Above: Nick Oberthaler & Julien Diehn "Texas Blow'em Poker", 2007
a collage, one of the cards comissioned for the Manual cc project.
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MANUAL cc Instructions for beginners and advanced players
Exhibition in Kronika opens on 15th September (Saturday) at 7 p.m.
MANUAL cc is on view till 1st October 2007.
MANUAL cc Instructions for beginners and advanced players invites
its spectators to enter a world of game-exhibition. This world has
been created following the game instructions provided by a selected
group of artists on special postcards. The players/spectators are
encouraged to re-create the artworks themselves and for that
purpose they can use the space in the gallery or take the games
outside.
Creative commons’ license allows for recreating of the artists’
works even after the exhibition. The current display in Kronika
Gallery is only the first stage of the project, that will be followed
by the publication of all the instructions and hopefully will further
evolve in space and time The project refers to a conceptual
tradition in art history and Pierre Restany’s ‘Art Concept from
Europe’ exhibition (1970) for which the artwork was sent in by
mail or created based on the instructions that were mailed in by
the artists. Additional conceptual references that can be traced
in the MANUAL are: dematerialization of artwork, non-defined
authorship, superiority of idea over execution as well as
a peculiar sense of humor emanating from most of the artworks
on display.
As a part of the game-exhibition, the twelve curators have also
attempted to re-create an “invisible” project, which is
an exercise of an American conceptual artist – Robert Barry’s
assignment for his students in Novia Scotia College of Arts and
Design (1969). The students were asked to “create” an immaterial
artwork in a form of a secret, an oral agreement, which was never
to be disclosed. The main idea being that the artwork will cease to
exist if that secret is disclosed to any third party.
One of the main underlining theories behind the MANUAL is the
methodology, which was popular in 1970s based on the concept
of abolishing the supremacy of the artist over the spectator. The
artist would often only create a general framework for the artwork
and invite the spectator to participate in the final creation.
The instructions sent to Kronika Gallery in Bytom by the artists
form all over the world provide such frameworks as it is hard to
predict the course of the games, the level of rivalry or the final
results. The curators offer the gallery space to the
spectators-players.The success/failure of the project is entirely
dependent on the players’ participation.
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The opening night program includes additional games, films and
sound performances.
+ sound performance by Wojtek Kucharczyk
++ reconstruction:
La Monte Young „Composition #5” (1960)
Emmett Williams „Voice Piece for La Monte Young” (1963)
Yoko Ono „Bicycle Piece for Orchestra” (1962)
Alison Knowles „Proposition” (1962)
+++ John Cage "4’33” (1952) played by Julia Malik (cello)
++++ dj set by muskimusk
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curators: Marianna Dobkowska, Magdalena Drągowska, Anna
Grajewska, Ewa Kobylarczyk, Magdalena Lipska, Cecylia Malik,
Noriko Nagashige, Agnieszka Pindera, Monika Rendzner, Anna
Sulich, Magdalena Torbus, Marika Zamojska
Postgraduate Curatorial Studies at Jagiellonian University
www.studiakuratorskie.studies.uj.edu.pl
exhibition architecture: Michał Latko
graphic identification: Marianna Dobkowska, Krzysztof Bielecki
Project realized with fincial suport of Urząd Marszałkowski
Województwa Śląskiego, Embassy of Denmark United Kingdom in Warsaw
and Jagiellonian University In Cracow.
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artists:
4!
Mark Aerial Waller
Paweł Althamer
Anatka Barczewska
Kuba Bąkowski
Sarmen Beglarian
Tomek Bierkowski
Rahim Blak
Agnieszka Brzeżańska & Marek Raczkowski
Karin Bühler
John Cage
Yane Calovski
Martin Conrads
Holly Crawford
Agnieszka Chojnacka
Hubert Czerepok
Christoph Draeger
Stanisław Dróżdż
Drumlander/ Louis Blackburn + Angelo Vermeulen
Pola Dwurnik
Samuel Francois
Marcius Galan
Haimo Ganz
Ingo Gerken
Simon Goldin & Jakob Senneby
Leszek Golec & Tatiana Czekalska
Ryszard Górecki
Henry Grahn
Marek Glinkowski
Grupa Whitney Houston: Paulina Ołowska, Bartek Przybył
& Aleksander Wawrzyniak
Małgorzata Jabłońska & Piotr Szewczyk
Jesper Jargil
Łukasz Jastrubczak
Jan Loechte
Olivier Kosta -Thefaine
Justyna Köke
Elżbieta Krajewska
Anna Krenz
Wojtek Kucharczyk
Paweł Kruk
Piotr Kurka
Agnieszka Kurant
Robert Kuśmirowski
Maciej Landsberg
Sara MacKillop
Agnieszka Małecka
Anna Mandoki
Mirzlekid
Nuria Montiel
Bartek Mucha
Jacek Niegoda
Anna Niesterowicz
Txema Novelo
Nick Oberthaler & Julien Diehn
Parfyme
Ben Petersen
PGR ART
Raketa
Wilhelm Sasnal
Jadwiga Sawicka
Jochen Schmith
Maciej Sieńczyk
Janek Simon
Bruno Steiner
Rudolf Steiner
Paweł Susid
Superflex
Karl Tuikkanen
Tomssa
Adam Witkowski
Julita Wójcik
Patryk Zakrocki
Honza Zamojski
Grzegorz Zgraja
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