HALLOWEEN WAR MAP2 - BERLIN
October 31st 2008



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.

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Website: bhc-kollektiv.org

VERBESSERUNG - AFTER THE BUTCHER - BERLIN
October 2008



ID in collaboration with Sex Tags from Norway take over ATB 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... with some sound specific stuff and other varieties. Inaugural performance inside a time-tunnel by Natron, and differed Moron Movies video commercial for the show at Kim Bar, Brunnenstr. 10, Berlin-Mitte. Text by CORDULA DAUS

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Website: After The Butcher
Website: Sex Tags

ARTIST TALK AT E-FLUX VIDEO RENTAL - The Building, Platz der Vereinten Nationen - Berlin
September 21st 2008, 18:00 hrs

Screening and conversation with 5 video artists moderated by Paz Aburto Guevara, who has been invited to add 5 titles to the ever growing collection of e-flux video rental project.

with Fantastic Nobodies, Bjørn Melhus, Reynold Reynolds, Marc Aschenbrenner and Instituto Divorciado.

Website: e-flux.com

ARTISTS AS PUBLISHERS - Center for Book Arts - New York
July 8th-Sept.13th, 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.

Website: Center for Book Arts

HALLOWEEN WAR MAP - Performance Orchard Gallery - New York
October 31st, 2007

Karin Schnieder's current exhibit IMAGE COMING SOON, incorporated and collaborated with ID in a 3 hour ongoing performance on the 31st of October.

Website: Orchard Site

PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST MONKEYTOWN SCREENING - Brooklyn
October 9th, 2007

ID presents Portrait of an Artist at Monkeytown Brooklyn together with a live performance.

ACRONYM FEVER AND SCHEISSEBÔITE - De Warande Cultural Center, Turnhout, Belgium and deBijlmer Amsterdam
May-April, 2007



This update of our web page is an account of the involvement of Instituto Divorciado in two shows that happened in Holland and Belgium during April of 2007. These invitations turned out two pieces, “Acronym Fever” and “Scheissebôite”, both comprised of a movie, an “activation” performance, and a sculpture-installation. What you are about to see we consider one big developing event, to be linked also to future outputs. The work has to be understood as a full collaboration, where the boundaries between ideas and authorship are completely blurred and blended together. The sculptures, audiovisuals, editorial projects and other elements derived of these events are forever intimately related. Thanks to Paz Aburto Guevara end De Warande Cultural Center in Turnhout, Belgium, and thanks to the six people in the 2007 Curatorial Training Program of De Appel, in Amsterdam, Holland, under the direction of Ann Demeister. Love and many thanks to all old and new friends that we met during this trip. Photo credits to Anu Vahtra, Giancarlo Pazzaneze, Benjamín Echazarreta and Maaike Gouwenberg.

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INSTITUTO IN RIO DE JANIERO - Brasil

Assisted Noise Event in Four Acts a performance together with Brazillian sound Artist Paolo Vivaqua, Luca Senise, and Brooklyn's Pete Vogl and Los Historicos happenend at the beginning of August '07.

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DANIEL LOPEZ SHOW - Whitebox and Roebling Hall galleries - 26th Street, Chelsea, New York City
June1-30, 2007

This is a group show of 18 artist born in Chile, some living still there and some living in New York. Curated by Mario Navarro (Iván's big brother) with Rodrigo Vergara from Hoffmann's House and Iván himself as "producers".

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

TRIBUTO A PENTAGRAM: 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
Thursday, April 19th, 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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THE GO-BETWEEN

April 11-22, 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.

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INSTITUTO TAKES FULL

RESPONSIBILITY FOR PINOCHET'S DEATH:
Sunday, December 10th, 2006

We did it! Please review all supporting evidence at the following video - installing the work of Brazilian/NY artist, Karin Schneider. Never underestimate art or the Instituto to bring down your evil dictator, thank you to everyone involved!

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CONTRA-GOLPE EN LA MONEDA: Video Presentation in Santiago de Chile
Saturday, November 4th, 2006 at 18.00hrs

Instituto Divorciado is invited by KW curator Paz Aburto Guevarra to present the videos from the September Berlin Art Show - Contragolpe:Reenacting a Failed Operation in the Cultural Center located in the Chilean Presidential Palace, la Moneda.
Centro de Documentación de las Artes Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda, Plaza de la Ciudadanía 26,
Santiago de Chile.

CONTRA-GOLPE REENACTING A FAILED OPERATION - Berlin
October, 2005



View our website related to our September show in the Stalin Bauten Building in Berlin. Includes photos and complete archives of the 4 day show. PS Thank you Sarah Becker for all your work helping us with this show - Danke Dir!

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