Daniel G. Andujar Archive

ACTS OF VOICING

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Über die Poetiken / Politiken der Stimme

13. Oktober 2012 – 13. Januar 2013

Acts of Voicing ist ein zweijähriges Projekt, das sich der ästhetischen, performativen und politischen Bedeutung der Stimme aus den Bereichen bildende Kunst, Tanz / Performance und Theorie nähert.

Ausgangspunkt ist dabei die Befragung jener Ordnung, die die Stimmen der Einen als Rede, und die der Anderen als bloßen Schrei vernehmen lässt: das heißt, jene Aufteilung zwischen den aus der politischen Gemeinschaft Aus- und in diese Eingegrenzten.

Wie lassen sich mit den Mitteln der Kunst – konkret der bildenden Kunst und des Tanzes – einerseits, und der Theorie andererseits die Stimmen der Nicht-Gehörten, eine andere Kultur des Zuhörens und eine Kultur des Streits (des Unvernehmens) ins Spiel bringen? Inwiefern können sich künstlerische und theoretische Methoden dabei gegenseitig durchdringen, zu- und miteinander sprechen? Wie lassen sich Stimme, Raum und Wissen zum Tanzen bringen?

In einem gemeinsamen Prozess, an dem KünstlerInnen, Choreografen, TheoretikerInnen und KuratorInnen aus Europa, Asien und Südamerika beteiligt sind, sollen diese und weitere Fragen verhandelt, neue Arbeiten produziert und auch die Ausstellungschoreografie entwickelt werden. Denn neben der inhaltlichen Beschäftigung mit den Politiken und Poetiken der Stimme, möchte Acts of Voicing auch die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen eines performativen Ausstellungsmodells ausloten. Geplant ist eine Choreografie, bei der sich das Ausstellungsszenario selbst immer wieder verändert. Entstehen soll ein dynamisches Raumgefüge, das immer neue und überraschende Beziehungen zwischen Exponaten und Ereignissen, Ausstellung und Aufführung, ästhetischer und diskursiver Praxis sowie Kunst und Betrachter herstellt.

Acts of Voicing unternimmt also den Versuch, drei zentrale Auseinandersetzungsfelder der zeitgenössischen Künste in Beziehung zueinander zu setzen: Die Frage nach den Politiken und Poetiken der Stimme, nach den Eigenheiten und Verbindungen zwischen bildender Kunst, Tanz / Performance und Theorie und nach der Neuordnung ihrer Handlungs- und Aufführungsräume.

Mit
Nancy Adajania
Daniel García Andújar
Boris Charmatz
Ranjit Hoskoté
Manuel Pelmus
David Riff
Ingrid Wildi Merino
und anderen

KuratorInnen
Cosmin Costinas
Hans D. Christ / Iris Dressler
Christine Peters
Natalie Boseul Shin

Partner
Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
Para/Site Art Space, Hongkong
Total Museum for Contemporary Art, Seoul
Caminul Cultural, Bukarest
Musée de La Danse, Rennes

Oh, My Complex. Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart

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Oh, My Complex

On Unease at Beholding the City
May 17 – July 29, 2012

Daniel García Andújar, Yvonne P. Doderer / Ute Meta Bauer, Martin Eberle, Michael Fehr / Diethelm Koch, Ludger Gerdes, Kirill Golovchenko, Eiko Grimberg, Justin Hibbs, Jung Yeondoo, Lim Minouk, Noh Suntag, Alfons Pressnitz, Malwine Rafalski, John Smith, Klaus Staeck, The RSA, Tuomas Toivonen / Nene Tsuboi, Brian Ulrich, Michael Vahrenwald, Pablo Wendel, Matthias Zielfeld and others

From May 17 to July 29, 2012 the Württembergischer Kunstverein will be showing Oh, My Complex: On Unease at Beholding the City, an exhibition that approaches the imaginaries, representations, and realities of the city from different directions: from the angle of architectural and urban constructions of the nineteen-thirties through today; from Europe, the USA, South America, and Asia; from the perspectives of art, exhibition, pop, and protest cultures starting from the seventies.

