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Standard Sizes Curated by João Ribas June 14 - July 12, 2008 The Andrew Kreps Gallery is pleased to present Standard Sizes, a group exhibition curated by João Ribas. Standard Sizes surveys a diverse group of artists over several generations whose work resists the notion of art as the product of an expressive subject—the radically individuated self largely equated with the figure of the artist. In place of this vestige of Renaissance self-fashioning and the affectations of Romanticism, the exhibition presents works that look to standards and formal procedures to displace the idea of expressive subjectivity as the domain of art.Artists included in this exhibition: Ricci Albenda, Kjell Bjorgeengen, Kerstin Brätsch, Martin Creed, Liz Deschenes, Morgan Fischer, Rachel Harrison, Imi Knoebel, Camilla Low, Allan McCollum, Brian O'Connell, Blinky Palermo, Richard Pettibone, Josh Smith, Matt Sheridan Smith, and Sturtevant.

MY EYES KEEP ME IN TROUBLE @ SYDNEY COLLEGE OF THE ARTS GALLERY, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY (AUS)Date: 05/06/2008 - 01/08/2008. Kjell will participate with two photographs. JUSTIN ANDREWS AUS DANIEL ARGYLE AUS JOHN BEECH UK/USA KJELL BJORGEENGEN N JULIAN DASHPER NZ MATTHEW DELEGET USA ALEXANDRA DEMENTIEVA RUS/B & AERNOUDT JACOBS B WARD DENYS B MATTHYS GERBER AUS BILLY GRUNER AUS CLEMENS HOLLERER A ANDREW HUSTON USA KYLE JENKINS AUS SARAH KEIGHERY AUS KLAAS KLOOSTERBOER NL ROSSANA MARTINEZ USA SIMON MORRIS NZ MIRANDA PARKES NZ LÉOPOLDINE ROUX F GILES RYDER AUS ESTHER STOCKER I DAVID THOMAS AUS TILMAN D/B EMMANUELLE VILLARD F LEON VRANKEN B DAN WALSH USA TAMARA ZAHAYKEVICH USA BEAT ZODERER CH

Both Aernoudt Jacobs and Kjell will speak at a seminar discussing the installation in Bergen. Kjell will lecture on the work process and subjectivity. Lysverket February 13th 10-17.

Okkyung Lee and Kjell will perform live on March 10th at OPTOSONIC TEA. They will share the evening with Leah Singer and Lee Ranaldo. Kathleen Forde will respond to the event and moderate the discussion afterwards. OptoSonic Tea is a regular series of evenings dedicated to the convergence of live visuals with live sound which focuses on the visual component organized by Katherine Liberovskaya and Ursula Scherrer. These presentation-and-discussion meetings aim to explore different forms of live visuals (live video, live film, live slide projection and their variations and combinations) and the different ways they can come into interaction with live audio. Each evening features two different live visual artists or groups of artists who each perform a set with the live sound artists of their choice. The presentations are followed by an informal discussion about the artists' practices over a cup of green tea. A third artist, from previous generations of visualists or related fields, is invited specifically to participate in this discussion so as to create a dialogue between current and past practices and provide different perspectives on the present and the future. Please visit: http://www.diapasongallery.org/optosonic.html 224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013 212.431.5127 | 431.6430 fax 212.431.4486 9pm

Kjell will screen GRASP IV, a collaborative work with guitar player Marc Ribot. The fourth edition of Screen Compositions, the yearly evening dedicated to intersections of moving image with sonic art; a program of screen works representing dynamic two-way collaborations between video/ film artists and sound/ music artists specifically intended for single-channel projection with no live or performance component; featuring collaborations by: Liora Belford / Ido Govrin; Kjell Bjorgeengen / Marc Ribot; Yan Breuleux / Alain Thibault; Alexandra Dementieva / Aernoudt Jacobs; Richard Garet / Wolfgang R. von Stuermer; Katherine Liberovskaya / Phill Niblock; Francesca Llopis / Barbara Held; Marlena Novak / Jay Alan Yim; Billy Roisz / Toshimaru Nakamura; Billy Roisz / dieb13 224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013 212.431.5127 | 431.6430 fax 212.431.4486 9pm

Kjell will perform live video with cello player Okkyung Lee at The Stone, New York City on November 25th at 8 pm. The Stone is located at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd street. Travel support by Office For Contemporary Art (OCA) Norway

After earlier cooperative installation works like True Blanking and GRASP, Kjell and Marc Ribot will perform live at The ISSUE Project Room THURSDAY DEC. 6TH at 8pm. The performance will explore the interaction of noise, architecture,decay and silence. ISSUE PROJECT ROOM, The (OA) Can Factory, 232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11215. Telephone: 718-330-0313 Travel support by Office For Contemporary Art (OCA) Norway

10 new C-prints from video and 4 high frequent video works will be on display until December 16th. Publication launch of "Kjell Bjørgeengen/Aernoudt Jacobs", a joint project from Bergen Art Museum and Galleri K. The publication features still images by Kjell and texts by Stian Grøgaard and Aernoudt Jacobs. An audio CD with a static recording of the installation and excerpts of untreated field recordings used for the installation is included.

