As the 2008–9 artistic cycle turns for many towards a holiday exodus and 'out of office' autoresponders, below is a selection of some unseen and 'behind the scenes' moments from our projects since last summer.
Thank you to everyone y felices vacaciones!
– Latitudes
(Three images above): MCL with Lawrence Weiner during the installation of
Lawrence Weiner's exhibition 'THE CREST OF A WAVE' at the
Fundació Suñol, Barcelona, in October–November 2008; during the press conference; Lawrence,
Latitudes and
Fundació Suñol team (Sergi Aguilar, Maga Ruiz, Xavier De Luca, Mireia Arnau and Jaume Brunet) photographed by Pierre-Jean Moulis
after tossing a horseshoe upon the crest of a wave.
16–19 October 2008: presentation of the Danish artist
Tue Greenfort 'transparent' bins outside Frieze Art Fair, London, commissioned by the
Royal Society of Arts' '
Arts & Ecology' programme.
5–9 November 2008: Leaving the
'X, Y, etc!' Videolounge in
Artissima Art Fair, Torino, Italy; admiring the phenomenal long table arrangement Artissima dinner hosted at the equally phenomenal Venaria Reale.
November 2009: fourth visit to Rotterdam – evening boat trip with some of '
Portscapes' artists, site visit to the port with the
Port of Rotterdam's Sjaak Poppe (Hans Schabus and Roman Keller alongside) and discussions in Marjolijn Dijkman's studio (Roman Keller and Christina Hemauer – with Ilana Halperin on Skype)
November 2009:
‘La, la, la, la: on winning and losing’ co-curator Aimar Arriola arranging a work with artist Verónica Aguilera and (below) selecting images with Fermín Jimenez Landa and Oriol Vilanova.
8 February:
SKOR curator Theo Tegelaers and Jan Dibbets during the filming of
Jan Dibbets' '6 Hours Tide Object with Correction of Perspective'; some of '
Portscapes' artists including Bik Van der Pol and Marjolijn Dijkman visit the beach while waiting for the tide to go up; Christiane Bosman (SKOR press coordinator) and curator Theo Tegelaers from
SKOR at '
Portscapes' during Art Rotterdam opening evening.
18 February:
Vena (por la) talk with (the then) Walker Art Center associate curator
Doryun Chong (now associate curator at MoMA in New York)
April 2009 - The
Associació d'Art Crítics de Catalunya awards
Fundació Suñol for their exhibition programme (Latitudes-curated projects
Lawrence Weiner's '
THE CREST OF THE WAVE' and the Land Art film programme '
A Stake in the Mud, A Hole in the Reel. Land Art's Expanded Field, 1968–2008' were part of this
season)
(7 images above): First Neapolitan lunch with Simon Fujiwara and Jordi Mitjà: deep-fried maceroni; Erick Beltrán installing during '
Provenances', Umberto di Marino, Naples; preparing Simon's 'Museum of incest'; subtitling session with Nicoletta Daldanise; delightful Sicilian cuisine at Umberto's house, documenting Erick's work during the opening night and audience during Simon's
performance 'The Museum of Incest: A Guided Tour' (
publication here)
(5 above): Arrival day in Beijing with Ignasi Aballí; laying out the Barcelona posters for 'Scenic viewpoints'; (around 3.30am...) installation of
'Nothing, or Something' at Yintai Centre with
Suitcase Art Projects artistic director Carol Yinghua Lu and Ignasi; checking the vinyl is straight with Ignasi ('El País' always at hand) and a quiet conversation with Carol on the escalators.
(2 Above): During the installation of '
The Garden of Forking Paths', Maisterravalbuena, Madrid, May 2009 and post-
opening beer landscape at Maisterravalbuena office, 29 May 2009.
Hans Schabus mulls over the location for his Portscapes project, the image '
Europahaven, Port of Rotterdam, 17 Juni 2009', 15 June 2009
(2 above): At Latitudes' temporary office space during the non-profit festival '
No Soul for Sale', in New York, 24-28 June 2009 (with Michael Jackson breaking news on screen).
The Bruce High Quality Foundation in full (we are indebted to them for their fantastic 1983 Burger King set up)
(3 above) Installing Graham Gussin work during
'Sequelism Part 3. Possible, Probable or Preferable futures' in Arnolfini, Bristol (July 2009); hanging around with participating artists Francesc Ruiz and Haegue Yang as well as Nav Haq (Arnolfini curator) before dinner; and knitting lessons from Haegue at Arnolfini's bar.
[All photos: Latitudes | www.lttds.org]Labels: Fundació Suñol, hans schabus, Ignasi Aballí, Jan Dibbets, Lawrence Weiner, Maisterravalbuena, Portscapes, Sequelism, Simon Fujiwara, SKOR, Tue Greenfort, Umberto di Marino, X initiative
