SEPTEMBER 6 (NOON TO 6PM)
OUTSIDER BODIES (A COLLECTIVE TRANSMEDIA SHOW)
LA PLAQUE TOURNANTE (composers and sound artists FRÉDÉRIC ACQUAVIVA and LORÉ LIXENBERG) are delighted to present every first Saturday of the month (from April 5 to Dec 6) a series of exhibitions and events at THE OUTSIDERS GALLERY in London, after their initial location in Berlin-Neukölln. LA PLAQUE TOURNANTE supports the fight of all invisible, disappeared and marginalised people, especially AVANT-GARDE artists that are forgotten or still unknown.
OUTSIDER BODIES is a deep dive into the awkward, ecstatic, censored and celebrated realities of bodies that refuse to conform -- anatomies outside normativity, outliers of form, expression, and identity. Featuring over 90 artists across every imaginable medium (canvas, sculpture, drawing, photography, multiple, artist's book, poster, collage, objects...), this exhibition confronts how bodies are seen, staged, silenced or sacralised across art history’s underground. It is both a living archive and a radical act of preservation.
This new exhibition includes poets-artists-composers from all generations and genres and is an exhibition that rejects easy labels, instead tracing a polyphonic, pan-historical map of the margins, from historical avant garde such as LETTRISM (Isou, Wolman, Brau, Lemaître, Altmann...) to FLUXUS (Maciunas, Ben Vautier, Filliou, Serge III, Patterson, Dreyfus...), CONCRETE & VISUAL POETRY (Bory, Chopin, Heidsieck, Ovcacek, Garnier, Furnival...), VIENNESE ACTIONNISMUS (Muehl, Nitsch, Brus...), BODY ART (Molinier, Journiac, Ferrer, ORLAN, Stelarc...), BIO ART (Kac), FREE RADICALS (Altagor, Lizène, Hubaut, Gette, Parant, Gysin...) to FEMINIST PIONEERS (Iannone, Export, Oliveros...). Mostly, it demonstrates that any theme become interesting in the hands of great artists, who are general ly absent in collective shows and replaced by masters of funding applications.
This day includes a non-stop performance from noon by Italian legend ALBERTO SORBELLI, whose post-conceptual rituals collapse theatre, sculpture and subversion into a singular lived form. At 5pm, experimental British composer/performer ADAM DE LA COUR takes the floor, followed by french poet/experimental breakdancer YOANN SARRAT at 5:30pm.
COME IN YOUR MASSES ON SEPTEMBER 6!
