Incorporated!
Group show
Artists : Ed Atkins, Babi Badalov, Ismaïl Bahri, Eva Barto, Camille Blatrix, Maurice Blaussyld, Jean-Alain Corre, Trisha Donnelly, David Douard, Michaela Eichwald, Jana Euler, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Aaron Flint Jamison, Michel François, Melanie Gilligan, Karolina Krasouli, Laura Lamiel, Klaus Lutz, Mark Manders, Mélanie Matranga, Anna Oppermann, Jean-Marie Perdrix, Jorge Queiroz, Anne-Marie Schneider, Liv Schulman, Lucy Skaer, Thomas Teurlai, Darielle Tillon, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
Curator : François Piron, assisted by Marie de Gaulejac
Contemporary Art Biennale / Les Ateliers de Rennes
October 1 – December 11, 2016
Catalogue
ISBN : 978-2-918252-48-1
Edition Français – English
2 volumes, 184 et 176 pages
2016
Editor : François Piron with Marie de Gaulejac and Thomas Boutoux
Texts by : François Piron, Adrien Abline, Yves Citton, Elza Clarebout, Vinciane Despret, Vincent de Gaulejac, Maurizio Lazzarato
"What are emotions we are about to have in a future already present? The era of emotions is over. One prefers a mood or mood predictor […] which in turn become logos for products, which in turn become product-emotions, which in turn become consumers (by-products),” once stated American poet Tan Lin. In other words: What are the consequences of our incorporation into the abstract systems of our economic world?
Incorporated! focuses on the affects provoked by our prolonged submission to the ideologies and the technologies governed by economics. The dissolution of borders between the public and the private, the singular and the common; feelings of helplessness and dispossession: these are all examples of the concerns reflected in the artworks by this cross-generational group of renowned and emerging artists.
Incorporated! aims at reconsidering the emancipatory forces that lie in the negation, the opacity, the resistance exerted by the artworks gathered in the biennale. The exhibition will present numerous new productions and important ensembles specially commissioned for the biennale.
A dozen solo and collective exhibitions form a single project, with intensities, tones and moods specific to each venue.