Along an open parcourse, which connects exterior and interior space, the exhibition presents the works of over twenty artists who have honed in on the urban-development, social, political, and economic lines of conflict within the city. Their works touch upon historical documents and objects from pop- and sub-culture contexts. Presented are not only existing works, but also those conceptualized especially for this setting.

The exhibition is focused on works that trace the ideological entrenchment of urban visions; that is to say, the visions manifesting in modernist urban utopias, in the models of the neoliberal boomtown, but also in those scenarios of crisis that have been inhabiting our collective imaginary worlds since the nineteen-seventies—not least since the bestseller The Limits to Growth (1972) by Dennis Meadows was published.

Likewise explored is that which is visible within or hiding behind this imaginary: especially in view of the contrasting issues being played out amidst urban planning, architecture, politics, economy, city residents, and city users.

The works of the artists involved—which range from gouaches, silhouettes, photo series, video clips, and multimedia installations to urban interventions—explore both imaginarily constructed and concretely built city space. In exaggerating and thwarting the power structures of modernist and postmodernist planning, they fathom those visions of architecture that are meant to bring forth a new kind of person, as well as the contested spaces of neoliberal (urban) politics.

THE EXHIBITION

The historical contexts addressed in the exhibition, spanning from the nineteen-thirties to the present day, are not negotiated in the form of a chronologically organized spatial setting, but rather from the perspective of the featured contemporary artistic appropriations. These works, in turn, enter into dialogue with elements culled from a comprehensive archive of image, literary, and film material, and also with articulations from pop- and sub-culture, including diverse music clips or even a video, anonymously published on YouTtube, documenting a breakneck mountain-bike rally straight on through a favela.

What is more, the show takes recourse to two historical exhibitions or exhibition displays that could not be more different in terms of their contexts and motifs. On the one hand, there is the reconstruction of the legendary exhibition Über die moderne Art zu leben (On the Modern Way of Living) analyzing contemporary issues, which Michael Fehr realized at the Museum Bochum in 1977 in collaboration with Diethelm Koch. On the other, there is Martin Eberle’s photo documentation of fifty panels from the state architecture academy in Pyongyang that gather together countless icons of world architecture, from the druid stones to the Guggenheim Museum in New York—icons that, in the spirit of socialism, purportedly served as fundus and template for the architectural design of the North Korean capital.

A further spatial and contextual shift is experienced by Ludger Gerdes’s neon artwork Angst (Fear), which he developed in 1989 for the town hall façade in the City of Marl, a structure erected wholly in the tradition of Brutalist architecture, and which will now temporarily reside at the Kunstverein facade. The work is comprised of the italicized yellow word “Angst” framed by two pictograms: a red golfer and a blue church.

Also counting among the exterior works in this exhibition is a project by Stuttgart artist Pablo Wendel that takes the form of a walk-in sculpture constructed of recycled materials. The work functions as platform for events and also as a guerilla-tactical project intended to facilitate a redistribution of energy.

The exhibition title has been borrowed from a video performance by South Korean artist Lim Minouk. Here, a camera pursues a singer who, in the company of a drummer, is riding in a pickup truck through various districts of Seoul while bellowing, in punk style, at this city that has been so strongly influenced by Asian turbo-capitalism.

Embodied in this image—portraying a personage laying claim to space and making herself heard against all odds—is essentially the conflict around which the exhibition Oh, My Complex revolves: the controversy about the production, distribution, and utilization of space—and all of the contradictions that go hand in hand with this struggle.

Radar 01. ESTRATEGIAS FRENTE A LO REAL. Límites y desafíos en tiempos de cambio

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Open publication – Free publishing – More arte

Radar en español

Radar English version

STRATEGIES IN THE FACE OF THE REAL. Limitations and Challenges in Times of Change

Open publication – Free publishing – More arte

You and Eye. Cartografías existenciales e itinerantes urbanos. La Habana 11 al 18 mayo 2012

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PSYCHOECONOMY! Corporate Summit Sevilla 2011

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Open publication – Free publishing – More 99

Access To Technology is a Human Right™

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Access To Technology is a Human Right™ from tttp on Vimeo.

