The Rehearsal Room
Weekend 1: Alexandros Papathanasiou and Asit Bhatt, The Art of This Century; Screenings of Roxane Borujerdi and Catalina Niculescu’s works
Weekend 2: Words are Important, The Mock and other superstitions
Weekend 3: Jasper Rigole, IICADOM
12 September—28 November 2008
every friday from 7pm
For the last three weekends of September, FormContent will turn into a Rehearsal Room in which the invited artists will present screenings, events and a series of diverse performances. ‘Rehearsing’ is foremost a way of working that tends to reject conclusions in favor of a continuous repetition and recalibration, its ultimate goal being of finding some form of balance.
The Rehearsal Room temporarily addresses the parameters of the selected works offering a space for experimentation. It also comments on the contemporary idea of ‘work in progress’:The invited artists will propose, show or discuss both existing projects or ideas for future works, performances or books.
The project will be treated as a series of events that will enable FormContent, as well as the artists, to tackle formats of presentation, engaging with different audiences and interests.
First Weekend - Friday 12 September from 7 pm
Alexandros Papathanasiou and Asit Bhatt present The Art of this century. Accompanied by a text by Zeigam Azizov and based on Friedrich Kiesler’s project for Peggy Guggenheim’s gallery while addressing FormContent’s site specificity.
Saturday 13 – Sunday 14 September 12 to 6 pm
Roxane Borujerdi and Catalina Niculescu will jointly present a selection of their actions documented through video or recorded on film.
Second Weekend - Friday 19 September from 7 (Screening repeated Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 from 3 to 6 pm)
Words are important! The Mock and Other Superstitions, a quarterly journal exploring the relation of artists, writers and curators with written words, will be launched with a series of interventions, screenings and slideshows by the contributors of ISSUE 1 (Rebecca Bligh, Michael Dean, Paulus M. Dreibholz, Ruth Höflich, Matt Packer, Falke Pisano, Benoît Maire and Luca Trevisani).
Third Weekend - Friday 26 September from 7 pm
Jasper Rigole will present a lecture with a screening. The International Institute for Conservation, Archiving and Distribution of Other People’s Memories (IICADOM): A fictive institute initiated by the artist.

The Rehearsal Room, Invitation

Art of this Century, installation view

Roxane Borujerdi and Catalina Niculescu, installation view

Catalina Niculescu, installation view

Roxane Borujerdi, installation view

Roxane Borujerdi, installation view

Catalina Niculescu, installation view

Jasper Rigole, still from video

Jasper Rigole, still from video

Jasper Rigole, still from video

Jasper Rigole, still from video