CURRENT/UPCOMING Archive acquired by CCS Bard [To be transferred in March, 2020)  That Monster: An Allegory A screening at The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London April 10, 2019 6:45 pm "In a body of video work produced over the past decade, Kolbowski has explored strategies of "re-animating" the past to pose questions about politics in the present. In That Monster: An Allegory (2018), she returns to the genre of silent film and Mary Shelley's fictional tale of man-made monstrosity, prompting such questions as: how are political and psychic subjects formed now? What does art offer by way of intervening in the mass politics and mass media of today? What forms of resistance are possible? That Monster: An Allegory features re-edited images and sequences from the classic horror film The Bride of Frankenstein (Dir. James Whale, 1935), and in this screening, the looped video will play once with sound, and once in silence. A conversation with the artist, academic Mignon Nixon and curator Kari Rittenbach accompanies this screening with an opportunity for audience questions."
an inadequate history of conceptual art in: Présences Voyageuses & Degrés Est
March 1-June 2, 2019 [aihca has been acquired by Frac Lorraine.]  Silvia Kolbowski: The Sleep of Reason
Screenings of the below; discussion with curator Kari Rittenbach, and the audience, will follow.
Wednesday 20 Feb 2019 7-9 pm Proximity to Power, American Style, 200304 https://nwfilm.org/films/silvia-kolbowski-the-sleep-of-reason/  New video project: That Monster: An Allegory An allegory about the human subjects that capitalism produces. Video, with music and without music...  Senior Advisor, Terra Foundation Summer Residency Giverny, France, July 2019  New posting on the Text/Interview page of website: Reign of the White Glove by Jeffrey Stuker. A new analysis of the Harry Winston, Inc. project (1990) In Effects, No. 1, January 2018 Edited by Christopher Page and Orlando Reade  June 23-December 14, 2018 CCS Bard Hessel Museum The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2004) Opening Reception June 23rd, 2-5pm Annandale-on-Hudson, New York [includes an inadequate history of conceptual art, with archival material.]  October 1, 2017-February 4, 2018 Narrative Art Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva An exhibition organized by Paul Bernard, Lionel Bovier and Julien Fronsacq [Includes Model Pleasure V, a new acquisition by MAMCO, Geneva.]  November 30th, 2017 Behind Glass A conversation with Silvia Kolbowski |
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"A few howls again?" 2009-2010 Commissioned by Taipei Bienniel, 2010; Curated by Lin Hong-John and Tirdad Zolghadr September 7 - November 14, 2010 A few howls again? "resurrects" the brilliant and notorious German journalist and political militant, Ulrike Meinhof (1934-1976) in a stop-motion photo "animation" video loop with titles, as well as installed photos. The project raises questions about contemporary state violence and political resistance. At left are installation views of the work at the Taipei Bienniel. See this link for an excerpt of the video under project listing. (link) |
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"After Hiroshima Mon Amour" and "A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Sound" May 8, 2009-June 14, 2009
The projection on opposite walls of a colored rectangular space of "After Hiroshima Mon Amour" (2008) and "A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Sound" (2006) allows the spectator to choose a position from which to take in either the Resnais/Duras film "Hiroshima mon amour" (1959), played without sound or titles, or "After Hiroshima Mon Amour." Enclosed in the same visual and aural space, the video and the film have the possibility of transforming each other. |
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"Nothing and Everything" One-person exhibition at Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery
Curator's statement:
A catalogue of the same title, with a discussion between Theriault and Kolbowski can be ordered from http://ellengallery.concordia.ca |
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"After Hiroshima Mon Amour" One-person exhibition at La><art, Los Angeles
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"Manifesto Marathon" Participation in Manifesto Marathon, Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist "Younger and Stronger Men" F.T. Marinetti's "Futurist Manifesto" was scrambled and turned into a dialogue. A performance including 60 images of mass audiences from around the world, and two actors each reading parts of Marinetti's scrambled manifesto as a pseudo political debate dialogue. |
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"an inadequate history of conceptual art" One-person exhibition at Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland 3/9/07 - 4/22/07 Curated by Pawel Polit Photos 3-11 by Mariusz Michalski This 1998/1999 project was reinstalled, with the addition of a Polish audio translation, and a new projection component. Due to the fact that a loan of audio equipment from Bang + Olufsen, required for the original specifications, was not able to be procured, this component was substituted with high-end Polish audio equipment from the 1970s. Selected Bibliography an inadequate history of conceptual art (Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw), 2007. (Includes an interview by Luiza Nader.) (See Publications) Review, Obeig.pl (April 2007) In Polish |
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