18 may – 23 july
Opening 17 mai 2017
Drapery studies with koi - 17 May 2017 7pm - (Alex Cecchetti performance)
Artworks by: Anne Brégeaut, Alex Cecchetti, Patrick Corrillon, Kris Knight,
Maude Maris, Ad Minoliti, Anne Laure Sacriste, Emmanuelle Villard
Curator : Caroline Cournède
Maison d'Art Bernard Anthonioz
16 rue Charles VII
94130 Nogent-sur-Marne
France
The world is not a text, neither an algorithm, said kimono man, and the interpreter is always a liar. But how beautiful are the promises of a kiss, under starry chariots in the sky. Now, take a card, he said.
13 April 2017, 18.00
Performance at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw.
With Francis McKee, Director of the Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow.
Fourth episode of the artist’s novel Tamam Shud, by Alex Cecchetti.
In the frame of the project The Novel As Fantasy.
Episode 4: Reading the Unwritten is a new instalment in Alex Cecchetti’s ongoing artist’s novel, Tamam Shud. It is also a two-part event. Firstly, David Maroto and Joanna Zielińska (The Book Lovers) will open with a theoretical introduction to artist's novels. Writer and curator Francis McKee, who recently published his first novel, Even the Dead Rise Up (Book Works, 2017), will join them in a public discussion about how to situate the practice of artist's novels in the field of the visual arts.
The programme continues with Alex Ceccheti. A new chapter of Tamam Shud will be written in a live performance by means of a tarot card reading. Whilst writing is a process that normally happens out of public view, in the solitude of the writer’s studio, Alex’s art project renders this process visible. The production of the narrative is conceived as an event where writing is exposed and interwoven with the artistic process.
For one evening, the artist Alex Cecchetti is offering an immersion into his very own interstellar, magical world. sheltered inside large “tent-curtains”, artists give tarot readings or dance to the sound of a piano. Further off, a glass harp accompanies a choir inspired by whale song, while Cécilia Bengolea dances amidst the audience on Alex Cecchetti’s poems. The evening ends with a moment of exchanges between the artists and the public.
Curator: Vittoria Matarrese
Alex Cecchetti's new performances, collaborations and a piano concert.
Here the program of the evening :
- À partir de 17h : Concert (piano)
- À partir de 17h30 : Lecture du tarot
- 18h / 19h30 / 21h / 22h30 : Ceataceans
- 20h30 / 22h / 23h : Clitoris
- 20h : Le Club Pour L’Émancipation Du Hasard
Piano : Marino Formenti
Lecteurs de tarot : Alex Cecchetti, Milovan Farronato, Timothy Morton
Clitoris : Cecilia Bengolea & Alex Cecchetti
Cétacés : Thomas Bloch à l’harmonica de verre et chorale composée de Louise Fudym, Bianca Iannuzzi, Romain Lafitte, Mia Mandineau, Jordan Mouaissia, Simon Solas et Virginie Truc-Carta
Le club Pour l’Emancipation du Hasard : Mélodie Marcq, Perle Palombe
At the same time visual artist, poet and choreographer, Alex Cecchetti an artist of Italian origin produces interactive performances and indefinable objects which can be exhibited in galleries or elsewhere.
He draws his inspiration from literature, philosophy, science and music in a playful way and with a great sense of humour. Whether it is a stand-up comedy about death, a backward walk in a botanical garden or a “visit to the Louvre without the Louvre”, each performance is a unique experience shared with his audience. Observers are seduced by his poetic language and gestures, which lead them to explore rituals and journeys where perception and great existential questions are put into play.
Picture: NUOVO MONDO, guided tour of Heaven and Hell, Krolikarnia, Warsaw, Alex Cecchetti 2014-2016 ongoing
Alex Cecchetti, Liz Magic Laser, Hanne Lippard, Jesper List Thomsen, Hagar Tenenbaum
3 February – 25 March 2017
Hand and Mind is an exhibition and series of performances testing connections between the realms of speech and gesture, curated by Vanessa Boni. Artists Alex Cecchetti, Liz Magic Laser, Hanne Lippard, Jesper List Thomsen and Hagar Tenenbaum *embody* language and thought. Through painting, sculpture, choreography and performance they unsettle political, personal and theoretical channels of communication.
