THERE ARE SOME THINGS WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT
A Series Of Artists’ Talks On Shared Necessities.
Concept and organization: Katrin Hornek & Johanna Tinzl
Wednesday June 18, 2014, 19:00
MARION PORTEN calls JAMIKA AJALON
READY TO RUMBLE?
Jamika Ajalon / Marion Porten
An encounter in gloves. After Jamika Ajalon and Marion Porten began their work on Harriet Tubman, Ajalon asked Porten if she would re-enact the famous poster of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol together with her. They video recorded the photo shootings and rehearsals.
Jamika Ajalon: „I wanted to experiment with replicating the series of posters that announced their exhibition together, just because I always have. It has something to do with the fact that I felt as if Basquiat could have been a big brother. I identify with his work and the codes within his work. Also, I guess I was always attracted to that relationship, which somehow verged on queer … but there was a dissonance also there … something fabricated … something evidently unreal.“ (…)
The posters already exist. Now a video is in progress. The idea is to collaborate in the style Basquiat and Warhol did. One started the painting and the other one painted over it.
The conversation is held in English. It takes place in the exhibition »Cc« of Toni Schmale and Wally Sallner.
About the series of artists’ talks:
Katrin Hornek and Johanna Tinzl invite four artists to each conceive a talk with a partner of her choice. The idea is to reflect together on art works and artistic practices, on questions of collectivity, and networks of support. In the spirit of this year’s program of the VBKÖ – TO ORGANIZE IN FRIENDSHIP! (http://www.vbkoe.org/ueber/intentionen/?lang=en) – the dialogical format aims to facilitate a conversation on familiarities and trust, on courage and panic, as well as on what we can, want to, or have to share with each other.
Starting point of each evening will be one sentence proposed by the two conversation partners. These sentences will manifest the evenings in the form of a text. In the manner of Cadavre Exquis, each duo will start their sentence with the last word of the sentence of the previous conversation without the speakers knowing the entire sentence. In this way, the growing text links the five talks to each other as to bring them together in a collectively written story.
A mobile display structure designed by Katrin Hornek and Johanna Tinzl will provide the spatial framing of the series of talks. The conversations and the collectively written text will be documented in a folder that will be part of the VBKÖ Archive.
Conversations:
MARION PORTEN calls JAMIKA AJALON: June 18, 2014
DENIZ SÖZEN calls BRIGITTE KOVACS: June 25, 2014
RICARDA DENZER calls SUSANNE SCHUDA:TBA
ANDREA THAL calls ANA HOFFNER: TBA
KATRIN HORNEK calls JOHANNA TINZL: TBA
Preliminary conversations:
JULIA WIEGER (VBKÖ) calls KATRIN HORNEK
KATRIN HORNEK calls JOHANNA TINZL