Hamburg 1996
Leuven 2012

Photo documentation by Inke Arns

Cacotopía. FOKUS’12 | Nikolaj Kunsthal. Copenhagen

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FOKUS FESTIVAL
Screen from Barcelona has been invited to participate at FOKUS Video Art Festival 2012, the second edition of the festival initiated by Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen 2012.

Cacotopía (Daniel G. Andujar and Avelino Sala)2011. 23m 45 s. from avelino sala on Vimeo.

On this ocasion SFB has curated a programme that reflects on the different modes and strategies of production. We believe that these are key issues of interest to artists, institutions and agents involved in the creative cultural field, enabling the collective discussion in the frame of FOKUS Festival. Furthermore, the selection will allow us to map out our network methodology and explain our premises as a platform and a festival.

On another hand and beyond the strand of production, the pieces also share affinities in that they all portray a series of heterotopias, in the sense described by M. Foucault: they explore landscapes and places which encapsulate an strong “other” imaginaries, different from what they appear to be, and are situated at the heart of society –be this symbolical, historical or physical- but constitute its margins, its limits. It is in a way an attempt to trace a spectral geography of histories blurred by official narratives, the suspended time of the prison, the remnants of the spectacle, and the dystopias of the metropolis

SCREENING PROGRAMME

Uriel Orlow, Holy Precursor (2011), 14’ 13’’
Co-produced by the artist and Galerie Campagne Première Berlin, Utopiana, Yerevan/Geneva and Anadolü Kültür, Istanbul
LOOP ’11 Award

Daniel G. Andújar + Avelino Sala, Cacotopía (2011), 22’
Produced by Screen from Barcelona and the artists (Barcelona, Spain).

Mohammed Bourouissa, Temps Mort (2009),14’
Produced by Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains (Tourcoing, France).

Cooperativa General Humana, The Aura of Things (2011), 5’ 30’’
Produced by Hangar (Barcelona, Spain).

transmediale 2012 Programme Overview

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/ Tuesday 31 Jan 2012 - Opening Night

17:00
transmediale 2012 Exhibition Vernissage
Dark Drives. Uneasy Energies in technological Times curated by Jacob Lillemose

with artworks from Ant Farm, William S. Burroughs and Antony Balch, Art 404, Bjørn Erik Haugen, Bureau of Inverse Technology (B.I.T.), Chris Burden, Chris Cunningham/Aphex Twin, Constant Dullaart, Costanza Candeloro and Luca Libertini, Daniel García Andújar / Technologies To The People, Heath Bunting, Jack Caravanos (Blacksmith Institute), Vibek Raj Maurya, Jaromil, Jennifer Chan, JK Keller, JODI, jon.satrom, Junko & Mattin, Marcelina Wellmer, Matteo Giordano, Karla Grundick and Mistress Koyo, Paidia Institute, Peter Luining, Ruth White, SPK, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Sture Johannesson, Nikola Tesla, Jay Dahl, TR Kirstein, Tracy Cornish, UBERMORGEN.COM, VNS Matrix, [epidemiC], Franco Berardi, Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG

Steam Machine Music – live construction | performance with Morten Riis

Screening
Re-enactment Videospiegel | The first programme of VideoFilmFest ’88

18:30

transmediale 2012 Opening Ceremony | presentation with Kristoffer Gansing, Hortensia Völckers, Bernd Scherer and performance by jon.satrom

20:30

Labor Berlin 8 / Studio Weise7 Exhibition
The in/compatible Laboratorium | Vernissage with Kristoffer Gansing, Valerie Smith, Studio Weise 7 (Servando Barreiro, Brendan Howell, Gordan Savičić, Bengt Sjölén, Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev)

reSource Opening
R15N | presentation with Dmytri Kleiner, Baruch Gottlieb, introduced by Tatiana Bazzichelli
Steam Machine Music | with Morten Riis

Performances

The Future of Creativity | by Jeremy Bailey

/ Wednesday 01 Feb 201

10:00 – 22:00

transmediale 2012 Exhibition Dark Drives – Uneasy Energies in technological Times