3 February 2017, 6.30pm, 7.30pm, 8.15pm
Alex Cecchetti with Pauline Simon, Conversation of the Arrows, Grand Union (6.30pm & 8.15pm)
Conversation of the Arrows by Alex Cecchetti is a choreography for sorcerer’s apprentices, in which a dancer and a word-crafter fall into the trap of representation. They are doomed to chase each other represented as dogs, arrows, birds, stones, stars. For a moment, Cecchetti’s sculptures, become the spells that the apprentices cast against each other and the scenario for their labyrinthic roaming.
JANUARY 17, 2017 - 7pm and 8:30pm
Performance by Alex Cecchetti, 'Belladonna', 2016 - video-performance, whisperers and foley artist
Alex Cecchetti has developed a unique practice that could be called art of avoidance: tactical and poetic, its system leads to produce situations or objects that can exist both inside and outside the exhibition.
‘Belladonna’ is based on his own previous performance ‘Walking Backwards’, which took place in the garden of Jardins des Plantes in Paris and at Serralves Foundation, as well as on a related film as a collection of stories of trees and plants narrated in that occasion.
ALEX CECCHETTI
With Singers Wanda Franek and Michał Sławecki
PLAYGROUND FESTIVAL
Museum M, Leuven, Belgium
Sat 19 Nov 2016 15:00
Sun 20 Nov 2016 15:00
A man has been found dead and his identity is unknown. The label from his clothes, his fingerprints, his shoe size, none of it can be used to identify him. His only connection with the rest of the world is a small scrap of paper hidden in a secret pocket sewn into his trousers. It contains the last words of a Persian poem: Tamam Shud. In an alternative tour, with storytelling, stand-up comedy and opera, Alex Cecchetti wanders around the museum halls looking for his identity. Cecchetti’s intimate performances use exceptional stories that the audi- ence experiences both mentally and physically.
by Alex Cecchetti
performers Alex Cecchetti, Marisa Anconelli, Luca Mazzamauro
thanks for the collaboration La Truccheria Bologna, Coro Arcanto Bologna
produced by Xing/Raum
with the support of Institut Français Italia
in the frame of LA FRANCIA IN SCENA
Thursday November 10 at 10 PM
RAUM - via Ca' Selvatica 4/D - Bologna
Tamam Shud is conceived and designed for Raum in three languages -as many sets of the story- in a schizophrenic identity vortex worn by the same author. The performance is a post mortem investigation of the victim on his own assassination. In this dark and grotesque stand-up comedy the artist is accompanied by two singers.
"I am dead. My body has been found in 2014, somewhere between Los Angeles and Warsaw, dismembered. Murder, accident, suicide, detectives haven’t found anything relevant, my identity is still unknown and me also, I don’t remember much. This is why I have decided to investigate over my own death myself. The labels of the clothes, fingerprints, and the number on the shoes have been carefully unstitched, deleted, washed, bleached, and delivered to oblivion. Nothing can be used for identification. Only clue, in a secret pocket sewn inside my trousers, detectives have recovered a fragile piece of paper torn from the pages of a book, written there, the words Tamam Shud, ‘this is the end’. Experts and antiquaries were consulted: those are the last two words with which ends the Rubaiyat, an ancient book of esoteric poems by the Persian erudite Omar Khayyam. What the hell have I to do with poetry and secret pockets? I don’t even know how to stitch a button."
Alex Cecchetti
With Tim Etchells and Ola Maciejewska
Curated by The Book Lovers
Video / graphic designers: post - noviki
Organised by: Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle and Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture
NUOVO MONDO takes place at the Museum of Sculpture
Królikarnia Palace
Puławska 113a, Warsaw
October 28 at 19:00.
RSVP at performance.csw@gmail.com
NUOVO MONDO: Tour Guide of Heaven and Hell is the third episode in Alex Cecchetti’s ongoing artist’s novel, Tamam Shud. It is also is a performative seminar on poetry, a walk through the concentric circles that descend and ascend through the building of the Królikarnia Palace in Warsaw. Alex Cecchetti will accompany the public through these narrow passages where artists embody poems. What is hell for many can be heaven for some.
