THU⁄FRI, July 9th and 10th 09
Improv Everywhere is known for their Performances in New York and their movies on You Tube. …
More under http:⁄⁄improveverywhere.com⁄.
If you want to partecipate to their mobile action in cologne please contact
christine [dot] nippe [at] koelnischerkunstverein [dot] de.
with Vito Acconci, Johanna Billing, Olga Chernysheva, Song Dong, Anja Kirschner, Klara Lidén, Improv Everywhere, Cinthia Marcelle, Marjetica Potrè, Christine Schulz, Alex Villar, and Haegue YangCurated by Christine Nippe
27.06.–23.08.09
Everything, then, passes between us shows snap-shots of urban life. It asks how forms of public or of temporary communities can be produced nowadays. The artists question fragmentary aspects of metropolises in times of global turmoil and ask for actual ideas of community and collectivity in the cities. The exhibition, curated by Christine Nippe together with Kathrin Jentjens and Anja Nathan-Dorn, places its focus on artistic interventions and performances in global metropolises such as Beijing, Belo Horizonte, Berlin, Cologne, London, New York and Seoul, and shows The Metropolis and Mental Life, only one hundred years after Georg Simmel’s famous essay on the mentality of the inhabitants of big cities, published in 1903.The exhibition’s display and content correspond to the current state of flux and chaos. European borders are left behind, while the exhibition interconnects different places and observes global cities as laboratories of society. How space is structured, how people use it, how they move within it and how they interact are the core questions. The artists use ethnographic, mapping, and performance tactics to question the local logics. Sometimes they activate – although only for a short moment – transitory communities in public realms. For most performances interventions are used to expand reality and they often veer away from approaches from the nineties that designed alternative spaces and visions of a better future with the help of Michel Foucault’s concept of “Heterotopy.” The exhibition confronts the audience with situations in which the quest dominates the answers. The performances point out social gaps or possibilities for temporary “zones of contact“ rather than having answers at hand. Sometimes they grow into neurotic reflections of urban emotional structures, withdraw or lapse into a farcical activism. Some artists show persistence in their quest for different “communities of conflict” that have to develop in view of an economical and ecological decay.The selections of exhibited art works, as well as the exhibition’s title, were both inspired by ideas of the British art theoretician Irit Rogoff. She talks about a collective production of meaning that nowadays takes place through “intricate webs of connectedness” or hidden forms of participation rather than through the myth of defined communities. According to Rogoff, exhibitions can be seen as a space in which political appearances or “politics without a plan“ develop, enabling a performative potential if viewers develop their own focus, perspectives, and interpretations. Then, “acting without a model“ takes place. We become participants of a collective turmoil reminding us of the current situation in society, where Everything, then, passes between us takes place.
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Open Call: The Tourist Syndrome Summer Camp, Palanga, 3 – 11 September 2009
Schwedenstrasse 16
13357 Berlin
Germany
Phone: 0049 30 46069107
Contact:
transientspaces [at] uqbar-ev [dot] de
www.transientspaces.org
Application deadline: 30 June 2009
Open Call for Applications (Deadline: 30 June 2009)
Transient Spaces – The Tourist Syndrome is an interdisciplinary project on the symmetries and asymmetries between contemporary tourism and migration, encompassing research, theory, practice, workshops, seminars, conferences and art exhibitions in Italy, Lithuania, Romania and Germany in 2009 and 2010.
The Tourist Syndrome Summer Camp, 3 – 11 September 2009
An integral part of the two-year project Transient Spaces – The Tourist Syndrome is the upcoming Tourist Syndrome Summer Camp held in Palanga (Lithuania), a renowned seaside resort on the Baltic Sea coast, from 3 to 11 September 2009.
The Tourist Syndrome Summer Camp invites artists, architects, cultural producers, theorists, and academics to an interdisciplinary dialogue and exchange on new forms of mobility today, with a special focus on the relationship between tourism and migration. The eight-day summer camp will offer a diverse programme of workshops, lectures and presentations, and will be open to a maximum of fifty participants to be selected through this Open Call.
The summer camp programme includes three main workshops held by international artists, practitioners and academics Cesare Pietroiusti (Rome/Venice), Krystian Woznicki (Berlin) and Michael Zinganel (Vienna/Graz), and an intense program of presentations, screenings and events by artists already involved in the project, and by the artistic directors and curators of Transient Spaces – The Tourist Syndrome. The workshops will highlight the many aspects of the tourism-migration relationship that exist in different European and non-European contexts and offer the opportunity to explore individual and subjective, as well as socio-political themes, with the goal of developing works of art and projects to be presented at the conclusion of the summer camp in Palanga and at the final, comprehensive exhibition in Berlin in 2010.
Structured as a collective brain storming session on the topics of tourism and migration, the Tourist Syndrome Summer Camp will also offer convivial and informal moments, drawing from the tradition of Socialist plein air symposia, combining work (artistic and intellectual production) and leisure. The summer camp is organized in cooperation with Lithuanian art organization Meno Parkas (Kaunas).
Participation in summer camp activities is free of charge.
The selected participants will be responsible for their individual journeys to the workshop location of Palanga. Basic accommodation (double or triple room) is provided to the summer camp participants by the organization.
Once selected, participants will need to transfer a registration fee of 50 Euro to the organization by 30 July (bank details will be provided).
The summer camp group will be limited to a maximum of fifty participants. The course language is English.
