Philipp Gufler’s Indirect Contacts | Непрямые контакты Филиппа Гуфлера

As part of the project “Political Dimensions of Cultural Praxis and Knowledge Production,” we are publishing the 6th chapter of Philipp Gufler's artist book “Indirect Contact” in English and Russian, that gives insights into his process of working with the environment of the grassroots archive Forum Queeres Archiv München. Johanna Klingler gives an introduction to Philipp’s artistic practice.

Ausstellung als Film / Film als Ausstellung

04.05.18, 19:00 Uhr
Philipp Gufler

Lesung „Jäcki ist für Jackis“

Am dritten Tag (4. Mai) hängt Philipp Gufler seine bedruckten Stoffschichtungen im Raum. Darin performt er „Jäcki ist für Jackis“; eine Lesung aus seinem Künstlerbuch "Indirekte Berührung".

On the third day, Philipp Gufler installs his printed fabric layers and performs “Jäcki ist für Jäckis”—a reading from his artist book “Indirect Contact”.

Imaginary Display(s) - Ausstellung als Film / Film als Ausstellung (02.05.18-09.05.18).
BNKR
Ungererstraße 158 / 80805 München
www.bnkr.space

Kuratiert von Marie-France Rafael. Mit Klaus vom Bruch, Philipp Gufler, An Laphan, Jeanne-Marie Varain, Kalas Liebfried, Romain Gandolphe, Richard John Jones und Camilla Wills. Die Veranstaltung ist Teil des Programms „Stop making sense, it’s as good as it gets.“ (bis Juli 2018) kuratiert von Ludwig Engel und Joanna Kamm.

The Hammock at Juliette Jongma

Front Space #1:
The Hammock
31 March - 5 May


The Hammock presents a series focusing on the artist book as an artwork in its own right. The leisure time furniture will function as a platform from which on a weekly base artists wil read from their publication. Coinciding with the reading a work by each artist will be installed. In order of appearance a group exhibition will arise. Invited are, amongst others, Philipp
Gufler, Pablo Pijnappel and Rumiko Hagiwara.

The first artist is Philipp Gufler (1989, DE) - former resident of De Ateliers working with performance, fabric prints, text, video and silkscreens. His work often pays tribute to historic figures who were fundamentally critical towards the norms and values of their time. In his book, titled Indirect Contact, these figures meet with contemporaries of Gufler. Different characters are formed and expressed in a fragmented way, mixing quotes and possible thoughts, as condensed attitudes. Moreover Gufler merges himself with them, resulting in appropriating utterances.

Indirect Contact is published by BQ Gallery and will be on sale, as well as available for personal reading in our hammock.

Readings
Saturday 31 March, 18:00, Philipp Gufler
Friday 6 April, 17:00, Pablo Pijnappel
Friday 20 April, 17:00, Rumiko Hagiwara
+ more to be announced!


Juliette Jongma
open Wednesday - Saturday,
1-6pm
Gerard Doustraat 128a
1073 VX Amsterdam
t/f + 31 20 46 36 904
info@juliettejongma.com
www.juliettejongma.com

"Indirect Contact", 2017, Foto Galerie Juliette Jongma

"Quilt #18 (Kirsten Nilsson)", 2018, Foto Galerie Juliette Jongma

INDIREKTE BERÜHRUNG / INDIRECT CONTACT

Indirekte Berührung / Indirect Contact

2017
80 EURO
30,4 x 19,5 cm
40 pages, silkscreen print on foil, spiral bound
100 copies in English, 100 copies in German, numbered

Publisher: BQ
Editor: Adrian Djukic
Print: Philipp Gufler and Grafisch Atelier Hilversum
Binding machines: GBC
Foils and binding supplies: GBC
KINDLY SUPPORTED BY GBC

Order here: 
info (at) bqberlin.de, BQ Berlin

Available at:
Buchhandlung Walther König im Haus der Kunst, Prinzenstraße 1, Munich
BQ, Weydingerstraße 10, Berlin
Galerie Françoise Heitsch, Amalienstraße 15, Munich
San Serriffe, Sint Annenstraat 30, Amsterdam, NL
San Serriffe II, Rozenstraat 56, Amsterdam, NL
Boekie Woekie, Berenstraat 16, Amsterdam, NL

OFFSPRING

 Offspring 2017: DEEP STATE

Concluding the two-year participation of ten emerging artists, De Ateliers proudly presents the twelfth edition of Offspring, curated by Lara Almarcegui and Martijn Hendriks:

DEEP STATE

Johannes Büttner
Giulia Cenci
June Crespo
Inga Danysz
Mary Furniss
Kevin Gallagher
Hadrien Gerenton
Michael Guidetti
Philipp Gufler
Thomas Hämén