Until December 2017, Alex Cecchetti develops a new artist’s novel through tools such as performances, exhibitions, and public editorial readings. Lost memories, recovered traces, and the first investigations to solve the mystery are some of the elements that will signal the beginning of the creative process. If you want to know more about the Tamam Shud project, please visit:
csw.art.pl
Hell - Wednesday, October 19th - 8pm
Heaven - Thursday, October 20th - 8pm
Duration: approx. 1 hour
Palais de la Découverte, Paris
In English
Hell in collaboration with: Alasdair Roberts (musician, UK), Lina Lapelyte (artist, Lituanie)
Heaven with: Michael Horovitz (poet, Allemagne), Vanessa Vie (poet, UK)
Nuovo Mondo is a guided tour of Heaven and Hell. A walk in the darkness of the Palais de la Decouverte guided only by poetry. Wandering in the empty building through scientific laboratories, electrified fields, the planetarium, offices, and narrow passages. An underworld journey to encounter contemporary poets.
Address: Palais de la Découverte, avenue Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 75008, Paris Entrance from 6:30pm through the Salon d’Honneur of the Grand Palais, 75008 Paris
SHORT THEATRE - ROMA
Monday 12 | 21.00
Tuesday 13 | 18.30
Rsvp : promozione@shorttheatre.org
TERNI FESTIVAL - TERNI
16 - 17 - 18 | 17.00
Location : Palazzo Primavera
PRATO CONTEMPORANEA - PRATO
29 - 30 - 1 October | 19.00
Location : Scuola di Musica Giuseppe Verdi
Within the TransArte program
12-13 September 2016
Secret Location - Roma - Italy (reservation only at promozione@shorttheatre.org)
Alex Cecchetti
Music by Allegri, Landini, Purcelli, Gershwin
Un uomo è stato ritrovato morto, la sua identità sconosciuta. Nulla può essere utilizzato per l’identificazione. Le etichette dei vestiti, le impronte digitali, il numero di scarpe sono stati accuratamente scuciti, cancellati, lavati, sbiancati, e consegnati all’oblio. Il suo unico legame con il mondo, un piccolo pezzo di carta nascosto in una tasca segreta cucita nei pantaloni. Su quel fragile supporto le ultime parole di una poesia persiana: Tamam Shud. Questa è la fine. E solo ora può iniziare una ricerca dei pezzi mancanti perché nulla è oggi più osceno di un uomo dal quale non si possono ricavare informazioni. La storia del mistero Somerton Beach, la biografia di un’intera generazione assediata dallo scambio di notizie, in cui morire senza lasciare traccia è forse l’atto di resistenza più alta
Never blows so red
The rose on buried land
As every flower grows
From some once lovely head
So in this tender herb so green
Lean upon it lightly and hear
For who knows
From what once lovely lips
This green springs unseen.
The Belladonna event will take place in a secret hidden garden in Paris, at the heart of Montmartre, on Thursday, July 21 at 8pm
Please confirm your attendance, we will provide the complete address and a secret code for the gate.
If you want to know more about the Tamam Shud project visit:
http://www.thebooklovers.info/Tamam-Shud-CCA-Ujazdowski-Castle-Warsaw
First episode of an artist’s novel by Alex Cecchetti
in the frame of the project The Novel As Fantasy
May 13, 2016 (Friday), 6.00 p.m.
performance, CCA Laboratory building
tickets: 10 PLN, available for purchase from May 9, booking: info@csw.art.pl
I am dead. My body has been found somewhere between Los Angeles and Warsaw, dismembered. Murder, accident, suicide, detectives haven’t found anything relevant, my identity is still unknown and me also, I don’t remember much. This is why I have decided to investigate over my own death myself. Only clue, in a secret pocket sewn inside my trousers, I have recovered a fragile piece of paper torn from the pages of a book, written there, the words Tamam Shud, ‘this is the end’.
