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SUBVERSIVE EXCERPTS, January 29 – February 28, 2010

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The Center for Culture and Communication Foundation in Budapest, partner of the exhibition “Subversive Practices”, which was on view at Württembergischer Kunstverein in summer 2009, presents an excerpt from this project in collaboration with Trafo Gallery.

The exhibition includes work by the artists and artist groups Carlos ALTAMIRANO; Collective Actions; Taller E.P.S. Huayco; Ion GRIGORESCU; Claus HÄNSEL; Indigo Group; Letícia PARENTE; Luis PAZOS; Dan PERJOVSCHI;
Pere PORTABELLA; Ruth Wolf- REHFELDT; Herbert RODRIGUEZ und Horacio ZABALA.

The exhibition devotes itself to experimental and conceptual art practices that had established between the nineteen-sixties and eighties in Europe and South America under the influence of military dictatorships and communist regimes. The focus is on artistic practices that not only radically question the conventional concept of art, the institutions, and the relationship between art and public, but that have, at the same time, subversively thwarted structures of censorship and opposed the existing systems of power.

Ernst Schering Foundation: Cloud Core Scanner – In the Troposphere Lab

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Cloud Core Scanner – IN THE TROPOSPHERE LAB of Agnes Meyer-Brandis

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January 15, 2009 – February 27, 2010

Opening Hours: Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Free Admission

Clouds, their formation and their substance, have long been a much-discussed topic in art and science. For artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis (Cologne, studies of mineralogy and sculpture), it was thus a unique opportunity to be invited by the German Aerospace Center to participate in one of its zero-g flights, which are primarily reserved for scientific purposes, and to work under conditions of temporary weightlessness on her art project ‘Cloud Core Scanner.’

Her current installation IN THE TROPOSPHERE LAB provides insights into the material produced under conditions distant from earth. The exhibition tells of the formation of clouds and shows conditions and combinations of art and science during zero gravity.

LECTURE PROGRAM
By supporting projects in frontier areas and at the interfaces of traditional disciplines, the Ernst Schering Foundation wants to pave the way for new ideas and thoughts. To this end, the foundation has organized a lecture program in conjunction with the ‘Cloud Core Scanner’ project and invites to use the discussion as a background for discussions with scientists working in aerosol (cloud) research. For topics & dates please have a look at: www.scheringstiftung.de

CONTEMPORARY TRAVELING MOVIE SHOW
During the exhibition, the Sophiensaele in Berlin-Mitte present Agnes Meyer-Brandis’ ‘MAKING CLOUDS, or ON THE ABSENCE OF WEIGHT – A Contemporary Traveling Movie Show’ on February 5 and 6, 2010. A combination of film, performance and lecture, the traveling movie show unites contemporary art with quite surreal forms of science. More information: www.sophiensaele.com

No Territory: AnarchoArtLab at The Living Theater

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Sunday January 17th, 8pm – Midnight @ THE LIVING THEATER
No Territory: The AnarchoArtLab will respond to the news that our home and a brave New York institution, The Living Theater, will shutter its doors in 2010. This multi-media, interdisciplinary event will plumb the varied meanings of territory, property, ownership, and the individuals right to movement, thought, and expression in an “Ownership Society.”

The golden age was the age when gold didn’t reign; the cause of all wars, riots and injustices is the existence of property, happiness is hanging your landlord!

The wind is turning. The economy is wounded — we hope it dies! Amnesty is an act in which the rulers pardon the injustices they have committed; the state’s magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

Abolish alienation! Obedience begins with consciousness; consciousness begins with disobedience! First, disobey; then write on the walls!
– graffiti, Paris, 1968

AnarchoArtLab is a collective of new-media, visual artists, performers, musicians, dancers and genre benders in residence at The Living Theatre. Each month we create a LIVE, collaborative, multi-media art experience that is both immersive and participatory. We welcome you to come for an hour or experience the entire evening.

Artists include but are not limited to: Glass Bead Collective, David Tully, Grady Gerbracht, John Loggia, Adriana Varella, Z-Collective, James ChrisBunny! Fields, Michele Cappello, Takashio Hisayasu, Miles Pflanz and Jackie Connolly, Parker Miller and English.

