Re: FW: GIVING PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT - Glassbox, Paris

May 22, 2006

Type: discussion

Otherwise known as button pushing?

On Mon, 22 May 2006, Lauren Cornell wrote:

> Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:58:51 -0400
> From: Lauren Cornell <[email protected]>
> To: RHIZOME <[email protected]>
> Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: FW: GIVING PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT - Glassbox, Paris
>
> New exhibition by London-based curator Hanne Mugaas
>
> —— Forwarded Message
> From: "hanne mugaas" <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 16:58:11 +0100
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: GIVING PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT - Glassbox, Paris
>
> GIVING PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT - GLASSBOX, PARIS
> Curated by Hanne Mugaas and Ida Ekblad
>
> ****************************************************************************
> ****
> Takeshi Murata | Cory Arcangel | Marius Engh | Fredrik Soderberg |
> Michael Bell-Smith | Anders Nordby | Paper Rad | Ida Ekblad |
> Faycal Baghriche | Jonas Ohlsson | Lars Laumann | Jean-Paul Newman |
> Lina Viste Groenli | Are Mokkelbost | Daniel Jensen | Matthieu Clainchard |
>
> ****************************************************************************
> ****
>
> May 25th 2006 - from 18.00
> The project is a commission by The Comissariat
>
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> ****
>
>
> *Question notions of the object, of authorship and distribution*
>
> *To arrange and rearrange information is to personally or administratively
> produce or document history*
>
> Either using real documents, close copies or absolute fakes,
> information exist to create meaning and commentary inside or beyond
> context. Truth and evidence may be questioned, but the information is
> still there. We have entered a culture of choice,
> emphasizing the importance of availability; how to choose, arrange and
> use. Distribute. Being an expert means to be confident there is always
> an easier way to do it, that there is always a more direct
> confrontation with reality which might yield an interesting spin-off,
> that there is always the possibility of an incalculable effect, which
> might turn
> everything upside down.
>
>
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> ****
>
> GLASSBOX
>
> 113bis, rue Oberkampf Paris 11eme