1969–1979. An Approach to the Confluences between Art, Architecture, and Design in Catalonia
Friday, June 26th, 2009
- Exhibition view
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An Approach to the Confluences between Art, Architecture, and Design in Catalonia
Friday, June 12th, 2009
1969–1979:
Curators: Valentín Roma, Daniel García Andújar
Ricardo Bofill/Taller de Arquitectura, Eugeni Bonet (Archive), COAC Archiv, Enric Franch (Archive), Antoni Muntadas, Pere Portabella, Grup de Treball, Sala Vinçon (Archive)
This project sets out to reconstruct the aesthetic and political dimension acquired by conceptual practices in Catalonia during the nineteen-seventies. With this in view, the analysis has been oriented toward a set of proposals developed in a variety of areas—art, architecture, design, film, and education—which nevertheless all shared the same circuits of visibility, closely related language and attitudes, and certain ideological positions that were characterized by their spirit of protest and antagonism. The core of the project consists of five pieces by the Grup de Treball that in some sense point to the disciplines mentioned above. In order to contextualize these, a heterogeneous archive has been put together, drawn from the documentary holdings of (amongst others) the COAC (Association of Architects of Catalonia), the Sala Vinçon gallery, the FAD decorative arts association, and the Elisava and Eina design schools, along with a number of art projects—the film Esquizo (Schizo) by the Taller de Arquitectura and Reflexões sobre a morte (Reflections on Death) by Antoni Muntadas, among others—and also a selection of visual and bibliographical documents from those years. (Valentín Roma, Daniel García Andújar) Read the rest of this entry »
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Subversive Practices. Art under Conditions of Political Repression
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
Press release
Subversive Practices
Art under Conditions of Political Repression
60s–80s / South America / Europe
May 30 – August 2, 2009
Artists
Carlos Altamirano, Gábor Altorjay, Lucy Angulo, Ângelo de Aquino, Luis Arias Vera, Autoperforationsartisten, Artur Barrio, László Beke (Archiv), Horia Bernea, Ricardo Bofill/Taller de Arquitectura, Teresa Burga, CADA, Ulises Carrión, Dalibor Chatrný, Carlfriedrich Claus, COAC Archiv, Attila Csernik, Lutz Dammbeck, Guillermo Deisler, Eugenio Dittborn, Juan Downey, Jorge Eielson, Diamela Eltit, Miklós Erdély, Roberto Evangelista, Constantin Flondor, Fernando França Cocchiarale, Enric Franch (Archiv), Die Gehirne, Carlos Ginzburg, Ion Grigorescu, Claus Hänsel, Rafael Hastings, Paulo Herkenhoff, Emilio Hernández Saavedra, Taller E.P.S. Huayco, Joseph W. Huber, Pavel Ilie, Indigo Group, IPUT (superintendent: Tamas St.Auby), Iosif Kiraly, Jiri Kocman, Kollektive Aktionen, Carlos Leppe, Gastão de Magalhães, Oskar Manigk, Francisco Mariotti, Alfredo Márquez, Gonzalo Mezza, Ivonne von Mollendorff, Muntadas, Paul Neagu, Olaf Nicolai, César Olhagaray, Clemente Padín, Letícia Parente, Grupo Paréntesis, Catalina Parra, Gyula Pauer, Luis Pazos, Dan Perjovschi, Julio Plaza, Féliks Podsiadly, Robert Rehfeld, Herbert Rodríguez, Juan Carlos Romero, Lotty Rosenfeld, Jesús Ruiz Durand, Juan Javier Salazar, Hugo Salazar del Alcázar, Valeri Scherstjanoi, Cornelia Schleime, Grupul Sigma, Petr Stembera, Gabriele Stötzer, Grup de Treball, Regina Vater, Cecilia Vicuña, Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Sala Vinçon (Archiv), Krzysztof Wodiczko, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeld, Horacio Zabala, Sergio Zevallos
Idea and Concept
Iris Dressler, Hans D. Christ
Cocurators
Ramón Castillo / Paulina Varas (Santiago de Chile / Valparaíso); Fernando Davis (Buenos Aires); Cristina Freire (São Paulo); Sabine Hänsgen (Bochum); Miguel Lopez / Emilio Tarazona (Barcelona / Lima); Ileana Pintilie Teleaga (Timisoara); Valentín Roma / Daniel García Andújar (Barcelona); Annamária Szöke / Miklós Peternák (Budapest); Anne Thurmann-Jajes (Bremen)
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Research the Research / Capitalist City as Urban Utopia
Saturday, January 17th, 2009
Recherche Recherchieren / Die kapitalistische Stadt als urbane Utopie
Workshop
Leitung: Yvonne P. Doderer
17. + 18. Januar 2009, jeweils 12 – 18 Uhr
Das von Daniel García Andújar innerhalb seines Projektes Postcapital. Archive 1989 – 2001 zugänglich gemachte, digitale Material eröffnet vielfältige Fragestellungen und Möglichkeiten zur kritischen Reflektion.