Eva Kot'átková: House Arrest

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exhibition: december 9, 2009 – 7.00 pm

CONDUITS
Viale Stelvio, 66
20159 Milan IT
+39 02 6883470

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In House Arrest I wanted to create an atmosphere of punishment — of a compulsory, forced stay or detention in a certain place under specific conditions. It is initiated by a person in a higher position, usually as a result of the prisoner’s misconduct or insufficiently fulfilled tasks or duties. This often happens in relationships between parents and their children, or teachers and their pupils. The situation that interests me has a much broader meaning, even though it is squeezed between four walls, floor and ceiling, and is often isolated from the outer world (which is also one of the conditions of house arrest). In my work, I deal with aspects of my nearby surroundings; my intention is to uncover specific rules, schemes and behavioral patterns, and to try (often unsuccessfully) to find my own position within them.

Coco Fusco at MC

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Coco Fusco’s recent exhibit at MC, Los Angeles (2006) included the photographic series Bare Life Study #1, a fictional military interrogation training manual for women, an enigmatic presentation of real manuals on a desk, and in an adjoining room, the 59-minute video Operation Atropos. The show explored the weaponization of female sexuality by the US military that was exposed by the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay prisoner abuse scandals.

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whitehot | November 2008, Maya Lujan and Melanie Pullen

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Feminism, Fashion and the Swastika in Los Angeles
Part I: Maya Lujan controversy
Part II: Mary Anna Pomonis interviews Melanie Pullen

Two Los Angeles based female artists Maya Lujan and Melanie Pullen started the fall opening season with a bang. The images of their work containing swastikas have descended on the art scene in a flurry. Lujan has been all over the Los Angeles Times blog, “Culture Monster” and Pullen’s image of a Nazi ran as the back cover of Artillery Magazine. This article began as an investigation of the swastika and symbols of violence and their contemporary use. It wound up being a journey that led me to two very different female artists with divergent takes on the subject.
http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/2008-maya-lujan-melanie-pullen/1654

Iconoclash! – Political Imagery from the Berlin Wall to German Unification

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Wednesday, 4 November 2009 – Friday, 8 January 2010
Goethe-Institut Washington, FotoGalerie
+1 (202) 289-1200

Political and cultural artifacts – how their meanings change.

Political iconography is established with meaning and purpose. Tampering with an icon means that the original value system has been altered, compromised or simply fallen away, creating new meanings in the process.

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http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/was/ver/en4921346v.htm
info [at] washington [dot] goethe [dot] org

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the 10 second conversation

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Call for Participation in Tajikistan:Mon Oct 12 (noon) to Wed Oct 14 (noon), 2009

Many Tajiks are aware that for those cell phone users who have a plan with the Central Asian telecommunications company named Babilon, the first ten seconds of any phone call are free. To take advantage of this freebee, strategic users have developed a new art form – the ten second conversation.

Inspired by this contemporary cultural form and the Tajik tradition of 2-verse poetry (or ‘Bayt’), REV-, a New York-based art organization (www.rev-it.org) is initiating a competition for the best ten second poems. You are invited to participate; newcomers to Tajik poetry are invited to try their hand.

The project’s title, ‘Bayt’ (pronounced ‘bite’ in English), refers to both the Tajik word for the short 2-verse poem popularized to Western audiences by the Rubayat, written in the 12th century by poet Omar Khayyam. ‘Bayt’ also resembles in sound the English noun that means, ‘a small piece’ (as in, “Just a bite”), and the ‘byte’, an internationally recognized unit used to measure quantities of digital data.

http://www.10sec1bayt.com/en/home.html

How German is it? Thomas Demand in Berlin

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Thomas Demand in Berlin – Votragsreihe: How German is it?

A series of lectures in conjunction with Thomas Demand’s exhibition Nationalgalerie

Scholars, artists and politicians from Germany and abroad will discuss select aspects of German culture, society and history, taking a work by Thomas Demand as their point of departure. The broad spectrum of topics and variety of speakers draw the attention to select facets of our society and enable introspection or communicate a view from the outside. The interplay of different lectures generates a complex debate of the artistic oeuvre and facilitates a deliberate discussion of the issues instigated by the works. Furthermore the series encourages a kaleidoscopic reflection about Germany, in the end not limited to concerns of this specific country but also touching universal traits and topics that are relevant to our time. In this way, How German is it? aims to initiate the debate of possible mandates and forms of use of a “Nationalgalerie”, while emphasising the Nationalgalerie as setting for discourse.

An insgesamt fünfzehn Abenden von September 2009 bis Januar 2010 sprechen wöchentlich jeweils ein bis zwei Wissenschaftler, Künstler, Politiker oder Journalisten aus dem In- und Ausland über Aspekte der deutschen Kultur, Gesellschaft und Geschichte. Ausgangspunkt für jeden dieser Abende ist jeweils eines der Werke der Ausstellung Thomas Demand. Nationalgalerie.
http://www.demandinberlin.org/en/lecture-programme/how-german-is-it.html