Curated by Nadine Gandy, PASSAGES. PASSAGEN. PASÁŽE is an exhibition
of video works by international artists that is co-organized by the Goethe
Institute, the French Institute and Gandy gallery. The videos are presented
in Bratislava (Panenska street) and transmitted electronically to the Jeu de
Paume in Paris, the Goethe Institut, New York and g-mk art center, Zagreb.
Featured artists:
Lida Abdul (AF), Zbynek Baladran (CZ), Bodo Sandor (HU),
Pavlina Fichta âierna (SK), Danica Dakic (BA), David Dempewol (US),
Yang Fudong (CN), Jean Charles Hue (FR), Caporali & Marta Jourdan (BR),
Leopold Kessler (DE), Miro Kohut (SK), Melik Ohanian (FR),
Renata Poljak(HR),Katarzyna Skupny (PL),Song Tao (CN), Adam Vackar (CZ), Akram Zaatari (LB).
PASSAGES. PASSAGEN. PASÁŽE is an exhibition that pays tribute to Walter Benjamin's poetic
theory about passages amidst a booming postsocialist economy. As a city marked by the
construction of passages in the 19th and 20th centuries, Bratislava is the point of departure
for the exhibition and the videos are featured in the public space of Panenska street. Far from
being historically obsolete, market economy shows itself a historical force of unprecedented
vigor in former Warsaw pact societies and most of all so in Bratislava, capital of the Slovak
Republic, the most advanced new economy in eastern Europe.
To bring the concept of passage a step further, Nadine Gandy has invited 3 international art
centers to participate in PASSAGES. PASSAGEN. PASÁŽE. Concurrently to the presentation
of the videos in Bratislava in December, the works are transmitted electronically to Single
Screens located in the musée du Jeu de Paume (Paris), the Goethe Institut in New York
and g-mk art center in Zagreb. The sofware employed for the transfer of the videos is
made possible by open-PLAYER (www.open-player.com), a new and innovative technology
that ensures playback and transmission online of video content in broadcast quality (high
definition included).
On Saturday December 8th, 11 am you are invited to join us for the
meeting point at the Goethe Institut to engage into discussion with the
following international guests: Thierry Davila ( Bordeaux), Adam
Bzoch, Tilla Rudel (Paris), Marta Gili (musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris),
Marcella Lista (musée du Louvre, Paris), Nathalie Angles (Location One,
New York), Antonia Majaca (g-mk, Zagreb), Roza El-Hassan (Budapest),Dora Hegyi (Budapest)
