Palace of Versailles
(Guilt Street)

THE IMAGINED GALLERY

An alternative space-time continuum
dedicated to presenting and supporting
conceptual, impossible, implausible,
impractical, unlikely and unwanted art.

EXHIBITIONS 1996

The Space Underneath Rachel Whiteread
Comprised of various positions. With and without Bruce Nauman. vA project by Naomi Bacigalupi
Various locations
November 27, 1996

Security Guards
Guarding the guards. Watching me watching you.
A project by Belinda Myles
Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, California
November - December

The Hardened Part
A Project by Aaron Noble
Upstairs bedroom, 47 Clarion Alley, San Francisco, California
December 18, 1996

This is confirm my imagined participation in your retrospective on the 26th - rather, this is the act itself or at least the artifact, tricky to distinguish. The hardened part.

It's Sunday. At two minutes to noon I go into my room, careful not to look directly at the object. Viewing position is awkward. I end up kneeling on the bed but erect from the knees up, not resting on my haunches. L-shaped. My eye level is near the bottom of the painting. Breeze through the window.

I begin looking. Inevitably I think of Raegan Kelly and get stuck there a while. Then I think of trains, freight trains, then passenger trains in Europe, a dream film that's a composite of Shoah, Pierrot Le Fou and The State of Things then back even further to a state of solitary movie-going that preceded all this, and the word "promise" seems horribly poignant and seems to refer only to the past and only to places other than here.

I break the connection at 14 minutes, 40 seconds.

EXHIBITIONS 1997

Imaginary Exchange: An Action For Two People
A imagined simultaneous relic(uilibrium) in the offices of Stephen Perkins (Iowa City, Iowa) and Scott MacLeod (San Francisco, California) on 12 noon Sunday, January 26, 1997
A Project By Stephen Perkins
Iowa City, Iowa
Late afternoon, Friday, January 10, 1997

Gallery For Those Who Are Blind
An Unrealized Project by Nina Iskrenko (1951-1995)
Moscow, Russia
From a letter dated January 1, 1994

Well, some people from radio asked me to write a play for their radio-theatre. I did it. Now it is "Audiogallery," or "Radiogallery," or, more exactly, "Gallery for those who are blind." Of course, the poems are exhibited there in the gallery, however rethought and interpreted not as usual poems, but as the audio-pictures created by the method of ouster (sequential & absolute). It means that the words once appeared among images begin to push out those images up to their absolute exclusion. At finish point the picture is completely transformed into the text.

Now we can imagine our Audiogallery where the visitors (public & some actors & actresses) first of all put on the blindfolds and take the canes (or are attached to a special lash, different for men & women & combined with the guide (also blindfolded)). There is an excursion inside a big glass cube containing nothing (or almost nothing) except voices - audiopictures and different kinds of "human noises."

Well, there is only one kind of audiopicture in the whole "gallery for those who are blind," the picture called "My Struggle" (or "Mein Kampf, you know). It begins with the words: "I kill the women as (they do) in films...." Then it contains the careful & detailed description of different ways of killing the mosquito-females, however, the word "mosquito" is never pronounced. As if we deal with real murdering of real women. And it is real murdering, by the way, but that particular murdering of the most awful things being present in women's anima [or animus].

By other words - "My Struggle" is directed to eliminating the negative part of so-called "wandering feminine beginning" dissolved in nature.

The are four (five) imaginable exhibition spaces in our gallery. The picture itself is demonstrated in the first space, in space 2 there are four fragments of the same object. Then there is a narrow black vertical tube in the middle of the gallery - it is a "monastic cell" - the space for individual communication with our artwork, then space 3 for the rear of it. At last space 4 - for the art critic discussions. So eight poems are audio-exhibited.

During the excursion all the women occasionally disappear, at the end of performance only men are present inside the glass cube. They put off their blindfolds and see the giant figures of mosquitos surrounding the cube outside (it's swarmed around). Those MOSQUITOS have the holes for faces and these holes are filled by the faces of women who took part at the same excursion.

Kotsu Composition for small Japanese car, bell, road and driver.* A project by Luca Miti Roma and other locations in Italy, and possibly Wroclaw, Poland Various dates and times, 1997

The bell is placed inside the car. When the car moves, the road "plays" the bell or the bell "performs" the road (the score). It is a private music, a travel music. Usually not more than five persons can listen to it (the maximum possible in my car). The place of the performance, my car, is a private place. People outside don't know that I'm performing the piece, and, if they know, they can't listen to the music - they just see the "auditorium" (the car) going by. But they can see the score (the road). It's very dilutate - one sound every two hours, in some situations - e.g. travels on good roads.

(*correction: ...small Italian car and Japanese bell...)

EXHIBITIONS 1998

All The Monuments Of Hitler In Berlin All the monuments, buildings and public works built in Berlin during the Third Reich, painted gold. A project by Eileen Fergus Various locations in Berlin, Germany January 1998 - December 2000

World Theatre Event: An Imagined Homage To Yves Klein A 24-hour action on November 27,1998 Submitted by Stephen Perkins, 11:30am, New Years Day, 1998.

1. Paint the world International Klein Blue.
2. On November 27, 1998, re-publish Klein's one-day newspaper Dimanche (originally publishd November 27, 1960). Translate the texts into all the world's languages. Distribute globally.
3. Let the worlds weather systems disperse the paint.

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The Imagined Gallery is currently soliciting proposals. Send whatever documentation or proposal you think is necessary to: Scott MacLeod, 2261 Market Street #307, San Francisco CA 94114. No returns. Eddress: macleod@dnai.com

The Imagined Gallerys Imagined Board of Directors: Yvonne Austen, Pina Bausch, Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Joseph Beuys, Evgeny Bunimovitch, Gerard Depardieu, Jean-Luc Godard, Carla Harryman, Paul Haywood, Helena Hrdlickova, Nina Iskrenko, Ilya Kabakov, Dobrica Kamperelic, Jean-Claude Killy, Jim Leftwich, Douglas McKee, Paul McLaren, Miou-Miou, Julie Murray Noble, Radana Parmova, Stephen Perkins, Jean-Luc Picard, Alan Rickman, Piotr Rypson, Quido Sen, Franta Skala, Ingrid Swenson, Christine Tamblyn, David Thewlis, Jose Vandenbroucke, Josef Volvovic and Ellen Zweig.

The Imagined Gallery is a project of Serious Projects.
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