10:30 – 16:00

reSource Methods in/compatible research practices | presentation with Robert Jackson, Andrew Prior, Magda Tyzlik-Carver, Morten Riis, Carolin Wiedemann, Marie Thompson, Nina Wenhart, Magnus Lawrie, Christian Ulrik Andersen, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Geoff Cox, Thomas Bjoernsten Kristensen, Rosa Menkman, Gabriel Menotti, Lasse Scherffing, Matthias Tarasiewicz, Baruch Gottlieb, Morten Breinbjerg, Zach Blas + Steam Machine Music | performance with Morten Riis

11:00 – 17:00

reSource Floppy Films Workshop. Moving Images on 1.44 MB day #1 | with Florian Cramer

12:00 – 18:00

reSource Methods In-compatible material | intervention with Martin Howse, Anthony Iles, Jonathan Kemp, Mattin, Baruch Gottlieb, Shu Lea Cheang

15:00 – 17:00

25 years of transmediale web.video – the new net.art? | panel with Robert Sakrowski, Constant Dullaart, Igor Štromajer, Petra Cortright

17:00 – 18:00

reSource Methods Launch of the publication “News Paper – The Greatest Peer-Reviewed Newspaper of In/compatible Research in the World” | presentation of the collaborative peer-reviewed publication, the thematic publication of transmediale 2012 a.o. with Christian Ulrik Andersen, Geoff Cox, Kristoffer Gansing

18:00 – 20:00

Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2012 | with Andrew Feenberg moderated by Kristoffer Gansing

20:00 – 22:00

Marshall McLuhan Salon exhibition Vernissage The Jeremy Bailey Collection | video installations by Jeremy Bailey

18:30 – 21:00

transmediale 2012 video programme Satellite Stories
Guided Economics | screening a.o. in presence of Harun Farocki , René Frölke

20:00 – 20:30

transmediale 2012 performance programme The Ghosts in the Machine
this is a boys club pt. 3: scream: lack! lack! I am missing the gap | by Flora Könemann

21:00 – 22:30

transmediale 2012 performance programme The Ghosts in the Machine

The Joshua Light Show | featuring Supersilent

/ Thursday 02 Feb 2012

10:00 – 22:00

transmediale 2012 Exhibition Dark Drives – Uneasy Energies in technological Times

10:30 – 16:30

reSource Activism Activism Beyond the Interface: The Sandbox Project | discussion a.o. with Roberta Buiani, Alessandra Renzi, Nicola Angrisano and others

part 1 The Sandbox Project (open session) | workshop

part 2 The Sandbox Project (An Itinerant Production Lab) | open discussion&presentation

11:00 – 14:00

25 years of transmediale VIDEOMAKERS UNITE! | An open conversation about video art and net culture, media collectives and counter-publics | panel with Florian Wüst, Kathy Rae Huffman, Eckart Lottmann, Pit Schultz

11:00 – 17:00

reSource Floppy Films Workshop. Moving Images on 1.44 MB day #2 | with Florian Cramer and guests

14:00 – 17:00

reSource Google – One Week Piece worlshop | workshop with Johannes P. Osterhoff

14:30 – 17:00

transmediale 2012 video programme Satellite Stories

Suspension | screening a.o. in presence of Andreas Schneider

16:00 – 18:00

reSource Methods CODED CULTURES – Subcuratorship beyond Media Arts | discussion a.o. with Georg Russegger, Michal Wlodkowski, Luise Reitstätter, Joasia Krysa, Sidney Ogidan, Eva Fischer

18:00 – 19:30

transmediale 2012 in/compatible symposium
in/compatible systems: Everything Is Not Connected | Keynote by Graham Harman, moderated by Christopher Salter

18:30 – 20:30

transmediale 2012 video programme Satellite Stories

I’m the Enemy | screening a.o. in presence of Neozoon, Bjørn Melhus, Roee Rosen

20:00 – 21:00

transmediale 2012 performance programme The Ghosts in the Machine

Liquid State Machine | by Wolfgang Spahn, Martin Howse

21:00 – 22:30

transmediale 2012 performance programme The Ghosts in the Machine

The Glitch Moment(um) | by Rosa Menkman

ideomotoric chatroom | by Billy Roisz, dieb13, Mario de Vega

/ Friday 03 Feb 2012

10:00 – 22:00

transmediale 2012 Exhibition Dark Drives – Uneasy Energies in technological Times