Please join us for the public launch of Alex Cecchetti’s art project Tamam Shud. Until December 2017, the artist will be developing a new artist’s novel by means of tools such as performances, exhibitions and public editorial readings. Lost memories, recovered traces, and the first investigations to solve the mystery are some of the elements that will signal the beginning of the creative process. Tamam Shud: When Everything Is so Clean it Is Difficult to Remember Something is the first episode in which a contralto (Wanda Franek), a countertenor (Michał Sławecki) and a glass harp music players (GlassDuo) will join Alex Cecchetti in the investigations. Follow us in this series of events, and note down that the next episode is coming in the Fall.
An artist’s novel by Alex Cecchetti
Commissioned by The Book Lovers.
Produced by CCA Ujazdowski Castle Warsaw.
Co-published by Sternberg Press.
January 2016–December 2017
January 2016–December 2017
I am dead. My body has been found in 2014, somewhere between Los Angeles and Warsaw, dismembered. The labels of the clothes, fingerprints, and the number on the shoes have been carefully unstitched, deleted, washed, bleached, and delivered to oblivion. Nothing can be used for identification. Only clue, in a secret pocket sewn inside my trousers, detectives have recovered a fragile piece of paper torn from the pages of a book, written there, the words Tamam Shud, ‘this is the end’. Experts and antiquaries were consulted: those are the last two words with which ends theRubaiyat, an ancient book of esoteric poems by the Persian erudite Omar Khayyam.
Alex Cecchetti’s art project, Tamam Shud, has been selected to be produced in the framework of The Novel As Fantasy. CCA Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw and The Book Lovers proudly announce the result of the open call for the creation of a new artist’s novel, and wish to thank everyone who took part of it by sending their enthusiastic proposals. After a careful selection process, Tamam Shud is called to be a new artist’s novel to be released at the end of 2017.
What the hell have I to do with poetry and secret pockets? I don’t even know how to stitch a button.
Murder, accident, suicide, detectives haven’t found anything relevant, my identity is still unknown and me also, I don’t remember much.
Collective incantations, disappearing paintings, flower artificial hybridisation, guided tours of heaven and hell, are just some of the clues that Alex Cecchetti progressively will disseminate through an episodic structure in which a series of performances, exhibitions and other artistic events blend into the writing process and vice versa. Please save the date: 13 May 2016, for the public launch of the Tamam Shud project in CCA Ujazdowski Castle Warsaw. More information will follow soon.
To die without memories, this is the horror. You know, life is short, but death never ends. And now I have no one to love and no one to hate for the eternity. This is why I have decided to investigate over my own death myself.
24th November 2015 - 10th of January 2016.
Curated by Margit Säde Lehni.
ARTISTS: do it (HUO & ICI), LOOP, Konstanet, Anna Škodenko, Liina Pääsuke, Rafaël Rozendaal, Esther Mathis, Nicole Bachmann, Roland Roos, Jürg Lehni & Alex Rich, George Steinmann, Dora García, Cesare Pietroiusti, Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Aaloe-Ader-Flo-Soosalu, Alex Cecchetti, Quim Pujol, Olof Olsson, Cia Rinne, Hanne Lippard, Audrey Cottin.
'DOings & kNOTs' is a group exhibition based on the artistic project 'do it', which was initiated by Hans Ulrich Obrist in 1993 and was on display at the Tallinn Art Hall in 1997. This open exhibition model collects written instructions by artists, each of which could be interpreted anew every time they are enacted. The 'do it' project, which is being hosted today by Independent Curators International (ICI) in New York, has undergone a fundamental change in terms of its institutionalisation and organisation. Hence “DOings & kNOTs”, which was initially planned to be about instructions in art, became more about the impossibility of following instructions, rules or a given formula. What is an instruction after all? An assignment? A command? A poem?
With: Homero Aridjis, Tarek Atoui, Alex Cecchetti, DD Dorvillier, Joris Lacoste, Karl Larsson, Dorothea Lasky, Benoit Maire, Dunya Mikhail, Clare Pollard, Santiago Reyes, Brian Turner, Ko Un
MAISON DE LA POÉSIE
SATURDAY 24 OCTOBER 2015 9PM
PASSAGE MOLIÈRE
157, RUE SAINT-MARTIN - 75003 PARIS
M° RAMBUTEAU - RER LES HALLES
Depuis 2007, le Salon du Mercredi d’Alex Cecchetti, imaginé comme un espace de rencontres inspirées des salons littéraires du 18è siècle, invite artistes, danseurs, performers et poètes. Entre expérimentation, improvisation et hybridation des formes, ce salon est un laboratoire. Pour ce nouvel épisode, les invités et le public discuterons d’imagination, suite à la conversation « made by imagination », à l’École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris. De quoi parlons-nous quand nous parlons d’imagination ? Dans quel sens l’imagination peut-elle être le processus à la base de la création de sociétés, d’identités, d’inhumanités ou de joies ?
