Pierre Huyghe on
Time Score and Timing
Monday, January 22, 7:00-9pm
* Note Location: Timken Auditorium, California College of the Arts, 1111 Eighth St., San Francisco
* This lecture is co-sponsored by CCA and the French Consulate
All ATC Lectures are free and open to the public
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Beginning with an introduction to the Association of Freed Time, this talk by
Pierre Huyghe will focus on time based projects and exhibitions, scripted
situations, and the construction of scenarios. While presenting his work,
Huyghe will discuss a variety of methodologies, taking into consideration the
exhibition as a form, the formats of representation as exhibition venues
(theater, cinema, books, newspapers, parks...), placement and timing, the
'becoming image' of things, the exhibition versus the show, the principle of
equivalence. Representation as a performative means, the activation of space,
the rules of the game. Comedy, the recent mainstream attraction, celebration
and celebrity.
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Pierre Huyghe, born in Paris in 1962, lives in New-York and Paris. Huyghe
explores the territory of reality and fiction, creating a site of convergence
for interpretation, representation, and transformation. His work incorporates
film, objects, and staged events such as celebrations, puppet shows, and
musicals to address how we construct and translate experience. Although the
final artwork often takes the form of a projected image, Huyghe's primary
interest lies in the production of situations. Since founding the Association
of Freed Time in 1995, Pierre Huyghe has sought to introduce new paradigms to
the art exhibition by extending its temporal mode.
Since 1994 he has mounted solo exhibitions at institutions including the Tate
Modern - London, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/ ARC - Paris,
Carpenter Center - Cambridge, Dia Center for the Arts - NewYork, Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum - New York, 49th Venice Biennial (Pavillon Français), Musée
d'art contemporain - Montréal, Centre Georges Pompidou - Paris, Museum of
Contemporary Art - Chicago, Kunsthalle - Zurich, Museum of Art - Santa Monica,
Wiener Secession - Vienna. He also contributed to Whitney Biennial - 2006,
Documenta 11 - 2002, 48th Venice Biennial - 1999, Manifesta 2, European
Biennial of Contemporary Art 1998, and to many other group exhibitions and
festivals. Awards : Hugo Boss Prize, 2002, Special Award, Venice Biennial
2001, DAAD, Berlin, 1999-2000
http://www.pierrehuyghe.com/