11:00 – 14:00

reSource Networks Isolation and Empowerment after Web 2.0

part 1 Trapped and Tracked | presentation with Geoff Cox, Aymeric Mansoux, Johannes P Osterhoff

part 2 Mobilizing the Unrepresentable | presentation with Geoff Cox, Victoria Estok, Salvatrice Settis

11:00 – 14:00

reSource Networks Fluid Nexus | workshop with Nicholas Knouf

11:00 – 17:00

reSource Floppy Films Workshop. Moving Images on 1.44 MB day #3 | with Florian Cramer and guests

11:30 – 13:00

transmediale 2012 in/compatible symposium

in/compatible systems: War Machines: Military Technologies between Civility and Authority | panel with Tsila Hassine, Ziv Neeman, NN, moderated by Christopher Salter

14:00 – 15:30

transmediale 2012 in/compatible symposium

in/compatible publics: Disruptive Publics – Anonymity as a non-public Intervention Strategy | panel with Tatiana Bazzichelli, Gabriella Coleman, Jacob Appelbaum, Dana Buchzik, moderated by Krystian Woznicki

14:30 – 16:30

transmediale 2012 video programme Satellite Stories

Aiming at the Sky | screening a.o. in presence of Stefan Zeyen

15:00 – 18:15

reSource Markets Crashed Economy: Debugging and Rebooting

part 1 What Capitalism? | presentation with Elanor Colleoni, Steve Lambert, Daniel G. Andújar / Technologies To The People

part 2 Hacking Finance, Rethinking Trade | presentation with Elanor Colleoni, Jaromil, Kate Rich, Shintaro Miyazaki

15:00 – 18:00

reSource Networks R15N & Technologies of Miscommunication | workshop & discussion a.o. with Dmytri Kleiner, Baruch Gottlieb + The Telekommunisten Network

16:00 – 17:30

transmediale 2012 in/compatible symposium

in/compatible aesthetics: Uncorporated Subversion: Tactics, Glitches, Archeologies | panel with Jussi Parikka, jon.satrom, Michael Dieter, Julio d’Escrivan, moderated by Rosa Menkman

18:00 – 19:30

transmediale 2012 in/compatible symposium

in/compatible publics: The incompatible public is occupied | keynote by Jodi Dean, moderated by Krystian Woznicki

18:30 – 20:30

transmediale 2012 video programme Satellite Stories

Vertical Distraction | screening a.o. in presence of Dennis Feser , Nina Kurtela, Jeremy Bailey, Bjørn Melhus, Till Nowak , Thomas Mohr, Isabelle Hayeur

20:00 – 20:30

transmediale 2012 performance programme The Ghosts in the Machine

Thermal | by Mario de Vega

21:00 – 22:30

transmediale 2012 performance programme The Ghosts in the Machine

The Joshua Light Show | featuring Oneohtrix Point Never

/ Saturday 04 Feb 2012

10:00 – 22:00

transmediale 2012 Exhibition Dark Drives – Uneasy Energies in technological Times

11:00 – 12:30

reSource Sex Sexuality of Machines | discussion with Gabriella Coleman, Sergio Messina, Karla Grundick, Julianne Pierce

11:00 – 14:00

reSource Sex Bio-Game | workshop with Shu Lea Cheang & Martin Hug

11:30 – 13:00

transmediale 2012 in/compatible symposium

in/compatible systems: Business as Unusual: Financial Crisis, Computing and Money Machines | panel with Georgios Papadopoulos, Orit Halpern, Stefan Heidenreich, Ralph Heidenreich, moderated by Christopher Salter

13:30 – 15:30

reSource Sex Commercialising Eros | discussion with Jacob Appelbaum, Liad Hussein Kantorowicz, Aliya Rakhmetova , Zach Blas, moderated by Gaia Novati + Watch Me Work | performance by Liad Hussein Kantorowicz, Kate Erhardt

