Videos: new and revisited

Projections

Paul Paillet, Guillaume Dénervaud, Mai-Thu Perret & Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Paul Viaccoz, Alexandre Bianchini, Liz Craft, Gianni Motti, Jeffrey Vallance

From 16th March to 28th April 2023

Vernissage and launch on the website of CEC, Thursday 16th March 2023, 6pm – 9pm (Nuit des Bains)

  • Paul Paillet, Surprise/Innocence, animation video, 7′24′′, music, 2023
  • Guillaume Dénervaud, AGLOROMONES, video, 2’53’’, sound, 2022
  • Mai-Thu Perret & Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Conversation, video, 38’20’’, sound, 2022
  • Paul Viaccoz, Murs chamaniques, Commentaires, video, 5’41’’, sound, 2022
  • Alexandre Bianchini, Detroit on Circle, digital transfer of Super 8 films, 12’24’’, music, 1996
  • Liz Craft, “Brave new world”, March 2020, video, 17’’, 2020 © Liz Craft
  • Gianni Motti, Cosmic Storm, Cern, video, 30’, sound, 2006
  • Jeffrey Vallance, The Gospel According to Jeffrey, video of the performance at the chapel of Saint-Léger, Geneva, 82’, sound, 2012

VIDEO PROJECTIONS PROGRAM PRODUCED BY THE CEC (2022/2023)

FROM 16TH TO 24TH MARCH 2023

Paul Paillet, Surprise/Innocence, animation video, 7′24′′, music, 2023
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Guided tour with the artist, Thursday 16th March 2023, 6:30pm

FROM 28TH TO 31ST MARCH 2023

Guillaume Dénervaud, AGLOROMONES, video, 2’53’’, sound, 2022
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Guided tour, Thursday 30th March 2023, 6:30pm

FROM 4TH TO 14TH APRIL 2023

Mai-Thu Perret & Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Conversation, video, 38’20’’, sound, English, 2022
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Guided tour, Thursday 13rd April 2023, 6:30pm

FROM 18TH TO 21ST APRIL 2023

Paul Viaccoz, Murs chamaniquesCommentaires, video, 5’41’’, sound, French, 2022
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Guided tour, Thursday 20th April 2023, 6:30pm

FROM 25TH TO 28TH APRIL 2023
“ARCHIVES”  PROJECTION OF ONE VIDEO PER DAY FROM THE ARCHIVES OF THE CEC

Tuesday April 25th, 2023  Alexandre Bianchini, Detroit on Circle, digital transfer of Super 8 films, 12’24’’, music, 1996

Wednesday April 26th, 2023  Liz Craft, Brave new world, March 2020, video, 17’’, 2020

Thursday April 27th, 2023 Gianni Motti, Cosmic Storm, Cern, video, 30’, sound, 2006

Friday April 28th, 2023  Jeffrey Vallance, The Gospel According to Jeffrey, video of the performance at the chapel of Saint-Léger, Geneva, 82’, sound, English, 2012

The CEC is launching a video production project, initiated as a consequence of the pandemic and the need to develop digital resources. The project will take place in several stages, most often in relation to the CEC’s programming. This series of short films will be posted regularly on our website. The videos will be divided into three chapters under the generic title “Films”: “Recent videos”, “Documents” and “Archives.” The “Documents” section will mainly present interviews with artists, critics or curators; the “Archives” section will make it possible to discover or rediscover some of the videos created in the context of exhibitions, events or editions from the 1990s onwards.

A group of four new videos, produced between 2022 and 2023, with Guillaume Dénervaud, Paul Paillet, Mai-Thu Perret and Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, as well as Paul Viaccoz, is now available on our modified and expanded website, thanks to Niels Wehrspann (graphic designer, Lausanne), and will be screened at the CEC, from March 16th to April 28th, 2023, with a private view on Thursday, March 16th, 2023, from 6 pm to 9 pm, as part of la Nuit des Bains.

Videos: new and revisited will open with Paul Paillet’s video, screened from March 16th to 24th, 2023, and Guillaume Dénervaud’s, from March 28th to 31st, 2023. These two artists exhibited at the CEC in 2020 and 2021, during the first two years of Covid-19.

