Nine And A Half Weeks



Elaine Levy Project is pleased to announce Nine and a Half Weeks, a series of weekly projects that will start on October 31st, 2009 and take place till the end of January 2010.

During almost three months, from November till January, Elaine Levy Project is taking a break and leaving space to Nine And A Half Weeks, a test project on the edge of the usual gallery functioning.

The dull context of the art market encouraged us to propose a playful and free reinterpretation of the gallery space. Thus Nine and a Half Weeks will propose little experimental forms out of the commercial constraints and which will address a wider public than usual.

Most of the projects will be open construction sites and thought as such, or at least they will offer a range of devices to activate the space. The audience will be invited according to constantly renewed modalities, and the artists will invest the workspace as they want.

Nine and has Half Weeks is thought to be a place not only dedicated to the spectator, but also as a work and research space...

Finally the title is a funny reference, first of all to the duration of this programming, but is besides an invitation for new improvised experiments in our small kitchen, by means of everyday cheap objects.

a project hosted by Elaine Lévy & Florent Delval

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jeudi 19 novembre 2009

Florent Delval : Knife Diet / Bonus track : leftovers of the performance














Maeva/N/Fred/Saskia/Ben/Anthoni/Caroline/
Jessica/Michiel/Jonathan/Carol/David/Felicia/
Maja/Carine/Alessandra/David/Philippe/Varinia


I.

Performance

w/ Tracee Westmoreland

based on the Brian Evenson's short story, Younger, from Fugue State (2009)

with untilted drawing by Madge Gill, date unknow

from tuesday the 17th to friday the 20th, the Knife Diet performance was shown 20 times in the ELP space.

II.

Leftovers

1) They said it was a pack (Elles disaient que c’était une meute)

2) Wild Horses

3) To be continued…(ask the piece to the gallerist)

4) Collage
Portrait of Tracee and Zoé Westmoreland by Jonathan Levy.
Untilted drawing by Madge Gill, date unknow.

lundi 16 novembre 2009

Florent Delval : Knife Diet day 1










"They called it a pack"















1

They lived, when he was growing up, in a simple house, an old bungalow with a converted attic and sides covered in cedar shake. In the back, where an oak thrust its branches over the roof, the shake was light brown, almost honey. In the front, where the sun struck it full, it had weathered to a pale gray, like a dirty bone. There, the shingles were brittle, thinned by sun and rain, and if you were careful you could slip your fingers up behind some of them. Or at least his sister could. He was older and his fingers were thicker, so he could not.