Never Odd or Even - an exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde - presents word-sculptures, word-images, wall texts, "write-along" animation films, mindmaps, etc. The art works focus on the written word's ability to activate an inner imaginative world, and engage in an architectural interaction with the museum spaces. The title suggests doubts, but is also a pun – a palindrome, which can be read both backwards and forwards. Puns as well as the audience's ability to complete the content of works are at stake.
Never Odd or Even is based on the Mexican artist Mariana Castillo Deball's art project with the same title, and the project is included in the exhibition. Deball’s Never Odd or Even is both a performance and a book consisting of 30 fictional book covers for unwritten books created by various authors and illustrators. The first edition of the book was made in 2005, but for the exhibitions in Berlin and Roskilde a brand new version has been published by BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE. Three Danish authors write their own text for a book cover, and present it on 10.03.2012 as Never Odd or Even performance.
Artists: Rosa Barba (DE/ITA), Erick Beltrán (MEX), Nanna Debois Buhl (DK) & Brendan Fernandes (KE), Mariana Castillo Deball (MEX), Simon Evans (UK), Peter Fischli & David Weiss (CH), János Fodor (HU), Lise Harlev (DK), Ferdinand KRIWET (DE), Ján Mancuška (SK), Tris Vonna-Michell (GB), Ciprian Muresan (RO), Henrik Olesen (DK), Pablo Pijnappel (FR), Adam Pendleton (US), Sebastián Romo (MEX), Dmitry Vilensky (Chto Delat?) (RUS) and Phillip Zach (DE).
Curator: Solvej Helweg Ovesen, in collaboration with Grimmuseum, Berlin and Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde.
Opening
13.01.2012, 17-19:30 h
With a performance by Tris Vonna-Michell, 18:30 h
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Museum of Contemporary Art Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde
