FLAM #09

Live Art Manifestation Amsterdam 

17 – 20 May 2022

In response to and invitation from Philipp Gufler, following their appearances in his film The Responsive Body, Louwrien Wijers and the Publik Univeral Frxnd have created a new performance work entitled Not Yet that explores their relationship and the a series of paintings by Wijers. Not Yet will be performed on Thursday, May 18 at 19:30 at Arti et Amicitae. The Responsive Body is installed as an installation and on view during the festival times. 

FLAM #9 serves a sizzling live art program with performances, audiovisual installations and unexpected interactions. After three years of mostly working behind the scenes, this new edition brings you a wide choice of local and international artists along with their works, which can be witnessed at close range. From a post-apocalyptic one-eyed bird of a cabaret singer named Puddles the Pelican, an earth eating cultural researcher, a rubbing expert that always puts pleasure at the center of work, to a bold musical performance questioning how we perceive otherness, each one of FLAM’s performances proposes a unique experience between the public and the work.

Arti et Amicitiae
Rokin 112
1012 LB Amsterdam

Fotos: Thomas Lenden

Jahresgaben Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen

JAHRESGABEN 2019

mit LEDA BOURGOGNE, CYTTER/ ROEBAS, ROCHELLE FEINSTEIN, DOROTA GAWĘDA UND EGLĖ KULBOKAITĖ, NICHOLAS GRAFIA, PHILIPP GUFLER, KARL HOLMQVIST, ARI BENJAMIN MEYERS, PUPPIES PUPPIES (JADE KURIKI OLIVO), EILEEN QUINLAN, AGNES SCHERER, THOMAS SPALLEK, EVELYN TAOCHENG WANG, LENA WILLIKENS & SARAH SZCZESNY



December 14, 2019 – January 5, 2020
Opening: Friday, December 13, 2019, 7.30 pm

Kunstverein Düsseldorf

Grabbeplatz 4
40213 Düsseldorf

Foto: Katja Illner

Pleasure-Pain at Marwan, Amsterdam

Pleasure-Pain Marwan is delighted to invite you to the opening of Pleasure-Pain by Philipp Gufler on Friday, May 31st, 2019. Central to Gufler's first Amsterdam solo exhibition is his new video installation The Responsive Body, starring Diogo da Cruz, Johanna Gonschorek, Richard John Jones, Evelyn Taocheng Wang, and Louwrien Wijers. On Marwan's website, you can now find the text "The Responsive Body – somatic hacking and artistic friendships" by art historian and educator Arnisa Zeqo, which is accompanying the exhibition. "Pleasure-Pain" is on view till June 23. Marwan is open on Saturdays and Sundays from 2 pm to 5 pm and by appointment. On Thursday, June 6, at 8 pm, two performances by Johanna Gonschorek and Diogo Da Cruz will take place at Marwan as part of the exhibition. The exhibition Pleasure-Pain is made possible with the generous support of the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst. The production of the video installation The Responsive Body is kindly supported by the Erwin und Gisela von Steiner Stiftung and Stichting Stokroos. Marwan Fokke Simonszstraat 12, Amsterdam, 1017 TG Netherlands https://marwan.hotglue.me Marwan is an artist-run project space at Fokke Simonszstraat 12, Amsterdam, initiated and curated by Tirza Kater and Tim Mathijsen and currently operating autonomously under the generous wings of AKINCI.  Fotos: Franziska Schulz

Flam Encounter

Flam Encounter

12 – 30 September 2018

Opening FLAM Encounter

Wednesday 12 September, 8 pm


with Philipp Gufler
Richard John Jones
Maria Metsalu
Jacopo Miliani & Sara Giannini
Hannah Perry
Sarah van Lamsweerde

at Arti et Amicitiae
Rokin 112
1012 KZ Amsterdam

Fotos: FLAM Encounter, Chun-Han 

Bei Cosy

Bei Cosy

16th June – 8th July 2017
Open every Friday and Saturday from 5-11pm

Bei Cosy is a somewhere between an exhibition, a bar and a costume party, taking place over 4 weeks in the belly of RONGWRONG. The project will feature a roster of invited artists hosting events every Friday and Saturday night and a series of newly commissioned works entitled Fingerbekenntnisse. Taking its name from a celebrated bar in Munich run by the artist Cosy Pièro from 1962-82, the project will pay homage to her work, the significance of her bar and its active position in the sexual politics of the time.
Although many of the patrons of Bei Cosy are today celebrated figures or have faded into obscurity – together they represent an essential yet fragile history, a complex interwoven web of art, sex, inclusion/exclusion, gender identity and sociability. It is these moments that become ‘lost’ or forgotten within mainstream historical accounts. This new Bei Cosy is intended to critically address the role social spaces play in our social, sexual, artistic and political lives – creating a new context for particular histories and archival material to emerge amongst new works and an intergenerational community of artists.

