ELENA BAJO, artist. Her concept-generated and research based practice is concerned with the social and political dimensions of everyday spaces, the strategies to conceptualize resistance, the poetics of ideologies, and the relationship between temporalities and subjectivities. She works individually and collectively across installation, sculpture, painting, performance, participatory events, film, text and writing. She uses exhibition spaces a studio or laboratories, where an experimental, itinerant, site-specific performed work unfolds, building improvised actions and choreographed movements. Having as a point of departure art production processes, working with places as they are given to her and limited by the materials available around them, Elena Bajo rearranges these found elements into a new composition, juxtaposing the identities of prefigured social and political spaces and dimensions, creating a sometimes cryptic but always revealing new code of signifiers. A re-staging of a space and time, of the past, into future events that uses chance, contingency and ambiguity of the moment.

UPCOMING -Art in the Parking Space Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival, January 19-29 produced by the Getty in collaboration with LAXART
Los Angeles Jan 24th, 2012 7-9 pm The Standard Hotel, West Hollywood

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-ARTIST'S BOOK RELEASED! DOWNLOAD HERE -ELENA BAJO ON UNCERTAIN TERMS The Politics of the Everyday:The Anarchy of Performance, Objects, Spaces and Situations (Researching the Unarchived)
Designed by Ania Diakoff isbn 9783981476811 | 192 pages | edition of 300 | berlin release 03-11-2011

-FRIEZE Art Fair FRAME London The Pervasive Element (Solo Exhibition) with D+T Project, Brussels Selection by curators Cecilia Alemani and Rodrigo Moura October 13th-16th, 2011

-VESSEL - The Stonehouse, Fringe BAS 7 Plymouth Opening September 22, 2011 Exhibition Sept 23- October 30th, 2011

-ON Uncertain Terms SAMETITLED S/T Berlin Exhibition Opening and Publication Release Nov 3, 2011 Exhibition Nov 4-Jan 8, 2012

-Script for a Form Performa 11 Biennial: Fluxus Weekend New York, Sunday November 13, 2001 at 6.30 pm

-Elena Bajo, Sara MacKillop, Cristiana Palandri: Aesthetic Anarchy Scaramouche Gallery New York, Opening Sunday November 13, 2011 5-8 pm till January 8, 2012

-Uncommonplaces Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen Antwerp, Belgium 18 November 2011 – 8 January 2012 Opening 17th November, at 19.00 Curated by Pieter Vermeulen, as part of the ICI’s Curatorial Intensive program

RECENT EXHIBITIONS Reprise #1 Studies for a catalogue / A study for an exhibition on violence in contemporary art (reprise 1964/2011)-Flat Time House, London (download pdf publication) Friday 24 June-Sunday 31 July -PHOTOMUSÉE DE LA DANSE A Project by Tim Etchells L'Ecole d'Art à Avignon July 6-July 26 -Studies for an Exhibition (download PR pdf) Curated by Mathieu Copeland at The David Roberts Art Foundation Fitzrovia, London April 7th - June 11th, 2011 Following a desire to not fix in form an exhibition to be, Studies for an Exhibition brings together practices that explore the possibilities of immateriality and the temporal nature of an art object. The question of time and accumulation is adamant to an exhibition that considers a recycling of our current reality as the means to generate transitory new forms. The exhibition features works and new commissions by Elena Bajo, Emma Bjornesparr, Julia Rometti and Victor Costales, Gustav Metzger, Roman Opalka, Karin Sander and Niele Toroni. Mathieu Copeland has also edited a new publication, the third volume of his series entitled An Exhibition to Hear Read/Une Exposition à être lue. The publication features specially commissioned text based artworks by Robert Barry, Jarrod Fowler, Nicolas Garait, Karl Holmqvist, Bethan Huws, David Medalla, Yann Sérandour, Cally Spooner, and Sue Tompkins, which will be read out throughout the show.-Berlin: METROSPECTIVE Program and Future Gallery Berlin Feb 18 - March 5, 2011-Love Letters to a Surrogate Stage 2 (Performance) MUHKA Antwerp, Belgium January 17th, 8 pm - 10 pm -ELENA BAJO THE OBJECT OF A MOVEMENT (Solo Show) D+T PROJECT Gallery Brussels November 18th 2010 - January 8th 2011-The Moon is a Harsh Mistress The Woodmill London (PDF DOWNLOAD) Ap 21 - May 23 Supported by SEACEX VIDEO PERFORMANCE 'Plan for a Composition in 3 Movements' The Woodmill, London -PUBLICATION (PDF DOWNLOAD)-36 Dramatic Situations Louis V.E.S.P Brooklyn, New York May 28 - June 16, 2010 -Love Letters to a Surrogate The Torrance Art Museum, LA, CA July 10th, 2010 VIDEO PERFORMANCE PERFORM! NOW! Human Resources Gallery Los Angeles, CA July 29, 30, 31, August 1, 2010 -Discretion/Determination curated by Caroline Soyez-Petithomme La Salle de Bains Lyon June 19-July 31, 2010 -Pastiche-When a Tree Falls in the Forest(PDF DOWNLOAD) Sølyst Skulpturpark, Copenhagen, May 29th-Sept 5,2010 VIDEO PERFORMANCE -The Horizon Line is Here (Tornare per Partire) Umberto di Marino Galleria Naples, May 20th-Oct 5th, 2010 -John Cage The Anarchy of Silence, Of What is and Might Have Been SCHUNCK GLASPALEIS HEERLEN NL, Sept 3rd-Nov 28th, 2010

