OFFSHORE IN NEW YORK | with Irena Haiduk, Joshua Simon and a film by Harun Farocki | ON STILL LIFE

Sat Feb 2 2019, 4:00pm

On the occasion of Cally Spooner’s solo exhibition SWEAT SHAME ETC., please join us for the fifth event of a two-week practical philosophy school for embodied knowledge titled OFFSHORE IN NEW YORK.

OFFSHORE is an itinerant performance company and pedagogical structure initiated by Cally Spooner in 2017. It is currently located in SI’s Reading Room.

Through lectures, reading groups, screenings, and an ongoing rehearsal for a new performance by Spooner, OFFSHORE IN NEW YORK asks the question: “how might we tell the difference between what is alive and what is dead in the machinery that is advanced techno-capitalism and neoliberalism?”

OFFSHORE IN NEW YORK’s fifth event, ON STILL LIFE, looks into pickling, history, still life and death drives. The study day will feature a screening, two orations and an interrogative lecture that look into the act of arranging and preserving items for consumption. This is a presentation on how some artworks are dead and some just play dead.

4PM: Screening of Harun Farocki’s Still Life (1997)

5PM: Two orations by Irena Haiduk | Say Camera (10 min) and Studio Feelings (30 min)

6PM: Playing to Lose: Irena Haiduk and Daniil Kharms talking to parts of Joshua Simon

Please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net. Please note: events at Swiss Institute are limited capacity, and entry is on a first-come, first-served basis.

OFFSHORE is an itinerant performance company, a laboratory and a pedagogical structure, initiated by Cally Spooner in 2017. Through workshops, rehearsals and temporary schools, OFFSHORE develops real-time exercises, drafting new vocabulary and terms for organizing, working and performing. OFFSHORE enables a number of persons, some of whom have met before, and some of whom have not met, to maintain a state of rehearsal, over a number of days, in public. OFFSHORE has gathered sporadically over the past year at: NTU CCA Singapore, Singapore; Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston in collaboration with CREMP (Centre for Research in European Modern Philosophy); Playground Festival (STUK Kunstencentrum & M-Museum, Leuven); Bilbao BAD Festival, La Fundición, Bilbao; Serpentine Gallery, London; Whitechapel Gallery, London; and Centre for National Dance, Paris. OFFSHORE has been developed and continues to be supported by a Stanley Picker Fellowship at Kingston University, UK. OFFSHORE was initiated through a commission from Corpus, an international network for commissioning performance-related work, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. A funded exhibition and event opportunity at REDCAT, Los Angeles first set the stage for testing ideas.