Presence, an exhibition of Annie Vigier & Franck Apertet

Statement:

The choreographers have meetings scheduled with various, prominent individuals from a given artistic field in an art gallery during
opening hours, in the presence of visitors.

November 1st – November 5th, 2011, White Box New York, USA

Personal invitations were sent to 103 leading figures of the New York
and American artistic world, 14 of them agreed to a meeting.

Tuesday, November the 1st

10.30 am : Sophie Claudel, Cultural Attaché, Head of the Arts Department, French Embassy
1pm : Brian Rogers, The Chocolate Factory, Artistic Director
4pm : Gianni Jetzer, the Swiss Institute, Director

Wednesday, November the 2nd

11am : Matthew Lyons, The Kitchen, Curator
4pm : Vallejo Gantner PS122, Artistic Director
6pm : Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy, Fundación Cisneros - Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Curator of Contemporary Art

Thursday, November the 3rd

5pm : Jovana Stokic, Location 1, Curator of Abramovic Studio
7 pm : David Coggins, Journalist

Friday, November the 4th

12am : Carla Peterson, New York Live Arts, Artistic Director

Saturday, November the 5th

1pm : Aniko Erdosi, Gallery Broadway
3 pm : Claire Bishop, CUNY Graduate Center New York, Researcher, Professor of Contemporary Art, Theory and Exhibition History
4.30: Ana Janevski, MoMA, Associate Curator and Jenny Schlenzka, MoMA, Assistant Curator
5pm : Jonathan Durham,  Abrons Art Center, Director of visual arts

Courtesy: les gens d'Uterpan

Specific partners: White Box Ltd., Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York