Anna Frei, Anne Käthi Wehrli, Lucie Kolb (CH): «you can find me in the lexicon, in the lexicon (2009)»

_«You can find me in the lexicon, in the lexicon», NR.1: IMGINARY ARCHIVE #1, Live streaming by wire less choir (Cabaret Voltaire) Friday June 5, 15:30

_«You can find me in the lexicon, in the lexicon», NR.4: IMGINARY ARCHIVE #2, Live streaming by Anna Frei, Anne Käthi Wehrli, Lucie Kolb (Cabaret Voltaire) Saturday June 6, 17:30

_«You can find me in the lexicon, in the lexicon», Nr.6: Archiv für Zeitgeschichte, von Anna Frei, Anne Käthi Wehrli, Lucie Kolb (CH), Live streaming: «Mein Gedächtnis beobachtet mich», Film by Eran Schaerf and Eva Meyer (Cabaret Voltaire) Sunday June 7, 20:15

Participants: Nicole Bachmann, Sabina Baumann, Moira Hille & Kerstin Schroedinger & Mareike Bernien, Patricia Bucher, Martin Büsser, Melissa Castagnetto, Marthe van Dessel, Regula Engeler, Christina Della Giustina, Stella Glitter, Anna Lena Grau, Michael Hiltbrunner, Krokodilstränensirup, Michaela Melián, Philipp Messner, Eran Schaerf & Eva Meyer, Itty Minchesta, Sands Murray-Wassink, Jim Osthaarchic, Claudia Reinhardt, Ana Roldan, Evi Rüsseler, Simone Schardt, Anna Schürch, Rae Spoon, Valentina Stieger, Kaspar Surber, Terre Thaemlitz, wire less choir, Jenny Woolworth

In «you can find me in the lexicon, in the lexicon» queerness is asserted, placed and tested in selected archives. Fictions are slipped in, references made, and the performative is acted out. Thus, for instance, the archive serves as a backdrop to renewing public testimonial, a temporary rewriting of history. The documentary, which has long been perceived as the image of the world, here becomes the world as image. From 5 to 7 June guided tours, public readings, performances will intervene in archives that bear no obvious relation to queerness. The invited artists temporarily bring something into the archive. In their interplay, the archive and the works performed therein influence each other, bringing to light other connections by following and rewriting ongoing narratives.

Anna Frei
is a visual artist, graphic designer, performer, nightworker and part of several collectives (rar collectia, bang wrong heel production, schöne & la beef), co-founder of Palace, St.Gallen, and divers subcultural projects & concerts.

Anne Käthi Wehrli
is an artist, performer and editor of several fanzines («Freundesfreundin» with Benjamin Sommerhalder, «Hoi ich segle so schön am äigentliche verbi», «Dies kommt mir häufig in den Sinn, vielleicht bin ich gerade in einem Zug und fahre unterschiedlich zeitverschoben an anderen sich vielleicht ebenfalls bewegenden Sachen vorbei» with Lena Reiser and several collaborations) and member of the duo Krokodilstränensirup.

Lucie Kolb
is a visual artist and co-curator of radio arhur a monthly radio programme that is interested in discussion, criticism and views on the perception of art. And co-creator of ctrl.name a working group which engages itself with the forms of display and reception of cultural systems.
http://www.radioarthur.ch
http://www.ctrl.name

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MESSAGE SALON

EXHBITION & SCREENINGS & LIBRARY

Langstrasse 84 / Brauerstrasse 37, 8004 Zurich,
Opening times: Friday, June 5, 14.00-00.00, Saturday, June 6 & Sunday, June 7, 14.00-18.00

Participants: Grrrl Zine collection by Grrrl Zine Network (Elke Zobl and Haydeé Jiménez), I LOVE 69 POPGEJU (CZ), Jana Štepánová (CZ), Judith Schönenberger (CH), Lorenzö (F/I), Nobody, Sabina Baumann (CH), Sarah Jäger (CH), Sands Murray-Wassink (NL/US), The Centre of Attention (UK), Tim Blue (US/D)

Table library of important queer books, from art books to theoretical and historical texts, laid out on a table and available for interaction, reading and inspiration throughout the three days of the exhibition.

NR.2: COLLECTION MIGROS MUSEUM

PERFORMATIVE GUIDED TOUR WITH SIMONE SCHARDT

Meeting point: Friday, June 5, 2009, 18:00, Entrance Löwenbräu Limmatstrasse 270, CH–8005 Zurich
Limited number of participants (advance registration is required): lexicon@offpride.ch
Already full: no registration possible

In a performative tour by the artist Simone Schardt through the collection of the migros museum imaginary, queer and fictional topics and references are inserted. therefore several artists and theoreticians were invited to describe a work which is or could be part of the migros museum collection in the form of a short text.

Simone Schardt
(*1971) is an artist and author. Since 2003 she initiates, together with Wolf Schmelter, Kinoapparatom – an instant movie theater on the move , showing artist’s movies at specific places, and Surprise*Surprise – a changing commentary about curating practices in cooperation with Les complices*, Zurich (2007). contributions for WoZ, ith 31 and Texte zur Kunst. Guest lecturer at mAS curating at the ZHdK Zurich, artist in residence at Künstlerhäuser Worpswede and received a grant of the canton Zurich (2008). Exhibitions/Projects (Selection): L’Archéologie imaginaire (2009), Double exposures (Galerie christian Lethert, 2008), cinéma Sublime (Liste 06 in cooperation wiht Kaskadenkondensator Basel, 2006), Der Sprung ins kalte Wasser – Praxis als Forschung (Shedhalle Zürich, 2006), Differences – Art as a Film Form (migros museum für gegenwartskunst, 2005), Unruhe bitte! (in cooperation with ith and Theaterhaus Gessnerallee, 2005), Doing Glamour (in cooperation with Tom Holert, 2004)