‘Collecting Live: Where is Rocky II?’ – Pierre Bismuth in conversation with Haro Cumbusy and Bob Drake
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- Speakers
- Pierre Bismuth, Haro Cumbusyan and Bob Drake
- Language
- English
By gathering together international collectors to participate into one-to-one conversations, ‘Collecting Live’ resulted into a concise yet insightful roundup on different collecting strategies.
At the end of the 1970s, American artist Ed Rusha produced Rocky II – a fake rock named after Sylvester Stallone’s first feature – and placed it somewhere in the Mohava Desert. With the help of a private detective and two Hollywood screenwriters, artist Pierre Bismuth embarked on a journey to find it. “What is an art piece that nobody can see and even that nobody can knows about? The mistery of this piece is not so much that it is a fake rock hidden in the desert but that it is an artwork hidden from the art world.” This decade long investigation is finally coming to life in ‘Where is Rocky II?’, a witty documentary blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction. Within this session, the artist talks about the feature film project, and he explains how, being initially conceived as an art project, the film later on became a theater and television release production due to a fast response from the film industry.
Pierre Bismuth
- Speaker
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Pierre Bismuth is a contemporary artist, who lives and works in London and Brussels. Through efficient and often humorous gestures, Bismuth interrupts pre-established codes of reading the images and objects that pervade daily life – from Hollywood films, headline stories in newspapers to magazine clippings from gentlemen’s magazines. In 2005 he won the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award along with Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman for ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’. Bismuth and Gondry extended their collaboration with the video installation ‘All Seeing Eye, the Easy Teenage Version’ (2005) which was shown at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam with the courtesy of Lisson Gallery (London) and Cosmic Gallery (Paris). His work has been widely exhibited in Europe, in galleries such as Team Gallery (New York), Jan Mot (Brussels), Bugada Cargnel (Paris) and Christine Konig (Vienna).
Haro Cumbusyan
- Participant, Speaker
Haro Cumbusyan, currently based in Zurich, is a social entrepreneur and a collector of media art. He is the Founding Director of collectorspace, a nonprofit organisation that through its exhibition program, off-site events, and publications, aims to open up private collections to public view as well as to critical review. Haro is also the founder of EK BİÇ YE İÇ (Sow’n Mow, Eat’n Drink), a social enterprise with the mission of exploring options for a healthy, pleasant, and sustainable life in big cities. Haro serves on the Board of Directors of Protocinema, New York/Istanbul; and is a former Board Member of Studio Voltaire, London; is a member of New York MoMA’s Acquisition Committee of Media and Performance Art; and sits on the Selection Committee of LOOP Barcelona.
Last update 11th October, 2018
Bob Drake
- Speaker
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