Hastings, Nelson Bourrec Carter,
Kenny Dunkan, Georges Jacotey, Samuel Kenswil, Jala Wahid,
curated by Thomas Butler. ‘Speaking about
his Screen Test series, Andy Warhol remarked of his
fascination for factory associates who could “turn on” an
“be their own script”. Warhol anticipated or prophesised the
intense self-scripting demanded by today’s
neoliberal economy. He saw how the subject would be tested and
stretched, both physically and physiolo-
gically, and expected to acquire a new set of skills for each
interview or engagement. In the present series of
videos, made by artists based in London, LA, Athens and Paris,
self-scripting is examined by the queer
subject. The paradigm - our spectacle society – still exacts
specific demands vis-à-vis our own subjectivity
and the images that we are exposed to – this in turn has
co-opted a certain “gay” subject that is politically
disengaged or neutral. If Freud was correct when he said that
the ego is a kind of image, then it is possible to
assume that it acts as a screen onto which we project certain
identities and idealisations. Many of the videos
presented here examine this through two different modes – and
often conflate them: the first, image as com-
modity and the second, image as celebrity. Some are purely
concerned with the kind of subjectivity that was
performed by Warhol’s subjects. Above all, the videos act to
deconstruct and interrogate certain received
notions we have as subjects via-à-vis the screen.’
Installation
view
Installation
view
Friday 5 June
Book launch for ‘Running is Flying Intermittently’ by
London-based French writer and musician Alain Brémond.
Brémond will be reading extracts from the book on the night.
‘Running is Flying Intermittently’ is a literary manif-
estation of Brémond's approach to making music; the mixing of
two different genres (Electro & Jazz) are here
supplanted with Twitter-style (short punchlines) and
Beat-style (long stream of consciousness) using his own
unique rendering of the English language. The book's content
was written mostly on Brémond's mobile phone
'whilst travelling on buses, on dance floors, in house
parties, before going on stage, queuing at the toilet or
waiting at the bar' in an attempt to capture and articulate
the present moment.
Alain Brémond reading
Alain Brémond signing
Saturday 6 June
A selection of dance-related short films by artists Yvonne
Rainer, Henry Hills, Babette Mangolte, and Kersti
Jan Werdal. The selected works intersect in their exploration
of movement and exposure of the human body,
while standing out with their own distinct editing style and
cinematography. Films will be screened throughout
the day on a continuous loop. New York based artist Kersti Jan
Werdal will present selected punk ephemera
from the collection of NYC bookstore Mast Books in the
upstairs space from 5 - 6 June.
Installation
view of Mast Books NYC
Inventory of Mast Books collection on display
Installation
view of Mast Books NYC
Installation
view film programme
Installation view
Installation
view
Saturday 6 June
Book launch for ‘Ex Libris’ by New York based painter Robert
Janitz, published by Rainoff books. A special
audio recording of Janitz reading the entire book from cover
to cover will be played during the launch. The
reading will be accompanied by a slideshow of images plucked
from the artist’s instagram account. ‘Ex Libris’
references Janitz’s dedication to the balance between exposure
and obfuscation, the private and the known.
Including a reprint of Joy William's seminal short story The
Yard Boy and a complete facsimile of Heta Kircher
Janitz' 1959 Masters thesis on fabric weaving, the book
examines the dead-pan poetry that typifies the artist's
work.
Installation
view
Installation
view 'Ex Libris' audio recording
Installation
view of Robert Janitz instagram
slideshow
Installation view of Robert Janitz
instagram slideshow
Installation view of Robert Janitz
instagram slideshow
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