Olivier Castel with Katie Guggenheim and Justin Jaeckle
IBID PROJECTS, London
28 June-12 August 2012
People on Sunday – a project by Olivier Castel, Katie Guggenheim and Justin Jaeckle, as part of IBID PROJECTS' summer exhibitions programme.
People on Sunday – a project by Olivier Castel, Katie Guggenheim and Justin Jaeckle, as part of IBID PROJECTS' summer exhibitions programme.
Featuring Ed Atkins, Shumon Basar, Ruth Beale, Sarah Elliott, Simon Fujiwara, Kazimierz Jankowski, Andrew Kerton, Chuck Kissick, Gil Leung, Kathy Noble, Rachel Pimm, Patrick Shier, John Smith, Donald Urquhart and Ariella Yedgar.
People on Sunday
People on Sunday
is a project by Olivier Castel, Katie Guggenheim and Justin Jaeckle that
responds to the site of the top floor of IBID Projects, turning the gallery
into a live cinema through which to watch the action in Hoxton Square below.
The project is
titled after the 1930 silent German film, directed by Curt and Robert Siodmak
from a screenplay by Billy Wilder. The film features five ‘non-actors’ (a wine
seller, taxi driver, film extra and model) playing versions of themselves, and
follows their leisure pursuits over the course of one summer weekend in Weimar
Berlin. A deliberate entanglement of fiction and reality, the film could be
considered a very early precedent of contemporary scripted reality television.
The film opens
with the prologue:
“Filmstudio 1929
presents its first experiment: People on Sunday, a film without actors. These
five people appear in front of the camera for the first time, today they are
all back in their own jobs.”
For the
exhibition, Castel, Guggenheim and Jaeckle have invited a range of artists and
writers to contribute short texts of imagined scenarios and scenes that could
be viewed in Hoxton Square over the course of the exhibition, functioning as
intertitles or speculative screenplays for the reality unfolding outside of the
gallery, and casting the occupants of the square as characters in a real life,
real-time movie. It is anticipated that some of these texts will be realised
during the show.
Participants
include:
Ed Atkins
Shumon Basar
Ruth Beale
Sarah Elliot
Simon Fujiwara
Andrew Kerton
Chuck Kissick
Gil Leung
Kathy Noble
Rachel Pimm
Patrick Shier
John Smith
Donald Urquhart
Ariella Yedgar
