Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen: Not What I Meant But Anyway
OffsiteFri 9 Dec 2022, 7pmFree
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen: Not What I Meant But Anyway, 9 December 2022, Goethe-Institut London. Photo by Talie Rose Eigeland. Courtesy of the artists and Serpentine.
Goethe-Institut London
Fri 9 Dec 2022, 7pmFree
An evening with artists Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen to celebrate the publication of their book, Not What I Meant But Anyway (Columbia University Press, 2022). Presented in collaboration with Goethe-Institut London, the event features a close look into the artists’ practice and a conversation with curator Lucia Pietroiusti.
From genetically engineering sterile goldfish to choreographing a factory assembly line, Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen’s work is performed within particular networks. These networks – whether they connect raw materials, mythic conditions, animal genetics, constructions of uncertainty, or colonial inheritances – offer a point of departure for the artists, from which they explore friction, entanglement, porousness, reflection, and self-implication.
Not What I Meant But Anyway reveals the methods behind Cohen & Van Balen’s work and process, and prioritises the documentation of long and multidimensional research and production over eventual outcomes. Collating conversations between the artists on living and working together alongside the ephemera they have generated and a series of reflections from external contributors, the book hints at the intimacies and estrangements at the heart of Cohen & Van Balen’s shared practice. It includes contributions from Daisy Hildyard, Andrés Jaque, Lucia Pietroiusti, and Xiaoyu Weng.
Artist Biography
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen (b. 1981, based in London) work across objects, installation, and film to explore processes of production as cultural, personal, and political practices. Their work has been recently exhibited at Ghost 2565 Bangkok; Serpentine, London; the 13th Shanghai Biennale at the Power Station of Art; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Renaissance Society, Chicago; Fotomuseum Winterthur; Para Site, Hong Kong; HKW, Berlin; and Congo International Film Festival, Goma. It is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Mu.ZEE, Ostend; and M+, Hong Kong.
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen: Not What I Meant But Anyway, 9 December 2022, Goethe-Institut London. Photo by Talie Rose Eigeland. Courtesy of the artists and Serpentine.
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen: Not What I Meant But Anyway, 9 December 2022, Goethe-Institut London. Photo by Talie Rose Eigeland. Courtesy of the artists and Serpentine.
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen: Not What I Meant But Anyway, 9 December 2022, Goethe-Institut London. Photo by Talie Rose Eigeland. Courtesy of the artists and Serpentine.
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen: Not What I Meant But Anyway, 9 December 2022, Goethe-Institut London. Photo by Talie Rose Eigeland. Courtesy of the artists and Serpentine.
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen: Not What I Meant But Anyway, 9 December 2022, Goethe-Institut London. Photo by Talie Rose Eigeland. Courtesy of the artists and Serpentine.
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen: Not What I Meant But Anyway, 9 December 2022, Goethe-Institut London. Photo by Talie Rose Eigeland. Courtesy of the artists and Serpentine.
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen: Not What I Meant But Anyway, 9 December 2022, Goethe-Institut London. Photo by Talie Rose Eigeland. Courtesy of the artists and Serpentine.
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen: Not What I Meant But Anyway, 9 December 2022, Goethe-Institut London. Photo by Talie Rose Eigeland. Courtesy of the artists and Serpentine.
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen: Not What I Meant But Anyway, 9 December 2022, Goethe-Institut London. Photo by Talie Rose Eigeland. Courtesy of the artists and Serpentine.
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen: Not What I Meant But Anyway, 9 December 2022, Goethe-Institut London. Photo by Talie Rose Eigeland. Courtesy of the artists and Serpentine.
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen: Not What I Meant But Anyway, 9 December 2022, Goethe-Institut London. Photo by Talie Rose Eigeland. Courtesy of the artists and Serpentine.
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen: Not What I Meant But Anyway, 9 December 2022, Goethe-Institut London. Photo by Talie Rose Eigeland. Courtesy of the artists and Serpentine.
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen: Not What I Meant But Anyway, 9 December 2022, Goethe-Institut London. Photo by Talie Rose Eigeland. Courtesy of the artists and Serpentine.
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, Trapped in the Dream of the Other, 2017. Courtesy of the artists.
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, Paradise, 2017. Courtesy of the artists.
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, The Odds (Part 1), 2017. Courtesy of the artists.
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, H / AlCuTaAu, 2014. Courtesy of the artists.
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, Heart Lines, 2016. Courtesy of the artists.
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, The Odds (Part 1), 2017. Installation view, Mattatoio di Roma. Courtesy of the artists.
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, The Odds (Part 1), 2017. Courtesy of the artists.
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, 75 Watt, 2013. Courtesy of the artists.
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, Sterile, 2014. Courtesy of the artists.
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, Paradise, 2017. Courtesy of the artists.
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, 75 Watt, 2013. Courtesy of the artists.
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