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While I was also listening to David, Eleanor, Mariana, Jean, Mark, Genk, Daphne, Pierre, Shima, Simon, Zin, Christian and Virginie

visual identity © Lieux Communs

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exhibition view While I was also listening to David, Eleanor, Mariana, Jean, Mark, Genk, Daphne, Pierre, Shima, Simon, Zin, Christian and Virginie, La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 2017

photo: Benoît Mauras

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Pierre Paulin, Complexe de 1986, nº4, deuxième édition, exhibition view While I was also listening to David, Eleanor, Mariana, Jean, Mark, Genk, Daphne, Pierre, Shima, Simon, Zin, Christian and Virginie, La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 2017

production: La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes

photo: Benoît Mauras

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David Antin, Skypoems, circa 1988

courtesy Antin and Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

© J. Paul Getty Trust

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David Horvitz, Sans titre (Bretagne), exhibition view While I was also listening to David, Eleanor, Mariana, Jean, Mark, Genk, Daphne, Pierre, Shima, Simon, Zin, Christian and Virginie, La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 2017

production: La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes

photo: Benoît Mauras

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Zin Taylor, The Attic (part 2), exhibition view While I was also listening to David, Eleanor, Mariana, Jean, Mark, Genk, Daphne, Pierre, Shima, Simon, Zin, Christian and Virginie, La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 2017

production: La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes

photo: Benoît Mauras

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Eleanor Antin, 100 boots, 1971–73, 51 postcards

courtesy l’artiste, Alden Projects, New York an collection privée, Rennes

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Simon Starling, Project for a Rift Valley Crossing, 2015–2017, exhibition view While I was also listening to David, Eleanor, Mariana, Jean, Mark, Genk, Daphne, Pierre, Shima, Simon, Zin, Christian and Virginie, La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 2017

Simon Starling © Adagp, Paris 2018
photo : Benoît Mauras

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Virginie Yassef, La Savane, exhibition view While I was also listening to David, Eleanor, Mariana, Jean, Mark, Genk, Daphne, Pierre, Shima, Simon, Zin, Christian and Virginie, La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 2017

Virginie Yassef © Adagp, Paris 2018

production: La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes and Amandiers theater, Nanterre

photo: Benoît Mauras

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Mariana Castillo Deball, El donde estoy va desapareciendo / The where I am is vanishing, 2011, exhibition view While I was also listening to David, Eleanor, Mariana, Jean, Mark, Genk, Daphne, Pierre, Shima, Simon, Zin, Christian and Virginie, La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 2017

photo: Benoît Mauras

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Virginie Yassef, La Savane, exhibition view While I was also listening to David, Eleanor, Mariana, Jean, Mark, Genk, Daphne, Pierre, Shima, Simon, Zin, Christian and Virginie, La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 2017

Virginie Yassef © Adagp, Paris 2018

production: La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes and Amandiers theater, Nanterre

photo: Benoît Mauras

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David Horvitz, Sans titre (Bretagne) and When the Ocean Sounds, exhibition view While I was also listening to David, Eleanor, Mariana, Jean, Mark, Genk, Daphne, Pierre, Shima, Simon, Zin, Christian and Virginie, La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 2017

production: La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes

photo: Benoît Mauras

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Daphne Oram working on the Oramics, circa 1960

courtesy Oram Trust and Goldsmiths university of London

© Fred Wood and Daphne Oram Trust

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David Antin, Skypoems, circa 1988, exhibition view While I was also listening to David, Eleanor, Mariana, Jean, Mark, Genk, Daphne, Pierre, Shima, Simon, Zin, Christian and Virginie, La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 2017

courtesy Antin and Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

© J. Paul Getty Trust

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David Horvitz, Sans titre (Bretagne), exhibition view While I was also listening to David, Eleanor, Mariana, Jean, Mark, Genk, Daphne, Pierre, Shima, Simon, Zin, Christian and Virginie, La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 2017

photo: Benoît Mauras

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Zin Taylor, The Story of Stripes and Dots (chapter 9) – Tale of a dot, exhibition view While I was also listening to David, Eleanor, Mariana, Jean, Mark, Genk, Daphne, Pierre, Shima, Simon, Zin, Christian and Virginie, La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 2017

production: La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes

photo: Benoît Mauras

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Zin Taylor, The Attic (part 2), exhibition view While I was also listening to David, Eleanor, Mariana, Jean, Mark, Genk, Daphne, Pierre, Shima, Simon, Zin, Christian and Virginie, La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 2017

production: La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes

photo: Benoît Mauras

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gerlach en koop, Pillow Objects, exhibition view While I was also listening to David, Eleanor, Mariana, Jean, Mark, Genk, Daphne, Pierre, Shima, Simon, Zin, Christian and Virginie, La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 2017

production: La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes

photo: Benoît Mauras

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exhibition view While I was also listening to David, Eleanor, Mariana, Jean, Mark, Genk, Daphne, Pierre, Shima, Simon, Zin, Christian and Virginie, La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 2017

Virginie Yassef © Adagp, Paris 2018

photo: Benoît Mauras

Exhibition

While I was also listening to David, Eleanor, Mariana, Jean, Mark, Genk, Daphne, Pierre, Shima, Simon, Zin, Christian and Virginie

David Antin, Eleanor Antin, Mariana Castillo Deball, Jean Dupuy, Mark Geffriaud, gerlach en koop, David Horvitz, Daphne Oram, Pierre Paulin, Shimabuku, Simon Starling, Zin Taylor, Christian Xatrec and Virginie Yassef


While I was also listening to David, Eleanor, Mariana, Genk, David, Jean, Mark, Daphne, Pierre, Shima, Simon, Zin, Christian and Virginie is the final exhibition of the cycle on the idea of narrative at La Criée centre for contemporary art.

This is the B-side – the slightly distorting mirror – of the first exhibition in the series, which presented practically the same artists, the only exceptions here being Daphne Oram, successor to Delia Derbyshire, and Franco-New York artist Christian Xatrec, a close friend of Jean Dupuy.

Things have happened to the works making up that first exhibition: things that have sometimes transformed them, sometimes projected them into the past, the future and even into the clouds, but have in all cases added to their depth.

Some of the works, for example, have simply been turned around, making visible the side usually hidden: after the picture sides of Eleanor Antin’s postcards we now discover their backs and in some instances the names of their addressees.

Also including various documents and archival items, most of them never shown before, the exhibition raises the question of the artwork’s survival via the document, the trace and its marginal aspects as well – which, after all, maybe also constitute the work. After listening to Delia Derbyshire, we discover compositions, scores, projects, etc., of another woman pioneer of electronic music Daphne Oram ; and after the presentation of a group of works by Jean Dupuy based on his memories of the performances he organised and took part in the New York of the 1980s, we discover the posters he designed for those performances: looking back and forward… From David Antin, we discover the archives of the project of Skypoems: two poems written in the sky by advertising smoke planes, each verse was written over a distance of about a kilometer and a half. As for David Horvitz, after having questioned the connivance between the water of the clouds and that of the taps, he gathers here a certain number of indices testifying to the artistic potential of the ocean.

This final exhibition also continues the encounters between individual destinies in art and history terms. After presenting her cut-up museum catalogues, Mariana Castillo Deball recounts here, via the history of a(nother) book the difficult cultural transition – or abduction – effected between colonisers and colonised; and Simon Starling, ten years after that first canoe adventure in search of the okapi, has come up with a brand new video recounting an attempt to cross the Dead Sea from Israel to Jordan.

Some of the artists add a new chapter to stories begun last winter: rereading a play by Ray Bradbury, Virginie Yassef presents us with its initial characters and dialogue, after leaving us to guess at the setting; Zin Taylor tells us what’s happened over the last year to the figures and shapes he had originally drawn on the walls; and gerlach en koop offers new Pillow Objects whose shapes and meanings follow on from the one shown at La Criée last winter; and we follow Shimabuku with jubilation in the continuation of his adventures with the octopuses.

Last but not least, where Mark Geffriaud, Christian Xatrec and Pierre Paulin are concerned, the question is repeated, but remains open: can a work of art live on solely via the narratives spun around it? As a way of both reinforcing and challenging the elements of repetitiousness in the works themselves, they are shown in the same places – or almost – as in the first exhibition.

With «While I was also listening […]» we invite viewers to share with us the strange, incisive dream of an exhibition intended never to be quite the same and never to be quite different. Which leads us to wonder: what varies from one exhibition, narrative or work to another? Is the work of art a variation, a translation, a transmission or a stance?



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Produced works

gerlach en koop

  • Pillow Objects, 2017
  • Pillows Objects, 2017
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Virginie Yassef

  • La Savane, 2017
  • La Savane, 2017
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Zin Taylor

  • Thoughts of a dot as it traverses a space (The Attic), 2017
  • The Attic (part 2), 2017
  • The Story of Stripes and Dots (chapter 9) - Tale of a dot, 2017
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Produced works

Pierre Paulin

  • Complexe de 1986, nº4, deuxième édition, 2017
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Green Flash

point de vue – 61′ (16 décembre 2017 – 15h)

Christian Xatrec

December 16th, 2017

3 pm

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Green flash

Ensemble HANATSU Miroir et Will Guthrie

Samuel Andreyev, Malika Kishino, Chikage Imaï, Kenji Sakai and Will Guthrie

saturday 20 january 2018

from 2 pm to 6 pm

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Research-action

While I was listening to the Kandinsky library

Jean-Baptiste André, Felicia Atkinson, Julien Bismuth & Virginie Yassef, François Bonnet, Sophie Kaplan & Sophie Lapalu, Yann Sérandour

2017

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Exhibition

While I was also listening to David, Eleanor, Mariana, Delia, Genk, Jean, Mark, Pierre, Shima, Simon, Zin and Virginie

David Antin, Eleanor Antin, Mariana Castillo Deball, Delia Derbyshire, Jean Dupuy, Mark Geffriaud, gerlach en koop, David Horvitz, Pierre Paulin, Shimabuku, Simon Starling, Zin Taylor and Virginie Yassef

from 13 January to 5 March 2017

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Performance and symposium

Sky Poems

David Antin

27 & 29 September 2018, Los Angeles and San Diego

LeScribe

Célia Houdart, Le Scribe et un sphinx / The Scribe is a sphinx

the futuristic short story by Célia Houdart about the cycle, While I was also listening […]

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Cycle

While I was also listening […]

Felicia Atkinson, Julien Bismuth and Yann Sérandour

from January 2017 to February 2018