1 October – 21 November 2010 at White Space \/\/ Office for Curating \/ Art \/ Theory
\nA Thousand Endless Tales \u2013 Dancing the Line of Flight (Story Telling) www.endlesstales.ch
\nTal Adler (IL \/ AT), Oreet Ashery (UK), Ame\u0301lie Brisson-Darveau (CA \/ CH), Shirin Damerji (DE), Discoteca Flaming Star (DE \/ ES), huber.huber (CH), Lena Huber (CH), Sarah Ja\u0308ger (CH), Brigitta Kuster (CH \/ DE), Joanna Lombard (SE), Krzysztof Mie\u0328kus (PL), Cora Piantoni (DE \/ CH), Christian Ratti (CH), Roee Rosen (IL), Jenny Rova (SE \/ CH), Lisa Schiess (CH), Gise\u0300le Schindler (CH), Jana S\u030cte\u030cpa\u0301nova\u0301 & Gabriela Kontra (CZ), Riikka Tauriainen (FI \/ CH), Rebecca Ann Tess (DE).
\nA Thousand Endless Tales \u2013 Dancing the Line of Flight (Story Telling) is a group thematic show in two chapters curated by Dimitrina Sevova, focusing on a diversity of artistic positions from different cultural backgrounds.
\nThe exhibition takes a look at various forms of reflection on aesthetic possibilities and political implications of individual stories of ordinary people in relation to society at large. The basic voices are set up by artists invited do develop a broad spectrum of possible approaches and artistic languages, a polyphony of sounds inherent to their different cultural and political backgrounds and age differences, grounded in their daily art practices directed at the social space, rebelling against clean forms and normative channels in bursts of emotional expression. A Thou- sand Endless Tales \u2013 Dancing the Line of Flight (Story Telling) merges forms of living knowledge, opens a range of possible social realities in an infinite space where \u201cstory becomes form.\u201d It is concerned with stories that fall out of the corpus of the total library; with the noisy channels, especially the so-called \u201cunscientific\u201d languages, intrac- table, apocryphal versions, alogisms, dialects… It follows those rocks falling off the tower into a thousand pieces, the bugs and errors that break up the polished surface, in stories murmured outside the language of dominance, those stories whose peak gets broken, the plateaus opening up the space to the horizon beyond great narratives, in small details, characters, traces carrying the stamp of superstition, dirty words, nonsense, frenzy, troublemaking, riot.
\nText: Dimitrina Sevova
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\nTal Adler, Shirin Damerji, Discoteca Flaming Star, huber.huber, Lena Huber, Joanna Lombard, Cora Piantoni, Christian Ratti, Roee Rosen, Jana S\u030cte\u030cpa\u0301nova\u0301 & Gabriela Kontra, Lisa Schiess, Riikka Tauriainen, Rebecca Ann Tess.
\nChapter 2: 30 October \u2013 21 November 2010 \/ Opening: Friday 29 October 2010 \u2013 7 pm Oreet Ashery, Ame\u0301lie Brisson-Darveau, Discoteca Flaming Star, Lena Huber, Sarah Ja\u0308ger, Brigitta Kuster,
\nKrzysztof Mie\u0328kus, Cora Piantoni, Roee Rosen, Jenny Rova, Gise\u0300le Schindler, Rebecca Ann Tess. Opening hours: Wed: 2-8 pm; Thu: 2-6 pm; Fri: 2-6 pm; Sat: 4-6 pm
\nLectures on Story Telling and artist talks on Saturday, 2 October and Saturday, 30 October, 2 pm at White Space.
\nDetails to be announced.<\/p>\n
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\nWhite Space \/\/ Office for Curating \/ Art \/ Theory Programming: Dorothee Richter, Siri Peyer Milita\u0308rstrasse 76 (backyard, entrance via Kanonengasse) CH – 8004 Zurich
\nwww.whitespace.ch
\nSpecial thanks to all participating artists, to Dorothee Richter, Siri Peyer, Klaus Scho\u0308nberger, Jean-Claude Freymond-Guth, Cora Piantoni, Jenny Rova and Alain Kessi.<\/p>\n