meeting april 15th 2009 / 10.30 am @ room2 / glasmoog of KHM / filzengraben 2c / cologne
Artur Holling
Aino Konvensyrjä
Theresa Krause “Zone für freie Kommunikation”
officine vida “LESS”
JiHyun Park
Nico Pelzer
Shigeru Takato „Ordensburg“
Andrey Ustinov “Periscope”
will present their concepts and pitching materials for the intervention which will take place autumn 2009 at the former NS-Ordensburg Vogelsang in the Eifel.
Affirmation Arts is pleased to announce Surveillance, a group show curated by Rachel D. Vancelette, featuring artists: Yasmine Chatila, Tomory Dodge, Jeffrey Gibson, Charles Harlan, Shin il Kim, Caitlin Maloney and Angelo Plessas.
“Surveillance” is defined as “close or vigilant watch over someone or something,” and derives, by way of the French veiller, from the Latin term vigilare, meaning “to keep watch.” Artists have historically been the gatekeepers of society’s public accounts, and today they continue to mirror our daily lives. Whether it is through the Internet, virtual social networking, photography, painting, or multimedia-based technologies, artists are always interrupting and interpreting the reality of today’s information age.
Surveillance presents the diverse studio practices of seven artists who remindus all that they are indeed keeping watch over this explosive and public exchange of information. In recent years the continual bombardment of virtual information has radically transformed the world, and these artists are among those who are constantly redefining its boundaries and content. The necessity and proliferation of surveillance techniques have become a large part of our everyday lives. Whether or not our society at large is conscious of these invasions and observations, it is clear that this diverse group of artists is engaging and addressing these critical issues.
In an age where the excess of information has produced false, invasive, and voyeuristic avenues in both the private and public domain, these artists remind us of the daily observation, private moments, intimate encounters, and public cyberworld of virtual activities. Multiple conceptual vocabularies of art are coming full circle with the use of new technologies and materials. These artists are employing both traditional and nontraditional techniques, evoking a transformative intervention while providing a gateway for the viewer’s engagement.
PAUL VILLINSKI
Emergency Response Studio
14 March – 16 April 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday 14 March, 3-6pm
Ballroom Marfa is proud to be hosting Paul Villinski’s Emergency Response Studio, a solar-powered, mobile artist’s studio repurposed from a salvaged FEMA-style trailer.
Emergency Response Studio was conceived by Villinski after visiting Post-Katrina New Orleans, a scene he felt was still comparable to a war-torn region in 2006. The Emergency Response Studio was created with the idea that artists could “embed” in post-disaster environments, and once there, add to the mix of recovery assistance via their creative contributions. Commissioned for the inaugural USA Biennial, Prospect 1. New Orleans, the repurposed trailer was exhibited at various locations throughout the city – including in the Lower Ninth Ward, the area left most devastated by Katrina – and has been touring the country since the exhibition’s closing in January.
As a symbol of transformation and possibilities for crisis-stricken communities, the trailer itself has been completely transfigured from a “toxic tin-can” of a FEMA trailer into a sustainably-built, off the grid living and work space. Solar powered and constructed with green materials – including recycled denim insulation, zero-VOC paints, bamboo cabinetry, compact fluorescent lighting, reclaimed wood and floor tiles made from linseed oil – the Emergency Response Studio is a prototype for self-sufficient, mobile housing with a minimized carbon footprint.
Emergency Response Studio folds out like a jackknife, altering the standardized dimensions of the FEMA trailer with features that include a deck area and a ten foot geodesic skylight. Opening up to the surrounding environment the Emergency Response Studio enables a free exchange between artist and environment in a collaboration of reinvention.
Paul Villinski (b. 1960, Maine, USA) is a New York City based artist who often works with discarded materials, repurposing them in sculptures and installations that suggest the possibility of change itself. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions, including recent shows at Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX; The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; The Hillwood Art Museum, Brookville, NY; Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY; Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR; Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME; Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans (LA), and Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York (NY).
Emergency Response Studio was conceived as a project for Prospect.1 New Orleans and is presented courtesy of the Artist and Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans. Generous funding for Emergency Response Studio in Marfa has been provided by Tim Crowley, Charles Mallory, Dave & Janet Scott and Ballroom Marfa members. For a complete listing of supporters please visit www.ballroommarfa.org; for further information on Emergency Response Studio, please visit please visit www.emergencyresponsestudio.org.
