Prologue For All and None
Berlin Premiere of a short film shot on location in Norway, July 2010
“Prologue for All and None”, a 29 minute-long silent movie shot and edited in ten days by Benjamin Echazarreta+ ID during our recent participation at Sørfinnset Skole/The Nord Land, in the remote area of Gildeskål, way up in the north of Norway. With text and actions directly based on the prologue section of Friedrich Nietzsche’s 1885 “Also Spracht Zarathustra”, the movie follows Zarathustra’s character as he moves through the lansdscape in the strange atmosphere of twenty-four-hour sunlight.
Prologue For All and None by ID posted by Garret Linn
Summer at Sørfinnset Skole/ The Nord Land
A Project started by Geir Tore Holm and Søssa Jørgensen, Norway, July 2010
Sørfinnset is a village of 70 inhabitants located in the municipality of Gildeskål, in Norway. The closed down village school house is anually reopened to serve as the hub for a number of cultural activities uniting local and international know-how. Sørfinnset skole/the nord land has been inspired by the land foundation in Northern Thailand, with which, for several years, the project initiated by Geir Tore Holm and Søssa Jørgensen has embarked on an unofficial collaborative exchange of art and culture. Now they intend to make a more formal and educative project involving young people from both nations and beyond, merging resources, traditions and experiences that will serve as hands-on efforts. In collaboration with Sørfinnset Residents’s Association, two Norwegian and two Thai artists runs the house as a meeting place and idea workshop. Sørfinnset skole/ the nord land revolves around seasonal activities, gardening, harvesting, nature hikes, construction work and crafts combined with discussions, exchange of knowledge, tranquility and entertainment.
More Info at Radio Kongo
Total Paz es Total Guerra (Arcoiris Atonal Op.1)
In the apartment of Pancho Casas and Yura Labarca, Santiago de Chile, April 2010
A show installed in the apartment of Pancho Casas and Yura Labarca in downtown Santiago. The main character from Total Paz es Total Guerra was Pierre Lunaire, as performed by Ian Szydlowski. The character was loosely based on the 1912 piece Pierrot Lunaire (Op. 21) by Arnold Schoenberg. Pierre manipulated a group of objects and performed four selected segments (Atonal Rainbows) from Shoenberg's piece on a painted xilophone, having previously transcribed the colors of the spectrum to it using the diatonic chromatic scale, where Red was Do or C. The show also included a series of silkscreens on aluminum and sculptural elements.
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Estudio Elefante
Estudio Elefante, Santiago de Chile, December 2009
Hueso Records hosts a free muscial soiree : ID (musical mishap), RECIPOL, MODERN WONDER (CTR), and NUTRIA NN. We offered a cover rendering of Dunkelheit by Burzum and Generación de Mierda by Los Prisioneros.
View: Flyer
Download: Generación de Mierda
Lively Presence: Vanishing Lung Syndrome
Editorial Project, Santiago de Chile, Portoalegre, Brazil, October 2009
ID presents a spanish translation of the late Czech Poet Miroslav Holub's Vanishing Lung Syndrome together with the complicite colaboration of 56 international artists to mirror the spirit of his loquacious texts with dream images provided with the only requirement of fitting an A4 size. Printed in red and green in an edition of 1000 for Galeria Metropolitana and the final stages of Protocolo Ouro Preto in the Biennal do Mercosul (to be given away for free at these events).
