Wednesday 11 May 2011

Footnotes

Finally I've joined a band. We have our first rehearsal tomorrow in Berlin and our first, and probably last performance on Friday. The ambition is to place several footnotes into a song.

The Readymades, or part of it, uses footnotes. They were nice to write. People have been telling me of Nabokov's Pnin, but I've never read it. I think a reader can feel a sense of the make-belief in footnotes and a writer can get lost in them.

But the other band members are certainly interesting and more talented at all this than I am, check them out. www.jeleton.com

María-Ángeles Alcántara-Sánchez (1975, Murcia)
Jesús Arpal-Moya (1972, Barakaldo)

—A team to operate in places for common negotiation such as iconographic, musical and literary repertories. To propose self-teaching practices and publishing of provisory results for debate. To subject authorship to situations of inexperience/humour/appropriation. To disperse the results through space, time and the distribution channels, so to hinder their deactivation by the presentation context.

es insoportable la idea de autor, o la idea de artista
(dora garcía @ el país)


—Jeleton's activity has been incorporated in public art research projects, exhibitions, documentary projects, workshops (recently "Manifesta 8", Murcia, 2010; CA2M, Móstoles, 2010; Casa Vecina, Mexico City, 2010; MACBA, Barcelona, 2010; Le Centquatre, Paris, 2009; Abisal, Bilbao, 2008) and has been supported by grants and research funds (recently Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2008).

no te preocupes me han dicho que sí que les mola / que hagas esa cosa que haces tú
("de moda", los punsetes)



Friday, May 13 Altes Finanzamt
Jeleton (text, vinyl record)
performance + opening
Turntable Piece

Artistic team Jeleton makes annotations on cultural consensus through
drawing, performance, music or writing. The term turntable is for a vinyl
record player but also for a revolving table or a turn alternator. Their
"turntable pieces" are exercises on how to perform a vinyl record, how can
be reactivated the listening or receiving situation of a prerecorded
message. Talking to the records, reading texts to them, manipulating them
through scratch.

Monday 2 May 2011

Galerie Gojković Relaunching www.johnholten.com

Please check out www.johnholten.com which is now hosted by Galerie Gojković in collaboration with BDP. I'm really excited to get to have the endlessly talented, general Renaissance man and great friend Darko Dragicevic and his work on my webpage.
This is just the beginning: The Readymades are coming!

Please continue to check back and stay in touch, more artwork from Dragicevic and news of a touring LGB exhibition this autumn will be posted online in the coming weeks.