Artist Talk & Performance: The devil to pay in the backlands Event

19:00
Talk with artist Skip Arnold,
mediated by curators Bernardo José de Souza and Ursula Mayer

Skip Arnold (b. Binghamton, NY. 1957) lives and works in Paris, France. Education: M.F.A. UCLA Los Angeles, CA., B.F.A. SUNY Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY.

 Skip Arnold has maintained a transgressive practice of performance, film and installation art. His work finds its foundations in the historical canons of performance that address and dissect the body politic – confronting the body as politicized, enculturated, but also addressing the body through the lens of humanitarian and ontological inquiries pertaining to strength, endurance, existence, and presence.

  Solo exhibitions include; ICA LA (Los Angeles, CA), ltd los angeles (Los Angeles CA.), Christine König Galerie (Vienna, Austria), Greene Exhibitions (Los Angeles, CA), Galerie Frederic Giroux (Paris, France), Aeroplastics (Brussels, Belgium), Spencer Brownstone Gallery NY, Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna, Austria). Group exhibitions include The J. Paul Getty Museum, Orange County Museum of Art (Newport Beach, CA), Art Unlimited, Art Basel/33, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, OK, Offenes Kulturhaus Linz. Awards include: The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and Art Matters, Inc. 

Camila Sposati, Ring, 2020, Ceramic/metal, Courtesy of the Artist and Gallery Georg Kargl. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, Exhibition view, NKW 2022. Foto: Manuel Lopez, Kunst-Dokumentation.

20:30
Performance The devil to play in the backlands (triálogo), by artist Camila Sposati.

Activation of clay wind instruments — a reclaim, a claim, a recall of a possible conversation without words.

Camila Sposati was born in Sao Paulo. She has a Master’s degree in Fine Arts Goldsmiths College, currently based in Vienna, and follows the Ph.D. program at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her works investigate transformation and energy processes, using methods that often approach scientific research methodologies. It has examined processes on a microscopic and global scale. In her work, Sposati juxtaposes material and historical processes in order to challenge official time and its significations. Published Stone Theatre (Revolver, 2016). Currently exhibiting at the 37th edition of Panorama of Brazilian Art: Under the ashes, embers and 3th Bienal do Mercosul: Trauma, dreams and scape and is represented by Georg Kargl Galerie.