Special thanks to KRTS Marfa Public Radio. Listen to the Talk at 10 interview with artist Paul Villinski Friday, 13 March 2009 at 10am on KRTS 93.5 FM or streaming live at marfapublicradio.org
exhibition at Galerie Thomas Zander march 21st to june 13th 2009
opening: march 21st 4 pm
“Blank Spots on the Map: State Secrecy and the Limits of the Visible”. Lecture by Trevor Paglen: march 22nd 11 am
“How do we seize our own individual image building capacity as an “instrument” in depicting a new present or future?”
Center for Public Practice-Vogelsang
Tues 19:00 h – 21:00 h colloquium
Wed 10:30 h – 13:30 h
Prof. Julia Scher, in collaboration with Marcel Odenbach, Susanna Schoenberg
Medienkunst
Location: room2 @ glas moog
“In a public space make a work that reveals or draws attention to something overlooked, hidden, unseen, or absent, or which bears witness to a past event.”
CfPP supports research, discussion, and production regarding a new public space in Germany. The seminar participants are encouraged to critically engage the site’s evolving identity.
The topic and location, is the former National Socialist elite military leadership school, the NS “Ordensburg” Vogelsang. “Vogelsang” is now part of the Nationalpark Eifel, and is currently being developed into a multi use public space and learning center.
The VOGELSANG INTERVENTION will take place october 15th – 19th 2009.
Next students’ project presentations is scheduled for april 15th @ room2.
maas gymnastics under communism
From december 5th to december 17th 2008
At room2 and exhibition space / filzengraben 2 / former Glas Moog / 50676 cologne
1st COMING TOGETHER : december 9th 5-8 pm with Ustinov, Egermann, Marre, Krause, Holling, Hahlbrock, Pelzer (& Tarcson)
2nd DATE : december 11th 5-7 pm with Reich, Sokolova, Konvensyrjä, Dhur, Zangeneh, Bibileishvili (& Tarcson)
Returning for its third year, the Electronic Music Foundation’s acclaimed sound art, music and ecology festival Ear to the Earth will take place this month in locations all over New York City. Ear to the Earth is organized around the principle that sound’s distinct emotional impact makes it a significant medium in which to explore environmental concerns such as global warming, extinction and habitat destruction. Divided into two sections, “New York Soundscapes” and “Other Soundscapes,” this year’s events maintain a strong urban emphasis. Andrea Polli’s installation Cloud Car, takes the automobile, a key force within the development of American cities, as its locus. With the aide of special effects technician Chuck Varga, Polli will envelop a Ford Taurus station ! wagon entirely in mist. Visitors will be invited to sit in the car and listen to environmental sound compositions. Resembling a broken down vehicle on the side of a highway, the work is a poignant symbol for America’s current predicament in regards to oil dependency. Cloud Car will be on display at Eyebeam October 18th and will then move to the New York Hall of Science on October 25th. LoVid will also examine energy in their performance Sunification (for Sync Armonica & solar sound) on Thursday October 16th. Drawing from their 2007 Turbulence commission Bonding Energy, in which the duo positioned seven solar panels across New York State in order to collect and transmit solar energy information to a site that visualized this data, their performance will use this same solar data as a bas! is for live mixing and manipulation with a device known as the Sync Armonica. Other performances scheduled for the festival will foreground the experience of the city from a personal perspective. On October 17th, Marina Rosenfeld will debut Near Speakers, where she will use field recordings of the ‘bleed’ from cheap earbud headphones in spaces such as trains and elevators, an everyday experience for many, in a unique DJ set. Following Near Speakers, Miya Masaoka will present Quest for Minetta Creek, which looks at the mythology surrounding the underground streams of New York City. Departing from the idea that waterways will eventually go above ground and take over the streets in the event that humans were to depart, Masaoka interviewed residents living near the underground water source Minetta Creek about their knowledge of and interaction with the stream and pairs this with! field recordings of the Minetta itself. Imaginative and slightly dystopic, the work captures city dwellers’ common remove from environmental forces. – Ceci Moss
http://www.emfproductions.org/upcoming/overview.html