Screening and Cocktails | Claudia Comte: Tornado Kit

Fri Mar 6 2015, 7:00pm

Please join us for the premiere of Tornado Kit (2014), selected by Valentin Carron. According to Art in America, this exhibition “expands on his idiosyncratic vision with an eclectic selection of off-modern works.” Extending the range of his curatorial debut, the screening of this film grants further insight into Carron’s perspective and influences.

Tornado Kit is a universe populated by real-life hockey players who glide around a fictional board game, which was installed last year on the central ice rink in Gstaad, Switzerland as part of Elevation 1049. While pushing around massive sculptures, the players dance across the ice guided by the commands of a computer generated voice. The evening at Swiss Institute will unfold according to the choreography and aesthetics of color field painting and strategy games, in which human-scaled objects become pawns in activating their own function as sculpture. 

Please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net. 
Capacity is limited and priority is given to Friends of Swiss Institute and members.

Claudia Comte was born in Grancy, Switzerland, and now lives and works in Berlin. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland; Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris; and the Swiss Institute of Rome, Rome. She has also been included in group exhibitions at Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland; Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland; Elevation 1049, Gstaad, Switzerland; and at SALTS, Basel, Switzerland.