Messy Project Space
Library / Project Room / Space 1/2
Founded in April 2012, Messy is a project space initiated by a group of Bangkok based artists. We occasionally showcase rare documents, books, exhibitions and multiples by artists. We hope Messy to be a meeting place, a discussion platform, an in-house library and a place where collaboration and intervention taken place.
The current site on Tanao Road is now closed. We will announce our new location in April.
TODAY
Messy Project Space will be opened on this afternoon, Saturday, February 23rd, from 1-5 pm, as requested!
OPERATION UFO, The Exhibition of Julius Koller’s Oeuvre, end on February 28th.
เมซซี่ โปรเจ็ก สเปซ เปิดเป็นกรณีพิเศษ ในวันเสาร์ที่ 23 กุมภาพันธ์ เวลา 13.00 - 17.00 น. ตามคำเรียกร้อง
นิทรรศการผลงานศิลปะของ Julius Koller “ปฏิบัติการ ยู เอฟ โอ” จะจบลงในวันที่ 28 กุมภาพันธ์
LAST DAYS
THU 14TH / TUE 19TH / THU 21ST / TUE 26TH / THU 28TH OF FEBRUARY 2013
OPERATION UFO
THE EXHIBITION OF JULIUS KOLLER’S OEUVRE
MESSY PROJECT SPACE
นิทรรศการผลงานศิลปะของ JULIUS KOLLER
เหลือเวลาอีก 5 วัน
14 / 19 / 21 / 26 / 28 กุมภาพันธ์ 2556
เวลาปฏิบัติการ 14.00 - 19.00 น ตามวันดังกล่าว
“On the top floor, four ink-jet reproductions of color Xeroxes from Koller’s Galeria Ganku are affixed to a wall of windows facing building tops and sky—images of mountains and climbing equipment. Confronting the absence of private galleries in Czechoslovakia in 1971, Koller founded the fictive gallery, and directed it until 1989. Located on a flat surface on the Ganek peak of the High Tatras Mountains, the gallery, in Koller’s words, “symbolized an encounter of the earthly with the unearthly. The natural high-mountain environment become[s] a psychological cultural space—a medium (between the Earth and the Heaven) where a new artistic thinking can shoot up.” By hanging these images at the peak of their own space, the Messy Project collective playfully announces solidarity and affinity with Koller, highlighting the durability of his conceptual language and engaging in a poetics of intersubjective curation.” — Rebekah Rutkoff
CLOSING NIGHT
“Cinema and Space, Extracting the Unrecognized”, curated by Mary Pansanga, features “Gyre”, a work by an Austrian artist, Björn Kämmerer and “The vehicle is outward… (interior appearance)” by a Thai artist, Kornkrit Jianpinidnan. Both works explore the concrete form of an architectural space albeit an abstract review. The revolving images dare us to experience the space within the space, as well as the visible apparatus providing a spatial structure and also dialogue between the two works.
วันสุดท้าย
นิทรรศการภาพเคลื่อนไหวในพื้นที่ห้องแต่งตัว โรงภาพยนตร์สกาล่า เวลา 19.00 - 21.30 น.
Photo: Installation view © Withit Chanthamarit
MESSY PROJECT SPACE - LIVE AT THE SCALA
WITH FOREST FRINGE, UK
7 - 9 FEBRUARY 2013
SCALA CINEMA
http://www.messysky.com/news.html
JK PING PONG CLUB
Opening tournament / 18 January 2013
OPERATION U.F.O.
The exhibition of Julius Koller’s oeuvre
18 January - 28 February 2013
Messy Project Space
Operating hours:
Tuesdays & Thursdays
2-7pm
Messy Project Space / Messy sky Magazine - Live At The Scala
Live At The Scala - A micro festival
February 7 – 9, 2013
6.30 - 9.30 pm
The Scala Cinema, Siam Square, Bangkok
Produced by Forest Fringe
Commissioned by British Council Thailand
British Council Thailand present a unique, UK produced performance event receiving its Asian premiere in Bangkok – ‘Live at The Scala’, a Microfestival of live performance, video and installation. Featuring artists from the UK and Thailand, the festival will transform the Scala into a thrilling exploration of our relationship to cinema and cinema buildings.
This groundbreaking festival will present a diverse range of works including live performance, video and installation by artists from the UK and Thailand who will explore film or cinema in a unique and memorable setting of the Scala cinema. Extended beyond traditional theatrical performance, these artists will transform the Scala into a thrilling exploration of our relationship to cinema and cinema buildings. Performances will include both highly-acclaimed works that have toured the world and some completely new pieces made in response to this historically and architecturally significant building in Thailand’s cinema history. Audiences will get a chance to interact with performances and enjoy a fascinating and subversive celebration of cinema, live performance and the Scala itself.
