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SYNCHRONISE.ACCELERATE.DISPERSE. II 30.01.2014 Une projection propose par Misery Connoisseur et Christopher Kulendran Thomas ainsi que le lancement du magazine Novembre #8 Une projection et un lancement de magazine en rsonance aux thmes dvelopps durant la rsidence Synchronise. Accelerate. Disperse. initie Enclave, Londres. En convoquant la production du luxe travers l'art, le design et la mode, la premire phase du projet s'attachait repousser les diverses possibilits politiques issues de la consommation acclre, afin de rorienter les diffrents flux reliant pouvoir, argent et dsir. Les vidos prsentes dans la deuxime partie instrumentalisent l'esthtique publicitaire et commerciale. Elles visent comprendre notre place dans le monde par del le fantasme d'une autonomie individuelle propre au statut de spectateur mancip. Synchronise. Accelerate. Disperse. I & II affirment que l'autonomie de l'art dans sa conception moderniste s'apparenterait un "glitch" historique. En amont de la priorit que Clement Greenberg (au vu de la menace fasciste) accorde l'autonomie artistique et bien avant que l'Art Contemporain ne privilgie l'autonomie d'interprtation conformment l'conomie de march ; il est viable d'envisager une trajectoire alternative du modernisme, o le champ de l'art est compris en tant que vaste manation du quotidien. Du Constructivisme sovitique et du Bauhaus en passant par l'Artists Placement Group et certaines pratiques mergentes actuelles engageant directement des processus commerciaux, la production culturelle peut tre envisage comme tant toujours dj instrumentalise dans l'tablissement de sa ralit.

SYNCHRONISE.ACCELERATE.DISPERSE. II 30.01.2014 A screening curated by Misery Connoisseur and Christopher Kulendran Thomas along with the launch Novembre magazine issue #8

A screening and magazine launch elaborating on themes developed at the residency Synchronise. Accelerate. Disperse. at Enclave, London. Part I pushed the political possibilities of accelerated consumption, mobilising the production of luxury through art, design and fashion to redirect networked flows of power, capital and desire. In Part II, each artists video instrumentalises commercial and advertising aesthetics in pursuit of understanding our place in the world beyond the fantasy of individual autonomy upon which emancipated spectatorship is based. Synchronise. Accelerate. Disperse. I & II claim that the modernist idea of artistic autonomy was a temporary historical glitch. An alternative trajectory of modernism can be traced (from before Clement Greenbergs prioritising of artistic autonomy against the threat of Fascism and from well before Contemporary Arts prioritising of interpretational autonomy in line with free markets) in which arts horizon is understood as a widespread part of daily life. From Soviet Constructivism and Bauhaus through the Artists Placement Group and some of todays emergent practices directly engaged in commercial processes, cultural production can be understood as always already instrumentalised in making its reality.

LINKS : http://enclaveprojects.com/ http://miseryconnoisseur.co.uk/ http://novembremagazine.com

Film credits Brace Brace Dark Pool, 2014 HD 1:37 Production - Yeo Workshop / Editing - Naomi Gunawan / Cinematography - Lucky Mao Films / Make-up - Kelvin Khoo using Illamasqua, MAC / Make Up - Forever Laura Buckley Digital Skin, 2013 HD 6:23 Sound produced by David MacLean Dora Budor New Lavoro Episode 2, 2013 HD 7:54 Director of photography - Alex Gvojic / Editing - Erin Grant / Producer - Hannah Daly / Production Manager - Erin Grant / Production Associates - Erika Ceruzzi and Alexander Kellogg / Production Assistants - Thurmon Green, Amy Greenberg, Zoe Field, Andrew Sokol / Camera Operatives - Taran Allen, Lorenzo Durantini, Bryan Fox, Luke Moore, Mitch Moore / Sound - Rob Debruin and Pablo Tapia Pla / Wardrobe - EckhausLatta / Guest Judges Korakrit Arunanondchai, Frank Benson, Xavier Cha, Keren Cytter, Brian Droitcour, Jamie Sterns, Brad Troemel, Andrew Norman Wilson / Cast Host - Dora Budor - Dora Budor / Contestants - Casey Brander, Nick DeMarco, Jack Eriksson, Martha Hipley, Rachel Lord, Chase C. Middleton, Alli Miller, Bailey Scieszka, Jonathan Stanish, Ian Swanson, Vaughn Taormina, Heather Weston, Gregory Zukauskas / Music - Main Theme New New Lavoro Slava, Songs by Al Tariq, Perfect Anything / Reusable Tracks (DIS Magazine) Maja !ule The Horizon, 2013 HD 3:18 Featuring Marlous Borm hanging from the 8th floor of The Trump Building at 40 Wall Street. Anne de Vries Forecast 5:04 Text - Bertrand Russel / Sound - James Whipple / Technoerotic Assistancy - Timur Si-Qin DIS Kenzo HD 2:10 Directed by Marco Roso / Production and Styling Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, David Toro / Director of Photography Ryan de Franco / Post Production Ruy Sanchez Blanco at Bunker Media / Edit, Graphics, Color Sam Maliszewski at Bunker Media / Post Production Coordinator Carolina Pimenta at Bunker Media / Casting Preston Chaunsumlit / Hair and Makeup Brandy McDonald / Models RJ King @ Willhelmina, Jae Yoo @ Soul, Salieu Jalloh @ Red, Alex Michel @ Re:Quest, and Claudio Monteiro @ Re:Quest / City Location The Setai Fifth Avenue / Stock Music "Power Lunch 2" / Special thanks to B2Pro, The Setai Fifth Avenue, Arthur and Betsey Selkowitz / Post Production Services Bunker Media Claudia Djabbari Dichtung Und Wahrheit HD 8:09 Kristin Luke for The Air Inn Venice TAIV Material Promo HD 8:47 Sound Drumshanbo Disco / Cinematography Christopher Kulendran Thomas / Special thanks to Darrel Stadlen and Annika Kuhlmann Peles Empire Episode 1. Cluj Fits 4:11 James Prevett Porousness Part 7 and I miss her HD 7:34 Erica Scourti HD 4:32 Original film by Erica Scourti concept and direction taken from textual meta-tag information and film redistributed online. Reused by Youtube user Geoff Sewell as a George Michael cover.

Misery Connoisseur (MC) - A project by Rowena Harris, Michael Heilgemeir & Emma Hunt.