For this invitation, Paul Paillet has directed a hypnotic and psychedelic video-clip, working from a series of collages with zingy colours. Handmade, these collages were then digitised and enhanced with special effects. Reminiscent of vertical smartphone screens, the ultimate symbol of the rapid and uncontrolled circulation of images taken on the fly, Surprise/Innocence is a mixture of low-tech and high-tech. The animation follows a filiform figure with aquatic movements, crossing a landscape of hills against a backdrop of a setting sun and more or less enigmatic architectures. This character moves to the rhythm of an increasingly frenetic live performance by the collectives Tamal Nuisances and Csters, recorded at the Teknival de Chambley in 2004. This Hardtek soundtrack is strangely linked to the album Wings (2016) by the South Korean interplanetary boy band BTS, whose members read extracts from the novel Demian.Die Geschichte einer Jugend by Hermann Hesse (1919). Paul Paillet intentionally takes up this sampling technique which is emblematic of electronic music, especially that of the Free Party movement. This film is a nod to the installation Tin Can BTS Radio (Wings), which was presented during the artist’s solo exhibition fascination for fire which opened at the CEC in September 2020.

AGLOROMONES is Guillaume Dénervaud’s first video. It presents a selection of images shot outdoors, embodying the research and concerns linked to the era of the Anthropocene, which underpin the artist’s entire body of work. Filmed on the route that separates Guillaume Dénervaud’s former residence in the 18th arrondissement of Paris from his studio in Saint-Denis, the images document the artist’s daily observations in this rapidly-transforming part of the city. AGLOROMONES presents a series of filmed scenes between abstraction and reality, a crossing of these interstitial and peripheral spaces, transit areas between the city and the countryside.

The programme will continue with the screening of two documents, directly related to the exhibitions of Paul Viaccoz, Mai-Thu Perret and Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, which took place in 2021, 2022 and 2018.

Recorded in January 2022 in Paul Viaccoz’ studio in Courroux, Murs chamaniques. Commentaires is an extension of his ESPRIT ES-TU LÀ ? exhibition. In the voice-over, the artist recounts his spiritual journey to encounter illness and death. The film also presents a visual journey, a tracking shot which encompasses his collection of objects, often linked to personal memories or mystical images, that make up the Murs chamaniques which the artist has been continuously developing in his house and studio for the past few years. Day after day, he assembles objects taken from nature or from everyday life, fetishes and talismans which are then juxtaposed or combined with photographs, drawings, screenshots of his videos, postcards, masks, musical instruments, skulls and crossbones, sabres, dried flowers, feathers, jewellery and pieces of embroidery. This collection of objects, images and texts forms a mural puzzle, rearranged according to the artist’s moods, reflections and lived experience.

The Conversation in English between Mai-Thu Perret and Matthew Lutz-Kinoy opens a series of filmed interviews, which will continue with the one recently recorded at the CEC between Liz Craft and Paul-Aymar Mourgue d’Algue. Conversation is an opportunity for the two artists to revisit the Scrolls in the Wind. A collection of scripts and poems by Harry Burke, Cyrus Grace Dunham, Sharon Hayes, James English Leary, Sophy Naess, Amy Sillman and Emily Sundblad edition (2018) by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, and Mai-Thu Perret’s My Sister’s Hand in Mine (2022), both produced by the CEC. This exchange reveals the complicity between two artists with unique backgrounds, but especially their shared interest in traditional craft practices and their curiosity about various techniques and trades, which they revisit regularly. They share this reflection and this blurring of the boundaries between arts and crafts.

This first round of screenings will conclude with the presentation of four videos from the CEC archives, one per day for four days, from April 25th to 28th, 2023, some of which have been remastered and reformatted for our expanded website: Detroit on Circle by Alexandre Bianchini, Brave new world, March 2020 by Liz Craft, Cosmic Storm, Cern by Gianni Motti, The Gospel According to Jeffrey by Jeffrey Vallance.

In collaboration with Zsuzsanna Szabo, coordinator and production manager

The project Videos: new and revisited is supported by the Federal Office of Culture and the Republic and Canton of Geneva.

