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Jurino Rodeo
10 September 2009
ABSTRACT
10 spet 2009 - JOAN JONAS "The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things" ⁂ Unique screening - European Première ⁂ + Yeeeeeha!

JOAN JONAS
The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things
Film, 2005

K.M.S.K.A., Auditorium, free entrance — Sept 10, 2009 in loop from 6-9 PM — Leopold De Waeleplaats — 2000 Antwerp

On the occasion of the finissage of Cabinet Jurino, Potential Estate’s activation of Joe Scanlan’s pavilion Passing Through, Potential Estate is happy to present the single screen (unedited) version of The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things, by seminal video and performance artist...

Courtesy Joan Jonas and EAI (NYC)

⁂ Unique screening

European Première ⁂

Extra City Benefit Auction - Unique Potential Estate edition
Potential Estate has participated to the first beneft auction launched by Extra City Center for Contemporary Art in Antwerp the December 17th at Bernaerts Auction House in Antwerp.
Don’t forget

Sept 10, 9 PM ✔ Parking Lot in-between MuHKA and KMSKA ✔ Free ✔ With guest drummer Louis Evrard. Info : 0496/27 41 47

Cabinet Jurino is open until sunday sept 13, 2009 in KMSKA

Other articles in this chapter

What’s in a name - In Cochiti (a New Mexican pueblo) Aby Warburg (Hamburg, 1866-1929) spoke to a Hopi priest named Cleo Jurino.
Reanimating the serpent - Red on Yellow, Kills a Fellow — American proverb
Ghost Dance - At the end of the 19th century Thomas Edison filmed « Ghost Dance », one of the first films ever made and the first filmic record of ‘authentic’ American Indians.
What about the museum? - Muhka is not a mud museum.
BIG MINUTES -

" My brain is frozen. I have to break free from this culture of mechanical reproduction and the thick incrustration who die on the surface "

in « House of 10.000 corpses », Rob Zombie, 2003.

Cabinet Jurino / Museumnacht - Potential Estate / Cabine Jurino Nog tot 10 september. Op donderdag 10 september tussen 18 en 21 uur sluit Potential Estate Cabinet Jurino af met een unieke presentatie van Joan Jonas’s single channel versie van ‘The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things’, een vijfdelige video-installatie die The Renaissance Society in 2004 produceerde, waarin Jonas ingaat op Aby Warburg’s studie van de Hopi beeldentaal.

Tricksters

— Tricksters or fakes, assistants or ‘toons, they are exemplars of the coming community

Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community, University of Minnesota Press

What Warburg did not see

Steps and ladders are an ancient and universal device for representing the growth, the upward and downward motion of nature. They are the symbol of achievement in the rise and descent through space, just as the circle, the coiled serpent, is the symbol for the rhythm of time...

David Freedberg / Pathos at Oraibi : What Warburg did not see

One hamburger at a time

« Our ancestors sold Manhattan for trinkets. Today with the acquisition of the Hard Rock cafes we’re going to buy Manhattan back one hamburger at a time. »

Press conference Seminole Tribe

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