Provisional Programme
Fuller details will be confirmed and provided to those participating, however, the provisional programme is…:
Friday 23 April 2010
16:00 – Press Preview & VIP reception
18:00 – 22:00 vernissage; exhibition open to public
19:00 – ‘art dinner’ deal in SMOODS (55 euro; 3 courses), open to the public, reservations available here...
22:00 – VIP dinner in SMOODS [not open to the public; invite only] Bar in SMOODS [dj’s; open to public until 01:00]
Saturday 24 April 2010
11:00 to 20:00 Fair and Taut Programme open to public.
20:00 – ‘art dinner’ in SMOODS open to ticket-holding public; afterparty.
Trajector has programmed the Art Brussels official party, co-event taking place at Wiels on this evening.
From 22:30 until late; free entry with invitation. Live performances by Angie Reed and Feral; dj’s include Snooba (Bxl) and Hardpop
Sunday 25 April 2010
11:00 to 18:00 Fair and Taut Programme open to public.
Please note that the details of the events taking place under the Taut programme are located here...
Special Programme & Thematic Strands
Trajector Art Fair is proud to present a special programme and thematic strand as part of the fair.
The first of these Taut is less of a programme and more of a full-blown entity in its own right. Full details of the Taut programme are available at its own sub-site here...
Jimi Hendrix overdosing in The Samarkand Hotel in Notting Hill. Axl Rose, according to gossiping groupies, once left handcuffed in a bed by a woman who simply walked out of the suite in possession of the key. Michael Jackson dangling the kid from a hotel balcony. And Mr Keith Moon himself endlessly throwing those televisions from the windows…
This year’s thematic strand, ‘The Keith Moon Suites’ responds directly to the context of the fair within a hotel. ‘The Keith Moon Suites’ involves a number of site-specific works, screenings, installations and performances by invited artists whose own practice crosses into the world of pop or underground music (or vice versa) and have been asked specifically to reflect on the clichés that surround hotels and rock music. Whether they will come up with something serenely cerebral or whether we will all end up running out into the street under a cloud of police tear gas remains to be seen.
All participations under this thematic strand will be indicated in the programme.
Artists & Projects in The Keith Moon Suites
Angie Reed & Mark Stewart
Angie Reed has invited coconspirator Mark Stewart to collaborate with her in making the site-specific performance/installation, “In Bed With My Anger.”
A variation and extrapolation of the sprawling ‘Homage to Kenneth Anger’ project in which they participated in 2009 at Fundação de Serralves, Porto, they will convert a hotel room into a platform for a performative installation in which the work and shadow of the legendary American underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger stands centrally.
Angie Reed is an artist, musician and actress whose recent body of work has seen her revisiting Kenneth Anger’s work from her own quirky post-feminist position.
Mark Stewart is founding member of art-punk legends The Pop Group and, later, Mark Stewart & The Maffia. Strongly associated with the particular trends of post industrial hip-hop and the later mutant sounds emerging from Bristol, he records on both On-U Sound and Mute Records. In addition to the numerous works with Adrian Sherwood and – perhaps inevitable- collaborations with fellow Bristolian Daddy G (of Massive Attack fame), his list of collaborations is extensive and varied ranging from Lee Perry to Nine Inch Nail’s Trent Reznor and Tricky to Chicks on Speed and Crookers. He is also founder of the bombart movement.
In 2009, together with Technicolor Skull (Kenneth Anger & Brian Butler) and Portuguese cult experimental troupe Mécanosphère, he evolved a sprawling, ongoing performance project that first manifested at Serralves.
Exactly what you might find going on inside their room still remains something of a mystery.
Catriona Shaw & Pauline Curnier Jardin
Catriona Shaw is a Scottish artist and musician based in Germany ever since completing post-graduate studies in Munich. Performing under the nom de guerre of Miss Le Bomb –and of course as front woman of the electro dance floor fillers Queen of Japan and occasional collaborator with Electronicat- Catriona’s offbeat alternative pop offerings have an international cult following.