Messy Project Space & Messy Sky Magazine will present 2 sets of new work at the micro-festival.
First, “Cinema and Space, Extracting the Unrecognized”, curated by Mary Pansanga, features “Gyre”, a work by an Austrian artist, Björn Kämmerer and “The vehicle is outward… (interior appearance)” by a Thai artist, Kornkrit Jianpinidnan. Both works explore the concrete form of an architectural space albeit an abstract review. The revolving images dare us to experience the space within the space, as well as the visible apparatus providing a spatial structure and also dialogue between the two works.
Furthermore, Messy Sky Magazine will launch its special edition in form of live-magazine. Accentuating fluid notions of time and space, invited collectives & individuals around the world will send their contributions directly to the e-printer at Scala Cinema during the 3 nights festival. “Messy Sky Magazine / LIVE AT THE SCALA” is a performative act, as its pages will travel across time zones and cities, then falling into the crowd at the Scala Cinema.
Photo: Kornkrit Jianpinidnan, “The vehicle is outward… (interior appearance)”, 2012-3
U.F.O.-GALLERY – GANEK GALLERY / GALERIA GANKU
Project – Manifesto
U.F.O.-Gallery is the first gallery for Cosmo-humanist culture in the world. It is a communication media between heaven and earth. It is fictitious gallery, which employs attractive mountaineering peak Ganek of High Tatras with its oblique shelf called “Galéria Ganku” (Ganek Gallery) as a visual and physical symbol of Cosmohumanist culture and communication with unknown civilisations of all kinds.
The aim of U.F.O.-Gallery is to mediate contact of alternative subjective participations, which is engaged in communication with unknown phenomena both on the Earth and in the Cosmos. The U.F.O.-Gallery is a conceptual gallery for alternatives of communication.
Draft of the U.F.O.-Gallery statute:
The U.F.O.-Gallery has no headquarters; it is constituted by members of committee and project participants; it is a selective confrontation of called upon or accepted project members; the confrontation is lead by committee members (as well as acceptance of new members); the committee will inform the members about activities and will present the activity of the U.F.O.-Gallery in various ways and forms. The visual sign is a photographic picture of Ganek Gallery in the High Tatras.
The U.F.O.-Gallery Organisational and Consultancy Committee:
J. Koller, I. Gazdík, P. Meluzin, P. Breier, M. Adamciak
Secretary: I. Gazdík
Proposal membership enlargement: R. Matuštík (art critic), R. Sikora (academic painter), J. Meliš (academic sculptor), D. Tóth (academic painter), K. Viceník (research worker), M. Kern (academic painter)
Photo: Niwat Manatpiyalert
OPERATION U.F.O.
The exhibition of Julius Koller’s oeuvre
18 January - 28 February 2013
Messy Project Space
“Roman Ondák: I’d like to ask you what led you, in 1971, to found the “U.F.O. Gallery Ganek”.
Július Koller: As the name suggests, it has some connection with the cosmos and it’s in essence a fictive gallery, because my activity as a U.F.O.-naut needed a gallery of some sort and that’s the way I created it.
Roman Ondák: Where was the gallery actually located? Was it a normal gallery, or…
Július Koller: It had a precise location: on a peak in the High Tatras. The terrain there is very difficult for climbing, and it’s inaccessible for the average person. The gallery is just a narrow strip which is immediately below the summit and is actually called a “gallery” in Slovak mountaineering terminology. So I used the term for my gallery, which is situated far above the ground and is actually a sort of symbol, a connecting of the worldly and the otherworldly.
Roman Ondák: So, for us humans it would be inaccessible - theoretically…
Július Koller: Theoretically, for normal people … even for climbers. So it actually served as a meeting-place of the easy to access and the difficult to access. (…)”
ON NOW!
OPERATION U.F.O.
THE EXHIBITION OF JULIUS KOLLER’S OEUVRE
AT MESSY PROJECT SPACE
18 JANUARY - 28 FEBRUARY 2013
(Source: messysky.com)
Operation U.F.O.
The exhibition of Jùlius Koller (1939-2007)
Place: Messy Project Space
Date: 18 January - 28 February 2013
Operating hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2-7pm
Opening: Friday 18 January 2013, 6-9 pm
Messy project Space, in collaboration with GB Agency Paris, is proud to present the exhibition of late Jùlius Koller (1939-2007). Operation U.F.O. features a selection of the artist’s most prominent works: “J.K. Ping-Pong Club (U.F.O.)”, 1970 - 2007; “Galeria Ganku, 1971” & other pieces relating to his concept of “Universal-cultural Futurological Operation” (U.F.O).
