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Schnittredaktion, Transkription, Beratung und Übersetzung für 12 Filme von Rirkrit Tiravanija für die Galerie Neugerriemenschneider und die Ausstellung “theanyspacewhatever” im Guggenheim New York mit Finecut Medien und ttdocs.com aus Berlin. 

INFO:
In ‘CHEW THE FAT’ ([tʃuː ðə fat] informal: to chat in a leisurely way, esp. at length), influential New York-based artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, presents filmic portraits of twelve artists: Douglas Gordon, Angela Bulloch, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Elizabeth Peyton, Tobias Rehberger, Carsten Hoeller, Liam Gillick, Jorge Pardo, Andrea Zittel, Maurizio Cattelan.

Trailer: http://youtu.be/tOna6y5sVTs

The artists, all selected by Tiravanija, belong to the same generation as himself and, like him, have achieved considerable international success through the 1990s and early 2000s.
Most importantly, however, all are good friends of Tiravanija. This allows each interview to unfold in a uniquely relaxed, informal way, with conversation flowing naturally and the personal coming up as readily as questions of concept or career, as each artist ‘chews the fat’ with Rirkrit, their old friend and colleague.


Synopsis by Raimar Stange:
“Just say it – in his feature film “CHEW THE FAT“, 2008, Rirkrit Tiravanija meets up with twelve international artists of his own generation. He takes a stroll in the Californian desert with Andrea Zittel; in Berlin he visits Angela Bulloch, as well as the recently arrived Douglas Gordon. He relaxes with Elizabeth Peyton on her porch on Long Island, NY, before hooking up with Jorge Pardo in his spacious Los Angeles studio. Upping the pace of what begins like a roadmovie, he checks e-mails in New York with Liam Gillick, receives a visit in Thailand from Pierre Huyghe, and inspects Carsten Höller’s birdcage in Stockholm. Then he enjoys a glass of wine in Paris with Philippe Parreno, and saunters along the Seine with Dominique Gonzales-Förster. Finally, with Tobias Rehberger, he rides a train across Germany. The only absence is Maurizio Cattalan, who is nonetheless present in everyone else’s memories.

If this sounds varied and entertaining, that is exactly what it is. But the relaxed mood of these meetings in locations chosen by the artists themselves also makes for pleasantly focused yet far-reaching conversations. Tiravanija begins each talk by asking the artist to tell him about his or her motivation and art education. What happens next is left to chance: the topics covered in “Chew the fat“ range from the Football World Championships to current art projects; from street cleaning in Paris to structural changes in artists’ working conditions since the 1990s. High and low, life and art are intentionally yet casually intermingled; participants discuss the value of art as a commodity and as entertainment; again and again the materialness of art objects is eclipsed by discussions of key temporal and spatial relations. While each one of the twelve conversations is unique, they share one aspect: playfully yet searchingly they adress reflections and ideas that have made art so fascinating since the 1990s.

Rirkrit Tiravanija made “Chew the fat“ in the context of twelve individual artist portraits created over the past several years. A must-see!”
© Translation from German, Oct. 2008: Margret Powell-Joss

-> Also read this ART FORUM REVIEW: http://news.antville.org/stories/1850325/


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