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Press Release
18-September-2007
Fashion show by Oumou Sy
On 22 September, the Kulturbahnhof in Kassel will host a fashion show by Senegalese artist and fashion designer Oumou Sy. It will feature new collections as well as a retrospective of her past work, including the historical review of the robes of African queens and kings.
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Press Release
11-September-2007
Film weekend
As the exhibition draws to a close, documenta 12’s film programme is featuring two world premieres: “Pitcher of Colored Light“ by Robert Beavers and “Casting a Glance“ by James Benning.
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Press Release
30-August-2007
Family Sunday at documenta 12
For the first time, the documenta will be organising a family Sunday. On the 2nd of September we will be inviting families to participate in a varied program at documenta 12, starting with the Lunch Lecture at 1:00 pm.
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Press Release
9-August-2007
“Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954 – 003064”
A public reading
documenta 12 Lunch Lectures presents “Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954 – 003064,” a five-hour public reading of fifteen tribunals held at the U.S. military prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, between July 2004 and March 2005.
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Press Release
9-August-2007
Performances of Yvonne Rainer at documenta 12
RoS Indexical (2007)
AG Indexical, with a little help from H.M. (2006)
Yvonne Rainer is represented at documenta by two of her dance performances. She is staging one new and one already existing dance choreography.
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Press Release
9-August-2007
Record number of visitors to the documenta during the first 50 days
On August 4th at 8:00 pm, the documenta 12 will be entering its second half, the first 50 days of the exhibition having elapsed.
And that with record numbers of visitors: on Saturday around 330,000 paying visitors will have seen the exhibition in Kassel.
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Press Release
13-July-2007
Performance „EL DORADO. Guided Tour“ of Danica Dakic
The performance „EL DORADO. Guided Tour“ of Danica Dakic is part of her work „EL DORADO, Gießbergstraße“ (2006–2007), that she has produced for documenta 12. It was made in Kassel, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Sarajevo and it consists of a sound and video installation, a photograph, and a performance.
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Press Release
13-July-2007
documenta 12 magazines
The two latest publications form documenta 12 magazines are now available to the public.
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Press Release
11-July-2007
Current changes to documenta 12 works
Ai Weiwei
The last group of 1001 Chinese guests visiting Kassel and the documenta 12 in the last weeks, contributing to Ai Weiwei’s artistic work Fairytale in the process, have now left, setting out on their journey back to Peking, Shanghai or the Chinese provinces.
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Sanja Ivekovic
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Press Release
3-July-2007
Shooshie Sulaiman
„Emotional Library“
Performance from 3rd to 17th of July, at 10.45, 11.30 am, 2.00, 2.45 pm, in the Aue-Pavillon.
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Press Release
2-July-2007
"Auf einmal und gleichzeitig. Eine Machbarkeitsstudie."
„Good day ladies and gentlemen, we will be taking you into a world in which all
the connections between work, goods and money have been broken down,
broken down because these connections were despised(…)”
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Press Release
27-June-2007
„Auf einmal und gleichzeitig. Eine Machbarkeitsstudie“ (At once and simultaneously. A feasibility study) Musical scenes for the negation of work
from Alice Creischer, Christian von Borries and Andreas Siekmann
with the State Youth Orchestra of Hessen and the City-Point Kassel, ECE Projektmanagement GmbH & Co. KG
In a collective work process, the artists Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann, together with the composer and conductor Christian von Borries, have created five musical scenes and a libretto.
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Press Kit
13-June-2007
About the Exhibition
After three and a half years of work, over 500 works of art have been gathered to be presented this morning and in the following 100 days in Kassel. The main locations, Museum Fridericianum, Neue Galerie, documenta-Halle and Aue-Pavillon are complemented by Schloss Wilhelmshöhe and its surrounding Bergpark, Kulturzentrum Schlachthof, Nr.4 public transport tram, and, last but not least, elBulli in Spain.
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Press Release
13-June-2007
elBulli is a documenta 12 venue
"I have invited Ferran Adrià because he has succeeded in generating his own aesthetic which has become something very influential within the international scene."
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Press Release
12-June-2007
S-Guide
"In contrast to most audio guides the documenta 12 S-Guides do not provide 'explanations' of individual works. They are geared instead towards providing an account that goes beyond a focus on individual pieces, opening new perspectives. Visitors hear about concrete exhibition situations and also about the thinking behind them at the same time." (Roger M. Buergel)
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Press Release
11-June-2007
documenta 12 Halle
documenta 12 considers itself a medium – the exhibition is not conceived just as physical area for representation, but also as a production format that extends over the pure exhibition space in terms of both time and space.
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Press Release
6-June-2007
media partners
Like its previous editions, documenta 12 has the support of a number of competent (media) partners who provide up-to-the-minute and in-depth reports on the preparations for the art exhibition, the works on show and the course of events.
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Press Release
1-June-2007
aushecken
Until now, plans for a visit to an art exhibition of worldwide significance have usually gone by the motto: “We go to documenta, the kids go to Grandma’s”. This time around, grandparents, aunts, and other caretakers can come right along to Kassel and visit the exhibition in a relaxed frame of mind, because there will be an educational programme especially for schoolchildren and teenagers.