14:00 – 15:30

transmediale 2012 in/compatible symposium

in/compatible publics: Publics in Crisis – Production, Regulation and Control of Publics | panel with Norifumi Ogawa, Liza Tsaliki, Anthony Iles, moderated by Krystian Woznicki

14:30 – 16:30

transmediale 2012 video programme Satellite Stories

Parallel Worlds | screening a.o. in presence of RASKIN (Rotraut Pape & Andreas Coerper) , Laura Horelli , Sophie Kahn

15:00 – 18:00

reSource Sex Words of Advice for Young Pornographers | workshop with Sergio Messina

16:00 – 17:30

transmediale 2012 in/compatible symposium

in/compatible aesthetics: Unstable & Vernacular: Vulgar & Trivial Articulations of Networked Communication | panel with Florian Cramer, Olia Lialina, Camille Paloque-Berges, Dragan Espenschied, moderated by Rosa Menkman

16:30 – 18:00

reSource sex Porn, Patriotism and Paranoia on the Chinese Internet | presentation with Francesco Macarone Palmieri aka WARBEAR, Katrien Jacobs

18:00 – 19:30

transmediale 2012 in/compatible symposium

in/compatible aesthetics: Knotty Problems in the Fables of Computing | keynote by Matthew Fuller, moderated by Rosa Menkman

18:30 – 20:30

transmediale 2012 video programme Satellite Stories

The Sound of the End of Music | screening a.o. in presence of Aura Satz

20:00 – 20:30

transmediale 2012 performance programme The Ghosts in the Machine

The Shunted House | by Valerio Tricoli

21:00 – 22:30

transmediale 2012 performance programme The Ghosts in the Machine

The Joshua Light Show | featuring as a special highlight Manuel Göttsching (Ash Ra Tempel/Ashra)

/ Sunday 05 Feb 2012

10:00 – 22:00

transmediale 2012 Exhibition Dark Drives – Uneasy Energies in technological Times

11:00 – 13:30

25 years of transmediale transmediale Unarchived | presentation with Kristoffer Gansing, Dieter Daniels, Thomas Munz, Rudolf Frieling, Susanne Jaschko, moderated by Baruch Gottlieb

12:00 – 16:00

reSource Paperduino-Uno a paper PCB Workshop | workshop with Wolfgang Spahn

13:00 – 17:00

reSource Launch Zombie Play in the Ludic Salon: reSourcing an Exquisite Media Corpse | a game with Mark Butler, Daphne Dragona, Georg Russegger, Mathias Fuchs, Natascha Adamowsky, Gregor Sedlag, Roberta Buiani, Alessandra Renzi, Prayas Abhinav, Linda Hilfling, Ricardo Amaral, Pod

14:30 – 16:30

25 years of transmediale Search For A Method | panel with Wolfgang Ernst, Siegfried Zielinski, Inke Arns, Jussi Parikka, moderated by Timothy Druckrey

14:30 – 16:30

transmediale 2012 video programme Satellite Stories

Burning Symbols | screening a.o. in presence of Dellbrügge & de Moll , Tom Holert

17:30 – 19:30

beyond in/compatible

part 1 the official launch of „resource for transmedial culture“ project | presentation with Tatiana Bazzichelli, Stephane Bauer, Jan Rohlf, Clemens Apprich, Oliver Lerone Schultz, moderated by Kristoffer Gansing

part 2 The Vilém Flusser Residency Programme | presentation by Claudia Becker and performative lecture by Georgios Papadopoulos (our 1st Flusser resident)

18:30 – 20:30

transmediale 2012 video programme Satellite Stories

A State of Fluidity | screening a.o. in presence of Maha Maamoun, Sarah Rifky

THE RESCUE OF THE EFFECTS – Notes for a Theory of the Reader

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// Opening: January 19, 20:00.

// Aditional opening hours: January 20 – 22, 15:00 – 19:00.

// General Public, Schönhauser Allee 167c, 10435 Berlin

With: Daniel G. Andújar, Sol Calero, Constant Dullaart, Embankment, Herzbeat hotel, Bettina Hutschek, Jeleton, Christopher Kline, Phanos Kyriacou, Regina de Miguel, Alexandra Navratil, Paloma Polo, Teresa Solar, Poderes Unidos and JODI.

