الصورة [UTF-8?]عن [UTF-8?]“من [UTF-8?]الآن [UTF-8?]بيننا [UTF-8?]نسب” [UTF-8?]سارة [UTF-8?]بيرس. حق [UTF-8?]الصورة [UTF-8?]لأرشيف [UTF-8?]أي.كاي. سي. بالجراد
“By Now We Share an [UTF-8?]Affinity” Sarah Pierce / The Metropolitan Complex.
Image courtesy of SKC archive, Belgrade

Opening | Invisible Publics
Sunday, 23 May 2010, 8 PM | First Floor
with the Cairo Complaints Choir
Exhibition runs through 20 June, 2010

إفتتاح | جماهير [UTF-8?]خفية
الأحد [UTF-8?]٢٣ [UTF-8?]مايو [UTF-8?]٢٠١٠، الثامنة [UTF-8?]مساءاً | الدور [UTF-8?]الأول
وأول [UTF-8?]عرض [UTF-8?]لكورال [UTF-8?]شكاوي [UTF-8?]القاهرة
يستمر [UTF-8?]المعرض [UTF-8?]حتي [UTF-8?]٢٠ [UTF-8?]يونيو [UTF-8?]٢٠١٠

We are viewers, spectators, and listeners. We are artists, critics, curators (or know someone who is). Occasionally, we encounter each other at exhibitions, at openings, at talks. We speak, we act. At some point, our scripted roles go out of focus, allowing us to reconsider the potentiality of these engagements.

We are here. Now. We are sharing this space, this conversation, looking at (listening to, or experiencing) this work. We might recognize our affinity through this shared experience. For this duration there is a [UTF-8?]“we.” Outside of this space, we might not share or have anything in common.

The works selected for this show accentuate this relation. They investigate the multiple positions audiences assume, as viewers, as readers, as actors and even as characters in stories. The collective is evoked throughout the exhibition as experience, subject or form. The artists featured in this exhibition mine on events in history, music and fiction, capturing or staging acts of coming together, whereby individuals are conjugated into various types of collectivities. The art works offer us a field of possibilities; the exhibition has become a playground for new meanings. Through our inter-relations and -actions in this space we produce these meanings amongst us.

Invisible Publics is the exhibition of a mediality, the process of making a means visible as such. Making an audience, or invisible public, visible.

The show will feature works and acts by Dora Garcia, Sharon Hayes, Johanna Billing, Johan Svensson, Nikos Arvanitis, Sarah Pierce, Miklos Erhardt + Little Warsaw, the Complaints Choir (Tellervo Kalleinen + Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen) and Bidoun Video 2010 curated by Bidoun and guest curators Masoud Amralla Al Ali, Aram Moshayedi, and the duo of �zge Ersoy and Sohrab Mohebbi.

The Cairo Complaints Choir (organized by Moataz Attallah, Mai Elwakil and Salam Yousry) will give a premiere performance on the night of the opening Sunday 23 May, 2010 at 8PM.

The exhibition runs until 20 June, 2010 at the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo.

إننا [UTF-8?]مشاهدون [UTF-8?]ومتفرجون [UTF-8?]ومستمعون. إننا [UTF-8?]فنانون [UTF-8?]ونقّاد [UTF-8?]وأمناء [UTF-8?]معارض (أو [UTF-8?]لنا [UTF-8?]معارف [UTF-8?]من [UTF-8?]هؤلاء). نلتقي [UTF-8?]بعضنا [UTF-8?]بين [UTF-8?]الحين [UTF-8?]والآخر [UTF-8?]في [UTF-8?]المعارض [UTF-8?]والافتتاحات [UTF-8?]والمحاضرات. نتكلم [UTF-8?]ونتحرك. وفي [UTF-8?]وقت [UTF-8?]ما [UTF-8?]تنحرف [UTF-8?]أدوارنا [UTF-8?]المخطوطة [UTF-8?]عن [UTF-8?]طريقها [UTF-8?]وتسمح [UTF-8?]لنا [UTF-8?]بإعادة [UTF-8?]النظر [UTF-8?]في [UTF-8?]الكامن [UTF-8?]وراء [UTF-8?]هذه [UTF-8?]الارتباطات.

