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design curated
NOMAD Club by RDC/AAL & Gate5
The first edition of NOMAD Club at artmonte-carlo is an opportunity to create a meeting point between art and design.
The unobstructed sea view will serve as a backdrop to a curated space in which guests can relax and be entertained. The Pop Up space is created specially for the occasion by the renown American Architect Rafael de Cárdenas in collaboration with Monaco’s Gate 5, an important player in the world of collectible design.
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contemporary art on a private boat
Each year, artmonte-carlo organizes, in conjunction with the salon, an exhibition on a yacht in Monaco’s harbor.
Contemporary Art on a Private Boat, Port Hercule, Monaco
Hypersea, curated by Juliette Desorgues
With the support of DYNAMIQ.
Hypersea
Watershed pollution, a theory of embodiment, amniotic becomings, disaster, environmental colonialism, how to write, global capital, nutrition, philosophy, birth, rain, animal ethics, evolutionary biology, death, storytelling, bottle water, multinational pharmaceutical corporations, drowning, poetry.1
Such are the concerns described by Astrida Neimanis for feminist thinking in today’s neo-liberal world. Reflecting on her concept of ‘hydrofeminism’, the works of artists are brought together in dialogue and tension on a yacht moored in the port of Monaco, a site which becomes a prime symbol of today’s complex dystopian conditions.
Water is considered here an entity in and of itself, as well as a metaphor. Water not only largely constitutes our planet, but also our bodies and those of other species that inhabit its surface. Its cyclical flow comes to undermine the Western individualistic view of humanity as an all-permeating species. Our watery bodies are similar to the watery bodies of others that populate this world.2 We become entangled and enmeshed in a community of bodies, of membrane and flesh, that are also ‘animal, vegetable, geophysical, meteorological, and technological’.3
Water, through its constant flow, is considered expansive, pluralistic, relational, and beyond categorisations. It is also viscous, porous, allowing forms of tension and resistance. It becomes a metaphor, engaged with feminist, queer, post-colonial and ecological, presents and futures. Like the cyclical movement of the oceanic tides it ebbs, flows and oozes against the solid shores, against dominant neo-liberal power structures.
Ashes to ashes, water to water
We are all bodies of water4
[1] Astrida Neimanis ‘Hydrofeminism: Or, On Becoming a Body of Water’ in Undutiful Daughters: New Directions in Feminist Thought and Practice, ed. Henriette Gunkel, Chrysanthi Nigianni, and Fanny Söderbäck (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), p. 95
2 Mark A. S. McMenamin and Dianna L. S. McMenamin, Hypersea: Life on Land (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996)
3 Astrida Neimanis ‘Hydrofeminism: Or, On Becoming a Body of Water’ in Undutiful Daughters: New Directions in Feminist Thought and Practice, ed. Henriette Gunkel, Chrysanthi Nigianni, and Fanny Söderbäck (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), p. 96
4 Ibid., p. 91 and p.1.
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art talks & performances
26th to 29th of April 2018
Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Grimaldi ForumVIOLIN CONCERTO (Georges Balanchine) + ABSTRACT/LIFE (Jean-Christophe Maillot)
The partnership with artmonte-carlo gives you the benefit of a preferential rate on the purchase of your show ticket, upon presentation of your artmonte-carlo fair entry.