Last Tango

🥕🐄🌾Coming up: Oz Oderbolz at Basel Social Club! Last Tango, invited as one of the non-commercial interventions, is pleased to present the work of Oz Oderbolz. BSC is going fully outdoors this year, on the verge of the city, where the land is farmed to produce what we consume. It’s not a wild forest; it is land that is worked, following natural cycles, with animals living there as well. This year’s BSC edition is most definitely a nice getaway from the hustle and bustle of the enclosed fair grounds! Basel Social Club embarks on its third iteration in yet a new location from June 9–16, 2024.

The works by Oz Oderbolz resonate with the surroundings, fittingly related to farming and countryside aesthetics, the politics of labour, building upon the imaginations of what constitutes contemporary rural life and how it can be queerly re-imagined. Two works by Oz Oderbolz will be on view: Dick Hammer (2023) and Kreiselheuer Pöttinger (typ zk44 / 6527-1321) (2023).
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Oderbolz is also currently featured in the exhibition Country Offside at Ausstellungsraum Klingenthal curated by Violeta Mansilla

Basel Social Club Opening Hours
9 – 15 June 11:00 – 23:00 
16 June 11:00 – 15:00


1 Oz Oderbolz installing at BSC
2 Oz Oderbolz, Dick Hammer (detail), Image by Kilian Bannwart
3 Oz Oderbolz, Dick Hammer, Image by Kilian Bannwart
4 Oz Oderbolz, Kreiselheuer Pöttinger (typ zk44 / 6527-1321)
5 Oz Oderbolz, Kreiselheuer Pöttinger (typ zk44 / 6527-1321)
6 Manual Kreisel Pöttinger (typ zk44 / 6527-1321)
7 Manual Kreisel Pöttinger (typ zk44 / 6527-1321)
8 Image by Oz Oderbolz
9 Image by Oz Oderbolz

Text on the Kreiselheuer Pöttinger (typ zk44 / 6527-1321) by Simon W. Marin and more about the work Dick Hammer that was shown at Last Tango online.

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Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best Francesco Cagnin & Sam Porritt currently on view until 27.04.24 

“…Ein Lieblingssymbol der Signaletik ist der Pfeil. Ohne gross nachzudenken, leistendie Menschen seinem Imperativ Folge. Wenn Künstler mit diesem Zeichen arbeiten, sind schnell grundsätzliche Fragen im Spiel. Dies trifft in jedem Fall auf die karge Ausstellung zu, die Sam Porritt (*1979) und Francesco Cagnin (*1988) bei Last Tango eingerichtet haben: Kunst will hier nicht Konsumgut sein, sondern Anlass zum Nachdenken…”

Claudia Spinelli, Kunstbulletin, 4/2024 

1 Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best, Installation view, 2024. Photo: Kilian Bannwart  

2 Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best, Installation view, 2024. Photo: Kilian Bannwart  
 
3 Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best, Installation view, 2024. Photo: Kilian Bannwart  
 
4 Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best, Installation view, 2024. Photo: Kilian Bannwart  
 
5 Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best, Installation view, 2024. Photo: Kilian Bannwart  
 
6 Left: Sam Porritt, Sphinx, 2024, Right: Sam Porritt, Lost Leader, 2023

Photos: Kilian Bannwart 
 
 

Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best Francesco Cagnin & Sam Porritt currently on view until 27.04.24 

“…What does it mean to stake a claim? How does (survival) anxiety affect behavior? What kinds of architectures of dread exist? How does fear and paranoia affect society? Herd mentality as a flight response as portrayed in Ionesco’s Rhinoceros and Bradburry’s Fahrenheit 451 seem like relevant sources to revisit in moments of crisis. Roland Barthes makes a point about finding a way to act amidst polarizing situations in his theory of the neutral. Writer Maggie Nelson paraphrases it well and thinks of a possible approach: “[that] in the face of dogmatism, the menacing pressure to take sides, offer novel responses: to flee, to escape, to demur, to shift or refuse terms, to disengage, to turn away…”

1 Sam Porritt, Sphinx, 2024
 
2 Sam Porritt, Sphinx (detail), 2024

3 Sam Porritt, Sphinx (detail), 2024
 
4 Sam Porritt, Sphinx (detail), 2024

5 Left: Francesco Cagnin, Schadenskizzen (III), 2024, Right: Sam Porritt, Sphinx, 2024

6 Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best, Installation view, 2024

Photos: Kilian Bannwart