Christian Holstad
invited by Nicolas Trembley
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| photo: Blaise Adilon | photo: Blaise Adilon |
«Shirts», 2007 «Shorts», 2007 «Shoes», 2007 «Bic Lighter», 2007 «Torches», 2007 «2(x)ist Lawn Chair», 2007 «2(x)ist Lawn Chair Lounge», 2007 «Sun and Rays», 2007 «Leather Letter Practice Makes Vests», 2007 |
«Velvet Ropes and Poles», 2007 «Jackets», 2007 «Practice Makes Leather Wallpaper», 2007 «Sweater», 2007 «Meditation on Darkness», 2005 «Hemp Jeans», 2007 «Resourcing Alternative Energies (thank you)», 2006 «In Order to exist», 2005 |
CHRISTIAN HOLSTAD
born 1972 in California
lives and works in New York
Christian Holstad specialises in spectacular glamorisation of sexual dissonance. Combining craft techniques – crochet, sewing, etc – with painting, video, sculpture and performance, he updates the techniques and ideas of the sexual liberation, counterculture and civil rights movements of the ‘70s to point up the form they have taken today. At the Biennial, he is presenting the conference room of the “Members of Leather Beach”, a steadily growing Internet protest group advocating new modes of democratic collaboration immune to all forms of control.
NICOLAS TREMBLEY
born 1965 in Geneva lives and works in Paris
In 1995 Nicolas Trembley and Stéphanie Moisdon founded the Bureau des Vidéos (BdV), an agency for producing, publishing and circulating artist’s videos. A critic and freelance curator, he is a regular contributor to “Frog”, “Art Forum” and “Numéro”, and is projects director at the Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris.