Jimmy Robert & Saskia de Keyser & Emma Hedditch & Ian White, “La musique dans la chambre“, 9 April 2010, 7 p.m., performance evening, NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW, JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION, Duesseldorf
Born in French Guadeloupe, Jimmy Robert works with diverse media including photography, collages, objects, art books, short films and performance art. In his explorations into the relationship between images and objects, Robert draws attention to the dynamics of different surfaces. Questions of identity and its representation are his main interest, and he uses a variety of references to literature, art and music to emphasise the fragility of the materials he uses.
Together with his longtime partners and friends Emma Hedditch and Ian White, Jimmy Robert developed a new work for NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW with the title “La musique dans la chambre“. Jimmy Robert describes it this way: "The context of the Julia Stoschek exhibition space will be transformed for one night only into a more intimate curtained chamber where the audience will be guided from one work to the other. For this night I would like to concentrate on the ideas of performance, its deferral, the voice precisely, as a form of disembodied performance, opening up a discursive space for our sonorous intimacies and perhaps also exploring absence and its economy."
Emma Hedditch, “Scarcity, From Horizontal To Vertical And Back Again“, video documentation by Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy of a performance by Emma Hedditch, 18 September 2008, at the Musée de Montmartre, Paris. A cooly passionate meditation on modern life and its complexities.
Ian White, “Democracy“, 2009, live performance with radio and powerpoint presentation. A romantic exploration of the power structures that surround us and our position in relation to them.
Jimmy Robert, “Consensus rouge noir“, 2010, a 16mm film with a live text reading by Saskia de Keyser. A form of abstract yet figurative essay on film and its consequences on desire.
Programme
27.10.2009 Andrea Fraser
27.11.2009 Marina Abramović, Eunhye Hwang, Ragnar Kjartansson, Nico Vascellari
28.11.2009 WW in concert
12.12.2009 Andrea Zittel
18.12.2009 Dara Friedman
09.01.2010 Xavier Le Roy
22.01.2010 Bert Didillon, Stefan Ettlinger, Andreas Korte, Cornelius Quabeck, Sven Vieweg
06.02.2010 Christian Jankowski
27.02.2010 Jérôme Bel, Eva Meyer-Keller
13.03.2010 Sharon Hayes
26.03.2010 Keren Cytter, Michalis Nicolaides, Annette Sonnewend & Michael Strasser (Cie. Agar Agar)
09.04.2010 Jimmy Robert, Saskia de Keyser, Emma Hedditch, Ian White
24.04.2010 Jen DeNike
14.05.2010 Manuel Graf
28.05.2010 Joan Jonas
05.06.2010 Tino Sehgal
12.06.2010 Tino Sehgal
18.06.2010 Tris Vonna-Michell
19.06.2010 Tino Sehgal
26.06.2010 Tino Sehgal
03.07.2010 Allora & Calzadilla
10.07.2010 Allora & Calzadilla
16.07.2010 Simon Fujiwara
17.07.2010 Allora & Calzadilla
24.07.2010 Allora & Calzadilla
29.07.2010 John Bock