نحن [UTF-8?]هنا. الآن. نتشارك [UTF-8?]هذه [UTF-8?]المساحة، [UTF-8?]هذا [UTF-8?]الحديث، [UTF-8?]ننظر [UTF-8?]إلى (نستمع [UTF-8?]إلى [UTF-8?]ونمرّ [UTF-8?]بتجربة) هذا [UTF-8?]العمل. قد [UTF-8?]نلحظ [UTF-8?]تشابهاتنا [UTF-8?]خلال [UTF-8?]هذه [UTF-8?]التجربة [UTF-8?]المشتركة. وخلال [UTF-8?]هذه [UTF-8?]الفترة [UTF-8?]نكون [UTF-8?]متحدين. قد [UTF-8?]لا [UTF-8?]نتشارك [UTF-8?]في [UTF-8?]أي [UTF-8?]شيء [UTF-8?]وقد [UTF-8?]لا [UTF-8?]يجمعنا [UTF-8?]أي [UTF-8?]شيء [UTF-8?]خارج [UTF-8?]هذه [UTF-8?]المساحة.

الأعمال [UTF-8?]المختارة [UTF-8?]لهذا [UTF-8?]العرض [UTF-8?]تبرز [UTF-8?]هذه [UTF-8?]العلاقة. إنها [UTF-8?]تتناول [UTF-8?]الأدوار [UTF-8?]المتعددة [UTF-8?]التي [UTF-8?]يتخذها [UTF-8?]الجمهور [UTF-8?]بين [UTF-8?]مشاهد [UTF-8?]وقارئ [UTF-8?]وممثل [UTF-8?]وحتى [UTF-8?]شخصية [UTF-8?]في [UTF-8?]رواية. والحس [UTF-8?]الجماعي [UTF-8?]تتم [UTF-8?]إثارته [UTF-8?]طوال [UTF-8?]المعرض [UTF-8?]من [UTF-8?]خلال [UTF-8?]تجربة [UTF-8?]أو [UTF-8?]موضوع [UTF-8?]أو [UTF-8?]صورة. إن [UTF-8?]فناني [UTF-8?]المعرض [UTF-8?]ينجّمون [UTF-8?]عن [UTF-8?]أحداث [UTF-8?]التاريخ [UTF-8?]والموسيقى [UTF-8?]والخيال [UTF-8?]ليلتقطوا [UTF-8?]أو [UTF-8?]ليعيدوا [UTF-8?]تمثيل [UTF-8?]أعمالاً [UTF-8?]نتواجد [UTF-8?]فيها [UTF-8?]معاً [UTF-8?]حيث [UTF-8?]يجتمع [UTF-8?]الأفراد [UTF-8?]فيصبحوا [UTF-8?]أنواعاً [UTF-8?]مختلفة [UTF-8?]من [UTF-8?]الجماعيات. تقدم [UTF-8?]لنا [UTF-8?]الأعمال [UTF-8?]الفنية [UTF-8?]مُتسعاً [UTF-8?]من [UTF-8?]الاحتمالات، [UTF-8?]وقد [UTF-8?]تحوّل [UTF-8?]المعرض [UTF-8?]إلى [UTF-8?]ملعبٍ [UTF-8?]من [UTF-8?]المعاني [UTF-8?]الجديدة. إننا [UTF-8?]ننتج [UTF-8?]هذه [UTF-8?]المعاني [UTF-8?]فيما [UTF-8?]بيننا [UTF-8?]من [UTF-8?]خلال [UTF-8?]علاقاتنا [UTF-8?]ببعضنا [UTF-8?]وتحركاتنا [UTF-8?]في [UTF-8?]هذه [UTF-8?]المساحة.

معرض [UTF-8?]جماهير [UTF-8?]خفية [UTF-8?]معرض [UTF-8?]للتوسط، [UTF-8?]لعملية [UTF-8?]تحوّل [UTF-8?]الوسيلة [UTF-8?]حتى [UTF-8?]تصبح [UTF-8?]مرئية. إنها [UTF-8?]عملية [UTF-8?]تحويل [UTF-8?]المشاهدين [UTF-8?]أو [UTF-8?]الجمهور [UTF-8?]الخفي [UTF-8?]ليصبح [UTF-8?]مرئياً.

