L A S T C H A N C E T O S E E >> JAN 26
THE HIDDEN WORLD.
JIM SHAW / DIDACTIC ART COLLECTION
« The show is like an obsessive compulsive scratched mixed tape of mad soppy pop songs. you may love or hate it, it is so powerful it stays stuck in your mind till the end of times! »
– Maurizio Cattelan
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hidden world print
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diplomates
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CLOSING PARTY
SUNDAY - 26 JAN 2014 -
PROGRAM / 12 PM – 10 PM
ALL DAY LONG >
THE INVISIBLE MAN (or OUT OF THIS WORLD), last chance to experiment with your disappearance. A special box built after the drafts of famous magician Robert Harbin, and « augmented » by new powers. A unique experience by our friends DIPLOMATES.
FUSION, new video by Alain della Negra and Kaori Kinoshita, where possessed humans fuse with their totem animal.
ALL THE GODS, blacksmiths take turns all the week end long to offer a final tribute to The Hidden World Gods. Come and engrave your name on these sacred logs. Performance by Théodore Fivel and friends.
LA SOIREE >
The Hidden World TALK. Marc-Olivier Wahler in conversation with writer and philosopher Tristan Garcia about hidden agenda at work in Jim Shaw’s exhibition.
7pm – 8pm.
The Hidden World MUSIC SET. Listen to what lies beneath the vinyl covers collected by Jim Shaw.
The Hidden World BAR. After having bewitched their village with an old rhum, the gals from Valmondois will brew a new love potion especially for you. Served in a magic den imagined by DIPLOMATES. 8pm to the end of time.
AND ALSO >
FINAL SESSION OF CHALET WORKSHOPS
Last silkscreen prints by The Bells Angels and last Chalet mugs by Cecile Noguès. Sales at Boutique des Souvenirs & Bookshop with publications selected by Jim Shaw.
18.01.2014
Chalet Society presents
LES GRANDS TRANSPARENTS. IN PRACTICE,VOL.II
in a special collaboration with FAMILY BUSINESS
Family Business is a non-for-profit space, a free time-share, open to experimentation and irreverent exhibition formats, initiated by Maurizio Cattelan and Massimiliano Gioni and powered by the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, USA. A guest + a host = a ghost. Nadja Argyropoulou is the Family Business guest (or ghost) curator.
Family Business was until recently operating in New York. It has disappeared from its Chelsea space and has been conjured in Paris, where it reappeared emerging from the crypt situated in the alley of the Chalet Society.
Responding to Marc Olivier Wahler‘s curatorial flair for tricks and treats and getting into a loose, rather abstracted dialogue with the Jim Shaw exhibition’s vertiginous material and curiosity triggered concept, Family Business is inviting entities, people, practices into the spaces of the Chalet Society for a program under the general title: Les Grands Transparents. In Practice, and divided in Vol.I – December 2013 and Vol.II – January 2014
Saturday, January 18th
7:30 pm – 9 pm Fix Your Eyes Right Here!, a conjuring lecture/performance by ESTAR(SER), the research consortium known as The Esthetical Society for Transcendental and Applied Realization (now incorporating The Society for Esthetical Realizers).
On this special occasion, visiting representatives of ESTAR (SER), Sal Randolph and D. Graham Burnett, will reanimate the eccentric stagecraft of an American original: Inyard Kip Ketchem, also known, during his vagabond years riding the carnival circuit in the early twentieth century, as Doctor Ketch’em, Professor Katch’em, The Amazing Mr. Ketch, Yardarm von Kip, Inyard “Eagle-Eye” Kip-Katch, and under a number of other sobriquets.
Documents recently surfaced by members of the Editorial Committee of the ESTAR (SER) open an idiosyncratic window onto the career of this vaudeville philosopher, who rose to considerable celebrity in the years before World War I, as “America’s Greatest Carnival Meditator”, a distinction he succeeded in parleying into a marginal livelihood as a travelling attention artist and huckster-therapist of modern distraction.
Was he associated with the Order of the Third Bird (or related communities of ritually-oriented devotees of practical aesthesis)? There are reasons to believe he was.
In parallel to the Family Business program, the Chalet Society is happy to present :
THE INVISIBLE MAN (or OUT OF THIS WORLD), a unique experience – a device for experimenting with disappearance, proposed to the public by the designers of Diplomates. It is a special box built after the texts and drafts of famous magician Robert Harbin, and « augmented » by new powers. This « service », somewhere between cheating and acceptance of the magic, allows one to experience the passage to the beyond and focus on the space-time that is offered then to the disappeared person.
Individual experience from January 18 to 26, booking on site.
