[Nettime-ro] Kadist Art Foundation presents Like an Attali Report, but different

[Cosmin Costinas <cosmincostinas2004@yahoo.com>]

Like an Attali Report, but different
On fiction and political imagination

Opening on Saturday, June 14
June 15 ? July 27, 2008

KADIST ART FOUNDATION
19bis-21 rue des Trois Frères
F-75018 
Phone/Fax : +33 1 42 51 83 49
contact@kadist.org
www.kadist.org



Yael Bartana, Gregg Bordowitz, Heman Chong, Ciprian
Muresan, Deimantas Narkevicius, Redza Piyadasa,
Pushwagner, Anatoli Osmolovsky, Mona Vatamanu & Florin
Tudor

Curated by Cosmin Costinas



The Attali Report (or the Report of the Commission for
the Liberation of French Growth), commissioned by
President Sarkozy, was published half a year ago,
provoking a long series of discussions, mainly
confined to the French public arena and mainly focused
on the report's concrete proposals, set to implement a
neoliberal model for the French economy and society.
But the Attali Report is a surprisingly interesting
text, especially in its emphatic high brow literary
introduction, being one of the first major instances
where the neoliberal system is asserted beyond the
rather discreet discourse of the "necessary reforms"
through which it has insinuated itself since the
eighties. It is now invested with the value of a
concrete historical paradigm, of a describable era of
revolutionary novelty, making the Attali Report a
relevant document for the current attempts to imagine
a dominant narrative representing and organizing the
scope of our global system.

However, this exhibition is neither about the Attali
Report nor is it a report itself. It does,
nonetheless, try to unfold fictions and images that
offer an insight on different narratives that have
been overlapping for the past decades in our thinking
of politics, at different times and in different
localities. It refers to the disintegration of the
communist utopia and some images, passions, stories
and reactions that came along with this process; it
visits the meeting of fiction and Utopian thinking on
both sides of the Iron Curtain; it mentions some
processes of exoticization and nation building; it
acknowledges the formation of communities of struggle
and resistance. But the works don't passively present
such narratives, they alter them and participate -
albeit indirectly - to their fabrication. The
exhibition works at this point of interaction between
story telling and political imagination, a knot that
encapsulates the political potential of art as an
agent of representation. It brings together these
occurrences and positions, sometimes contradictory,
sometimes doubtful and sometimes passionately engaged
and determined.  
The reference to the Attali report on the state of
France, a highly specific and local anchor, is used to
take the discussion into a wider perspective, to mark
the moments and the blockages - as well as some
parallel areas of articulation - that have contributed
to the current crisis in the imagination of a language
and a scope for politics.

The exhibition is accompanied by interventions of
writers and critics and by a film program that
reiterates a few lines of the exhibition, using the
cinematic language and its potentials.

Opening hours 
Thursday ? Sunday, 2pm to 7pm

Accompanying program

Saturday, June 14, 11am
Interventions by Sven Luetticken and Simon Sheikh.

Saturday, June 14, 1pm
Screening of the film «Fast Trip, Long Drop» (1994) by
Gregg Bordowitz, with an introduction by the artist. 

Friday, June 20, 8pm
«Agitators» (1971) by Dezso Magyar.
«Family Nest» (1979) by Bela Tarr.

Sunday, June 22, 8pm
«I am Cuba» (1964) by Mikhail Kalatozov.

Tuesday, June 25, 8pm
«Out of the Present» (1995) by Andrei Ujica.

The film program and the talks will take place at the
cinema Ciné 13, located in the vicinity of Kadist Art
Foundation.

Ciné 13
1 ave Junot
F-75018 Paris 
Phone : +33 1 42 51 13 79
http://www.cine13-theatre.com/






The exhibition is generously supported by Plan B,
Cluj; OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo;
Royal Danish Embassy in Paris; Lithuanian Institute,
Vilnius.

During the realization of the project, the curator was
awarded residencies in Paris by the Kadist Art
Foundation and the Romanian Cultural Institute.



      
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