The concept of Bei Cosy is by Philipp Gufler and Richard John Jones in collaboration with Cosy Pièro, Sands Murray-Wassink and Laurie Cluitmans.

Fingerbekenntnisse

Invited Artists:
AA Bronson, Johannes Büttner,
 Johanna Gonschorek, Philipp Gufler, Caspar Jade Heinemann, Fabian Hesse, Richard John Jones,
 Evelyn Taocheng Wang and Sands Murray-Wassink.

This series of newly commissioned works depart from an infamous series of drawings that Pièro made for her bar that were seized under obscenity laws in Munich in 1963 and were most likely destroyed. The drawings depicted cats with women's heads and huge breasts engaged in a variety of acts with one another. Through the commissions, the invited artists have been asked to respond to these lost works of Pièro as a gesture of solidarity whilst also reinventing and reimaging these works from their own perspectives.

These Fingerbekenntnisse are shown together with a new work by Pièro in the bar designed specially for Rongwrong by Johannes Büttner, Gufler and Jones.

Events

Saturday 17th June
19:00
VERA HOFMANN: We keep losing our spaces but we still hold [on to] each other

Friday 23rd June
19:00
LAURIE CLUITMANS: With the taste of a poison paradise

Saturday 24th June
from 17:00
JULIKA RUDELIUS: The legendary spaces of encounter... then
19:00
PHILIPP GUFLER: Indirect Contact (Chapter 1 - 6)

Friday 30th June
from 17:00
JULIKA RUDELIUS: The legendary spaces of encounter... then
from 21:00
CAMILLA WILLS AND RICHARD JOHN JONES: Borrowed Body

Saturday 1st July
20:00
JL DIANTHUS: I wanna be fanus

Friday 7th July
20:00
GEO WYETH

Saturday 8th July
19:00
SANDS MURRAY-WASSINK: Non – Transcendent horse performance

Please check for more informations: http://barchive.website


Made possible with the generous support of the Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst and in cooperation with De Ateliers, Amsterdam.

Bei Cosy, installation photo. From left to right: Richard John Jones, ALL CLOSING AND DYKE BAR AND EVERYTHING ENDING AND NOT AND DEATH TO THE AHISTORIC VACUUM (2015); Philipp Gufler, MENU BEI COSY 1963 (2017); Cosy Pièro, ‘VIELLEICHT HABE WIR SOLCH GROSSE SEHNSUCHT JA VERDIENT’ (PERHAPS WE HAVE DESERVED SO MUCH DESIRE) (2009-17) 

AA Bronson, BLESSING FOR BEI COSY (2017) 

Philipp Gufler, MENU BEI COSY 1963 (2017) 

Caspar Jade Heinemann, POEM (2017) 

Bei Cosy, installation photo. From left to right: Johanna Gonschorek, STICKING BY LOOSING IT (2017); Fabian Hesse, BEI COSY HAIKU CAT (2017) 

Bei Cosy, installation photo. From left to right: Fabian Hesse, BEI COSY HAIKU CAT (2017), Philipp Gufler, PROJECTION ON THE CRISIS (GAUWEILEREIEN IN MUNICH) (2014), Caspar Jade Heinemann, POEM (2017) 

Richard John Jones, A NIGHTMARE HAVING A NIGHTMARE WITH DENIM AND BREASTS (2017) 

Evelyn Taocheng Wang, YOU MIGHT BE MY GLASS WORLD AND I MIGHT BE YOUR CRYSTAL UNIVERSE (2017) 

Cosy Pièro, ‘VIELLEICHT HABE WIR SOLCH GROSSE SEHNSUCHT JA VERDIENT’ (PERHAPS WE HAVE DESERVED SO MUCH DESIRE) (2009-17) 

Johannes Büttner, BANDIT (2017) 

Sands Murray-Wassink, BEFORE ROBIN, AFTER HANNAH WILKE (IDENTITY SHOT) (1995 / 2017) 

RONGWRONG
Binnen Bantammerstraat 2
1011CK Amsterdam

Come Back

 

 

Come Back

Philipp Gufler & Richard John Jones
The first in a series of 2 person shows at Generation and Display.

