[Oberlist] Lia Perjovschi & Mircea Cantor la Modern Art Oxford / presents Transmission Interrupted

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					Modern Art Oxford
				
			
			
				
					

						
                    

                        Pilar Albarracín
Viva España, 2004
Video performance
Courtesy the artist 
                    

                
					

                
                
					

				
				
					
						







TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED

18 APRIL - 21 JUNE 2009


					


					
						Modern Art Oxford

30 Pembroke Street,

Oxford OX1 1BP



http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk


					
					

				
			
			
				
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						Adel Abdessemed / Pilar Albarracín / Yto Barrada / Mircea Cantor / Jem Cohen / Jimmie Durham / Simryn Gill / Julia
Meltzer & David Thorne / Lia Perjovschi / Michael Rakowitz / Ernesto Salmerón / Yara El-Sherbini / Sislej Xhafa





Modern Art Oxford's spring exhibition, Transmission Interrupted, looks at how contemporary artists disrupt
prevailing forms of registering and representing the world. Featuring the work of over fourteen artists working
internationally, the exhibition suggests art's ability to make visible and audible what remains unseen and unheard in a
world of constantly shifting social, political and ideological values. 



Many of the works in the exhibition are poetic testaments to events and experiences that have a passing or recurring
presence in the public domain. Adel Abdessemed's Practice Zero Tolerance (2006) a burned-out car fashioned from
black clay is a mute witness to the riots that took place in Paris' working-class districts in 2005. Sislej Xhafa's
installations and performances render visible experiences and relationships that are barely recorded. His live
performance piece elegant sick bus (2001/9), which involves a group of men pushing a mirrored tour bus through
the streets, draws a parallel with the burden imposed by tourism on local populations. 



A number of artists in the exhibition offer meditations on fleeting realities in cities and their inhabitants, which
are at odds with the impacts of globalisation and heightened public fears and prohibitions. Simryn Gill's uses found
materials to create replicas of our material world and her photographic projects map the in-between spaces of
borderlands and margins. Jem Cohen's mesmeric film, NYC Weights and Measures (2006), documents New York street
life at a time when filming in the city is becoming increasingly controlled due to national security concerns.



Presented in Modern Art Oxford's galleries and in sites in the city, the exhibition is accompanied by a programme of
screenings, artists' talks and in conversation events, and a fully illustrated book designed by Åbäke with
contributions from Human Rights scholar, Thomas Keenan and poet Mourid Barghouti.



Transmission Interrupted is curated by Suzanne Cotter, Senior Curator, Modern Art Oxford and Gilane Tawadros,
independent writer and curator.



See http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk for further details.



EVENTS PROGRAMME



PERFORMANCE



Friday 17 April, 3.00pm 

Sislej Xhafa: elegant sick bus

Along Cornmarket Street, Oxford

FREE, Just turn up



Monday 20 April, 7.00pm 

Yara El-Sherbini: A Pub Quiz 

Jam Factory, 27 Park End Street, Oxford

FREE, Booking recommended



SCREENING



At Modern Art Oxford:



Wednesday 12 May, 6.00pm

Screening of Harun Farocki's, Videograms of a Revolution, 1992, and Respite, 2008



Wednesday 10 June, 6.00pm

Short video and film works from Jem Cohen, Claire Fontaine and Samuel Stevens



FREE, Just turn up



At Phoenix Picturehouse, 57 Walton Street, Oxford:



Tuesday 26 May, 6.00pm

Jem Cohen, Empires of Tin, 2008



Tuesday 3 June, 6.00pm

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Je Veux voir, 2008



Booking essential 0871 704 2062



TALK



Wednesday 29 April, 6.00pm, 

Maja and Reuben Fowkes: Art and Sustainability

Booking essential 



Thursday 16 May, 6.00pm

Thomas Keenan, Director, Human Rights Project and Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Bard College, New
York.  

Department of History of Art, 2nd Floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbes, Oxford





NOTES FOR EDITORS



Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford OX1 1BP. Open Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm, Sunday 12pm to 5pm, Closed
Mondays. Admission Free. 

Visit http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk or call 01865 722733.





NOT FOR PUBLICATION 



For further information and images please contact Frances Arnold, Press and Marketing Assistant on 01865 813804, frances.arnold la modernartoxford.org.uk 




					

					 

					
						
					
					

					

				
			
			
				
                    
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