Teil 1: Research the Research (17. Januar 2009)
Ein erster Fragenkomplex betrifft das Archiv selbst. Wie sind digitale Archive strukturiert? Worin unterscheiden sich digitale Archive von anderen Archiven? Wer hat Zugang zu digitalen Archiven und Informationen? Welche Strategien der Erschließung und Aneignung sind notwendig, um aus Daten Wissen zu generieren? Wenn wir bereits in vernetzten Archiven leben: Welche Realitäten und Lebensformen werden hier konstruiert? Ist die Datenflut, mit der wir uns heute konfrontiert sehen, nur Ausdruck einer technologischen Verheißung auf mehr Kontrolle oder führt sie auch zu einem Mehr an partizipatorischer Handlungsmacht – insbesondere in urbanen Räumen? Read the rest of this entry »
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Where is Now?
Friday, January 16th, 2009
Film and lecture program
Curated by Katrin Mundt
16 and 17 January 2009, 7 – 10:30 pm
Mary Koszmary, Yael Bartana
“Where is Now?” picks up at the archive as a repository for the present— a medial place where reality is not only stored and formatted in images and documents but also interpreted and configured anew through each individual access. Here, time itself becomes a malleable substance, the material of playful intervention and radical reinterpretation. From the perspective of different presents—from the nineteen-sixties through today—the films and videos in this program frustrate the linear progression of time.
Historical crises and turning points in particular, which still today determine the rhythm of our time calculations, are encountered by the works with skepticism. Their protagonists develop strategies for overcoming history—by proclaiming new beginnings, by inhabiting the permanent crisis of a precarious present, or by staging a retro-future against the backdrop of dated utopias. The works problematize the state of experience and perception as well as of agency and representation under archive conditions: in the images self-created by societies in order to ensure their presentness, in the ways in which embodied memory becomes manifest, and in the medial exploration of deviance and dissent. Read the rest of this entry »
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Felix Stalder: Remixing and the Culture of Networked Society
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Lecture (german)
Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 7 pm
Abstract
Remixing—the use of existing works to create new works—is more than just a style of electronic music. Remixing rather characterizes a meta-method that is becoming increasingly pivotal to all cultural practices. While many avant-garde movements of the twentieth century were concerned with processes of authorship decentering, the universal medium of the networked computer at the dawn of the twenty-first century turned it into a mass phenomenon. Felix Stalder will be presenting an overview of the ramifications of this changeover, which links questions of media-related development with a reconceptualization of authorship and with legal, economic, and sociopolitical dynamics. Read the rest of this entry »
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Kirsten Wagner: “Postcapital” or What Follows the City?