Free-form applications (in English) should include:
– statement / motivation letter (max 300 words)
– curriculum vitae
Supporting material, such as a portfolio, articles, publications, etc. can be included with the applications. The materials will not be sent back to applicants. Online applications are welcome.
Please specify in the application how you found out about this open call.
Applications for The Tourist Syndrome Summer Camp can be sent electronically or via post to uqbar by the deadline of 30 June 2009 (postmark) to the address:
uqbar e.V.
Transient Spaces – The Tourist Syndrome
Schwedenstr. 16
D – 13357 Berlin, Germany
Therewith an update of our partecipants’ list:
01 Artur Holling * not kosovo (AT) * reactive installation *
02 Aino Konversyrjä * The D-Tour / a Bus Tour Köln-Vogelsang Adlerhof * performance (opening) & The D-Tour / a Bus Tour Kall-Vogelsang Adlerhof * performance
03 Andrey Ustinov * Periscope * installation
04 Carolina Redondo * HART WIE STAHL * videoinstallation
05 Christine S. Thon & Lars H. Beuse * :;ASCHE;: * performance
06 EvaMaria Schaller * seelenraub * performance/installation
07 Franziska Windisch * walls & lines (AT) * installation
08 Irena Wolf * Changing Borderlines * installation
09 Nico Pelzer * oT * installation
10 JiHyun Park * Res 1 * installation
11 Officine Vida * LESS (Rangers sagen NEIN) * concept visualization
12 Peter Beyer * Living in High Definition * videoinstallation/projection
13 Shigeru Takato * ordensburg (AT) * photography
14 Theresa Krause * Zone für Freie Kommunikation * spatial intervention
15 Vesko Gösel * oT * installation objects & drawings
16 Florian Egermann * Greetings from Vogelsang * intervention & postcards
17 Roshy Zangeneh * BILDER IM KOPF * survey intervention & installation
18 Daniel Ansorge * 1944 * film or video screening
19 AURIEL (Martin Reich) * (RE)COLLECTOR OF SOUNDS * mobile sound intervention
Wednesday june 10th meeting @ room2 : 10.30 am update of The Vogelsang-Intervention-Map & 11.30 am discussion around “Media are spaces of action for constructed attempts to connect what is separated” (Zielinski) & negative points on “tourism”;
Wednesday june 17th 10.30 am developing models for the intervention; referring to the possibility to present CfPP during plan09 cologne platform for architecture&urbanism, september 09;
Wednesday july 1st 10.30 am visit to Skulpturenpark cologne with director Renate Goldmann http://www.skulpturenparkkoeln.de/
Wednesday july 8th 10.30 am visit to Vogelsang ip & intervention discussion with director Christina Threuter
Thursday may 7th 6.00 pm modern ruins “sundown” walk around (as far as we can get) the collapsed city of Köln archive. Meet at room2 at 6:00 pm. Bring maps.
Sunday May 10th Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, to see Gregor Schneider “END”, a massive public/private space project. Afternoon appointment with Museum Direktorin Susanne Titz, she will be happy to answer all of your questions about working in public.
Monday may 11th Site visit to vogelsang.
This could be a time especially good for taping purposes, and our journey time could be arranged around shooting requirements. The school van can be reserved.
Wednesday may 13th 10.30 am the vogelsang tage : a report by Ustinov and Konversyrjä
Tuesday may 19th and wednesady may 20th MidTermReView of CfPP and re-active
Monday may 25th supervisors meeting partners in vogelsang
Tuesday may 26th 7.00 pm meeting with the Vogelsang ip partners @ KHM
Wednesday may 27th 10.30 am CfPP visiting NS-documentation centre @ ED-LD-Haus cologne
http://www.museenkoeln.de/ns-dok/
meeting april 22nd 2009 / 1.30 pm @ room2 / glasmoog of KHM / filzengraben 2c / cologne
for screening programme & discussion.
Actual list of intervention partecipants:
Peter Beyer
Vesko Gösel
Artur Holling “no Kossovo”
Aino Konvensyrjä “Travelling Gardens – Improving Nature at the Ordensburg Vogelsang”
Theresa Krause “Zone für freie Kommunikation”
officine vida “LESS”
JiHyun Park
Nico Pelzer
Carlonia Redondo “Hart wie Stahl”
Evamaria Schaller
Shigeru Takato „Ordensburg“
Christine S. Thon & Lars H. Beuse
Andrey Ustinov “Periscope”
Franziska Windisch
Irena Wolf “Changing Borderlines”
Urban (R)evolutions: submissions until 15/5/2009
A collective screening project by Video Art Festival Miden
Video Art Festival Miden this year invites all artists and creators to contribute to a collective screening project, submitting digital images.
In the context of the “Urban (R)evolutions” thematic showcase, along with video screenings we invite all artists to submit still images (photos, digital images, photo-montages, collages, drawings, 3D graphics, architectural proposals etc) which transform and alter creatively the urban landscape. Each participant can submit up to 10 images. All submitted works will be screened in the form of a slide-show in open spaces of the Historic Centre of Kalamata. Submitted works must be original. Minimum image size 800x600pixels, 72dpi, tiff, jpg or bmp format. Please send your images along with a short cv via e-mail at festivalmiden [at] gmail [dot] com with the indication “Urban-stills”.
Deadline: 15/05/2009
For any extra information contact us at: info [at] festivalmiden [dot] gr or festivalmiden [at] gmail [dot] com