Target: Autonopop 2

A new artistic practices workshop with Michel Chevalier

in collaboration with Diffusion Systeme Minuit

 

Following the success of his workshop presented at articule in 2005, Michel Chevalier is returning to Montreal to propose the second installment of Target Autonopop.
(http://www.targetautonopop.org)

 

Tuesday April 14, from 4pm to 8pm
Wednesday April 15, from 4pm to 8pm
Thursday April 16, from 1pm to 6pm
At Diffusion system minuit (5776 Saint-Laurent)
Limited space, reserve your place: info@systememinuit.com

This workshop will introduce a Canadian audience to the most recent project in the series Target Autonopop by Hamburg-based artist Michel Chevalier. Specifically, the artist will introduce Unlimited liability, an experimental and socially-combative "store" project. Pivotal to the workshop is a detailed group reading of a radical statement from 1975: Michael Corris' essay "Yet another palace revolt in the banana republic?" published in the legendary but long-out-of-print magazine of New York Art & Language, THE FOX. Participants will reflect upon and work through the ideas and impulses that emerge from both the text and from Unlimited liability, in spite of the 30 years between them. This process will also be the basis of the actions and "production" explored in this unconventional workshop.

 

Hamburg-based Michel Chevalier has been active in non-commodity art projects for over 10 years: media festivals (Cinematexas, Impakt/Utrecht, Monitoring/Kassel), artist-run spaces and initiatives (Westwerk/Hamburg, NGBK/Berlin, Biennale de Paris) and political art projects (Summit of Interventionist Art/Geneva, Capitalism Reloaded/Berlin, Let's Remake the World/Copenhagen). He is the initiator of «target: autonopop», and member of collective projects such as Culture and Social Movement Archive, and the music group UR! GELLER.