Les Complices *

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Les Complices * is a project and cultural space in Zurich that has been asking and working on political and cultural questions with global and local issues since 2002.

history

In 2002 the artists - curators Andrea Thal and Jean-Claude Freymond-Guth founded Les Complices *. In 2005 they received their first budget from public art funding. Your first action asked teams of artists to participate with an object that is intended to symbolize or illustrate cooperation. Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger , Mickry 3, Andres Lutz / Anders Guggisberg , Treppstein ( Selina Trepp / Esther Eppstein ), Com & Com (Johannes M. Hedinger / Marcus Lossollt), FIRMA (Peter Radelfinger / Cécile Wick), BETA ( Miriam Steinhauser / Andrea Thal) or MIT (Zurich artists' nonet), all artist groups took part in the exhibition. The basic idea of ​​Les Complices * was to combine art , music , theory and life in the organization of discursive events . They work on producing artistic positions from home and abroad, showing, locating, publishing and publishing. From 2007 to the end of 2014 the art space was organized by Andrea Thal and a changing workforce. Gökçe Ergör and Martina Baldinger have been responsible for the program since 2015 .

“Les Complices * understands cultural work as a practice that critically deals with working and living conditions, forms of racism and exclusion in Western societies, heteronormativity and capitalism and wants to actively participate in these discourses. Les Complices * positions itself critical of the concept of 'neutrality'. "

At the Biennale in Venice in 2011 Andrea Thal was invited to curate the Swiss off-site pavilion, for which she designed the multi-part and collaboratively-scale project "Chewing the Scenery" at the Teatro Fondamenta Nuove. A publication of the same name appears. As the operator of Les Complices *, she writes the following:

“As different as the contexts are, I tried to go into the other with the awareness of one. For example: not just relying on one name, but realizing different productions, maintaining the duration of the exhibition as a period for process-related issues and now and then leaving the narrow framework of contemporary art. In short: to start from working methods in which I also otherwise work. "..." And yet the work in Venice was largely self-determined - without any requirements from the Federal Office for Culture (BAK) regarding content, nationality of the participants or their classification in art, Music, theater, philosophy or anti-racist activism. And: There was money to do all of this and to pay everyone involved! This was a considerable difference to my eight years of unpaid work at Les Complices, the undisciplined space. "

The exhibitions, projects and events realized and produced at Les Complices * try to enable and explore undisciplined forms of exchange and mutual debate.

Presentations (selection)

Publications

  • Chewing the scenery. Published on behalf of the Federal Office for Culture as part of Switzerland's official contribution to the 54th Venice Art Biennale, ISBN 978-3-03746-157-0 .
  • Journal d'Echo 1990/2010/2011, newspaper with supplement, designed by Anna Frei, Georg Rutishauser, Zurich, edition fink, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-03746-151-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ How the iguana gets into the sandwich | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . March 24, 2005, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed June 9, 2018]).
  2. ^ Kunsthalle Zürich: Les Complices * printed matter - They Printed It! Retrieved June 9, 2018 (American English).
  3. ^ The Federal Council: Thomas Hirschhorn and Andrea Thal represent Switzerland at the 54th Venice International Art Biennale 2011. Accessed on June 9, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Rachel Mader: Emancipatory Ruminating | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 24, 2011, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed June 9, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Andrea Thal, artistic contributions by Maria Iorio / Raphaël Cuomo, Uriel Orlow, Eran Schaerf as well as illustrations by Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Ines Doujak / Marth Text contributions by Ann Cvetkovich, Mathias Danbolt, Antke Engel , Patricia Purtschert , Rubia Salgado , Andrea Thal and a conversation with Tim Zulauf (ed.): Chewing the Scenery . edition fink, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-03746-155-6 , p. 220 (published on behalf of the Federal Office of Culture as part of Switzerland's official contribution to the 54th Venice Art Biennale).
  6. ↑ Debate cultural policy (4): Not a lighthouse, but one space among many . May 9, 2012 ( woz.ch [accessed June 9, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Les Complices - Conversation between the ASZ women's group and the authors of the “Manifesto of Foreign Women” from 1975. Accessed on June 9, 2018 (English).
  8. ↑ Les Complices - Close Viewing: "Keep your laws off my body" and "Tea Leaf". Retrieved June 9, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Les Complices - Doris Stauffer - January, February, March, April, May, the world. Retrieved June 9, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Les Complices - FM scenario: Armchair - Attention - Life Signal. Retrieved June 9, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Les Complices - To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation (after a score by Pauline Oliveros). Retrieved June 9, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Les Complices - 1 x medium, please! Retrieved June 9, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Swiss Social Archives: Image + Sound database. Retrieved June 9, 2018 .