As part of the triennial Bergen Assembly 2016, PRAXES develops a year-long
episodic and itinerant investigation centered on the work of two artists only:
Lynda Benglis and Marvin Gaye Chetwynd.
Co-founded by Rhea Dall and Kristine Siegel, PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art
presented four half-year cycles of exhibitions, publications, and events—each revolving around two unassociated artistic practices—between 2013 and 2015 in Berlin. Bergen Assembly 2016 is the expanded, second
chapter of this experiment.
Lynda Benglis, Primary Structures (Paula's Props), Modern Art I+II, Wing, 1975.
© Lynda Benglis / BONO 2016. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery and Cheim & Read.
Marvin Gaye Chetwynd.
Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London.
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Primary Structures (Paula’s Props)
February 6–28, KODE
Glacier Burger
April 9–May 1, Bergen School of Architecture
April 9–May 1, Bergen School of Architecture
Slithering Green
Conference speakers: Lynda Benglis, Federica Bueti,
Bjørn Mortensen, Tal R, Valerie Smith, Jan Verwoert
Bjørn Mortensen, Tal R, Valerie Smith, Jan Verwoert
April 30, Bergen School of Architecture
Double Albatross
April 30–May 15, Kunstgarasjen
On Screen
June 17–September 4, Entrée
Adhesive Products
Group exhibition: Nairy Baghramian, Olga Balema,
Lynda Benglis, Daiga Grantina, Kaari Upson, Sterling Ruby
September 2–October 9, Bergen Kunsthall
Is It Now?
November 19, Private address
Iron Age Pasta Necklace Workshop
February 6, Landmark
... Are u Bats? 1
February 25–December 9, TBA
The Elixia App (Episode One)
April 29–May 22, Visningsrommet USF
The Cell Group (Episode Two)
September 2–4, Kommunal Garasje
Cocaine and Caviar
September 2–25, Kunstgarasjen
Jabba, I'm Back! Come Back Tour, book now!
October 28–December 18, Bergen Kunsthall
it's not a bald spot it's a solar panel for a sex machine
(Episode Three)
November 18, Bergen School of Art and Design
Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (b. 1973, UK) works with exuberant collective performances
and films merging irreverence and joie de vivre. Celebrating popular culture, she has adopted elements as diverse as Michael
Jackson’s Thriller, Hayao Miyazaki’s
My Neighbor Totoro, and Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
My Neighbor Totoro, and Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
As part of PRAXES’s year-long inquiry of her practice, Chetwynd gradually carves out a new work
for Bergen Assembly. With interrelated episodes in April, September and
November, this piece is developed and reconfigured throughout the year in
collaboration with a troupe of local participants, including Bergen
octogenarians, employing a choreography influenced by body-borne computers,
business magazines and (self-)moni-toring gadgets. In parallel, a variety of
events and exhibitions look back at Chetwynd’s long-term involvement with social mores, humour and performance traditions,
including the kick-off
Iron Age Pasta Necklace Workshop (2004–), featuring the artist’s mother, and …Are U Bats? 1, an exhibition that accumulates works from Chetwynd’s ongoing series of over 300 Bat Opera paintings.
PRAXES
Bergen Assembly
Østre Skostredet 5 – 7
Bergen 5017, Norway
