THE VOICE OF GAGARIN
- December 14th to 19th 2009
A read exhibition, based on a selection of texts from Gagarin.
Staged by Grégory Castéra.
In partnership with GAGAvzw, and Komplot.
Several readers - poets, critics, curators, dancers, musicians, etc. - are invited to choose a text in the collection of Gagarin and to read it aloud. Gagarin is dedicated to the publication of original texts of artists from all around the world working nowadays. These texts are published in their original language and in English. Created in 2000, Gagarin has published 19 issues. An exhibition of the whole collection of Gagarin will be organized at the S.M.A.K in Ghent from the 4th of December 2009 to the 14th of March 2010.
The oral reading of a text originally written for silent reading doesn't consist in a simple transposition from text to speech. To transmit the text, the reader must do many choices: rhythm, insistence on some words, the way to address someone, tone of the voice, etc. These choices, as much as they allow to understand the text better, change its understanding. We usually assign two meanings to the word “reading”: the communication of a text and its understanding. Also, more than a simple exercise, reading a text of an artist would necessarily be an adaptation that could need to precise, for instance, the way to read, the addition of documentation, furniture and props, etc.
This exhibition presents texts of Gagarin as well as it organizes in the same space different apparatus dedicated to oral reading.
Monday 14th
Mark Manders, Waarom hebben wij tijd om over ons lichaam na te denken? Tijd trekt mij steeds weer weg uit het geluid waar ik van hou, read by Felicia Atkinson
Jota Castro, Artforum; mi sombra y la probabilidad de mi muerte, read by Jota Castro
Anne Daems, In the supermarket a bundle of leeks lay on a pile of newspapers, read by Karl Larsson
Kader Attia, Sans Titre 2006, read by Marie-Aude Leledy
Roman Ondàk, STAR CITY, read by Lenka Iopatova
Wednesday 16th
Bili Bidjocka, NKWEL BA YI DJAM OU NOMB BEE, read by Gilles Collard
David Shrigley, 6 Textdrawings (excerpts), read by Florent Delval
Tsuyoshi Ozawa, The Nasubi News, special edition, read by McCloud Zicmuse
Honoré D'O, And if you do decide to.doc, read by Michiel Reyneart
Thursday 17th
Dora Garcia, Twice Told Tales read by Bojana Cvejic
Harmony Korine MAC AND PLAC, read by Sébastian Dicenaire
David Shrigley, 6 Textdrawings (excerpts), read by Florent Delval
Jonathan Monk, Dear Mr. Kounellis, read by Jonathan Lévy
Alfredo Jaar, LUCIDITY, read by Jonathan Lévy
Olaf Probst, Mc loop + Undrawn Monografie of Johannes Meinhardt, read by Michael Schmid
Eija-Liisa Ahtila, “WORDS”, read by Coralie Stalberg
Friday 18th
Joëlle Terulinckx, selectgagarin, read by Lucille Calmel
Lefevre Jean Claude, A C T D L M R S S 1 9 9 0, read by Jean-Philippe Convert
Marlène Dumas, Titels, eerste name en verkleinwoordjies, read by Jean-Philippe Convert
David Shrigley, 6 Textdrawings (excerpts), read by Florent Delval
David Maroto, Disillution read by Lara Pandurovic
Paul Chan Oh Gertrude read by Maja Jantar
Agnès Geoffray The enchanted ones (11 songs) read by Maja Jantar
Sophie Calle, La visite médicale, read by Delphine Jonas
Saturday 19th
Ria Pacquée, Street Rambling, read by Maya Boquet
David Shrigley, 6 Textdrawings (excerpts), read by Florent Delval
Paola Pivi, THANK YOU FOR SHARING LOVE, read by Sonia Dermience
Anatoli Osmolovski, For the Apartment and for the Office, read by Elena Sorokina
Roman Ondàk, STAR CITY, read by Elena Sorokina
Matt Mullican, Trance performance Zürich 2003, read by Emmanuel Lambion
Boris Achour, OPERATION RESTORE POETRY, read Emmanuel Lambion
The program may be subject to modifications.
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Gagarin : www.gagarin.be
Komplot : www.kmplt.be
The Public Shool of Brussels : http://brussels.thepublicschool.org/fr/class/1786