Orientar (n) aciones

Fareed Armaly

Exposición: Jul 8 – Sep 12, 2004


Orient (n) ations es el primer gran proyecto de Fareed Armaly en los EE. UU. En más de una década. Como proyectos anteriores, esta instalación sitúa la arquitectura y los medios como puntos cardinales en los mapas mentales y sociales que informan la identidad. Los elementos que Armaly ha acumulado en la galería trabajan juntos para crear una brújula abstracta. El eje norte-sur está formado por la arquitectura del espacio, que se ha activado mediante capas de pintura a juego con los colores del exterior del edificio. En los extremos polares del eje este-oeste hay dos monitores, cada uno de los cuales proyecta una película de la década de 1950: uno emplea la radio como herramienta subversiva y el otro como brazo del establecimiento.

Armaly recurre a la radio, un formato que alcanzó alturas en la década de 1950 y que recientemente ha experimentado un renacimiento debido a las tecnologías inalámbricas y la transmisión por Internet, en lugar de trabajar con imágenes, el vehículo dominante de los medios contemporáneos. En el centro de la galería, Armaly inscribió el piso con números de llamada de radio y dispuso un grupo de sillas bajas y modernas en un patrón aleatorio que implica espontaneidad y movimiento. Cada asiento está equipado con auriculares inalámbricos sintonizados con un programa de radio diferente producido por Armaly y colaboradores. Estos cinco programas establecen diferentes conexiones entre las dos películas y representan la fluidez de las narrativas que pueden surgir de cualquier conjunto de circunstancias.

En su construcción a modo de mapa , Orient (n) ations literaliza las teorías del imaginario social. Sus diversos componentes se combinan para crear una narrativa espacial formada por las intersecciones de los medios y la arquitectura, una narrativa que mapea quiénes somos y cómo existimos en relación con las esferas física, social y psicológica.

Artista

Fareed Armaly

Washington, DC, USA

Born to Palestinian and Lebanese parents in the US, Fareed Armaly has lived his adult life abroad, gaining most of his knowledge about America via the media. These multicultural experiences dovetail with issues explored in his installations: identity and representation, as well as the idea of the social imaginary—a discourse about how human interaction fabricates a collective understanding of the world.
Maps are referenced both literally and metaphorically in Armaly’s work. In his 1999 project From/To, routes to and from a range of Middle Eastern cities were plotted in the real space of the gallery. As viewers moved through the installation, video, audio, and documentary material combined with structural elements to expose the Palestinian experience, particularly the physical and psychological barriers encountered on a daily basis. In this work, as in others, Armaly reveals how various components—namely architecture and media—intersect and overlap to form a space in which identity is created and comprehended.
Fareed Armaly was born in Iowa City, Iowa in 1957. Solo exhibitions include From/To, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL (1999); BREA-KD-OWN, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (1993); and re(Orient), Galerie Lorenz, Paris, France (1989). He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions including Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (2002); Architectures of Discourse, Tapies Foundation Museum, Barcelona, Spain (2001); NowHere, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (1996); and Project Unite, Unite d’Habitation, Firminy, France (1993). The artist divides his time between Berlin, Germany and Washington, DC.
 

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Curador

Ute Meta Bauer

Vienna, Austria

Ute Meta Bauer was appointed Professor of Theory, Practice, and Mediation of Contemporary Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 1996 and since 2003 is also vice rector for international relations at the academy. In addition to her faculty position, Bauer is the founding Director of the Office For Contemporary Art Norway in Oslo, and was recently appointed Artistic Director for the 3rd Berlin Biennial For Contemporary Art which will open February 2004.   Recently, Bauer was part of the curatorial team for Documenta11 (2002).
Focusing on art, architecture and sound linked to feminist and socio-political discourses, Bauer’s curatorial work includes the exhibition First Story – Women Building/New Narratives for the 21st Century (2001) for the European Cultural Capital.  That same year she also curated the exhibition Architectures of Discourse for the Fundació Antoni Tapiès in Barcelona.  From 1994 to 1996 Bauer was guest curator for NowHere at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (1996), and was Artistic Director at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart e.V. from 1990 to 1994, she has also been responsible for numerous exhibitions, lectures and international conferences such as Radical Chic (1993) and A New Spirit in Curating“ (1992).
Since 1985, Bauer has also worked as free-lance curator and editor of publications in the field of contemporary art and mediation of art, among them Education, Information, Entertainment: New Approaches in Higher Artistic Education (Vienna 2001) and periodicals like META 1 – 4 (Stuttgart 1992-94) and case (Barcelona 2001, Porto 2002).

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