Artist talk with Alex Schweder & Ward Shelley

Ahead of the performance architecture work Slow Teleport (Project 1+1), organised in collaboration with Fonds Kirchberg / part of the Luxembourg Museum Days

Slow Teleport (23.6 - 21.8.2019) features the two New York artists Alex Schweder (* 1970) and Ward Shelley (* 1950) and their European colleagues Matthew Brown and Clemens Klein, who as of June 23 will live and work together for ten days in a portable cabin suspended above the labyrinth of the Parc Central in Kirchberg. Ten days without ever leaving the place, where the only interaction with the outside will come from contacts made with the visitors who will want to inquire about the meaning of their work.

After this "performance architecture", the structure will remain in the labyrinth of the park until the end of September.In a casual and friendly setting, the two resident artists Alex Schweder and Ward Shelley will present the principles of performance architecture and answer questions from the audience.

In English

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Alex Schweder received a BA from thePratt Institute School of Architecture, an MA of Architecture friôm Princeton University School of Architecture, and is completing a PhD from the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge, UK. Recent exhibitions include teh 2014 Venice Biennale, the Tel Aviv Art Museum, the 2013 Moscow Biennal, the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Biennal, and the Tate Britain. He hasheld residencies at the Kohler Company and the Chinati Foundation and was awarded the Rome Prize in Architecture at the American Academy in Rome. Schweder is represented by Edward Cella Art & Architecture in Los Angeles.

Ward Shelley received a BFA from Eckard College and an MA from New York University. Solo exhibitions of his work include Pierogi Gallery, NY; Massimo Carasi Gallery, Milan; Center for Contemporary Art and Launch Projects, Santa Fe; and Socrates Sculpture Park, NY. He has received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, an award from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, two fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a fellowship from The American Academy in Rome. Shelley is represented by Pierogi Gallery in New York.