Insiders - Practices, Customs, Know-How

Insiders – Practices, Customs, Know-How Lainé Warehouse arc en rêve centre d’architecture / CAPC musée d’art contemporain October 9, 2009 – February 7, 2010

In the face of a new global culture ridden with social and economical crises, new forms of solidarity have arisen in the light of ecological awareness and a new found faith in politics. They allow for the affirmation of new systems of organization and trade founded on cooperation and the open sharing of knowledge. Insiders bears witness to a new way of looking at different customs and know-how emanating from singular cultures and territories. The modernization and modes of transmission of this popular knowledge ― or folk-lore ― operates within a global system and inside of local contexts. They highlight the complexity of identities shaped by the appropriations, transformations and combinations without witch such contemporary singularities would not emerge. This two-fold exhibition, devised as an archipelago of artistic and architectural proposals, combines and assembles a series of recent works, projects, works-in-progress and commissions.

Practices, Customs, Know-How

In terms of artistic practices, the project’s general method is founded on the principle of collection. It emulates the customs of the first folklorists, from the 19th century onwards, who studied areas by making observations and inventories. This modus operandi shared by artistic, anthropological and museographic practices consists of selecting, assembling, collecting, comparing, isolating and preserving the “units” within a whole that appropriately reflect the customs of a society. In order to broaden this field of inquiry, numerous correspondents – participating observers located in different parts of the world – have been invited to share information about their specific situations. Sets of objects, new works, accounts of “minor histories” and spontaneous archives: all of these proposals are based on the practice of collecting. The exhibition refuses to submit to a panoramic gaze, attempting a more heterogeneous form, similar to a ‘polyphonic’ narrative. The architectural and urban perspectives are ideally positioned to observe the adjustments and conversions of current economic, environmental and social issues. Its approach is based on a contemporary set of procedures and projects that delineates new territories, forms, symbols and relationships by continually re-actualizing the value of proximity. Its alternative methodologies elaborate new outlooks that blur the established boundaries between professional and amateur practices. On a local scale and within networks, these acts of appropriation operate as innovative forces, inventing territories and initiating real and virtual situations. They offer the chance to rehabilitate the original folk lores and to develop a fundamental globalization of shared, dynamic affinities. How does architectural and urban creation anticipate these new conditions? How do architects, urban planners and landscape architects base their work on these new relationships with the world ― with culture, aesthetics, techniques, history and economics ― in order to put alternative strategies in place and invent new models?

2012 Architecten / Cornelia Lauf, 4 Taxis, Kim Adams, Cory Arcangel Vladimir Arkhipov, Bertille Bak, Ball & Nogues Studio, Leah Beeferman, Patrick Bouchain Alexander Brodsky, Patrice Caillet, Jean-Marc Chapoulie et Denis Savary, Raimond Chaves / Inti Guerrero (performance), Cybermohalla / Cédric Vincent, Călin Dan, Burning Man Festival, Stefan Canham + Rufina Wu, Crimsons Architectural Historians + Felix Rottenberg, Burö Detours, Jeremy Deller, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Mick Peter, Aiden & Agnes Fynch, Stephane Doesinger, Jimmie Durham, Thierry Ehrmann, El Ultimo Grito, EqA, Ruth Ewan, Fashion Architecture Taste, Peter Fattinger + Design-Build, Cao Fei, Peter Fischli & David Weiss , Pierre Fisher et Justin Meekel, Freistilmuseum / Tiphanie Blanc, Terunobu Fujimori, Anna Galtarossa & Daniel Gonzalez, Dionisio Gonzalez, Gramazio & Kohler, Richard Greaves, Peter Haimerl, Helen & Hard, Anna Heringer & Eike Roswag, HildunK, Victor Houteff / Jim Shaw, Interbreeding Field, Pierre Joseph, Alan Kane, Igloo Media Patrimoniu, Mike Kelley, le Vilain, Laurent Legall, Jacques Lœuille, Abu Bakarr Mansaray, Joseph Marzolla, Asier Mendizabal, Mathieu Mercier, MMW, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Gaël Peltier, Nikolay Polissky, Marjetica Potrc, Arne Quinze, Raumlabor, Pedro G. Romero / Archivo F.X., Adelfo Scaranello, Janet Lee Scott, Dubravka Sekulic & Ivan Kucina, SPEEDISM, Sitesize, Brad Templeton, Suzanne Treister, Oscar Tuazon, Marcel Türkowsky, Viljoen & Bohn, Kaï Vockler + Archis Interventions, Andrea Zittel

commissariat / curators pour arc en rêve : Francine Fort, directrice générale Michel Jacques, architecte Claire Petetin, architecte Eric Troussicot, architecte pour le CAPC : Charlotte Laubard, directrice Yann Chateigné Tytelman, responsable des projets Émilie Renard, commissaire invitée Christophe Kihm, conseiller scientifique invité

Insiders – Practices, Customs, Know-How
Kuratoren: Francine Fort, Michel Jacques, Claire Petetin, Eric Troussicot, Charlotte Laubard, Yann Chateigne Tytelman, Emilie Renard, Christophe Kihm

Künstler: 2012 Architecten  / Cornelia Lauf, 4 Taxis , Kim Adams, Cory Arcangel, Vladimir Arkhipov, Bertille Bak, Ball & Nogues Studio, Leah Beeferman, Patrick Bouchain Alexander Brodsky, Patrice Caillet, Jean-Marc Chapoulie / Denis Savary, Raimond Chaves / Inti Guerrero (performance), Cybermohalla / Cedric Vincent, Calin Dan, Burning Man Festival , Stefan Canham + Rufina Wu, Crimsons Architectural Historians  + Felix Rottenberg, Buro Detours, Jeremy Deller, Daniel Dewar & Gregory Gicquel, Mick Peter, Aiden & Agnes Fynch, Stephane Doesinger, Jimmie Durham, Thierry Ehrmann, El Ultimo Grito, EqA , Ruth Ewan, Fashion Architecture Taste, Peter Fattinger + Design-Build, Cao Fei, Fischli / Weiss , Pierre Fisher / Justin Meekel, Freistilmuseum / Tiphanie Blanc, Terunobu Fujimori, Anna Galtarossa & Daniel Gonzalez, Dionisio Gonzalez, Gramazio & Kohler, Richard Greaves, Peter Haimerl, Helen & Hard, Anna Heringer & Eike Roswag, HildunK, Victor Houteff / Jim Shaw, Interbreeding Field, Pierre Joseph, Alan Kane, Igloo Media Patrimoniu, Mike Kelley, Le Vilain, Laurent Legall, Jacques Loeuille, Abu Bakarr Mansaray, Joseph Marzolla, Asier Mendizabal, Mathieu Mercier, MMW , Christodoulos Panayiotou, Gael Peltier, Nikolay Polissky, Marjetica Potrc, Arne Quinze, raumlabor berlin, Pedro G. Romero / Archivo F.X. , Adelfo Scaranello, Janet Lee Scott, Dubravka Sekulic & Ivan Kucina, SPEEDISM, Sitesize , Brad Templeton, Suzanne Treister, Oscar Tuazon, Marcel Türkowsky, Viljoen & Bohn, Kai Vockler + Archis Interventions , Andrea Zittel