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PRESS RELEASE
Initiated by a series of ricochet invitations, Side Efects is an international artistic project led by Estonian artist Laura Kuusk and French art theorist Pascale Riou. This collaboration was born out of a common questioning on artistic activity, sideline work, pluriactivity, artistic choice and chance.
After the irst exhibition taking place in Tallinn in 2013, the second phase of the project will be held in Grenoble. The works of about thirty artists are accommodated in four spaces: the Former Museum-Library, the headquarters of the Arrangement of Activities (AIRE), the Showcase Gallery and the website of the Association for the Arrangement of Activities (AAA).1
For most of the participating artists the starting point for their work lies in the daily routine, the everyday low. Like for the French artist Séverine Gorlier who’s raw piece Outback was executed on the corner of a kitchen table with handy papers and pens. These drawings may appear insigniicant, but as an evergrowing and potential matrix theyactually become fundamental.
Like footnotes to a conceiled text, these works relect the structures of thought and reveal the peritext of these activities. Thus, in her photographic triptych Lovers' Discourse and video Howevermuch the Estonian artist Laura Toots revisits the family archives, to focus only on the details and to use just the negligible, the plans between two actions, removing thereby the intimate to better reclaim these images.
The accidental and the derivé become dominating factors, acting as the creating force for a work of art. For his series Sweaters the Estonian artist Jaanus Samma gatheredhomophilic and homophobic tags from the streets, later using them as patterns for knitting sweaters. Alongside her artistic practice, the Czech-Ukrainian artist Alice Nikitinovà photographs uncanny objects and situations encountered during her daily strolls. A selection of these images is gathered in artist books called Albums.
Before the exhibition, work is done in situ, and several meetings and discussions will be taking place. The Russian artist Alexandra Galkina was invited to prepare her work for the Showcase Gallery; French artist Ahond Céline was asked to present the performance What Film Do We Live in?, taking the form of an ambulation between diferent venues of the project.
Side Efects is interested in artistic activity and its secondary efects, sidelines, ricochets, rebounds and the unexpected. It drives to point out the ecosystem, to show the byproducts, the lively, the self-propagating (something unexpected coming from the outside, the so-called weed), the porosity. These are notions that make us constantly ask questions, that cross, feed and modify our activities, as well as this project.
1 www.0-aaa-0.com
http://www.0-aaa-0.com/
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ORIGIN OF THE PROJECT
Side Efects is the aftermath of a proposal made by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Estonia (CAME/EKKM, Tallinn), which tried to build its collection by exchanging works of art against symbolic value. Laura Kuusk accepted the ofer and exchanged her piece against a temporary exhibition. She then invited Pascale Riou, her colleague from the Association for Arrangement of Activities (AAA, Grenoble), to take part in this project and follow their mutual interest in artistic activity. Side Efects consists of two exhibitions and a publication bringing together artists and works relating to artistic practice2.
With :
Céline Ahond, Francis Alÿs, Serge Comte, Clôde Coulpier, Fabrice Croux, Alexandra Galkina, Mathijs van Geest, Séverine Gorlier, Ivars Gravlejs, Flo Kasearu, Jirí Kovanda, Laura Kuusk, Camille Laurelli, Gerwin Luijendeijk, Marko Mäetamm, Marge Monko, Museum of Museum, Luc Moullet, Valérie Mréjen, Alice Nikitinovà, Éléonore Pano-Zavaroni, Julien Prévieux, Jaanus Samma, T.B.C., Laura Toots, Anu Vahtra
CURATORS :
Laura Kuusk (1982) is an artist and art worker. She has master degree in photography from Estonian Academy of Arts and bachelor degree in semiotics from Tartu University. Since 2009 she has participated in the work of OUI art center and Association for Arrangment of Activities (AAA) in Grenoble. Together with Margit Säde Lehni, she has created an artists network Doings or Not. She participates in the work of the research unity of Annecy Higher Art School. Kuusk has exhibited her work in Estonia, France, Poland, Russia, Sweden and elsewhere. She has been giving workshops in Estonian Academy of Arts and working as a tutor in Annecy Higher Art School.
Pascale Riou is a PhD candidate in Contemporary Art Theory at the University of Grenoble (LARHRA) and she also takes part in the artistic research program (DSRA) of TheAnnecy School of Art. Her research focuses on artistic activity through issues of labour, idleness, dilettanteism and pluriactivity. In addition to this she works for the Association for Arrangement of Activities (AAA, Grenoble), a structure under which she has co-managed the OUI art center, participated in international artistic exchange projects (Mountains in Sarajevo; Speed Dating in Berlin; Best/Practices in Stockholm) and co-curated the Showcase Gallery.
2 First exhibition at EKKM (Tallinn) on july 2013, the second one at Grenoble (France) on april 2014,
Publication foretold 4th quarter of 2014
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Alexandra Galkina, Scrubbings, 2013, drawing
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Clôde Coulpier, Where We Decide To Stop, pigment print
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Éléonore Pano-Zavaroni & Jiri Kovanda, Just, installation, view from the exhibition Side Efects
(EKKM, Tallinn)
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Jaanus Samma, Wings, alpaca, knitted by Anu Schotter (from the series Sweaters)
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Céline Ahond, Do Not Forget To Water The Plants This Summer, July 7th 2012,
French Institute and Goethe Institute, Amsterdam, photo credit: Ernst van Deursen
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PRACTICAL INFORMATIONS
Ancien Musée-bibliothèque (Former Museum / Library)3 to 13 AprilOpening Thursday 3 April 6.30pm, with the artists Wednesday to Sunday 13-19pmFree admission9 , Place de Verdun , Grenoble
Galerie Showcase (Showcase Gallery)4 April to 2 MayOpening Friday 4 April 6.30pm24h/24On the angle of Place aux Herbes and Place Claveyson, Grenoble
Aire d'Agencement des Activités5 to 26 AprilOpening Saturday 5 April 5pm(with Techfroid, DJ Wilsmiss, Le Dernier Kikou et DJ Pompier)Wednesday to Saturday 14-18pmFree admission4, Rue de l'Ancien Champ de Mars, Grenoble
Random TV3 april au 5 maywww.0-aaa-0.com/webtv.html
What Film Do We Live In?, performance by Céline AhondSaturday 5 April 4pmMeeting at the Ancien Musée-bibliothèque (Former Museum / Library)Duration about 45minLimited number of places
http://www.0-aaa-0.com/webtv.html
SIDE EFFECTS / EFFETS SECONDAIRES
AAA
Association for the Arrangement of Activities
(Association pour l'Agencement des Activités)
CONTACTS :
Laura Kuusk
+33 (0)6 46 27 86 64
Pascale Riou
+33 (0)6 23 66 02 33
THANKS :
Our greatest thanks to : all of the participants of the project, the team of AAA, Romy Benitta, Thomas Buck, Emmanuelle Gintzen, Milène Josse, Chloé Pluchon, Chloé Pommaret, Inge Linder-Gaillard and ESAD-GV, UPMF-Grenoble II, Alexandre Aguila,Naïm Aït-Sidhoum, Hubert Marcelly, Stéphane Sauzedde, Mathieu Tomasini.
PARTNERS :
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