4. March - 10. April
Private View: 4th March 6.30pm-9.30pm
http://generationanddisplay.com/


I have to erase my memory in order to remember.

The things I never thought I had lost. Which of them have I forgotten? I look at them. In one of them, someone is wearing a shiny red jacket and a kind of stole or wide scarf made of white fur, presumably ermine. There are sinuous rills of dark hair, a splendid beard, a red cap rests jauntily on his head. One hand is elegantly holding a pair of gloves, the other is adorned with several rings, the fingers are stretched out coquettishly.

Someone is wearing a blue dress with a red shawl draped artfully around it. The long blond hair is tied together at the neck. The head is bent, she looks downward. And is wearing large brown wings on her back. Another person next to her in a dark dress with red stockings and boots has one hand resting on the hips; the other is very gently and carefully holding the hand of the larger one and gazing dreamily at her.

One hundred faces are peeled off like masks to reveal the one concealed behind. Everything that happens is merely snatched. Lost in memory, it evades every rule and form of control.

Just as I got close enough to stretch out my hand to greet them, they turn their backs and walk away.

Gravedigger mentality.

PHILIPP GUFLER: Quilt #05 (Wolfgang M. Faust), 2014

PHILIPP GUFLER: Quilt #10 (Gusti), 2016

PHILIPP GUFLER: Becoming-Rabe, 2016

Exhibition view

RICHARD JOHN JONES

Filmscreening: All Closing And Dyke Bar And Everything Ending And Not And Death To The Ahistoric Vacuum by Richard John Jones

FOR ENGLISH VERSION PLEASE SCROLL DOWN

Donnerstag, 12.11.2015, 18:00-22:00, Lothringer 13_Florida

Die Filminstallation entstand während einer Residency des Künstlers Richard John Jones im vergangenen Sommer in Lothringer 13_Florida. Ausgehend von der Recherche nach verlorenen lesbischen und schwulen Orten in München beinhaltete die Residency eine Tour mit Ariane Rüdiger auf der Suche nach verschwundenen lesbischen Orten, die Eröffnung einer temporären lesbischen Bar namens Moby Dyke, einen Auftritt der Künstlerin Cosy Pièro mit Meike Illig und die Digitalisierung von Materialien aus Cosy Pièros Privatbesitz, unter anderem Fotos aus Bei Cosy, ihrer berühmt-berüchtigten Künstlerkneipe während der Sechziger- und Siebziger Jahre. Ein Rückblick auf die Residency befindet sich hier.

Die Installation präsentiert einen Film, der am Ende der Residency produziert und im Moby Dyke gedreht wurde. Er beinhaltet Livemusik von Cosy Pièround Meike Illig und eine Performance von Maximiliane Baumgartner und Mirja Reuter, die Teil ihres fortlaufenden, seriellen Projekts True Lives of Performers ist. Archivaufnahmen wurden dankenswerterweise vom Forum Homosexualität München zur Verfügung gestellt. Weitere Darsteller sind Maria Cincotta, Johanna Gonschorek, Philipp Gufler, Leo Heinik und Fabian Hesse.

Regieassistent: Julian Curico

Kamera: Julia Swoboda

Ton: Colin Djukic

WEITERE INFORMATIONEN


ENGLISH VERSION:
Thursday, Nov. 12, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., Lothringer 13_Florida
This screening installation is one of the outcomes of a residency Richard John Jones conducted this past summer at Lothringer 13_Florida. Beginning with research into the lost lesbian and gay spaces in Munich, the residency included a tour of Munich’s lost lesbian venues by Ariane Rüdiger, the opening of a temporary lesbian bar called the Moby Dyke, a performance from artist Cosy Pièro and Meike Illig and the digitisation of photographs from Bei Cosy, a popular artist haunt throughout the 60s and 70s. A review of the various activities can be found here.
This installation showcases a film that was produced at the end of the residency and shot within the Moby Dyke. It features live music performed by the artist Cosy Pièro and Meike Illig and a performance by Maximiliane Baumgartner and Mirja Reuter which is part of their ongoing collaborative practice entitled True Lives of Performers. Archival footage included within the film is all courtesy of the Forum Homosexualität, Munich. The film also features performances by Maria Cincotta, Johanna Gonschorek, Philipp Gufler, Leo Heinik and Fabian Hesse.
Assistant Director: Julian Curico
Director of Photography: Julia Swoboda
Sound: Colin Djukic

MORE INFORMATIONS

Lothringer13_Florida
Lothringerstraße 13 RGB
81667 München