ARTISTS
- — Cory Arcangel (USA)
- — Pierre Bismuth (FRA)
- — Chicks on Speed (AUS/DEU/ESP/USA)
- — Edith Dekyndt (BEL)
- — Gabriela Fridriksdottir & Lazyblood (ISL)
- — Noam Gonick & Luis Jacob (CAN)
- — Dan Graham (USA)
- — Rodney Graham (CAN)
- — Brion Gysin & Ian Sommerville (CAN/GBR)
- — Joachim Koester (DNK)
- — Adam Pendleton (USA)
- — Postcommodity (USA)
- — Lee Ranaldo & Leah Singer (USA/CAN)
- — Dennis Tyfus (BEL)
- — Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (BEL)
- — Jennifer West (USA)
VENUES
- 0 Mechelen-Nekkerspoel Station
- 1 Mechelen-Nekkerspoel Station Building
- 2 Toy Museum
- 3 Malterie Pletsers
- 4 Bleekstraat 7
- 5 BimSem
- 6 Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
- 7 Saint Rumbold's College
- 8 Old Festival Hall
- 9 De Garage
- 10 Mechelen Cultural Centre
MAP
‘BAND’ (2009)
Adam Pendleton, ‘Band’ (2009), videostill.
‘Band’ by Adam Pendleton is a hybrid performance, rock show, installation and film screening that refashions the form and content of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1968 film ‘Sympathy for the Devil’. The Rolling Stones, then poised on the cusp of superstardom, are recast with post-punk, indie rock band Deerhoof, exploring the cultural shifts between Godard’s era and our own. Using the structure and techniques of avant-garde film as a means to explore ideas about contemporary experimental practice, language and the (re)making of history, ‘Band’ acts as a meditation on the present, read backwards through the canonical traces of history.
ADAM PENDLETON (USA) ° 1984
Adam Pendleton lives in New York. His multi-disciplinary art shifts the meaning of cultural forms, language and images, and has been widely exhibited internationally. He has participated in recent biennials and exhibitions including The Generational: Younger than Jesus (New Museum, New York); Performa 07; Manifesta 7; Object, the Undeniable Success of Operations (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam); Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967 (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago); and Manifesto Marathon (Serpentine Gallery, London).