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Press Release
31-May-2007
documenta 12 opening party
The makers of this year's documenta feel a close connection to the city of Kassel and its inhabitants, and would like to express this relationship. For that reason, on the evening before the opening we will not be giving an exclusive cocktail party for invited guests. Instead, the artistic direction is planning a big party for the citizens of Kassel and all those who are interested in documenta.
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Press Release
29-May-2007
Second Lifes
The documenta 12 Film Programme
“The location of film at documenta 12 is the movie theatre - a very simple answer to the recent debates on how to adequately present moving images in the context of art.” (Alexander Horwath)
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Press Release
25-May-2007
A trailer to the documenta 12: Rush Hour, Morning and Evening, Cheapside
People en route, placed on their heads: only their shadows touch each other casually. It is rush hour: everyone is hurrying to work. And later to their homes.
Shadows are the main actors in the pictures of everyday life recorded by artist and film maker Mark Lewis in London’s financial district.
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Press Release
21-May-2007
Magazine No. 2
'Life!' is the title of 'documenta 12 Magazine No 2'. The title refers to the second leitmotif of the documenta 12, what is “bare life”, a term which has advanced to become a central concept in many contemporary aesthetic and political discussions.
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Press Release
11-May-2007
Lovely Andrea
The artist on her work: “There is bondage all over the place. Bondage is everywhere. I bind; you bind; we are bound."
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Press Release
8-May-2007
Sakarin Krue on, "Terraced Rice Fields Art Project"
With this site-specific work the Thai artist Sakarin Krue-On will be breaking new ground. For the first time in Germany rice will be cultivated in the open air with the planting of terraced rice fields on the hilly terrain of the Bergpark below Schloss Wilhelmshöhe.
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Press Kit
24-April-2007
Spaces for Art
documenta12 knows no programmatic statement, no architectural grid with which venue and art are to be treated. Instead, individual solutions are developed that correspond to the Museum Fridericianum, the Neue Galerie and the documenta-Halle. The Crystal Palace designed by Jean-Philippe Vassal is in itself a singular solution. It answers the call for the temporary need for a generous exhibition space, nestled into the Aue.
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Press Kit
26-February-2007
documenta 12 Magazine, N°1, “Modernity?”
How does documenta gain access to specific knowledge in the world? And how can it communicate this knowledge? And how can a large-scale exhibition be organized that places the emphasis not on representation but on productive production formats and formalizations?
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Press Kit
1-February-2007
documenta 12, up to date
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Press Release
26-January-2007
100 Days of Cinema at documenta 12
The concept and the choice of films were developed by Alexander Horwath, director of the Austrian Filmmuseum. The program will consist of 50 evening-filling installments drawing on the second half of cinema history, including various contemporary works.
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Press Kit
8-January-2007
Crystal Palace for documenta 12 Begins to Take Shape
Preparatory work on the exhibition architecture entered a new phase today: the Crystal Palace, the planned temporary exhibition building for documenta 12, is beginning to take shape.
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Press Release
7-Dezember-2006
Saab and documenta Agree to Cooperation
Saab Automobile AB will be one of the main sponsors of the documenta in 2007.
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Press Kit
21-November-2006
What Is to Be Done? Education at documenta 12
Art education occupies a special place at documenta 12 and will be getting an architecture appropriate to it. In contrast to the tendency to understand art education as a service and a marketing instrument, at the next international art exhibition in June 2007 education will appear as art’s advocate and the audience’s counterpart. It will dedicate itself to the task of engaging with the visitors in coming to terms with things that we do not understand.
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Press Kit
18-September-2006
Would you like to participate in an artistic experience?
A project of Ricardo Basbaum for documenta 12
The first art project for documenta 12, the social sculpture Would you like to participate in an artistic experience? by the Brazilian artist Ricardo Basbaum, was launched in an apprentice workshop in Kassel. A total of twenty steel objects will now be migrating through different households and meeting points on three continents, through towns and cities such as Kassel, Ljubljana, Mexico City or Dakar. They will be altered by their temporary owners, and will themselves change. The documentation of this voyage will be presented in an installation for documenta 12 in June 2007.
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Press Release
12-July-2006
Sense and sensibility - a new publishing house for documenta 12
With TASCHEN, documenta 12 has found a strong partner who will ensure that its print media are widely distributed and compellingly presented. The first publication to appear will be the first edition of the three documenta 12 Magazines in Winter 2006.
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Press Kit
21-February-2006
Three guiding questions for documenta 12 and its public
Roger M. Buergel, Artistic Director, and Ruth Noack, Curator, will talk about documenta 12 in progress. You will meet the newly appointed Head of Communications and the Speaker of documenta 12 Advisory Board. The documenta 12-logo will be presented and finally, Buergel and Noack will divulge the names of two of the documenta artists, beginning with the letters A and Z.
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Press Release
31-January-2005
Presentation of documenta 12 magazines project
In the first important press conference since his election as artistic director of documenta 12, Roger M. Buergel introduced in Kassel one main project on the way to the exhibition in 2007: a journal of journals. More than 70 print periodicals worldwide, editorial offices and online-media are going do discuss the exhibition’s central subjects together with documenta 12.
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Press Release
3-December-2003
Roger M. Buergel is Artistic Director documenta 12
Mr Roger Buergel has been named the new Artistic Director of the documenta 12, scheduled to take place from 8 June 2007 until 23 September 2007 in Kassel.
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