FUSION, screening of the new video by Alain della Negra and Kaori Kinoshita, where possessed humans spread their wings and clows, fusionning with their totem animal in a space full of possibilities offered by the green backdrop.
From January 18 to 26, 2014
14.12.2013
Chalet Society presents
LES GRANDS TRANSPARENTS. IN PRACTICE, VOL. I
in a special collaboration with FAMILY BUSINESS
Saturday, December 14th
3 pm – 7 pm Saprophytes and their intertextual supplement to Hesiod’s Theogony, titled: Minor Bestiary II. Méth-odos Hési-ode.
Saprophytes is a collective artistic project that focuses on finding, processing and assembling preexisting material which is in a state of conceptual decay or disparagement. The byproducts of such activity are intended to form visual pastiches and new narrative frameworks, to multiply misreadings and recombinations.
The Saprophytes will create a multimedia installation, in the Chalet Society crypt, with the aim to go back to the roots, the genesis of the monstrous and the bestial. Between 6.30pm and 7pm, « an orgasmic polyphonic reading » of excerpts from Hesiod’s famous text, will be performed, by both, special invited guests and the present public, in and out of the crypt, in a procession worthy of the original myth about divine and human descent.
Open call for participation in reading Hesiod’s Theogony*. The texts will be available in French, Ancient Greek and Modern Greek and participants will be guided, through the readings about Chaos, Erevos, the Night, Aether, Uranus, Cronus, Gaia, the muses, the Gods, Eros and the Titans to a better grasp of the relevant overwhelming visual legacy and its contemporary ramifications.
3 pm – 6 pm Workshop titled: Scare(crow)s abound
Taking its cue from the Saprophytes’ research and the uncanny creatures described in Hesiod’s Theogony, the workshop is open to everyone and will point to the world wide rich tradition and diverse practice of making scarecrows, i.e. effigies, decoys, guardians and boogie-structures, which extends from rural customs, to comics, Japanese deities, mythology, a Pink Floyd song, films, musicals, books and more. Every one is invited to bring materials, information, ideas or even ready to install scarecrows*. Artists will teach the practice and stories will be recounted.
7 pm Je est un autre, Lecture performance with Philippe Charlier
The famous forensic pathologist and archéo-anthropologist, author of Les Monstres Humains dans l’Antiquité, will show a stunning collection of mythological and real monsters and explain how they relate to our fear of the other.
8 pm Awards Ceremony for The Best Scarecrow
The public will vote for the winner who will receive a secret prize. The fruits of the day’s labors can be exchanged among their makers or stay to protect the Chalet Society premises.
Chalet Workshops
Family Business enters into a cosmogonic interaction with the artists residents of the Chalet Society : a special silkscreen print will be edited by The Bells Angels aka Julien Sirjacq & Simon Bernheim and a performance proposed by Théodore Fivel.
And finally, Fool Moon Crêperie
is getting into fool mood business by offering a special Family Aquarius crepe in honor of the Family Business birth sign.
*please note that no special skills are required for participation in the Theogony reading or the scarecrows workshop: It is all about practices!
*as Walter Benjamin put it, « I have nothing to say; only show »
30.11 – 01.12.2013
CHALET SOCIETY’S FIRST ANNUAL ZOMBIE GALA
ZOMBIE BALLROOM DANCE CONTEST/ALTERZOMBIE
Saturday, November 30th
- Zombie Dance Contest / 6 pm – 10 pm (Big Prize to Win !)
- Zombie Friendly Make up / Marine Goodmorning
- Bazzerk Voodoo Mix / Jess & Crabbe
- Voodoo Kuduro Afro House Dance / Izilker & Bebediabo
Saturday, November 30th & Sunday, December 1st
- Atelier Céramique Monstrueux /Jean-Michel Bertin
- Bûche Voodoo / Théodore Fivel
Sunday, December 1st
- Alterzombie Book & LP Launch / The Bells Angels
- Alterzombie Lecture / Karim Charredib – Olivier Schefer – Azzedine Saleck -
François Tariq Sardi – Charles Robinson
- Alterzombie Ambiant / Antoine Kogut & Nicolas Jorio
- Vodou Rallizes / Jerome Poret
- Umbanda Purification Secret Capture / Julien Previeux
- Workshop Exceptionnel / Prof.M’Blopa, also known as Pablo Cots, outstanding ethnologist, physician, physicist, justicer and mystic of anglo-mexican origin, considered as one of the greatest humanists of contemporary art, will set up a workshop for kids and related adults. CREATE YOUR OWN MARABOUT FLYERS. Only on Sunday / 3 pm – 6 pm.
Prof. M’Blopa’s cabinet featuring the author’s art and bestsellers will be on view until December 8.
Fool Moon Crêperie
Special Voodoo Diet
Thank you for coming to this event, !