"Resonance" Exhibition

Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building

poster for "Resonance" Exhibition

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The Goethe-Institut New York presents Resonance, an exhibition featuring three artist projects and a discursive program. The exhibition centers on how entities, whether human, object or immaterial, do or do not “resonate” and looks at dynamic interactions in varying forms, degrees, and temporalities. Resonance is curated by Rivet and carries forward issues that were introduced at the Goethe-Institut’s Synchronous Objects/Objects in Performance series of events in February, which touched upon some timely questions also raised by dOCUMENTA (13).

“Philosopher Levi Bryant suggests that not only material things but also intangible entities resonate in particular regimes of attraction. He wants us to rethink the relations between entities and environments while also preserving a sense of autonomy,” says Rivet. “Resonance is a proposition to develop a vocabulary for thinking about change as the ability of an object to perturb or stimulate others, depending on a specific relation to its environment.”

As part of their contribution to the Wyoming Building exhibition, the Argentine duo Faivovich & Goldberg will further their exploration about the El Chaco meteorite initiated for dOCUMENTA(13). Their approach highlights the meteorite as hub around which institutions, nature, and political bodies perturb one another. In their U.S. debut, Barcelona-based weareQQ will present Goitik Behera, Behetik Gora (Top Down and Bottom Up, 2012), a film focusing on leisure activities and the ephemeral communities that grow around them. Agency will select a case, culled from its large collection of “things” in Brussels, focusing on fixation and how legal structures aim to restrict resonance between emerging agents.

The exhibition is accompanied by an active program: Agency hosts an assembly with local experts on Sunday, October 28; Diedrich Diederichsen will present a talk on Thursday, November 1; and Christoph Keller holds a lecture-performance on Tuesday, December 4. On Saturday, October 27, McNally Jackson Books hosts the launch of Faivovich & Goldberg's latest volume from The Campo del Cielo Meteorites series published by dOCUMENTA (13). For the closing of the exhibition, Anselm Franke will contribute a written response to Resonance, which will be published at www.rivet-rivet.net.

The exhibition and all related events are free to the public. Guided tours are available upon request.

Simultaneous to Resonance, Rivet organizes Resonance and Repetition at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. A talk resonating with the topics of both exhibitions will take place at the New School for Social Research.

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Schedule

from October 26, 2012 to December 16, 2012

Opening Reception on 2012-10-25 from 18:30 to 20:30

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