Exhibition Opening & Performance: 'The Last Terminal, Volume III Part 2: Errors'
Schedule
Sat May 11 2024 at 07:00 pm
Location
KATENDRECHTSE LAGEDIJK 490B, 3082GJ Rotterdam, Netherlands | Rotterdam, ZH
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Exhibition OpeningThe Last Terminal, Volume III
Part 2: Errors
11.05.2024, 19:00
Performance
by Tom Aldrich & Mathew Kneebone
21:00
With 'Volume III, Part 2: Errors', we enter the next stage of 'The Last Terminal: Reflections on the Coming Apocalypse'.
In 'Volume III', we will be re-staging and re-formatting exhibitions and works from the past as ways to explore the possibilities of extracting new significance, a new inflection not to erase the pasts of the works but to enlarge and expand upon them as well and especially to place the reconfiguration of ideologies pertaining to aesthetic infrastructures, cultures, and mentalities at the center of Rib’s operation.
Part of this consists of extending Rib’s ongoing conversations, reflections, and publications with invited guests.
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'En om vier uur?
Slapen''
gerlach en koop (2024—)
A solo exhibition with works by Daniel Gustav Cramer, Alex Farrar, Laurent Montaron, Emilio Prini
In 'Part 1: Beating Death With His Own Arm' Rib began with
re-staging a solo exhibition by the artist collective gerlach en koop titled 'Was machen Sie um zwei? Ich schlafe.' (GAK, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Bremen, Germany, 2020). In this exhibition at the edge of sleep the collective displayed works by other artists. Over the course of the coming year, this solo exhibition will be re-staged at Rib. One work, two, maybe three at a time. Not all works on view in Bremen will be on view in Rotterdam however and the very act of re-staging the ones that are, will influence their presence.
gerlach en koop started their re-staging by inviting artist Tomo Savić-Gecan to present 'Untitled 2020/2022/2024', a work perhaps best described as an object representing a functional wall. The wall is now leaving us. The wall’s departure is a necessary gesture preserving its status as a work of art and highlighting the importance of duration against time’s ability to absorb and conceal even the most authentic of objects into a given infrastructure. Savić-Gecan’s wall could only be experienced through a physical encounter. For decades Savić-Gecan consistently has avoided the visual documentation of his works all of which are titled Untitled.
"Sleeping can neither be learnt nor mastered. Sleep is a fickle force that cannot be forced. Sleep is granted. All one can do is imitate a sleeping body as best one can. To re-stage the night before and the night before and the night before hoping that at some point posture and breathing will match and the copy will again be convincing enough to merge with the original ... and that is when you fall.
Anticipating that the three-centimetre void in Rotterdam—reminiscent of the three-centimetre void in Bremen—would dissolve into thin air soon, we asked Daniel Gustav Cramer to send the object that isn’t a work of art when seen in broad daylight. Details are disappearing from Alex Farrar’s suit, a new addition to the exhibition. The silent abyss of Laurent Montaron’s “Melancholia” will be rebuilt to once again be the exhibition’s 'onrust'. Emilio Prini’s confirmation to participate remains in suspension. These works together shape 'Om vier uur? Slapen.' in 'Part 2: Errors'."
[gerlach en koop]
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Paintings (2024—25)
Lisa Ivory
In 'Part 1: Beating Death With His Own Arm', we presented two paintings by the British artist Lisa Ivory (1966, London) titled 'Tourist In Your Town' (2023, oil on panel, 18×13cm) and 'Love And Communication' (2023, oil on panel, 20×15cm).
In 'Part 2: Errors' we will reveal two new paintings as part of a two-year-long exhibition of her works at Rib consisting of eight parts totalling about sixteen paintings by the end of 2025. In the proces a number of art historians with distinct specialisations in 18th and 19th century painting and unfamiliar with Ivory's work, will share their readings of her paintings.
Ivory’s paintings point to an evolving story with a seemingly clear narrative arc yet the stories do not easily yield to identifications and sympathies. They undermine our certainties about where we are in relation to what we are looking at. We are aware that showing only a small portion of her works in each exhibition might form a challenge to a contemporary visitor, however, we want to see if time-stretching her exhibition across such a relatively long period might better reveal her painterly progression and at the same time allow space for them to resonate with works by other artists.
They lead one into a painterly universe; a shadow world, a natural habitat for nudes, skeletons, and domesticated monsters.
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'Piano Unplugged: Variation I'
Conceived by Mathew Kneebone
Composed and performed by Tom Aldrich
'Piano Unplugged: Variation I' is a piano piece by artist Mathew Kneebone and musician & composer Tom Aldrich.
The composition draws from Kneebone’s archive of musical improvisations performed and posted online by people experiencing a blackout. These brief melodies vary in modality and complexity, from children’s recitals to elaborate jazz riffs. Taken collectively, they convey a spontaneous form of cultural production born as a direct response to disruption caused by infrastructural failure. The score for the performance arranges these improvised samples according to interpretive compositional systems from Karlheinz Stockhausen’s 'Klavierstücke' series, Henry Cowell’s New Musical Resources, and Tom Aldrich’s intuitive play.
'Piano Unplugged: Variation I' is the first rendition in a series of acoustic musical works based on improvised music created during power failure.
Images:
1- Overview Part 1: Beating Death With His Own Arm, with Lisa Ivory, gerlach en koop, Tomo Savić-Gecan, 2024.
Photo: Lotte van Stekelenburg.
2- Left: Tourist In Your Town, 2023, Lisa Ivory. Right: Love And Communication, 2023, Lisa Ivory. Part of 'The Last Terminal: Reflections on the Coming Apocalypse, Volume III, Part 1: Beating Death With His Own Arm'. Rib, 2024. Photo: Lotte van Stekelenburg.
3- Score for Piano Unplugged: Variation I, Tom Aldrich, 2024
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Supported by Mondriaan Fund, Municipality of Rotterdam, Erasmusstichting, Stichting Elise Mathilde Fonds, �Cultuur Concreet, Willem de Kooning Academy.
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Where is it happening?
KATENDRECHTSE LAGEDIJK 490B, 3082GJ Rotterdam, Netherlands, Katendrechtse Lagedijk 490B, 3082 GJ Rotterdam, Nederland,Rotterdam, NetherlandsEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
