Thierry Geoffroy/Colonel: Biennalist
Final Presentation of the Biennial Action
Fri, November 04, 2011 7 pm CET, Lecture
Thierry Geoffroy takes biennales seriously. When a big international exhibition opens under a discursive-poetic title that is supposed to convey its relation to politics and life, this is only rarely to be seen as a guideline and only sometimes as a correct description of the exhibited art. The “Biennalist,” however, refuses to take these empty words with the appropriate ironic distance: with only the seeming naivety of an Inspector Columbo, he prefers to ask time and again what really lies behind this or that claim, the one or the other decision of a curator. For just as ambitious titles and press releases often conceal conceptual weaknesses or half-heartedness with regards to the content of an exhibition, behind the exhibition itself stand financial or political interests that are hardly compatible with the critical claims of the artistic actors. Taking biennials seriously leads inevitably to an alienation effect that can just as well debouch in slapstick as in satire. For his actions at biennials, Geoffroy has developed various humorous and critical formats that include both the public and those participating in the exhibitions. The Global Contemporary at the ZKM | Karlsruhe presents previous projects of the “Biennalist” in the form of a retrospective and, at the same time, a new production for the exhibition is realized at the “Headquarters”, where new actions for a biennial which is taking place in autumn 2011 are planned. (JB)
- Organization / Institution
- ZKM
Accompanying program
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- Fri, February 03, 20124 pm
- Sandbox (work in progress) Piano Performance (4/4)
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Performance
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst
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- Thu, February 02, 20126 pm
- Water for All?
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Panel Discussion
Medientheater
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- Sun, January 29, 20124 pm
- Sandbox (work in progress) Piano Performance (3/4)
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Performance
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst
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- Fri, January 20, 20129.30 pm
- LOCAL & TEMPORARY 5
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Performance
Cafe DOM
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- Fri, January 20, 20124 pm
- Sandbox (work in progress) Piano Performance (2/4)
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Performance
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst
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- Fri, January 20, 2012
- HedoCamp meets Global Art
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Symposium
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, 1.OG, Studio
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- Thu, January 19, 20127 pm
- Doug Fishbone: Elmina
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Film Screening
Vortragssaal
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- Fri, January 13, 20124 pm
- Sandbox (work in progress) Piano Performance (1/4)
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Performance
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst
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- Fri, January 13, 2012
- Antidatamining
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Opening
Foyer
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- Fri, December 16, 20117 pm
- Artist in Residency Programm III
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Panel Discussion
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, 1.OG, Studio
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- Fri, December 16, 20114 pm
- LOCAL & TEMPORARY 4
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Performance
Unter der Brücke an der Alb
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- Sun, December 11, 20112 pm
- Wetterhäuschen 2.0
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Workshop
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, 1.OG, Studio
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- Sat, December 10, 20112 pm
- Moving Images from Indonesia
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Opening
Medientheater
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- Fri, December 09, 20117 pm
- Raqs Media Collective: Timeliness
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Performance
Medientheater
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- Fri, November 18, 20118 pm
- LOCAL & TEMPORARY 3
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Performance
ZKM, Kaiserstraße 134, Hinterhaus
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- Fri, November 18, 2011
- Erika & Javier: El Peso de la Memoria (The Weight of Memory)
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Performance
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, 1.OG, Studio
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- Fri, November 04, 20117 pm
- Thierry Geoffroy/Colonel: Biennalist
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Lecture
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, 1.OG, Studio
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- Thu, October 27, 20117 pm
- Artist-in-Residence-Programm II
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Panel Discussion
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, 1.OG, Studio
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- Fri, October 21, 20118.30 pm
- LOCAL & TEMPORARY 2
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Opening
ZKM, Kaiserstraße 134, Hinterhaus
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- Sat, October 15, 20112 pm
- Nezaket Ekici: Performing Global Art
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Performance
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, 1.OG, Studio
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- Thu, October 06, 20117 pm
- Neil Cummings & Marysia Lewandowska: Museum Futures. Distributed
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Film Screening
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, 1.OG, Studio
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- Fri, September 23, 201110 am
- D.I.Y. Learning-Weapon
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Opening
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, 1.OG, Studio
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- Fri, September 16, 2011
- The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds after 1989
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Symposium
Medientheater
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- Thu, August 18, 201111 am
- Workshop with the artist and activist Ashley Hunt
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Workshop
Foyer
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- Sun, June 28, 20094 pm
- Global Art and the Museum
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Symposium
Medientheater