Pil and Galia Kollectiv
Position held:
Research Student
Phone:
+44 (0)20 79197671
Email:
vap01gk (@gold.ac.uk)
Website:
http://www.kollectiv.co.uk/
Our work addresses the legacy of modernism, exploring the promises and ruins of the avant garde discourses of the twentieth century. It deals with the way these failed utopias operate in the context of a changing landscape of creative work and instrumentalised leisure. We are interested in the relationship between art and politics, and the role irony and belief play in its current articulation. We often use choreographed movement and ritual as both an aesthetic and a thematic dimension, juxtaposing consumerism and religious ceremonies to find the underlying rites and convictions of a secular, post-ideological society.
Our joint dissertation deals with the relationship between art and democracy. It considers the relevance for art of political theory, focusing on the work of Jacques Ranciere, Chantal Mouffe, Paolo Virno, Franco Berrardi and Slavoj Zizek. Our dissertation explores the contradictory demands of equality and freedom, a paradox within democratic discourse discussed by political theorists from Alexis de Tocqueville to Carl Schmitt. We look at specific calls for the democratization of art in avant garde, Situationist and conceptual art, in light of the debates surrounding democracy within post-foundational political theory and post-autonomist discussions of immaterial labour. Through our research on overidentification, we aim to find a new way of describing the relationship of art and politics that goes beyond irony, and beyond the democratic paradox."
Academic qualifications
2007 Goldsmiths College, PhD. (to be completed 2011/2)
2002 – 2003 Central Saint Martins, Post Graduate Diploma in Communication Design, London.
2000 – 2001 Goldsmiths College, MA Fine Art, London.
1999 – 2000 Camera Obscura Art School’s New Seminar for Theory, Tel Aviv.
1995 – 1998 BA studies in English Literature and History, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Graduated cum laude.
Presentations and exhibitions
Exhibitions, Events and Screenings
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Te Tuhi Art Centre, Manukau City, New Zealand.
2008 Svetlana, S1 Artspace, Sheffield.
2007 Asparagus: A Horticultural Ballet, The Showroom, London.
Performances
2010 WE, Kunsthall, Oslo, and The Royal Standard, part of the Liverpool Biennale.
Critical Mass, part of Theatre to Address Arnolfini, Bristol.
2009 Performative Construction of a Future monument for the Dialectic Negation of a Post-Catastrophic Society, Herzliya Biennale, Herzliya.
Critical Mass, part of Late at Tate, Tate Britain, London.
2008 No Haus Like Bau at the HAU, Mes Nuits, Berlin Biennale, Berlin.
2007 Asparagus: A Horticultural Ballet, SAT, Montreal, part of the Biennale de Montreal, and Conway Hall, London.
Curatorial Projects
2008 The Institute of Psychoplasmics, Pump House Gallery, London.
2006 Modern Lovers, Three Colts Gallery, London.
2005 Turn to the Left, 291 Gallery, London
2004 DaDaDa: Strategies against Marketecture, temporarycontemporary gallery, London.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 Hierarchies of Allegiance, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
Testbed 1, Beaconsfield Gallery, London
Use & Mention: Part One, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London.
2009 Apocatopia, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.
Star Maker, E:vent Gallery, London.
Roll It to Me, Collective, Edinburgh.
Ventriloquist, Timothy Taylor, London.
2008 Art and the New Town, Harlow Temple of Utopias, Harlow.
Futureblueperfect, Café Gallery, London.
2007 Emergency3, Aspex, Portsmouth.
2006 Slider, Cell Project Space, London.
Metropolis Rise, Moganshan Art Village, Shanghai and DIAF 06, 798 Space, Beijing.
Little Private Governments, University of Essex Gallery, Colchester.
2005 SVO5, Studio Voltaire, London.
Diamonds for Workers, Kate McGarry, London.
Selected Screenings
2010 If Only..!, The Bluecoat, Liverpool.
Signal & Noise Media Art Festival,Vivo, Vancouver.
2009 Greetings comrades, the image has now changed its status*, Ocular Lab Inc., West Brunswick and Arnolfini, Bristol.
2008 The Open Eye Club presents ‘The Human Arc’, Tramway, Glasgow.
Artists’ Film, Dance, Music & Theatricality, CCA, Glasgow
A Staged Dissent: Life is Interesting… When You’re Furious, Loughborough University.
Damn! I wish I'd done that. Artists' works I wish I'd made..., 176 Project Space, London.
The Sensible Stage, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Grants & awards
2008 Arts Council England grant
2007 London Artists Film and Video Award.
2007 Take Over Residency, Pump House Gallery, London.
2005 Cocheme Fellowship at the Byam Shaw School of Art.
2003 Runners up at the Becks Student Film and Video Award.
Conferences
Selected Talks, Conferences and Discussion Panels
2010 “Object Oriented Ontology and Art Practice”, The New Vitality: Art in Human-Nonhuman Ecologies / Human-Nonhuman Ecologies in Art, Spike Island, Bristol.
“Towards an Anti-Humanist Critique of Immaterial Labour, or How to Negotiate with Vampires”, Audiovisual Posthumanism: Aesthetics, Cultural Theory and the Arts International Conference at The University Of The Aegean, Lesvos.
“Can Objects Perform?: Agency and Thingliness in Contemporary Sculpture and Installation”,
Sculpture and Performance, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds and Tate Liverpool
2009 Art and Postfordism, ICA, London
“Archiving the Future: Unpacking Benjamin’s Collection” The Eagle Document: The New
Collection of Enumerated Things, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London.
“Untimely Meditations on Overidentification”, Performance Fictions, Electric Cinema, Birmingham.
“The Shared Table in Contemporary Art, East Midlands Institute, Birmingham.
“ARTwork, CRITIQUEwork: some conjugations”, Chelsea College of Art, London.
2008 The Political Currency of Irony, Transmission, The Showroom Cinema, Sheffield.
2007 “The Politics of Reenactment”, MA Art Writing and Curating, Wimbledon School of
The Politics of Battlestar Galactica conference, Buckinghamshire University, Wycombe.
2006 TEACHING/LEARNING/RESEARCHING conference, part of Academy, MuHKA, Antwerp
Art and Liberty, Tate Britain, London
Modern Lovers, discussion panel, Goldsmiths college, London
Respondents, Artist Culture and The New Spirit of Capitalism, The Showroom, London.
Selected publications
Selected Reviews
Burrows, David, "Performance Fictions", Mute, 2010
Tuck, Mike, “TestBed 1”, ArtSlant, 2010
Herbert, Martin, "Ventriloquist", Timeout, 2008
Clark, Robert, Pil & Galia Kollectiv, The Guardian, 2008
Charlesworth, J. J., "Any Other But Ourselves", Mute, 2008
Hopwood, Alasdair, "The Institute of Psychoplasmics", Art Review, 2008
"Die Tödliche Doris + Pil & Galia Kollectiv", The Wire, 2007
"Things Fall Apart", Frieze, 2007
"Asparagus: A Horticultural Ballet", Frieze, 2007
"Profile: Ian Hunt on Pil and Galia Kollectiv", Art Monthly, 2007
"Asparagus: A Horticultural Ballet", Timeout, 2007
Collings, Matthew, “Mocking Form”, Modern Painters, Tate, London, 2006
Lack, Jessica, “Little Private Governments”, The Guardian, 2006
Kerek, Rowan, "DaDaDa: Strategies Against Marketecture", BBC Collective, 2004