The Eleventh Letter
11 Dec 2010 - 31 Jan 2011
THE ELEVENTH LETTER
Marcel Türkowsky - Olive Martin - Patrick Bernier - Elise Florenty
11 Decemebr, 2010 - 31 January, 2011
The Eleventh Letter is the second segment of TRUST!, a two-part project designed by BKV Potsdam e.V. and the synagogue de Delme as part of the Thermostat-series of exchanges between 24 art centres and Kunstvereine.Here Delme and Potsdam have opted for challenges to the actual working context. The notion of an external point of view in the context of a carte blanche exhibition means that both proposals are marked not only by the figure of the Other, but also by the possibility of abandoning the usual structures of authority and thus shaping new forms of collective responsibility.For Delme, The Barranquilla Principle(3 October 2010 - 9 January 2011) has been curated by Astrid Mania and Silke Albrecht, while in Potsdam synagogue de Delme director Marie Cozette will be looking into the irremediable influence on us of the Other, in terms of his desires, gaze, confidence or fears. The exhibition points up the way a body and a voice can be permeated by multiple identities, thus raising the possibility of a porous, shifting, receptive community. Patrick Bernier, Olive Martin, Elise Florenty and Marcel Türkowsky have been invited to provide their perspective on these issues.Patrick Bernier and Olive Martin's film Manmuswak (2005) looks at a day in the life of an immigrant worker in a city somewhere in France. A day made up of varying jobs and periods of waiting, but also of endless walking: for "Manmuswak" is "Man must walk" - he must keep on the move if he is to avoid the ID checks that would mean expulsion. The screenplay offers this nameless man an escape from any kind of definitive identity: identity puts up resistance, dissolving into a host of faces as, in shot after shot, it hosts a succession of bodies.Elise Florenty and Marcel Türkowsky have come up with a video and sound installation as well as a group of new works: objects, publications, images and texts that are traces left by a central character, Mr Young, whose fragmented narrative is passed on by the artists. The monologue at the core of the installation oscillates between fable, myth and realistic account, all shot through with complex genealogy and an ageold story. Mr Young's words are part of a theatrical mechanism in which mirrorings and reversals - of meanings, values, roles - take the viewer into a forest of signs and symbols he must decipher step by step.The Eleventh Letter is an opportunity to gain a hearing for voices, acts, ways of speaking and stories: to create, between the lines of its different narratives, the possibility of an "us" made up of an infinity of entries and points of contact we ourselves must seize on.Marie Cozette
Marcel Türkowsky - Olive Martin - Patrick Bernier - Elise Florenty
11 Decemebr, 2010 - 31 January, 2011
The Eleventh Letter is the second segment of TRUST!, a two-part project designed by BKV Potsdam e.V. and the synagogue de Delme as part of the Thermostat-series of exchanges between 24 art centres and Kunstvereine.Here Delme and Potsdam have opted for challenges to the actual working context. The notion of an external point of view in the context of a carte blanche exhibition means that both proposals are marked not only by the figure of the Other, but also by the possibility of abandoning the usual structures of authority and thus shaping new forms of collective responsibility.For Delme, The Barranquilla Principle(3 October 2010 - 9 January 2011) has been curated by Astrid Mania and Silke Albrecht, while in Potsdam synagogue de Delme director Marie Cozette will be looking into the irremediable influence on us of the Other, in terms of his desires, gaze, confidence or fears. The exhibition points up the way a body and a voice can be permeated by multiple identities, thus raising the possibility of a porous, shifting, receptive community. Patrick Bernier, Olive Martin, Elise Florenty and Marcel Türkowsky have been invited to provide their perspective on these issues.Patrick Bernier and Olive Martin's film Manmuswak (2005) looks at a day in the life of an immigrant worker in a city somewhere in France. A day made up of varying jobs and periods of waiting, but also of endless walking: for "Manmuswak" is "Man must walk" - he must keep on the move if he is to avoid the ID checks that would mean expulsion. The screenplay offers this nameless man an escape from any kind of definitive identity: identity puts up resistance, dissolving into a host of faces as, in shot after shot, it hosts a succession of bodies.Elise Florenty and Marcel Türkowsky have come up with a video and sound installation as well as a group of new works: objects, publications, images and texts that are traces left by a central character, Mr Young, whose fragmented narrative is passed on by the artists. The monologue at the core of the installation oscillates between fable, myth and realistic account, all shot through with complex genealogy and an ageold story. Mr Young's words are part of a theatrical mechanism in which mirrorings and reversals - of meanings, values, roles - take the viewer into a forest of signs and symbols he must decipher step by step.The Eleventh Letter is an opportunity to gain a hearing for voices, acts, ways of speaking and stories: to create, between the lines of its different narratives, the possibility of an "us" made up of an infinity of entries and points of contact we ourselves must seize on.Marie Cozette