Artistes

Exhibitions

2024
P.A.G.E.S. 2024
Caroline Schattling Villeval
Carences et toute-puissance
2023
VOLUMES – Art Publishing Days 2023
Gina Folly
Dolce Vita
Book launch, Paradis
Presentation evening “Before publications”
RM
SOLO TÚ
Videos: new and revisited
artgenève 2023
Editions and Before publications
2022
Liz Craft
Ms. America

L’esprit d’escalier
Paul Bernard
“Guy would never have done that.” Debord Curator
I Never Read, Art Book Fair Basel 2022
Paris Ass Book Fair 2022
Mai-Thu Perret
My sister’s hand in mine
artgenève 2022
Before et publications
2021
Marie Angeletti
Ram
Paul Viaccoz
ESPRIT ES-TU LÀ ?

Bridge the gap
Guillaume Dénervaud
Surv’Eye
Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair 2021
2020
Paul Paillet
Fascination for fire
Metallica
artgenève 2020
Fabian Marti
Such a Good Girl
2019
P.A.G.E.S. 2019
Open accrochage, editions
of
TIMOTHÉE CALAME
ALTERA
LA Art Book Fair 2019
Spring Sale Time
artgenève 2019
ground
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy
What to wear to a concert? Tips for concert outfits: wear your best punk jacket with the right patches ! “A patch meant to be fixed to the back of your jacket depicting relevant cultural affiliations”
2018
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy
The Meadow
Salon MAD#4 (Multiple Art Days)
Paris 2018
Entrelacs
Victor Man invites Navid Nuur
Valentin Carron, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, François Curlet…
artgenève 2018
Keren Cytter
2017
Jonathan Monk
Directional Advice
Thomas Hirschhorn
Flashforward
Edited by the CEC!
Focus: Mélanie Matranga
Jean-Michel Wicker
#picturebook1
Book Launch c/o Section 7 Books, Paris
Jean-Michel Wicker
#picturebook1
Book Launch c/o SALTS, Birsfelden/Basel
Presentation of the edition
Jean-Michel Wicker
#picturebook1
Jakob Kolding
The Outside or the Inside of the Internalised Externalised
Jean-Michel Wicker
BBiblioteca ffanafffantastica
artgenève 2017
Inside the Bubble-Booth
Presentation of the edition
Jean-Michel Wicker
Belle étiquette
2016
Presentation of the book
Mathis Gasser
In the Museum 1 2 (3),
Regulators 1 2 n
Presentation of the edition
Artists’ Voices
Valentin Carron
Deux épaisseurs un coin
Mathis Gasser
Sept sont tombés vers le ciel
Works on paper
artgenève 2016
2015
Artists’ Voices
Prolongation
Artists’ Voices
Extract
I Never Read, Art Book Fair Basel 2015
Jason Dodge
David Maljkovic
with
Konstantin Grcic
Negatives
artgenève 2015
2014
WINTER SALE
AND
ALPHABET EDITIONS
Raphaël Julliard
Chromozone
Oriol Vilanova
Renoncer à te décrire
artgenève 2014 FILMS – CORRIDOR
2013
Artissima 2013
Edited!
NY Art Book Fair 2013
David Hominal
Through The Windows
Jonathan Monk
Egg
artgenève 2013
2012
Posters
Salon Light #9, Paris
NY Art Book Fair 2012
Oscar Tuazon
Salon des Dames
artgenève 2012
Jeffrey Vallance
The Vallance Bible
Nouvelles éditions
Oscar Tuazon
Book Launch c/o Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich
2011
Aaron Flint Jamison
Philippe Decrauzat
Book Launch c/o Motto Zürich
Abstractions sentimentales et quelques éditions, Cneai, Paris
Philippe Decrauzat
NYSTAGMUS
Gerard Byrne
For example; a sketch of Five Elevations, 1971-72
Presentation of the book
Sgrafo vs Fat Lava
2010
Présentation de l’édition de Pierre Bismuth Something Less, Something More – DIY
Sgrafo vs Fat Lava
Céramiques et porcelaines Made in West Germany, 1960-1980
“Encadrées”
Susanne M. Winterling
They Called Each Other Horses
Changement d’accrochage: Heimo Zobernig
Fröhliche Gesellschaft,
Parrotta Contemporary Art, Stuttgart
2009
Editions vs. objets
Erik van Lieshout
The Assistant
T. Quelques possibilités de textes
EDITIONS (suite…)
Présentation du catalogue
L’Effet papillon, 1989-2007,
castillo/corrales, Paris
2008
EDITIONS (2004-2008)
Presentation of
L’Effet papillon, 1989-2007
at Maison de la poésie, Basel
Trisha Donnelly
L’Effet papillon, 1989-2007
Olivier Bardin
You belong to me I belong to you
2007
Editions récentes
Anne-Julie Raccoursier
Wireless World, BAC, Genève
Otra de Vaqueros (Redux), BAC, Genève
Habitat/Variations, BAC, Genève
Markus Schinwald, BAC, Genève
Andreas Dobler
In Deep Ink, BAC, Genève
2006
Gianni Motti
Perpetual Channel
The Missing Evidence
Accrochage des éditions 1995-2005
Marie Velardi
Futurs antérieurs, 20006
2005
Christophe Rey
Ocean Bluff
Quelques éditions…
No More Lights On My Starguitar
2004
Florian Pumhösl
Héliogravures et film
M/M (Paris)
Pour hoM/Me,
printemps-été 2004
Mai-Thu Perret
Love thy sister like thyself
Haroutioun Simonian
Performance (à huis clos) & installation vidéo
2003
Filière papier – Filière expo
Monica Bonvicini
Accrochage de l’édition
Eternmale
Finger No. 12
conventions/
Konventionen/
conventions
Jakob Kolding
Amy O’Neill et Emmanuel Piguet
Dm-melkenburg
2002
Karl Holmqvist
Soirée tropicale
Animation: Vidéos
Rosemarie Trockel
Edition, eaux-fortes, 1996
KIOSK (V)
Monica Bonvicini
Bonded Eternmale
2001
Affiches/Livres
Social Hackers
Editions
Fabrice Gygi
VITRINES et PITON UNIVERSEL
Vidya Gastaldon & Jean-Michel Wicker
2000
Editions 2000
Bring the Noise
Bourse du CGGC 1997-1999
1999
KLAT
Evil Talk: Beyond the pleasure principle
Thomas Hirschhorn
Elke Krystufek
In the Arms of Luck
Editions
1998
One Step Backwards: Books,
prints, videos, 1998
LISTE 98, The Young Art Fair,
Usine Warteck, Bâle
lithographs
1997
Elena Montesinos
Tune out, Turn off, Drop in
Multiples of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine
Eté 97
Stan Douglas
Photographies
Hinrich Sachs

