Join us for the opening of the final stage in BLOCH‘s residency at Knockdown Center. This exhibition will open on Dec 12 (2-7:30pm) and 13 (2-5pm) with performances, and a conference as well as collected ephemera from it journey and video documents made along the way. The exhibition will remain on view Saturdays and Sundays from 2-6pm through January 10.

Saturday Dec 12: Exhibition opening & Performance
Works and collaborations by Ueli Alder, Sarah Cameron Sunde, Com&Com (Johannes M. Hedinger, Marcus Gossolt), Joshua Dumas, Brendan B. Gaffney, Bruno Jakob, Dan and Owen Jerome, Tom Koehler, Mark Patsfall, Guy Paulson, Lorelei Ramirez, Packet Biweekly, Marc Trachsler, Yangzi with Zhang Da, Marvin Youngman. Videos by Com&Com, Fabian Kaiser, Alex Reeves, Mehmet Salih Yildirim

Sound bath by Sarah Cameron Sunde and Joshua Dumas, 2 to 6pm
Qian with Yi Zhou and YiMin Miao, 6:30 to 7:30pm

Sunday, December 13: Conference & Performance
Panelists: Johannes M. Hedinger, Tom Koehler, Anne Luther, Sarah Cameron Sunde, Kay Turner, Claire Wood, and more to be announced. 2 to 4pm

This conference will discuss Bloch as a symbol of the possibility of, and invitation to, a participatory project. It is also a reflection on the concepts of social sculpture, postproduction and Open Work. Johannes Hedinger has invited speakers specialized in cultural studies, anthropology, folklore studies and various aspects of art and cultural production to debate the Bloch at the middle of its ten-year-journey.

The conference’s closing event will be the performance “In here and out there” by Bruno Jakob (Invisible Paintings) and Hans Witschi (Piano: Dontforgets 1983-2015). 4 to 5pm

More information about the project: http://bloch23781.com