Last Year At Marienbad Redux
September 12 - October 26, 2013
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 12, 6pm - 8pm
At EFA Project Space, 323 W. 39th St, 2nd floor
Artists: Jennifer Allen, Keren Cytter, Tacita Dean, Jessamyn Fiore, Dan Fox, Jens Hoffmann, Iman Issa, David Maljković, Ján Mančuška, Gordon Matta-Clark, Josh Tonsfeldt, Allan Sekula & Noël Burch, and Maya Schweizer.
Curated by: James Voorhies
Last Year at Marienbad redux is an exhibition, public program and publication that explores the way fact and fiction merge to form accepted knowledge about people, places, events and politics. Drawing on the use of elliptical conversations in the 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad by Alain Resnais as a point of departure, the exhibition features works of art that utilize various cinematic conventions, such as editing, character development, narrative, mise-en-scène and montage, to reveal how our understanding of reality is often mediated by those very cinematic techniques.
The Marienbad Sessions is a public program that occurs in the exhibition site at the EFA Project Space and an essential component of Last Year at Marienbad redux. Over the course of the exhibition, The Marienbad Sessions presents a series of weekly public events and performances with Jens Hoffmann, Dan Fox, Jessamyn Fiore, James Voorhies and others. This public forum seeks to transform the exhibition space into a learning site that simultaneously intersects visually and conceptually with the works of art—text, sculpture, photography, installation and video.
The Marienbad Papers is a publication produced as part of Last Year at Marienbad redux. It will be a hybrid publication uniting characteristics of an art journal, catalogue essay, film script and art criticism into a singular printed form.
Bureau for Open Culture is an itinerant, non-profit curatorial initiative that receives support from institutions and foundations to make projects in dialogue with artists and writers. It combines curating, education, design, communication and publishing to position the art institution as an overall form of critical practice, uniting art and education into a singular cohesive mode of exhibition making.
For press inquiries, please contact Lauren Bierly, Assistant Director of EFA Project Space, at lauren@efanyc.org.
Notes on the Marienbad Sessions by James Voorhies
Publication made possible with a grant from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation.
RELATED EVENTS:
Monday, September 16th, 7:00PMThe Marienbad Sessions: Maya Schweizer: Lieux de memoire, desire and film
Thursday, October 10th, 7:00PMThe Marienbad Sessions: Dan Fox
Thursday, October 17th, 7:00PMThe Marienbad Sessions: "A Blast from the Past" with Jessamyn Fiore
Monday, October 21st, 7:00 PMThe Marienbad Sessions: Jens Hoffmann
OTHER MARIENBAD-RELATED EVENTS IN NYC:
David Maljković
September 12 - October 19, 2013 at Metro Pictures
www.metropictures.com
Alain Resnais's YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET
October 18 - 24, 2013 at Anthology Film Archives
www.anthologyfilmarchives.org
Alain Resnais's LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD
October 22, 2013 at Film Forum
www.filmforum.org
RELATED PRESS:
For press inquiries, please contact Lauren Bierly, Assistant Director for EFA Project Space at lauren@efanyc.org