B. Toguo Tamokoué
Gravures et Multiples
1996
Heimo Zobernig
Alexandre Bianchini,
Nicolás Fernández,
Jérôme Hentsch
et
Alain Julliard
Kristin Oppenheim
Rosemarie Trockel
1995
Thomas Hirschhorn
Les Plaintifs, les Bêtes, les Politiques
Karen Kilimnik
Tiger
Editions of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine
Luc Tuymans
Le Verdict
Estampes et photographies
Yves Gevaert éditeur, Bruxelles
1994
Olivier Mosset
Claude Closky
Alexandre Bianchini

Hubert Mean
Alex Hanimann
Peintures, édition
1993
Giuseppe Penone
Images de pierres
Sigurdur Arni Sigurdsson
Peintures, dessins
Gerry Schum
Fernseh und Videogalerie
John M Armleder
Ian Anüll
Dessins, sérigraphies et éditions
Claude Gaçon
1992
Éditions, 1986-1992
John M Armleder
Parkett
Jean Stern
Panini alle melanzane
Stephan Landry
Marie Sacconi
1991
Laurence Pittet
Suzanne Lafont
Photographies
Marcel Broodthaers
Œuvres graphiques, 1964-1975
Jean-Michel Othoniel
¡ Capotes !
1990
Roman Signer
Installation hélicoptère, 1990
Jean-Marc Meunier
Sapins de Noël, 1988-1989
Anne Pesce
Pêcheur, c’est lui qui devient un poisson
Andreas Hofer
Installation – édition
1989
Emmett Williams
Multiples
Henri Michaux
Encres, gouaches, aquarelles, lavis
Andreas Gursky
Photographies
Stéphane Brunner
1988
Mori Shigeru
Estampes