-Studies for an Exhibition Curated by Mathieu Copeland at The David Roberts Art Foundation Fitzrovia, London April 6 - June 11, 2011 ILLUSION, DELUSION, ALLUSION (STUDIES FOR A MOVEMENT AT 66 RPM) THE ORDER OF ANARCHY Performance by Elena Bajo in collaboration with London based dancers Mariana Tarragano, Mara Domenici, Paola di Bella. A new site-specific performance piece that confronts an anarchist manifesto, movement, objects, time,space and sound. DANCE-EVENT VIDEO The three dancers are given an anarchist manifesto to read that will generate their individual movements. The music of the performance is generated by translating each word of the anarchist manifesto into musical notes. The dancers have no knowledge in advance of the music that they will be dancing to or what the other dancer's movements will be. The process of not-knowing, indeterminacy and improvising is made visible, a space devoided of hierarhies is created, a space full of potentialities, a space to interact with each other's individual movements... to build up a new movement, a new collective choreography...?

-Elena Bajo The Object of a Movement PERFORMANCE (Video Extract) (Solo Show, Nov 18, 2010-Jan 8, 2011 D+T PROJECT Gallery Brussels Performance by Elena Bajo in collaboration with Brussels based dancers Boglárka Börcsök, Marta Kosieradka and Paola Zampierolo (Left) Discarded painting stretchers from artist friends, Variable (Right) Discarded glass leftovers taken from Framer's shop, Variable SYSTEMS OF ANARCHY MOVEMENTS

-Elena Bajo The Object of a Movement (Solo Show, Nov 18, 2010-Jan 8, 2011 D+T PROJECT Gallery Brussels (Left)(Pharmacie, after Marcel Duchamp), 2010, Found 60's frames arranged by the salesperson at the Framer's shop, Variable (Right) Slide Show, 49 damaged slides found among leftovers of daily flea market in Brussels, the projection reflects the abstract shapes of what was an image before and the effects on time, Installation View 2010, Courtesy D+T Project, Brussels Photo by White Project

LISTEN (Music starts with one minute of SILENCE)-Elena Bajo The Object of a Movement (Solo Show, Nov 18, 2010-Jan 8, 2011 D+T PROJECT Gallery Brussels (Left)political text converted into musicalnotes,recorded in a 33 rpm vinyl record and played in a borrowed record player, soundtrack for the performance, includes the fragments of texts chosen by each dancer. Limited Edition, Signed (Right)Poster-Publication Printed on used paper reclaimed from the printer's trash can with contributions by Daniel Miller, Caroline Soyez-Petithomme, Mathieu Copeland and Tom Trevatt. Limited Edition, Signed 41,5x61,5cm

Universal Flag, Film Still of performance in (Left)the Californian Dry Lake Desert, 2010, (Right) Morocco Desert (2011) b/w photo, wooden frame, cm 27 x 36, ed.1/3 , -The Horizon Line is Here (Tornare per Partire), Envoi 2 Courtesy Galleria Umberto di Marino, Napoli

(Left)-The Horizon Line is Here (Tornare per Partire) Envoi 4, 2010, found stone of Trani, mirrors, neon lamp, cm 35 x 52 x 40- (Right) Envoi 1, Suspension exercises in the california desert 2010, color photo, wooden frame, cm 40 x 53, ed. 1/3

Nothing more than a Ttheatre of Fluctuating Ideas and Echoes of Future Moments (A New Refutation of Time), Installation and Performance, 179 Canal,coinciding with PERFORMA BIENNIAL 09 New York, 2009 Freies Museum,Berlin 2009 Materials found in the storage of the exhibition space, text read by a standard computer voice, music (grand piano generated by text using software translates text into musical notes, movements borrowed from everyday ‘work’movements, martial arts and 1926’s Czech collective and choreographer Milca Mayerova’s Abeceda an experimental, itinerant, ever unfolding, site specificperformed sculpture, an abstract ensemble of philosophical texts de-coded into musical notes, improvised actions and choreographed movements

Untitled 1867 (Marx Studies, text from Marx Capital), ISCP, New York, 2008 Grafitti black stencil on found door used by artists as a table

BREAD AND ROSES 101: Labor and Production of Space, Artist as a political entity as an owner of the disposition on his/her own time,it is aseries of one on one discussions that seek to explore, imagine and implement new forms of protest by creating actions and strategies, while negotiating the production of space and consumption of time incorporating leisure or 'do whatever you'd like to do'as a way of resistance against cpitalist system of control of the time of the worker. Workshop / Performance / Installation by Elena Bajo and Jon Cuyson, Poster, Sculpture Center, New York, 2009

No Power for Nobody Goldrausch 08 Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin 2008 16mm film projected from the inside mirror of a found glass vitrine depicting a Berlin bear in a bear pit walking backwards and in circles, sign of a syndrome that animals in captivity develop, placed in the corridor of the exhibition space

The Garden of Dreams, Installation View, Museum of the City, Murcia 2008 Materials donated by the neighbors around the exhibtiion space

-Pastiche-When a Tree Falls in the Forest(PDF DOWNLOAD To the North, The Crystal of Non- Knowledge, a Landscape to be invented, Solyst Skulpturen Park, Copenhagen 2010 Trashed damaged staircase and Stained color glass window found in a wasteland, re-assambled nd welded in collaboration with unemployed workers subsidez by the Denmark Government

Neither Here Nor Elsewhere, (A Garden of Weeds), Peekskill Project, HVCCA, 2008

The Rooks have Returned, Film Still, Installation found furniture, A Foundation, London 2009