You are cordially invited to the festive opening of Offspring 2017: DEEP STATE on Tuesday May 16, 6-8 pm with a reading from my artist book "Indirect Contact" with Fantasma at 9 pm.
Exhibition: May 17-28, open daily 12-6 pm

De Ateliers
Stadhouderskade 86
1073 AT Amsterdam

Photos: Gert Jan van Rooij, Amsterdam

Romankreisen

Philipp Gufler "Romankreisen"

Opening: Friday 24.3.2017
20 H: Reading by Fantasma and Philipp Gufler from his book “Indirekte Berührung”
Exhibition: 25.3. - 15.4.2017

"The whole novel touches its own page bottom and turns to the next page" Hubert Fichte on his literary project "Die Geschichte der Empfindlichkeit"  

The title of Philipp Gufler’s first show at BQ borrows a term from the German novelist and ethnographer Hubert Fichte (1935 – 1986). Fichte associated this literal translation from Greek with the concept of a circular novel, which in its course returns to the point of departure. In his show, Gufler adapts Fichte’s thought as the conceptual idea of an abstract, orbital movement to reflect on exemplary themes, methods and forms that feature in his body of work. The artist book Indirekte Berührung / Indirect Contact forms the central piece of the exhibition and relates its elements in the form of a logbook. The installation includes mirrors that have been transformed with transparent colour pigments as well as layered fabrics with varying prints. These quilts are hung in the space and also constitute a separate space within the gallery. The last element is an acrylic glass showcase onto which the documentation of a previous performance is projected.

Making use of screen-printing on blue and pink plastic film with spiral binding (a technique which features prominently in his works), Gufler’s prose also takes a shape in which enables its haptic qualities to be experienced. Within these pieces, the reader encounters different characters, some of whom have inspired and influenced Gufler’s artistic production for a long time. They all position themselves on a fictional time scale, stretching from 1597 – the year in which the early baroque painter Caravaggio supposedly started work on his Narcissus – up to 2075 – the future year in which the performance een gebeueren, enacted in 1975 by the Dutch artist Ben d’Armagnac (1940 – 1978), will see its 100th anniversary. Besides locating these two artistic positions that are of personal relevance for Gufler, the years also serve as markers for a wide spectrum of reference points in his works that are often based on artistic research. All major characters – researchers, writers and artists alike – share a fundamentally critical attitude towards the norms of their time, putting into question cultural, political and sexual identity.

Indirect Touch allows historic figures and contemporaries of Gufler to meet outside the boundaries of chronological order. Gufler gives them an indirect voice in the form of appropriated fragments (which cannot be identified as citations in all cases). However, he does not merely cite or reproduce these characters but rather condenses the attitudes associated with or expressed by them. In the process of indirect writing, Gufler repeatedly seems to merge with his characters. The persona that links all 21 chapters is Jäcki, based on the gay flaneur and writer-protagonist from Hubert Fichte’s novel Palette (1968). Like Fichte, Gufler makes use of the character Jäcki as screen as well as ambivalent Doppelgänger (who never fully becomes the alter ego). The character Jäcki becomes a medium for repeated autobiographical passages that may be subtly woven into the text but may also dominate whole chapters.

Gufler’s literary and artistic self-assessments are indirect yet at the same time true to the principle ‘Put your self in quotation marks – call yourself a novel ’. The Fichte quote from Versuch über die Pubertät (1974), parts of which Gufler previously used in an exhibition title, illustrates a decidedly self-critical distance towards an up-close autobiographical approach. That same principle also governs Gufler’s installations and performances. His approaches to a choice of characters from a long tradition of emancipatory history are marked by the artistic pursuit of deeper involvement in regards to emotions and content. Gufler temporarily merges with his subjects of study and, in doing so, self-referentially reveals a fundamental difference between those subjects and himself.
Philipp Fürnkäs


BQ
Weydingerstraße 10
10178 Berlin

Philipp Gufler, Romankreisen, 2017
Silkscreen on fabric, 4-parts
208,5 x 216 x 216 cm

Een gebeuren, 2016
Video: 28:33 min., acrylic glass box, fly maggots, books, scraper, blades, key, lamp, projector, speakers, media player
Acrylic glass box: 99,7 x 204,8 x 89 cm, projektion variable

Reading by Fantasma and Philipp Gufler from his book Indirekte Berührung
during the opening

Philipp Gufler, Indirekte Berührung, 2017
Silkscreen on foil, spiral bound, 30,4 x 19,5 cm
Edition 100 (German), Edition 100 (English

Photo: Roman März, Berlin
Courtesy BQ, Berlin