سيشتمل [UTF-8?]المعرض [UTF-8?]على [UTF-8?]أعمال [UTF-8?]وعروض [UTF-8?]لـ دورا [UTF-8?]جارسيا [UTF-8?]وشارون [UTF-8?]هايس [UTF-8?]وجوهانا [UTF-8?]بيلينج [UTF-8?]وجوهان [UTF-8?]سفينسون [UTF-8?]ونيكوس [UTF-8?]أرفانيتس [UTF-8?]وسارة [UTF-8?]بيرس [UTF-8?]وميكلوس [UTF-8?]إيرهاردت + ليتل [UTF-8?]وارسو [UTF-8?]وكورال [UTF-8?]الشكاوى (تليرفو [UTF-8?]كالاينين + أوليفر [UTF-8?]كختا-كالاينين) وفيديو [UTF-8?]بدون [UTF-8?]٢٠١٠ تنظيم مؤسسة بدون مع [UTF-8?]المنظمين [UTF-8?]الضيوف [UTF-8?]مسعود [UTF-8?]أمر [UTF-8?]الله [UTF-8?]العلي [UTF-8?]وأرام [UTF-8?]مشيّدي [UTF-8?]والثنائي [UTF-8?]أوزجيه [UTF-8?]إيرسوي [UTF-8?]وسهراب [UTF-8?]محبّي.

ستقدم [UTF-8?]كورال [UTF-8?]شكاوي [UTF-8?]القاهرة (تنظيم [UTF-8?]معتز [UTF-8?]عطا [UTF-8?]الله [UTF-8?]ومي [UTF-8?]الوكيل [UTF-8?]وسلام [UTF-8?]يسري) العرض [UTF-8?]الأول [UTF-8?]في [UTF-8?]ليلة [UTF-8?]الافتتاح [UTF-8?]يوم [UTF-8?]الأحد [UTF-8?]٢٣ [UTF-8?]مايو [UTF-8?]٢٠١٠ [UTF-8?]الساعة [UTF-8?]الثامنة [UTF-8?]مساءً.

يستمر [UTF-8?]المعرض [UTF-8?]حتى [UTF-8?]٢٠ [UTF-8?]يونيو [UTF-8?]٢٠١٠ [UTF-8?]في [UTF-8?]جاليري [UTF-8?]تاون [UTF-8?]هاوس [UTF-8?]بالقاهرة.

Other events in June include

4 June, 7PM
A talk with Dora Garcia + Little Warsaw
at the Townhouse Library

15 - 17 June
Systematurgy Workshop
with Marcel-Li Antunez Roca
in the Townhouse Factory Space

18 June, 8PM
Protomembrana Performance
by Marcel-Li Antunez Roca
in the Townhouse Factory Space

Curated by Sarah Rifky, assisted by Mai Elwakil and Amran Frey

يشتمل [UTF-8?]جدول [UTF-8?]يونيو [UTF-8?]أيضاً [UTF-8?]على

٤ [UTF-8?]يونيو، [UTF-8?]السابعة [UTF-8?]مساءً
حديث [UTF-8?]مع [UTF-8?]دورا [UTF-8?]جارسيا + ليتل [UTF-8?]وارسو
(في [UTF-8?]مكتبة [UTF-8?]التاون [UTF-8?]هاوس)

١٥-١٦ [UTF-8?]يونيو

ورشة [UTF-8?]سيستماتورجي [UTF-8?]مع [UTF-8?]مارسيل-لي [UTF-8?]أنتونيز [UTF-8?]روكا
(في [UTF-8?]مصنع [UTF-8?]التاون [UTF-8?]هاوس)

١٨ [UTF-8?]يونيو، [UTF-8?]الثامنة [UTF-8?]مساءً

عرض [UTF-8?]بروتوممبرانا لـ [UTF-8?]مارسيل [UTF-8?]لي [UTF-8?]أنتونيز [UTF-8?]روكا
(في [UTF-8?]مصنع [UTF-8?]التاون [UTF-8?]هاوس)

تقييم [UTF-8?]سارة [UTF-8?]رفقي [UTF-8?]بمساعدة [UTF-8?]مي [UTF-8?]الوكيل [UTF-8?]و [UTF-8?]أمران [UTF-8?]فري

Supported by the Embassies of Spain, Hungary and Finland in Egypt, the Made in Mirrors (MiM) foundation and Bidoun
بدعم [UTF-8?]من [UTF-8?]سفارات [UTF-8?]اسبانيا [UTF-8?]والمجر [UTF-8?]وفنلندا [UTF-8?]في [UTF-8?]مصر، [UTF-8?]وصنع [UTF-8?]في [UTF-8?]مرايا (ميم) ومؤسسة [UTF-8?]بدون

Townhouse Gallery of contemporary art
10 Nabrawy Street off Champollion Street, Downtown - Cairo l Tel: +20 2 2576 8086
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