Last Year at Marienbad redux
September 12 - October 26, 2013
Curated by James Voorhies
Jennifer Allen
Keren Cytter
Tacita Dean
Jessamyn Fiore
Dan Fox
Jens Hoffmann
Iman Issa
David Maljković
Ján Mančuška
Gordon Matta-Clark
Josh Tonsfeldt,
Allan Sekula & Noël Burch
Maya Schweizer
Last Year at Marienbad redux is an exhibition, public program and publication that explores the way fact and fiction merge to form accepted knowledge about people, places, events and politics. Drawing on the use of elliptical conversations in the 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad by Alain Resnais as a point of departure, the exhibition features works of art that utilize various cinematic conventions, such as editing, character development, narrative, mise-en-scène and montage, to reveal how our understanding of reality is often mediated by those very cinematic techniques.
The Marienbad Sessions is a public program that occurs in the exhibition site at the EFA Project Space and an essential component of Last Year at Marienbad redux. Over the course of the exhibition, The Marienbad Sessions presents a series of weekly public events and performances with Jens Hoffmann, Dan Fox, Jessamyn Fiore, James Voorhies and others. This public forum seeks to transform the exhibition space into a learning site that simultaneously intersects visually and conceptually with the works of art—text, sculpture, photography, installation and video.
EVENTS
Monday, September 16th, 7:00PM
The Marienbad Sessions: Maya Schweizer: Lieux de memoire, desire and film
Thursday, October 10th, 7:00PM
The Marienbad Sessions: Dan Fox
Thursday, October 17th, 7:00PM
The Marienbad Sessions: "A Blast from the Past" with Jessamyn Fiore
Monday, October 21st, 7:00 PM
The Marienbad Sessions: Jens Hoffmann
OTHER MARIENBAD-RELATED EVENTS IN NYC
September 12 - October 19, 2013 at Metro Pictures
David Maljković
www.metropictures.com
October 18 - 24, 2013 at Anthology Film Archives
Alain Resnais's YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET
www.anthologyfilmarchives.org
October 22, 2013 at Film Forum
Alain Resnais's LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD
www.filmforum.org
Allan Sekula and Noël Burch, Still from Reagan Tape, 1981. Single-channel video, color, sound, 10 min. 39 sec., edition of 5
© Allan Sekula and Noël Burch, Courtesy of the artists and Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
The Marienbad Papers is a publication produced as part of Last Year at Marienbad redux. It will be a hybrid publication uniting characteristics of an art journal, catalogue essay, film script and art criticism into a singular printed form.
Bureau for Open Culture is an itinerant, non-profit curatorial initiative that receives support from institutions and foundations to make projects in dialogue with artists and writers. It combines curating, education, design, communication and publishing to position the art institution as an overall form of critical practice, uniting art and education into a singular cohesive mode of exhibition making.
Publication made possible with a grant from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation.
