Anna Frei, Anne Käthi Wehrli, Lucie Kolb (CH): «you can find me in the lexicon, in the lexicon (2009)»

_«You can find me in the lexicon, in the lexicon», NR.1: IMGINARY ARCHIVE #1, Live streaming by wire less choir (Cabaret Voltaire) Friday June 5, 15:30
_«You can find me in the lexicon, in the lexicon», NR.4: IMGINARY ARCHIVE #2, Live streaming by Anna Frei, Anne Käthi Wehrli, Lucie Kolb (Cabaret Voltaire) Saturday June 6, 17:30
_«You can find me in the lexicon, in the lexicon», Nr.6: Archiv für Zeitgeschichte, von Anna Frei, Anne Käthi Wehrli, Lucie Kolb (CH), Live streaming: «Mein Gedächtnis beobachtet mich», Film by Eran Schaerf and Eva Meyer (Cabaret Voltaire) Sunday June 7, 20:15

Participants: Nicole Bachmann, Sabina Baumann, Moira Hille & Kerstin Schroedinger & Mareike Bernien, Patricia Bucher, Martin Büsser, Melissa Castagnetto, Marthe van Dessel, Regula Engeler, Christina Della Giustina, Stella Glitter, Anna Lena Grau, Michael Hiltbrunner, Krokodilstränensirup, Michaela Melián, Philipp Messner, Eran Schaerf & Eva Meyer, Itty Minchesta, Sands Murray-Wassink, Jim Osthaarchic, Claudia Reinhardt, Ana Roldan, Evi Rüsseler, Simone Schardt, Anna Schürch, Rae Spoon, Valentina Stieger, Kaspar Surber, Terre Thaemlitz, wire less choir, Jenny Woolworth

In «you can find me in the lexicon, in the lexicon» queerness is asserted, placed and tested in selected archives. Fictions are slipped in, references made, and the performative is acted out. Thus, for instance, the archive serves as a backdrop to renewing public testimonial, a temporary rewriting of history. The documentary, which has long been perceived as the image of the world, here becomes the world as image. From 5 to 7 June guided tours, public readings, performances will intervene in archives that bear no obvious relation to queerness. The invited artists temporarily bring something into the archive. In their interplay, the archive and the works performed therein influence each other, bringing to light other connections by following and rewriting ongoing narratives.

Anna Frei
is a visual artist, graphic designer, performer, nightworker and part of several collectives (rar collectia, bang wrong heel production, schöne & la beef), co-founder of Palace, St.Gallen, and divers subcultural projects & concerts.
Anne Käthi Wehrli
is an artist, performer and editor of several fanzines («Freundesfreundin» with Benjamin Sommerhalder, «Hoi ich segle so schön am äigentliche verbi», «Dies kommt mir häufig in den Sinn, vielleicht bin ich gerade in einem Zug und fahre unterschiedlich zeitverschoben an anderen sich vielleicht ebenfalls bewegenden Sachen vorbei» with Lena Reiser and several collaborations) and member of the duo Krokodilstränensirup.
Lucie Kolb
is a visual artist and co-curator of radio arhur a monthly radio programme that is interested in discussion, criticism and views on the perception of art. And co-creator of ctrl.name a working group which engages itself with the forms of display and reception of cultural systems.
http://www.radioarthur.ch
http://www.ctrl.name

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MESSAGE SALON

EXHBITION & SCREENINGS & LIBRARY

Langstrasse 84 / Brauerstrasse 37, 8004 Zurich,
Opening times: Friday, June 5, 14.00-00.00, Saturday, June 6 & Sunday, June 7, 14.00-18.00

Participants: Grrrl Zine collection by Grrrl Zine Network (Elke Zobl and Haydeé Jiménez), I LOVE 69 POPGEJU (CZ), Jana Štepánová (CZ), Judith Schönenberger (CH), Lorenzö (F/I), Nobody, Sabina Baumann (CH), Sarah Jäger (CH), Sands Murray-Wassink (NL/US), The Centre of Attention (UK), Tim Blue (US/D)

Table library of important queer books, from art books to theoretical and historical texts, laid out on a table and available for interaction, reading and inspiration throughout the three days of the exhibition.

Perla Mode
ARCHIVES

INTERVENTIONS

Lexicon

In «you can find me in the lexicon, in the lexicon» queerness is asserted, placed and tested in selected archives. Fictions are slipped in and references made. Thus, for instance, the archive serves as a setting to renewing public testimonial, a temporary rewriting of history. The documentary, which has long been perceived as the image of the world, here becomes the world as image. From the 5th to the 7th of June, guided tours, public readings, performances will intervene in existing archives that bear no obvious relation to queerness. In their interplay, the archive and the works performed therein influence each other, bringing to light other connections by following and rewriting on-going narratives.

Download: Programme

special thanks to: Judith Welter & migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Philipp Hofstetter & Archiv für Zeitgeschichte, Rolf Dewald, DESO Radiomuseum, Dieter Studer & Phonogrammarchiv, Dimitrina Sevova, all the artists: Simone Schardt, Martin Büsser, Salome Golliez, Stella Glitter, Michaela Melian, wire less choir, Rae Spoon, Terre Thaemlitz, Eran Schaerf, Eva Meyer, Marthe van Dessel, Kaspar Surber, Kamerateam: Riikka Tauriainen, Urslé von Mathilde, Sarah Jäger, Florian Bachmann, Maria Sigrist, Foto: Lena Reiser, Research: Sara Bernasconi, Philipp Messner, Web: Felix Eggmann