Monday, January 12th, 2009
The Knowledge City
Postcapital: Vortragsreihe, Workshops, Filmprogramm
Württembergischer Kunstverein, Schlossplatz 2, 70173 Stuttgart, Fon: +49 (0)711 22 33 70, info@wkv-stuttgart.de
Lecture (german)
Thursday, January 15, 2009, 7 pm
Abstract
With the advent of the so-called information age, much seemed prone to vanish: the body, the space, the city, the book along with its institution, the library. But everything returns, and not only as visual metaphors on monitor surfaces. While the physical body has proved to be an equally ineluctable and refractory factor in technical thing ensembles, megacities—notably illustrated by media geography through their radiant diagrams and maps—have asserted themselves as spatial and economic centers of a globally networked media culture. And despite an increasing digitalization that includes historical text and image inventory, libraries have been experiencing an unexpected renaissance over the past years, as attested to by a series of spectacular newly erected libraries. Read the rest of this entry »
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Ole W. Fischer: Post-Structural, Post-Critical, Post-Political?
Thursday, January 8th, 2009
Architekturdebatten nach dem Fall der Mauer
Vortrag
Freitag, 9. Januar 2009, 19 Uhr
Abstract
Die so genannte „kritische“ Architektur (Criticality) entstand in den 1970er Jahren parallel aus der Ablehnung gegen Postmoderne und Spätmoderne als ein gedankliches Konstrukt, welches nach dem Scheitern architektonischer und gesellschaftlicher Utopien nach ‘68 innerhalb der herrschenden gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse – Kapitalismus und Massenkonsumkultur – der Architektur einen Bereich als autonome Kunst sichern sollte. Schnell etablierten sich „kritische“ Merkmale wie post-funktionaler Formalismus, abstrakte Manipulation geometrischer Elemente, Zurschaustellung architektonischer Konventionen, eine Geringschätzung gegenüber traditionellen architektonischen Werten wie Ort, Materialität, Detail oder Konstruktion, etc. Dabei wurden die oft nur Papier oder Modell gebliebenen Projekte begleitet von schwer zu durchdringenden theoretischen Texten, welche durch Anleihen bei post-strukturalistischen Autoren den Anspruch auf eine Architektur der Dekomposition, Disjunktion, Transgression oder Dekonstruktion unterstrichen, oder wortreich von der Problematisierung, der Auflösung, der Verweigerung und dem Schweigen der Architektur sprachen. Read the rest of this entry »
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Daniel García Andújar muestra su proyecto ´Postcapital´ en Stuttgart
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
El artista de Almoradí recorre los acontecimientos históricos más destacados entre 1989 a 2001 a través de sus instalaciones
CRISTINA DE MIDDEL
Daniel García Andújar participó el mes pasado en una colectiva en el MUA
CRISTINA MARTÍNEZ, Diario Información
Comenzó a trabajar en “Postcapital” en 2004, un “proyecto complejo”, tal como lo define su autor, Daniel García Andújar, uno de los artistas españoles más internacionales del momento. El punto de inicio fue construir un archivo en el que el artista de Almoradí recoge documentos y testimonios de los acontecimientos históricos más relevantes ocurridos entre 1989, año de la caída del Muro de Berlín, y 2001, con el atentado de las Torres Gemelas. Read the rest of this entry »
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Du-Yul Song: Ineluctability of the Third Party
Monday, January 5th, 2009
Lecture (german)
Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 7 pm
Postcapital. Lecture series, Workshops, Film program December 2008 – January 2009
Württembergischer Kunstverein, Schlossplatz 2, 70173 Stuttgart, Fon: +49 (0)711 22 33 70, info@wkv-stuttgart.de
Abstract
In a dyadic political landscape on the Korean Peninsula, where the expression “border crosser” still belongs to the expletive category of words, the life of a “border crosser” is risky. Here there is only room for a protocapitalism or a protosocialism. While the demarcation line (cease-fire line) stretching across the middle of the peninsula could conceivably open up perspectives to third parties, the dyadic formulas of life and death, inclusion and exclusion, or even angel and devil continue to remain insurmountable. The blend or the hybrid between the two “absolutes” is accordingly unthinkable. Read the rest of this entry »