VOICES OF URGENCY 2015 (Science meets Poetry)
22 to 25 OCTOBER 2015 – from 6 to 8pm
Chapelle des Petits-Augustins
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
PARIS
Devised and orchestrated by Alex Cecchetti, Voices of Urgency invites science to meet poetry. Four events where researchers, scientists and philosophers are called in direct confrontation to poetry and poets.
This Year the 4 days panels will unfold the sentence that titles the program:
WE ARE THE WORLD WITHOUT THE WORLD, MADE BY IMAGINATION AND IN DEFENCE OF WHAT ONCE WE CALLED NATURE.
With: Paul Broks (Neuropsycologist UK), Dorothea Lasky (Poet USA), Emma Bennett & Holly Pester (Poets UK), Markus Gabriel (Philosopher, Germany), Jolanda Insana (Poet, Italy), Clare Pollard (Poet, UK), Agnès Devictor (Political scientist, France), Dunya Mikhail (Poet, Irak), Brian Turner (Poet, USA), Homero Aridjis (Poet, Mexico), Timothy Morton (Philosopher, UK), Ko Un (Poet, Korea)
Voices of Urgency is framed in the official program FIAC Hors les murs
And is supported by Maison de la Poésie, Centre Culturel Coréen à Paris, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts Paris, British Council, and Maison de L’Amerique Latine.
Here is the link for the full program and more info.
MARIE AND WILLIAM: A PERFORMANCE BY ALEX CECCHETTI
103 Pages
English
Softcover, 14 x 23 cm
9788867491568
€ 16
Alex Cecchetti knows that “a story is an object, but one that does not take any space for storage, or not as much as a painting or a sculpture.” Indeed, the story ofMarie and William, a performance by the artist, assumes the shape of a book. The content—photography, drawings, and captions—is stylishly arranged on the pages, visually akin to a collage—scanned, not 3D-printed. The story is rendered flat, but like so many stories captured in surfaces, it deals with movement. Think of a dance manual, or a script made of stills. In fact, does not even know it is a book, it thinks itself to be a record on a turn table.”
A MIDI Publication. MIDI is an imprint of Mousse Publishing and Åbäke
SERRALVES FOUNDATION
FROM 19 SEP 2015 TO 20 SEP 2015
ALEX CECCHETTI, ANASTASIA AX & LARS SILTBERG, ISABEL CARVALHO, KOVÁCS/O’DOHERTY, LORETO MARTÍNEZ TRONCOSO, MARIA HASSABI, MUSA PARADISIACA, NEW NOVETTA, VIVO.
First edition of a new field of programming of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, entitled "Museum as Performance”, which consists of a programme of performances that will take place annually in its various spaces.
This programme recognises the growing importance of the performing arts in the world of contemporary art and contributes to secure the history of Serralves as a pioneering museum in terms of transdisciplinary initiatives, characterised by constant intersections between the visual and performing arts, and the regular presence of leading international figures from the worlds of dance, the performing arts and contemporary music. The invitation to artists to inject life into the museum’s spaces also reflects Serralves’ interest in working with artists whose work responds to its unique architectural context and natural surroundings.
This programme aims to reflect the diversity of current perspectives about current performing arts – from work on language, exploration of the relationship with theatre (through attention to the spoken word, and also incorporation of props), connections and tensions between physical action and drawing or sculpture, questioning of the autonomy of the impacts of a performance as an installation and memory and the long-term construction of relationships with the architectural and acoustical space.
"Museum as Performance” is curated by Cristina Grande, Ricardo Nicolau and Pedro Rocha - who are, respectively, the programmers of dance and performance, the visual arts and music of Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art.