passage

THE PASSAGE in THE EMERGENCY ROOM

12.30 pm

the passage is the most important moment in Emergency Room
it happen daily at 12.30 pm

The artist burning to exhibit an emergency case must often run

to the EMERGENCY ROOM with his finished art work
in order to show it before it is too late before the deadline

every day at 12. 30 p.m. is " the passage"
the moment the exhibition from today replaces the exhibition from yesterday

" the passage" is a moment that attracts the public and the medias

" the passage"is the moment were
all the artists with a burning opinion about the day exhibit

a moment of rendez vous and debate
a moment where communauty of opinion can be made
a moment when collaborative work happens as well

precision and deadline are important important in theEmergency Room
Emergency Room is not an abstract place

beetween 12.15 and 12.30 very short interviews of the coming artists are conducted.
It is important to record their burning thoughts while they are still moved and exited .
The video recording of the artists rushing to exhibit is important and has historic values

LINK to VIDEO INTERVIEWS

artist sweat is also collected
artist sweat is precious stuff in Emergency Room
as well as opinions
Emergency Room is also an enormous collecting machine

12.29 pm : 1minute before the Passage . The passage happens every day at the same time : The art works from yesterday are still exhibited in the Emergency Room. In 1 minute they will be replaced by the ones from today : It is the last chance for the public to see them in the Emergency Room . The public is welcome before during and after the passage

12.30 sharp The passage takes place.Artists come inside the Emergency Room to change the exhibition.
They remove art works from yesterday to place the ones from today (1) .
They will decide together about the distribution of the space .
The " hierachy " of placement is decided accordingto the pertinence of their work
and the level of emergency .

The public and the medias can daily witness the passage and also ask to the artist to debate opinions and visions
Sometimes mass media come to sources opinions and reflections in the Emergency Room .
The artist' s opinion get in the TV news then and reach a large audience
( example : ABC news : 10 million vieuwers) ( internet link /video link ) Reuter TV ( TV footage shown in India China Mexico etc ...)
The public can also debate with the artists , in fact everyone can talk to each other : the medias the artists the public (2)

12.30 p.m. is like the change of the guards
the passage is like a DJ mix ( video Jens Haaning)
the passage is a strong experience

12 .31 p.m. : the first work are already exhibited at the same time work from yesterday is taken down safely and kept for the delay museum

12.38 the exhibition is vibrating totally soon updated ..

Opinioned artists simultanely deinstal delay art works and install the news art work of today

at 1 p.m. The new installation depending of it s nature takes about 30 minutes . The exhibition has to be ready in the round white cube as soon as possible .
So the public can experiment finished art works.
Emergency Room welcome performances but Emergency Room is not a work shop : it is a finished welcoming exhibition space ready to have the art work well shown for the streaming visitors . Beside the Emergency Room there is a backstage room where artists can socialize or work before or after the passage in the Emergency Room

the room is a round white cube

every day the same ritual

IN ALL EMERGENCY ROOMs

until the next day 12.30 The public can see the 24 hour exhibition

PASSAGE [fr. passage]
The passage takes place in the Emergency Room at 12.30 every day.
The passage brings fresh works of today.
The passage replaces the works from yesterday.
The artists meet each other at the passage.
The passage is a kind of relay.
The story continues.
New works take over where the works of yesterday left.

(2) "The show-though its participatory nature really makes it more of an experience-pulls the viewer into its frantic and fast-paced nature, while instilling a sense of global awareness and even of retaliation."

By: James Dewill Columbia Daily Spectator

"Artists, audience and media have been fighting for weeks in order to get to see and participate in the new and innovating exhibition that with its "art of the news" puts the art institution itself to debate.
Reuters, The New Yorker and the tv-channel ABC News are some of the leading media that have brought the story about the original exhibition, and at P.S.1 more than a thousand visitors per day have been seeing it....."

Af NIKOLAJ M. LASSEN Weekendavisens udsendte medarbejder //30. marts 2007

"For publikum, som indfinder sig i rummet ved middagstid, er der nemlig masser at se på: gårsdagens udstilling hænger stadig på væggene, og på gangen udenfor tripper de spændte kunstnere rundt, nogle færdiggør deres værker på stedet, tilføjer de sidste detaljer og skriver skilte med den obligatoriske, forklarende ledsagetekst. Thierry Geoffroy og en assistent går rundt og interviewer dem med videokamera og mikrofon: »Hvad kommenterer du i dag, hvad tager du udgangspunkt i, hvad er din holdning?« På klokkeslæt lukkes de ind i rummet og udskifter gårsdagens værker med de dagsaktuelle"

samfundet i form af medierne er også en medspiller for Emergency Room, da mediernes dækning af nyhedskunstværkerne er med til at gøre dem synlige for den offentlighed, som måske ikke lige lægger vejen forbi museet. Ligesom den megen pressedækning måske også kan være med til at overbevise kunstinstitutionerne om, at de bør have et permanent Emergency Room, hvilket er Thierry Geoffroys overordnede praktiske mål med projektet. Megen presse betyder nemlig mange gæster som igen betyder penge i kassen, og kunstgallerier og museer er nu engang også forretninger som skal tjene penge ind. Når alt kommer til alt, er kunsten nemlig også en del af medie- og konsumsamfundet.

Af NIKOLAJ M. LASSEN Weekendavisens udsendte medarbejder //30. marts 2007