Artists in order of appearance: JULIANE SOLMSDORF,CHRISTINE KESLER, ALANNA LOCKWARD, RH QUAYTMAN, ANNA RUSS, TRAPLEV (ROBERTO MOREIRA JR.), HELMUT BATISTA, CHLOÉ RICHARD, ANTONAKIS CHRISTODOULOU , JPL, TAKASHI HORISAKI & NINA HORISAKI-CHRISTENS, KIM REINHARDT, MARK BORTHWICK, CHARLOTTE STRÖMBÄCK, JOS DE GRUYTER & HARALD THYS, SOFI THANHAUSER, TINA SCHULA, SOLVEJ DUFOUR ANDERSEN, ED STREETER, PETER FEND, KELLY FANCHER, DAMIAN SCHOPF, PIA LEIGHTON, JOCELYN SOUBIRAN, JENS MAIER-ROTHE, SANDRA BÜRGEL, ANTHONY HAMBOUSSI, THOMAS SCHROEREN, FRANK BENÍTEZ, MARLOUS BORM, JEFF PREISS, SEAN BLUECHEL, ALEJANDRO MORENO, ELMI BADENHORST, DE PAVLOWSKY (PAOLO BOTTARELLI), VANNI BIANCONI & ANNA LEADER, LUTZ BRAUN, RICHARD PRINCE, PAULO VIVACQUA, HENRY HINTERLAND, LUCA VITONE, LUCRETIA MORONI, ZOË SENISE HOLLINRAKE, JARBAS LOPES, ÅSA ELZÉN, JUSTINE HARARI, SEAMUS MORAN & ABRAHAM CUÉLLAR, KLAUS WINICHNER, KATHLEEN VANCE, DISCOTECA FLAMING STAR, NATASHA PAPADOPOULOU, CHRIS WESER, ILONA STALLER, PETE VOGL, IV TOSHAIN, JORIS LINDHOUT and MICHAEL YOUNG.
View: Editorial Project
Instruction to print the booklet (printing version):
This publication has 120 interior pages that can be printed to fit on A4 or A3. In printing preferences choose printing odd numbers first, then reverse the order of the resulting stack of prints, flip and insert again in the printer to print down the even numbers, this will yield a nice collection of 58 images opposed to 58 pages of witty poems. Print the cover and fold. The original issue is unbound so the pages can be interchanged and progressively fucked up according to the user's whim. Good luck!
Download: Cover [1.6 mb]
Download: Interior [2 mb]
Download: Poster [700 kb]
Mapa de Guerra del Dia de Brujas III: Mirando Atrás con Rabia
Galería Metropolitana, Santiago de Chile, Oct. 31-Nov. 25, 2009
Halloween War Map 3 "Looking Back in Anger" is the third annual installment of our 24 hour live homage to Ergot (the fungus) and its secondary effects on history, this time in Santiago de Chile, including a re-issue of "San Lorenzo's Holocoaster" (ID 2007 at The Go Between), live music by reunited Chilean underground weirdos Tobias Alcayota (playing unplugged instruments as To Be As El Coyote), the launching of Lively Presence, a not-authorized spanish translation of Vanishing Lung Syndrome by the late Czech poet Dr. Miroslav Holub along a collection of images provided by 56 collaborators of ID, the gracious participation of Miss Camila Marambio and Miss Monika G. Horvath as Fattucheri, mounts of cabbage, beets, lemons on the branch, two medieval torture chairs, two live goats (to be raffled for free at the end of the first week of the show), sprouted rye bread, a piled pyramid of blackened eggs, a stacked pyre of black bones, a meter wide version of "Spiegelzeit (Zwei)", a Thai Gold replica of Ignaz Günther's gothic momento mori (Munchen 1641), and the altar "Afro Death 31" by Tutto Crolla, made that night by instructions simultaneously in Münster, Puerto Montt and Santiago, among other elements, reunited to attain " a moment where chaos reigns, a free passage to another world...".
View: Performance Images
Website: galeriametropolitana.org
Review: Las Ultimas Noticias [Spanish]
View: Video on artesinmuros.cl
Protocolo Ouro Preto
VII Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, October-November, 2009
ID presents a piece within the show The Magnetic Tree by curator Mario Navarro in the 7th Biennale of Mercosul Scream and Listen in Porto Alegre, Brazil. All pieces in the show had to change their appeareance a number of ten times during the 45 day exhibition. Protocolo Ouro Preto (title refers to a document that states the administrative rules of the commercial treaty of Mercosul) consists of a 15 minute film shot in Porto Alegre with a group of amateur actors from the Bambas de Orgia Samba School, which is then released in 7 stages, as a local artist (Fabianno Gummo from the Porto Alegre performance team Tentacle Ensemble Collective) performs weekly activations of consecutive spaces, each one containing one scene. The work reflects on political propaganda and the political responsability of the artist, using opposed ideas and counteractive elements and including references to Leni Riefenstahl, Gustav Metzger, Cildo Meireles and other luminaries, as well as two Brazilian half-failed political projects from the 1930's.
