[Nettime-ro] Sean Snyder/ Mnac/ 6.09.2007

[mihnea mircan <mmircan@yahoo.com>]

Sean Snyder

6.09 - 6.12.2007
vernisaj/ opening: 6.09, 19.00
curatori/ curators: Florin Tudor, Mihnea Mircan
MNAC, Calea 13 Septembrie, Bucuresti

scroll down for english

In instalatii care integreaza fotografie, video si
text, Sean Snyder analizeaza rolul si procesele
reprezentarii ideologice in constructia spatiului
urban sau medial. Dupa proiecte in care a investigat
arhitectura si urbanismul, trasind legaturi intre
orase indepartate, dar asemanatoare prin programele
lor de ?modernizare?, lucrarile recente ale Sean
Snyder articuleaza un discurs care urmareste simptome
ale reprezentarii ideologice si, de cealalta parte,
contrapuncte subversive fata de sursele de informatie
dominante. 

Artistul a comparat programele de transformare urbana
din Bucuresti si Phenian, ale caror ambitii sugereaza
un soi de ?sublim politic?, fictiunea ranch-ului
Southfork din serialul ?Dallas? cu fictiunea
?Southfork Slobozia?, unde magnatul local Ilie
Alexandru a construit o copie fara original, planurile
lui Kenzo Tange pentru reconstruirea orasului Skopje
dupa cutremur si estetica exuberanta a blocurilor de
la periferiile Parisului. In proiecte ulterioare,
Snyder propune o critica a reprezentarii ideologice,
care izoleaza disparitatile, voluntare sau nu,
vehiculate de mass media, si analizeaza diferentele
dintre modurile in care este relatat acelasi eveniment
pe fundalul unei tesaturi de aliante politice
nebuloase, corelatii suspecte si calcule populiste.
Guvernele si corporatiile emit enunturi cu scopul de a
motiva sau linisti, de a vinde sau de a face adepti.
Proiectele lui Sean Snyder nu raspund cu intentia
utopica de a restabili adevarul, ci cu programul,
aproape la fel de anevoios, de a arhiva fisurile
retorice din comunicarea publica si jumatatile de
adevar, actele ratate colective si aliantele secrete.
Lucrarile ne invita sa ne imaginam o harta a lumii
compusa din acte de manipulare si intelesuri
suspendate, un fel de ?agenda ascunsa? globala.

?Arhivele? pe care le construiesc sint un fel de
sub-indexuri imprumutate din surse existente de
informatie: biblioteci, internet, mass media etc. Nu
incerc sa stabilesc vreo ierarhie intre resursele
existente si fotografiile ori materialul video pe care
il produc eu insumi. Tot ceea ce string sau produc
face parte dintr-un proces de refacere a verigilor
lipsa. Intelesul se materializeaza prin reconfigurari
si juxtapuneri care pun in legatura elemente
disparate, fara a oferi o concluzie definitiva. Una
dintre posibilitatile discursului artistic este sa
reevalueze reziduurile trecutului imediat, politic sau
cultural. ? Sean Snyder, in dialog cu Charles Esche.

Sean Snyder s-a nascut in 1972, la Virginia Beach,
SUA. Traieste si lucreaza la Berlin si Kiev.
Expozitiile sale personale recente au fost gazduite de
Stedelijk Museum CS (Amsterdam), Secession (Viena),
Portikus (Frankfurt), De Appel (Amsterdam), Neue
Kunsthalle (St. Gallen), si Lisson Gallery (Londra).
.....................................................................


Working with photography, video and text, Sean Snyder
dissects the role and processes of ideological
representation in the construction of the urban and
media space. After extensive research into notions and
forms of architecture or urban planning, tracing
connections between distant cities and their similar
?modernization? programs, Sean Snyder has articulated
more recently a discourse that uncovers symptoms of
ideological representation and subversive
counterpoints to dominant knowledge.

Snyder?s projects have followed the comparable
ambitions ? pertaining to a sort of political sublime
? that propelled the communist remodeling of Pyongyang
and Bucharest, a comparison between the fiction of the
Southfork ranch in the TV series ?Dallas? and the
fiction of Southfork Slobozia, where a copy without an
original has been built by local magnate Ilie
Alexandru, the plans of Kenzo Tange to rebuild Skopje
following an earthquake and the exuberant aesthetics
of housing blocks in the peripheries of Paris. In
later projects, Snyder undertook a critique of
ideological representation, pinning down the
disparities, deliberate or not, being trafficked by
mass media, analyzing the capacity of news events and
the different manners they are reported to reveal a
web of dependencies, partisanships and populist
calculation. Governments and corporations emit
sentences designed to motivate or reassure, to sell or
win over. Sean Snyder?s projects do not respond with
an utopian effort to re-establish truth, but with a
quixotic program to archive rhetorical glitches and
premeditated half-truths, collective Freudian slips
and baffling misalliances, engendering a world map of
acts of manipulation and suspended meanings,
prefiguring in a sense a global hidden agenda.

The ?archives? I construct are sort of sub-indexes
borrowed from existing sources of knowledge;
libraries, the Internet, media sources, etc. I don't
make much of a hierarchy between the existing
resources from which I borrow and the photos or video
material I produce myself. Whatever I accumulate or
produce is part of a process to fill in the missing
links. The meaning materializes through
re-configurations and juxtapositions that
cross-reference a number of disparate points without
offering an end conclusion. I see one of the
possibilities of art to reassess the debris of the
immediate political or cultural past. - Sean Snyder,
in discussion with Charles Esche

Sean Snyder was born in Virginia Beach, USA in 1972.
He lives and works in Berlin and Kiev. Recent solo
exhibitions include the Stedelijk Museum CS
(Amsterdam), Secession (Vienna), Portikus (Frankfurt),
De Appel (Amsterdam), Neue Kunsthalle (St. Gallen),
and Lisson Gallery (London).

.....................................................
Parteneri MNAC:  HP, BRD
Sponsor: Peroni
Partneri media: 24 Fun, Re:PUBLIK, Igloo, Arhitectura,
Rfi, Time Out Bucuresti
...................................................................................

The National Museum of Contemporary Art
2-4, Str. Izvor, aripa E4,  Bucharest (RO), 050563
tel: +40 21 318 91 37/ fax: +40 21 318 91 38,
www.mnac.ro



      ____________________________________________________________________________________
Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect.  Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7 

_______________________________________________
Nettime-ro mailing list
Nettime-ro@nettime.org
http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ro
-->
arhiva: http://amsterdam.nettime.org/