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 PHILADELPHIE DUCHAMP AND FRED FOREST
DUCHAMP AND FRED FOREST IN SUPER-MARKET
INSTALLATION / PERFORMANCE
Exhibit Duration: February 03 - March 23, 2007
Location: Slought Foundation | Contact Info, Directions
Reception: Saturday, February 03, 2007 ; 6:30-8:30pm
Free to the public. | Reservation not required.
Exhibition Openings Series | Curated by Osvaldo Romberg
Slought Foundation, a non-profit organization rethinking contemporary art, is pleased to announce "Art and Society: The Work of Fred Forest," a retrospective exhibition about new media artist and pioneer Fred Forest, on display in the galleries from February 3, 2007-March 23, 2007. The opening reception will take place on Saturday, February 3rd, 2007 from 6:30-8:30pm. This exhibition has been curated by Osvaldo Romberg with the generous support of l'Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, and the School of Arts and Sciences and the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
Please note that a special seminar and conversation with artist Fred Forest concerning his practice will take place immediately before the opening from 5:30-6:30pm, and has been organized by Aaron Levy. The event will be jointly moderated by Michael Leruth and Jean-Michel Rabaté. An audio recording of this event is now available online. Click here to download the accompanying visual presentation.
It is also our pleasure to also announce a lecture by Fred Forest on January 30, 2007 at 7 pm at La Maison Française at New York University (16 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003). For more information, contact maison.francaise@nyu.edu (212-998-8750).
Fred Forest, “For an aesthetics of communication” (Plus Minus Zero, 1985):
"I have always considered that the natural field of artistic production is the terrain of social activity. A field which may be enlarged and explored thanks to the new Communication technologies. This option upsets the holders of a fixed concept of aesthetics, who are incapable of grasping the obvious articulation between this type of practice, the concept of art, and a society in transformation. We are called upon to ask the question “Where are the frontiers of art situated?” It’s a brave man who will stick his neck out! There is no frontier. Art is an attitude—a way of relating to something, rather than a thing in itself. There is an aesthetics of behavior, an aesthetics of gesture, just as there is an aesthetics of object. We have now to take a new category into account: the aesthetics of Communication. The media of this aesthetics are often immaterial: its substance comes from the impalpable stuff of information technology. In the sky
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