View: Images/Videos
Website: bienalmercosul.br
El Dorado - An Evening of Roll & Rock
White Box, New York, September 13 2009
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Hueso Records and ID host a free muscial soiree at white Box gallery in the Lower East Side, NYC. With cheap beer and chicken by Chino, General Production by Amanda Dora, Video by Pilar Ortiz. Live Acts in order of appearance: ADAM DUBOV, APEMAN, DIE HAIFISCHE, BOTH, DIE VERBOTENEN FROESCHE, RECIPOL, NUTRIA NN, FAZER and CRAZY INTERMEZZOS by DJ OFF-ENDER & MANGUERA.
Wir Verbessern Ihre Arbeit
Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin, May-June 2009
(We Improve Your Work) An Empirical Show About Artistic Ego and Imposed Value Judgments.
A selected group of international artists are invited to present an original work, without any restrictions of theme, size or technique, being aware of the fact that their work will be altered by ID prior to its exhibition, without any assistance, advice or consultation to the artist.
With the brave participation of:
TANYA BEDNAR MARLOUS BORM LUTZ BRAUN MERLIN CARPENTER RAPHAEL DANKE ANDREAS DIEFENBACH ISABELLE FEIN LARS FRIEDRICH UNDINE GOLDBERG NICOLÁS GUAGNINI JEROEN JACOBS JUTTA KOETHER KALIN LINDENA FRIEDERICH LISSMANN SØREN MARQUARDT OLIVER MILLER MELANIE NIEDERBUCHNER SACHIE OKAWA
METIN POLAT DARAGH REEVES NINA RHODE EGILL SÆBJÖRNSSON GIOVANNA SARTI GUNNA SCHMIDT KARIN SCHNEIDER+DAN GRAHAM THOMAS SCHROEREN KERIM SEILER COURTNEY SMITH T. STAUDT VASSILIEA STYLIANIDOU MEGAN SULLIVAN MIRIAM VISACZKI PETER WAECHTLER KLAUS WINICHNER CLAUDIA ZWEIFEL
and PETER STOFFEL & LEONIE WEBER who had already dreamt of the same.
View: Gallery Images
Website: galerie-buergel.de
Reviews: ArtNet [Deutsch]
Reviews: Whitehot Magazine[English]
Reviews: Akimbo[English]
Reviews: Texte Zur Kunst[Deutsch]
Reviews: Martin Ross [Deutsch]
Download: Catalog 1[Body 33 mb]
Download: Catalog 2[Cover 1.2 mb]
Halloween War Map II
BHC Kollectiv, Berlin, October 31st 2008
Second annual version of our take on forgotten rituals of the Day of the Dead, this time hosted inside a street-level window in the middle of Berlin, at the former Bulgarian Cultural House. With the participation of up to 8 local artists and musicians (Lutz Braun, Thomas Schroeren, Philipp Bellinger, Nicolas Defawe, Jackson, Discoteca Flaming Star and other significant souls). An edition of 1000 color posters was given out for free, video and audio of the whole 24 hours still await to be edited. Dedicated to our accidental HWM mentor, Dr. Miroslav Holub.
View: Performance Images
Website: bhc-kollektiv.org
Verbesserung
After the Butcher, Berlin-Lichtenberg, October 2008
In collaboration with SexTags from Austria/Norway we took over this amazing gallery space in Berlin-Lichtenberg. The show takes on the theme of improvement (a matter of two states without a-priori moral implications) through pieces that are planned in duos. Verbesserung includes a wild arrangement of work in different media, a retrospective publication (Acronym Fever Book), at least one "object to be found", paintings, photos, costumes, graphics, sculpture, an egg-sorcism... some sound specific stuff and other varietals. Live inaugural performance inside a time-tunnel by Natron, a differed Moron Movies Video Commercial for the show at Kim Bar in Berlin-Mitte and a shuttle bus to the gallery from Rosa-Luxemburg Platz..