GRASP IV, featuring music by Marc Ribot will be screened at Monkeytown, 58 N 3rd St(btw. Kent & Wythe)Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211 on November 14th 7.30 & 10 pm

November sees the opening of key collaboration between Kjell Bjørgeengen (Norway) and Salvatore Panatteri (Australia) at SNO in Marrickville, Sydney. Bjørgeengen and Panatteri explore the reflexive paradigm of the time image and its interconnectivity within the domain of noise and reduction. Opens at 6.00pm Friday 2nd November. Level 1 / 175 Marrickville Road Marrickville, Sydney NSW Australia. For further information visit www.sno.org.au Supported by the Office For Contemporary Art Norway.

Aernoudt Jacobs and Kjell Bjørgeengen will make a site specific installation at Lysverket/Bergen Artmuseum. A white room, ten channels of sound and nine channels of high frequent video will be presented.The exhibition ends March 2008.

RIFT, a video sculpture by Kjell from 1991 is now on display at "Art 4. Works from the Collection 1950-2007" at The National Gallery in Oslo. The work features original music by Jöelle Léandre.

MY EYES KEEP ME IN TROUBLE 15-04-2007 - 06-05-2007 Opening reception April 15th at 15.00. Curated by Tilman, the show takes its title from a song by blues legend R.L. Burnside. JOHN BEECH (UK/USA) - KJELL BJORGEENGEN (N) - VICTORIA CAROLAN (UK) & GUY DE BIÈVRE (B) - MATTHEW DELEGET (USA) ALEXANDRA DEMENTIEVA (RUS/B) & AERNOUDT JACOBS (B) - WARD DENYS (B) - JAROSLAW FLICINSKI (PL) - CLEMENS HOLLERER (A/B) ANDREW HUSTON (USA) - KLAAS KLOOSTERBOER (NL) - ROSSANA MARTINEZ (USA) - LÉOPOLDINE ROUX (F/B) - EMMANUELLE VILLARD (F/B) - LEON VRANKEN (B) Supported by Office For Contemporary Art (OCA) Norway

Kjell Bjørgeengen, Jeremy Blake, Jeff Elrod, Shaun Kessler, Takehito Koganezawa, David Moreno, Trevor Paglen, Ezra Rubin April 10th - June 26th, 2007 Opening reception, Wednesday April 18th, 6-8 pm. GalleryW52, 31 W. 52nd St., between 5th and 6th avenues. Download invitation [PDF 202KB]

Supported by Esquilo Records Keith Rowe and Kjell start work on a DVD project scheduled for release in 2008. They will perform live April 5th at Mercado Negro , Aveiro, 22h, April 6th at Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art , Porto, 22h and April 7th at Zoom Auditório Municipal, Barcelos, 22h

Kjell will participate in "DOUBLE EXPOSURE - A dialogue between abstract painting & photography", at CCNOA Brussels opening 30.11 6pm. Kjell will show still images from the Surface Tension video works. Others paticipants are John Beech - Erika Blumenfeld - Else Marie Hagen - Salvatore Panatteri - David Thomas - Tilman - Alan Uglow - Emmanuelle Villard - James Welling

Royal Festival Hall Since 2004 Kjell has performed live video with Evan Parkers Electro Acoustic Ensemble. The concert will feature MEMORY VISION, produced by Kjell and Evan in commission for the Ultima and Huddersfield music festivals. At a post show gig, look out for Ceramic Dog, featuring Marc Ribot, Shahzad Ismaily and Ches Smith.

November 8th at Casa da Müsica Kjell continues his live video work in Porto in a concert organized by the Esquuilo label.He will work with Keith Rowe, Günter Müller and Tomas Korber.The first part of the evening will be will by Rafael Toral & César Burago.

Kjell will perform live video with Keith Rowe at CCNOA as part of the EARWITNESS SERIES.The current project will focus on the use of radio to interface flicker video and music. The radio frequencies of the flicker works will be picked up by Keith Rowe, processed and fed back into the video circuit. The current project is the result of previous experiences working both as a duo and with MIMEO (Music in Movement Electronic Orchestra). CCNOA center for contemporary non-objective art Blvd Barthelemylaan 5 B-1000 Brussels Tel (32-2) 502 69 12 info@ccnoa.org

A two monitor installation of flicker video and footage featuring blues musician and storyteller R.L. Burnside (1926 - 2005). Exhibition: 09/09/2006 - 27/09/2006, Saturdays, 15.00 - 18.00 & by appointment H 29 29 Rue Andre Hennebicqstraat B-1060 Brussels Telephone (32) 0474 71 61 96, 0479 44 38 30