Fête Permanente

Amadeus Vogelsang, Carmen Lenhart, Federica Francesconi, Franca Scholz, Lola Gonzàles, Lorraine Hellwig, Maarten Van Roy, Marcel Hiller, Rochus Aust, Shu Lea Cheang

At Espace Voltaire, Paris

Curated by Luisa Schlotterbeck

June 04 — 07, 2021

Photography by Iheb Fehri

‘Fête permanente’ is a term borrowed from Robert Filliou, who sought to capture a system that proposes a dynamic balance between what is and what could be but is not: Permanent Creation, the Eternal Network, and the Principle of Equivalence. Filliou and Brecht had operated their own collaborative space in France, conceived as a “Center for Permanent Creation” for three years, then closed it down and announced the creation of an open-end, non-local continuation of the idea: “La Fête Permanente/The Eternal Network.” There, art is seen as one activity in a network of others, a network that connects the totality of human activity as well as the cosmos beyond. The key principles of Filliou’s triadic creative system which, though its branches bear different names, are aspects of an overarching structure, or differing ways to convey that structure.

 

The exhibition ‘fete permanente’ is dedicated to the idea of permanent creation and sets it open as a question about our contemporaneity. From selfie to tattoo, from the processing of a failed form of government to the trade in garlic, from the power of one’s own voice, to the sound as an everlasting event. Questions about a generation Y addicted to happiness and success, an omnipresent nihilism, the question of rest and not doing and not showing anything are negotiated and contrasted with the fact that the generic creative power, even in states of exception, does not die away.

Installation view, Franca Scholz, Maarten Van Roy, Marcel Hiller, 2021
LETO, Tittie Pot, handmade ceramics, plants, 2021
Federica Francesconi, Untitled, oil on cancas, 50 x 40 cm, 2021
Maarten Van Roy, Marcel Hiller, LETO, installation view, Paris, 2021
Maarten Van Roy, Untitled, bronze, 2021
Marcel Hiller, Bullets, installation view, 2021
Marcel Hiller, Bullets, installation view, 2021
Marcel Hiller, Bullets, detail, 2021
Marcel Hiller, Bullets, detail, 2021
Marcel Hiller, Bullets, detail, 2021
Marcel Hiller, Bullets, detail, 2021
Marcel Hiller, Bullets, detail, 2021
Marcel Hiller, Bullets, detail, 2021
Marcel Hiller, Bullets, detail, 2021
Marcel Hiller, Bullets, detail, 2021
Marcel Hiller, Bullets, detail, 2021
Marcel Hiller, Bullets, detail, 2021
Installation view, Franca Scholz, Maarten Van Roy, Marcel Hiller, 2021
Lorraine Hellwig, YES, posters, paper, prints,stickers, duct tape, 2021
Rochus Aust, THE PARTY IS OVER 2.0, detail, 2021
Rochus Aust, THE PARTY IS OVER 2.0, installation view, 2021
Maison Hefner / Monty Richthofen, Us, Together, performance, 2021
Maison Hefner / Monty Richthofen, US TOGETHER, 2021
Fête Permanente, installation view, Robert Filliou, Greetings From L / We are all green (1977), 2021
Astrid Sweeney & Jonas Vandekeckhove, Weven, dance performance, 2021
Astrid Sweeney & Jonas Vandekeckhove, Weven, dance performance, 2021