View: Gallery Images
Text by Cordula Daus
Website: After The Butcher
Website: Sex Tags
Artist Talk at E-Flux Video Rental
The Building, Platz der Vereinten Nationen, Berlin, September 2008
Curator Paz Guevara was invited to add 5 titles to the ever growing collection of e-flux video rental project. Video Screening and talk wiith Fantastic Nobodies, Bjørn Melhus, Reynold Reynolds, Marc Aschenbrenner and Instituto Divorciado.
Website: e-flux.com
Artists as Publishers
Center for the Book Arts, New York, July-September 2008
The Center for Book Arts is pleased to present Artist as Publisher, a new exhibition that examines independent art publications produced by contemporary artists and collaboratives, Instituto Divorciado has been invited along with a chilean contigent of independent publishers, participating with the first edition of Acronym Fever.
Website: Center for Book Arts
Halloween War Map
Orchard Gallery, New York, October 31st, 2007
Invited by Karin Schnieder to participate within her show Image Coming Soon... ID engaged in a 3 hour performance on the night of October 31st. Inspired by our research on Ergotism incidents (Heaven's Fire, St. Anthony's Fire...) happened throughout Europe during the late dark ages and how a misreading of their diseased effects might have lead to catastrophic witch hunting -including the infamous Salem Witch Trials of 1692. The twenty-four-hours-long performance included an intention of helicopters flying across mystical fog, a bucket of live frogs, a collection of star maps, an enlarged intervened photostatic print of news events happened one week prior to the event, a C-print portrait of a related muse, altered music samples by Marlene Dietrich (who was never portrayed without a lit cigarrette), a copy of a pact allegedly signed by Father Urbain Granadier and countersigned by Lucifer, Beelzebub, Satan, Elimi, Leviathan, Asteroth and Baalbarith (Loudun, 1634), a loaf of organic rye bread rotten during 6 days to the point of sporing Ergot, the smoke of one "La Gloria de Cuba" cigar, a two-piece suit made of untreated cow hide, a necklace of gold plated human teeth, distorting keyboard programming over ridden voices channeling the astringent poetry of Miroslav Holub (Bohemia, 1923), a guitar going through a death metal pedal, a portable turntable with only one record, spontaneous light intervention, insomniac picking on a found cytar, looped projections and a bottle of triple Belgian beer, all contained within a wide open chance of complicit intoxication.
Website: Orchard Site
Screening at Monkeytown
Monketown, Brooklyn, October 2007
ID presents the short film Acronym Fever: Portrait of an Artist (2007, 26 min) in the four-screen room of Monkeytown in Brooklyn. After the screening, ID live musical performance.
ID Live in Brazil
Lado B Record Store, Lapa, Rio de Janeiro, August 2007
Assisted Noise Event in Four Acts, a sound performance together with Brazilian sound artist Paulo Vivaqua and Brooklyn's Pete Vogl, along with Luca Senise and Los Historicos.
View: Video
Daniel Lopez Show
Whitebox/Roebling Hall, New York, June 2007
A groupshow of artists born in Chile, some still living there and some living in New York. Curated by Mario Navarro & Rodrigo Vergara.
The show happens simultaneously in two gallery spaces of 26th street in Chelsea, one non-profit, Whitebox, and one commercial, Roebling Hall. We presented a remix of the Europe Tour output:
DANIEL LOPEZ STATEMENT
Instituto Divorciado is an independent art enterprise started by Iván Navarro, Ian Szydlowski and Diego Fernandez in Brooklyn 2005. Our purpose is to create and circulate artworks where the issue of authorship is discussed through collaboration, in projects that have a continuous development. Instituto Divorciado aims to be a total art enterprise, embracing all aspects of the planning, production, design and collection of art works, their venues and publications.
Until our participation in Daniel Lopez Show, curated by Mario Navarro in two galleries of the Chelsea District of New York we had produced one group show in Germany and participated in two group shows, in Belgium and Holland.
