Autopia
Summary
Autopia is an artist book and fictitious exhibition catalogue about the female Belgian artist XX and her exhibition at The Museum. The catalogue consists of text dialogues edited by Eva la Cour, as well as by Pieter van Bogaert, Kristian Poulsen as well as Anne Mette Schultz and Signe Frederiksen.
Supported by
The research Board at Valand, The Danish Arts Council
Description of project
Autopia is a fictitious exhibition catalogue about the female Belgian artist XX and her exhibition at The Museum. The exhibition catalogue is structured around an ongoing conversation between Eva la Cour and the fictitious XX (on the basis of multiple transcriptions of quotes by peers and friends), and structured in three parts: The Studio, The Exhibition and The Conference. In addition, the Autopia catalogue includes contributions by the Belgian curator and critic Pieter van Bogaert, artist and musician Kristian Poulsen as well as the visual artists Anne Mette Schultz and Signe Frederiksen.
To celebrate the launch of the Autopia catalogue in June 2016 at Overgaden – Institute for contemporary Art in Copenhagen, Denmark, the Danish curator Johanne Løgstrup and the gallerist Søren were invited to introduce and lecture on XX's work. This event was held in Danish.
The Autopia catalogue addresses comtemporary conditions for visual production and the notion of the exhibiting artist, by discussing notions of praxis and knowledge production, documentation and mediation, a.m. It’s fictitious protagonist, XX, is a thought experiment and container for the polyphonic voice of a collective artist ‘I’, that resonates a variety of conversations with other artists, friends and former teachers in Copenhagen, Brussels and Gothenburg. In this sense the Autopia project, and XX, can be regarded as an attempt to move beyond artistic strategies of fictitious alter-ego’s, towards modes of addressing artistic practice and discourse as always already inherently collective. On that note the Autopia catalogue is finally also an exploration of a certain mode of writing artistic research, drawing on ideas of polyphony and self-institutionalization with reference to other artistic projects but also scholars particularly of anthropology and feminist studies.
Type of work
Artist project: Artist book and performance event, including: 1) Research-based fiction writing including digital montages and documentation photographs of spatial arrangements. 2) Script and instructions for two performances. A performative speech and a theater performance monolog.
Published in
Presentation and performance: Overgaden – Institute for Comtemporary Art (www.overgaden.dk, Copenhagen, Denmark) Published by: Antipyrine (www.antipyrine.dk)
Link to web site
http://www.antipyrine.dk/product/eva-la-cour-autopia
http://www.overgaden.org/en/begivenhed/?e=overgaden-projekt-eva-la-cour-autopia
Date
2016-06-23Creator
La Cour, Eva
Keywords
Practice
praxis
knowledge
production
documentation
mediation
thought experimentation
artistic research
Publication type
artistic work
Language
eng