TANIA BRUGUERA'S 'FREEDOM OF SPEECH' PERFORMANCE AT THE HAVANA BIENAL

A podium, a yellow curtain.
An open microphone for people to say what they want.
A white dove on the shoulder like Fidel Castro in a 1959 speech.
Two guards behind.

HAVANA SOCIAL CLUB: PARTY AT CASA DE LA MUSICA

Beatriz Lopez 'B-Lo' on stage


Tania Bruguera, Claire Bishop, Guillaume Désanges


artist Cristina Lucas, grand dame Patricia Sloane


Efrain Almeida and fans


Katy Hernandez, seen from detroit


Silverio ties his converse in the toilet

CLUB TROPICAL: CENTRE FOR THE TERTULIAS CHEVERISTA

Beatriz Lopez arriving to Club Tropical in a coco-taxi




Cheverista leader Beatriz Lopez with art historian Claire Bishop


Salon Tropical's friendly staff

Tertulia: a type of Spanish literary salon that was popular in Spain from at least the 17th century and that eventually replaced the more formal academies. Tertulias were held in private homes at first, but from the early 19th century they met in clubs and cafés. Some well-known tertulias were described in novels and memoirs of the participants, including La fontana de oro (1870) by Benito Pérez Galdós and Pombo (1918) by Ramón Gómez de la Serna. The popularity of tertulias continued well into the 20th century. (from encyclopedia britannica)

Cheverismo is a new art movement for the next decade
http://www.cheverismo.com/

KLEBER MATHEUS' NEONS AT VOLT BAR IN SAO PAULO!

http://www.barvolt.com.br/

VANESA DOES LONDON!

Vanesa Fernandez, editor and publisher of Celeste Magazine, in London.

MARCELO KRASILCIC PHOTOGRAPHS TERENCE KOH FOR THE NEW UNITED BAMBOO CAMPAIGN

http://www.unitedbamboo.com/
decorations by http://www.confettisystem.com/
http://www.marcelokrasilcic.com/

FRITZ HAEG AT THE MARTHA STEWART SHOW!

Fritz Haeg on The Martha Stewart Show discussing Edible Estates, Thursday, March 19

http://www.marthastewart.com/article/front-yard-gardens?autonomy_kw=fritz%20haeg&rsc=header_1

http://www.fritzhaeg.com/

'RETRACING EXHIBITIONS' CURATED BY KARI CONTE AND FLORENCE OSTENDE AT RCA, LONDON

Reconstruction of the 1953 exhibition 'Parallel of Life and Art' by members of the Independent Group at the ICA and Pierre Leguillon's 'Placement'

Kim Levin 'Downtown Announcements, 1975-1991' and 'Notes 2 1995-2004', invitation cards and annotated press releases. Mark Sladen, director of exhibitions at ICA standing to the left

Hans Haacke, 'Photographic Notes: Documenta 2' 1959

Joelle Tuerlinckx, 'Drawing Inventory-Drawing Center New York 2006' chosen extracts for Retracing Exhibitions, 2009

Retracing Exhibitions, curated by Kari Conte and Florence Ostende

Retracing Exhibitions addresses the difficulty of experiencing by-gone exhibitions in the present. As the primary, yet, ephemeral medium through which art is made public exhibitions form our understanding of art and its institutions. Despite the plethora of shows that have been produced, there is insufficient exhibition literature and pictorial archives to document them. Retracing Exhibitions assesses how we think about both temporary and permanent exhibitions in retrospect, in order to preserve what they realise for the future.

This exhibition juxtaposes a reconstructed fragment of the 1953 Institute of Contemporary Arts London exhibition Parallel of Life and Art, an exhibition by The Independent Group including Nigel Henderson, Ronald Jenkins, Eduardo Paolozzi and Alison and Peter Smithson, which featured blown-up photographic images arranged in a non-hierarchal order from the fields of anthropology, biology, technology and art. Through contemporary artworks and a past exhibition, this project looks at the capacity of the viewer to recollect exhibitions from historic, experiential, and intellectual positions.

Artists and contributors: Benoit Broisat, Hans Haacke, Pierre Leguillon, Kim Levin, Sarah Pierce, Kirsten Pieroth, Joelle Tuerlinckx, the interview archives of Hans Ulrich Obrist and a reconstruction of the 1953 Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) exhibition Parallel of Life and Art

http://www.cca.rca.ac.uk/friendsofthedividedmind/retracing

PIERRE LEGUILLON'S 'PLACEMENT' LECTERN AT REPLACING EXHIBITIONS, A REPLICA OF BARRAGAN'S LECTERN

Pierre Leguillon's lectern at 'Retracing Exhibitions'


Barragan's lectern at his house!


measurement drawings of Barragan's lectern by PLB done in 1995 used to build Leguillon's lectern!

Pierre Leguillon's 'Placement'

Leguillon has photographed many exhibitions since 1993 which he integrates amongst other images into slideshows he regularly screens in public, their content being augmented and renewed for each session. Placement (2009) is a composition of installation images, engravings, film stills, postcards and magazine pages arranged on a replica of architect Luis Barragan's wooden lectern from his house in Mexico City.

Pierre Leguillon was born in 1969. He has developed projects as a curator and critic since the beginning of the 1990s, by creating a single page review, "Sommaire" (35 issues between 1991 and 1996), then by collaborating on "Journal des Arts", and "Art press" (Special issue "Oublier l'exposition" in 2000), then on "Purple" (column "Calme plat" about printed objects from 2002 to 2004). His slideshows have been shown at Centre d'Art et du Paysage de Vassiviere in Limousin, Maison Rouge and Menagerie de Verre in Paris; LIFE in Saint-Nazaire; Secession in Vienna and Temple Gallery in Philadelphia among others. In October 2008, he opened in Bordeaux, at the Capc, a franchise of "La promesse de l'écran" ("The promise of the screen"), a screening space initiated in Paris in 2007. He will have a solo exhibition at the gallery Song Song in Vienna from December 2008 to January 2009. He recently curated the exhibition Diane Arbus: A Printed Retrospective, 1960-1971 in Paris at Kadist Art Foundation (2009).

A VISIT TO THE SMITHSON'S 'ROBIN HOOD GARDEN' ESTATE AND GOLDFINGER'S 'BALFRON TOWER' WITH LARA ALMARCEGUI

CIBELLE PLAYS SOME 1950'S BOSSA NOVA BEFORE DGF AND PLB'S TALK AT TATE

List of Songs played:
Chega de Saudade
Lobo Bobo
Brigas Nunca Mais
Hô-bá-lá-lá
Saudade Fez um Samba
Maria Ninguém
Desafinado
Rosa Morena
Morena Boca de Ouro
Bim Bom
Aos Pés da Cruz
É Luxo Só

TH2058: DGF5 AND PLB19 IN 'THE LAST CONVERSATION' AT TATE MODERN

TH2058: DGF5 and PLB19 in Conversation at Tate Modern

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Pablo Leon de la Barra will talk among other things about home cinemas, moments ginzas, tropical modernities, super tropicalisations, oasis of utopias, plans for escapes, dystopian architectures, turbinas futuristas...

Thursday 12 March 2009, 18.30–20.00
Tate Modern
Starr Auditorium
£8 (£5 concessions), booking recommended
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/talksdiscussions/16646.htm
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/dominiquegonzalezfoerster/default.shtm

http://www.th2058.info/

STUDIO VISIT: MATTHIEU LAURETTE, AMSTERDAM