However, this should not be divorced from her work as an artist and organizer. From her days of running performance club events in Munich that have, since their demise, gained mythical status, through to her ongoing work in the practices of performance, video, installation and drawing, she remains fundamentally an artist with a conceptual bent.
As part of ‘The Keith Moon Suites’ Catriona Shaw will present a number of works, including performance works made with the French artist Pauline Curnier Jardin, with whom she has collaborated on a number of occasions. For example in the work ‘Nordic Chaud- Emoticon Workshop’ (2007) they explore their interest in how the attributes of computer software or language can be transferred to and utilised in our physical world. This humorous take on a MS PowerPoint presentation deals specifically with the ubiquitous use of emoticons in our online communities and the implications such a communication form has on our real ability to express emotion.
New Orleans Airlift Screenings
Set-up in response the aftermath of devastating Hurricane Katrina, The New Orleans Airlift was initially an artist-led response to the challenge of rebuilding, especially in affordable local areas in which artists and musicians had traditionally worked and lived. The New Orleans Airlift is a multi-disciplinary arts organization that produces and facilitates innovative artistic opportunities for New Orleans-based artists locally and internationally. Its focus is on transporting the dynamic street culture, living folk culture and growing contemporary arts scene of New Orleans to far-flung locations like London, Berlin, Los Angeles and New York for exhibitions, festivals and performances. The Airlift also brings influential artists from abroad to participate in cutting edge collaborations with local artists at home in New Orleans.
The New Orleans Airlift projects increase exposure, amplify resources and aid the creative development of the city’s unique and irreplaceable creative community that still struggles for sustainability. It offers an important reminder of the cultural contribution of old American cities such as New Orleans that are, perhaps, overshadowed in the international perception of the USA’s art scenes with a historic focus on cities such as New York, Chicago, San Francisco or Los Angeles.
Of particular note within The New Orleans Airlift’s broad range of activities is the work that it is doing in promoting the cutting-edge production of the particular gay, lesbian and transgendered underground music scene in New Orleans that takes the stereotypical attitudes, gender politics and modes of rap music and entirely reinvents them.
As part of the Keith Moon Suites, The New Orleans Airlift will present a programme of video and documentation that will focus on this challenging and exciting reworking of genre- or even gender- emerging from the city’s vibrant underground. With names like Big Freedia and Sister Nobby, these are sistas you don’t wanna mess with…
Mario Mentrup & Volker Sattel
Cinematographer Volker Sattel and actor, musician and filmmaker Mario Mentrup have made a
number of films together. All of these works involve certain intersections:
Berlin’s vibrant music scene with performance; reference to cinematic genres
with contemporary realities or German theatre in collision with the
increasingly visible notion of a (visual) artist’s cinema. The newest of these
works ‘Der Adler Ist Fort’ (2010) is no exception. A collaboration with lauded
cult electronica band Tarwater, as with other works by Mentrup & Sattel,
the film is intended to exist validly in numerous configurations: as a film to
accompany performances by Tarwater and as a film work in its own right.
As with
earlier works by the duo, the film plays with recognizable traditions and
recontextualises them. In this case, the narrative starting point – the lives
of bored trashy kids hanging around Berlin’s Alexanderplatz on a freezing cold
night- becomes an impetus for revisiting iconography first emerging with
Expressionism; the alienated metropolis of the Somnambulist, the lyrical
poeticism of the sleepless city experienced in the context of a fresh
generation.
The film
works of Mario Mentrup & Volker Sattel have been shown in a range of Goethe
Institut-initiated projects and selected for a range of film festivals
internationally. Their works have also been shown in exhibitions in both visual
arts institutions and commercial gallery settings in Germany, the Netherlands
and the UK.
Mario
Mentrup pursues a parallel career as an actor with numerous theatre, television
and film credits. He is also a member of the experimental group The Pasadena
Projekt and has been an editor and co-publisher of the interdisciplinary
Book publishing house MAAS MEDIA verlag since 1996.
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