For Daniel Lopez Show, as a way to extend their meanings and range, we have mixed the outputs of two recent appearances: taking the movie “Acronym Fever: Portrait of an Artist” from what we did at De Appel, in Amsterdam, and the minitheater box “Scheissebôite” from what we did at De Warande in Turnhout, Belgium. We've changed the proportions and surface of the box, its animated content, the pattern of the found photocopied material outside, adding also some paint to it to make it resemble a flag-wrapped coffin.
View: Online Catalog
The Go-Between
De Bijlmer-Amsterdam, Holland, April, 2007
Curated by the 6 curators of the 2007 Curatorial Training Program of De Appel, Amsterdam.
A series of experimental art projects developing during a span of 10 days at De Bjilmer, a neighbourhood in the outskirts of Amsterdam. Instituto Divorciado will present "Acronym Fever: San Lorenzo's Holocoaster", a project that includes a video presentation (Sunday April 22nd) and an open communal feast (two lambs roasted on a bicycle powered spiedo) to take place between noon and midnight of Saturday April 21st. Also, as part of the final event of The Go Between, Instituto Divorciado will perform live music on Sunday 22nd.
The combined involvement of ID in two shows that happened in Holland and Belgium during April of 2007. Invited to Turnhout by De Warande Cultural Center through Curator Paz Guevara and to The Go Between by the 2007 Curatorial Training Program of De Appel Arts Center of Amsterdam, our participation turned out two pieces, Acronym Fever and Scheissebôite, each one equally consisting of a short movie, an activation performance and a sculpture-installation. We considered it almost one big developing event, hence, the combined photo gallery. Photo credits to Anu Vahtra, Giancarlo Pazzaneze, Benjamín Echazarreta and Maaike Gouwenberg.
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Tributo a Pentagrama
Music Presentation, May 2007
Instituto Divorciado and Hueso Records take the product of genious producers Claudio Fernandez Sini and Jorge Cabieses to present a re-mix project of the legendary Chilean Death Metal band Pentagram, listen to the tracks created by 12 musicians in all styles.
Listen: Tracks
Homemade
Curated by Paz Aburto Guevara, at De Warande Cultural Center, Turnhout, Belgium, simultaneously with the Open Doek Film Festival, April, 2007
Our original proposal consisted of a full-room installation, a mock office for ID, where we would receive visits from invited artists and naturally interact with the public, offering improvised talks and tours and, eventually, some sort of “divorce assistance”. We are set to produce a piece that intermixes our own artistic output (objects, paintings, graphics and other commodities) with our social and performative skills and the presentation of other artists, local or not, in full interaction with the surroundings of the film festival. The final result, "Scheisse Boite" consists of a video featuring complicated marionette maneuvering. The video is shown inside a box that resembles a mini movie theater and it's covered with photocopies of ID's collection of visual debris. During opening night we will also launch the CD compilation TRIBUTO A PENTAGRAM, produced by Claudio Fernandez Sini and Jorge Cabieses for Hueso Records in collaboration with ID.
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ID Takes Full Responsability for Pinochet's Death!
We did it! Please review all supporting evidence in the following video, installing the work of Brazilian/NY artist Karin Schneider at Contragolpe (her work included a voodoo curse towards the death of Pinochet, activated at the moment of installation). Never underestimate art (or Instituto) to bring down your evil dictator! Thanks to everyone involved!
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Contragolpe en La Moneda
Video presentation, Centro de Documentación de las Artes Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda, Santiago de Chile, November 2006.
Instituto Divorciado is invited by KW curator Paz Guevarra to present the video reel from Contragolpe:Reenacting a Failed Operation in the Cultural Center located inside (underneath) the unfamous Chilean Presidential Palace, La Moneda.
Contragolpe: Re-enacting a Failed Operation
Stalin Bauten am Karl Marx Alle, Berlin-Mitte, October 2006
View the website related to our first show, installed in a rented space of the Stalin Buildings in Berlin-Mitte. Includes photos and complete archives of the works by 73 participating artists.
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