In a landscape where reality has long ceased to be seen without the presence of auxiliary instruments, which constructs at the same time its registration and setting it up as an archive, the experience does not conform directly in contact with the world but as a mediated doppelgänger. In this type of situation we should not forget that each of the disseminating and accumulating structures that support the architecture of the information is itself a technology with a built-in ideological organisational criteria, of inclusion and exclusion.

This project is built from reflections on creative reading with an active attitude regarding materials from libraries, archives, collections or found-materials establishing with a critical fascination some series of narrative itineraries that discover hidden relationships from the intra-history, the creation of fictions and the infraordinary to practice a critical reading of their architecture, an anarcheology of the structures of knowledge and the everyday-life as well as an analysis of structures of consciousness formation.

This research tries to present projects that blur the boundaries between the practice of curators, historians, researchers, cultural producers and artists. Thus, located in this area of indistinct borders, it essays a significant rearrangement of the cultural materials that restate the questions to be undertaken, as well as the focus of interest. In fact, all the participating artists are engaged to or from several disciplines: in addition to the context of art itself, speak of their work also located in editing, research, music creation, educational programmes, curating, organising events and reflecting on exhibition spaces.

These are works that start at the same time questioning both the analysis of content as the actual means of implementation and presentation: devices, methodologies, materials selection, editing, exhibition strategies or building space.

A project by Lorenzo Sandoval.

With the support of: Ministerio de Cultura de España, General Public, Raum für Projektion, GlougauAIR and Altes Finanzamt.

Collaborator: Spanische Botschaft

Artefact 2012 THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

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14 > 23 February 2012
STUK arts centre Leuven

The theme of this eleventh edition of Artefact is The Social Contract. That term has been used in political and philosophical theories since the 17th century, but still emerges regularly today, in interviews with politicians, political party programs and debates. Even the early adopters of the social contract theory, such as John Locke, Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, used and interpreted the concept in different ways. The classic interpretation concerns the relation between the individual as a citizen and a political entity, in which the individual sacrifices part of his freedom and power in order for the state to offer safety and social and economic security to the citizen. But what is the position of the social contract in our current times of crisis in a globalized world?

One of the festival’s main questions is whether we can renegotiate or reform those ‘contracts’. Can we cancel them, rewrite them? The programme focuses on different forms of resistance and imagination. With exhibitions, performances, debates and meetings with international artists, we look for the position and alternatives for The Social Contract in our contemporary information and network society.

Artefact is initiated by provincie Vlaams-Brabant and STUK arts centre

Irational is a loose grouping of international artists who came together around the server irational.org, founded by the British net artist Heath Bunting in 1996, going on to make decisive contribution to early net art from the mid-1990s onward. They include Daniel G. Andújar (ES), Rachel Baker (UK), Kayle Brandon (UK), Heath Bunting (UK), Minerva Cuevas (MX), Vahida Ramujkic (SR), Kate Rich (AU) en Marcus Valentine (UK).

With dry humor and minimal aesthetics, irational commented on the Internet hype of the mid-to-late 1990s, competing with the commercialization euphoria of the new market by developing its own pseudo-ventures. At that time, net art was very immediate, neither needing nor enjoying the safety of a mediating space or instance. This is why irational often hit upon humorless trademark attorneys, who wanted to keep irational from using brand names such as 7-11, American Express, Sainsburys and Tesco. If the early activities of irational during its “net phase” were dedicated to calling virtual boundaries into question, its members now experiment with interrogating and overcoming economic, political, and social boundaries in real space. The works in the exhibition will partially be selected on the basis of them being a commentary on, or a premonition of, the current financial and economical crisis.

The Wonderful World of irational.org is curated by Inke Arns (Hartware MedienKunstVerein), Jacob Lillemose and Heath Bunting. It’s a smaller version and an update of an exhibition they presented in HMKV in Dortmund in 2006 and that was later also shown in Glasgow and Novi Sad. The exhibiton will often be ‘activated’ by several irational members with live events and workshops.