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BLEIBERECHT FÜR ALLE!

concept — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:29:06 GMT

Wem wird der Zugang zu österreichischen Universitäten ermöglicht, um "kreativ", "wissenschaftlich gefördert" und "mobil" zu sein?Wieviel "internationaler Wissensaustausch" ist dabei erlaubt?

Das österreichische Fremdenrechtspaket, welches seit 1. Januar 2006 in Kraft ist, illegalisiert Menschen ohne EU/EWR-Pass oder schränkt deren (Aufenthalts)Rechte massiv ein. Reisen die Ansuchenden aus so genannten "Drittstaatsländern" ein, bekommen sie nur erschwert ein Visum für Österreich. Für KünstlerInnen und WissenschaftlerInnen ohne EU-Pass sieht das "Niederlassungs- und Aufenthaltsgesetz" überdies einen nur mehr vorübergehenden Aufenthalt vor. Von den restriktiven Aufnahmekriterien sind nur jene ausgenommen, die eine "besondere Leistung" nachweisen können, die nicht näher definiert ist.Für die AntragstellerInnen ist nicht nur das Durchlaufen der restriktiven Antragsverfahren für Aufenthaltsgenehmigungen mit enormen Belastungen verbunden, auch generalisierende gesetzliche Vorschriften und Alltagsrassismus gegenüber nicht-österreichischen StaatsbürgerInnen basieren auf der Tradition des österreichischen Rassismus und auf gesellschaftlichem Ausschluss und sind in vielen Fällen mit extremer, manchmal tödlicher (Polizei-)Gewalt verbunden.Mehrere Studierende an der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien sind oder waren vom so genannten Fremdenrechtspaket betroffen.

Wir sprechen uns gegen rassistische Fremdenpolizeigesetze aus!Für ein Recht auf Asyl!Für ein Recht auf Niederlassung nicht nur, aber auch für KünstlerInnen und WissenschaftlerInnen!Für ein Recht auf Aufenthalt für (Ehe-)PartnerInnen österreichischer StaatsbürgerInnen!Für die Abschaffung sämtlicher Aufenthaltsregulierungen von so genannten Drittstaatsangehörigen!Für das Recht auf Aufenthalt und Niederlassung in Österreich für alle!

Für offene Grenzen!Für das Recht für alle, ihren Aufenthaltsort selbst zu bestimmen!

Das Ordinariat für (post)konzeptuelle Kunst an der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien veranstaltet eine Ausstellung und Solidaritätsveranstaltung zum Thema "Illegalisierung und Bleiberecht"

Eröffnung am 9. Oktober 2008, um 19:00Raum M1 (1. Stock), Lehargasse 8, 1060 Wienim Rahmen des Dezentralen Aktionstags für Bewegungsfreiheit und Bleiberecht am 10. Oktober 2008Ausstellungsdauer: 10. Oktober bis 12. Oktober 2008,Öffnungszeiten: 10:00 bis 18:00

TeilnehmerInnen:Lisa Bolyos/AnnegangManuela Bojadžijev/Serhat KarakayalıAnnalisa CannitoEmanuel DaneschPetja DimitrovaLina DokuzovićMarina Gržinić/Aina ŠmidDriton HajrediniMuzaffer HasaltayAna HoffnerChristoph KolarLisbeth KovačičDaniela Koweindl/Petja Dimitrova/Eva VotavaMaria KrisperMaraSinan MollahasanovPatrick SchabusRonja VoglTilman Otto WagnerKatarina ZdjelarLisa Lnenicka

TeilnehmerInnen des Workshops "Schengen (z)erstellen"

TeilnehmerInnen des Projekts"No! Against racism, exploitation and colonization!"(Pavelhaus, Juni–September 2008):Araba Evelyn Johnston-Arthur/Belinda Kazeem and The Black Research Group on Austrian Presence and History, Oliver Ressler, Kanak Attack, Petra Gerschner, Rana Bishara, Siniša Ilić, Staš Kleindienst/Sebastjan Leban, roomservices.org, Evren Uzer/Otto von Busch

TeilnehmerInnen des Projekts "comments on racism"(KKP der Universität für angewandte Kunst in Kooperation mit Martin Krenn):Lukas Karl Richard Frankenberger, Jasmina Hirschl, Eva-Maria Lausegger/Petra Mallek, Elisabeth Panholzer, Georg Philipp Leopold Sturmlechner/Robert Zimmermann, Daniela Tagger, Stéphanie Ternes

Kontakt:Eduard Freudmann (ed[at]pips.at)Can Gülcü (cg[at]kraja.org)

FFree movement and residency rights for everyone!

Who can study at Austrian universities? To whom are being "creative," "academically supported," and "mobile" granted? How much "international exchange" is there at the universities in reality?

The Austrian "Alien Law Package for Foreigners" that was accepted on January 1st, 2006, illegalizes people who do not possess an EU/EEA-member passport or it drastically confines their (residency) rights. For people entering Austria through the so-called "Drittstaatsländer," it is hard to get a visa. For artists and scientists without an EU-passport, the "Settlement and Residency" law allows only temporary residence.

Only those who can prove "special achievement" (which is not defined) are excepted within these restrictive regulations. This involves not only tremendous exposure throughout the restrictive application procedure, but they are constantly exposed to the "everyday racism," which structures the life of non-Austrian citizens. This means that they are constantly exposed to disqualification, and are in many cases exposed to extreme, sometimes lethal, (police) violence.

At the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, several students were, or are, affected by the so-called "Alien Law Package".

THEREFORE, WE SPEAK OUT LOUDLY AGAINST:The racist legal "Alien Law Package" (Fremdenrechtspaket)!Regulations and restrictions for so-called "third state members"(Drittstaatsangehörige)!

AND WE FIRMLY DEMAND:Asylum rightsResidency rights – not only, but also, for artists and scientists!Residency rights for the (married) partners of Austrian citizens!Rights to stay and reside in Austria – for everyone!Rights for everyone to freely decide where to live!

The Department for (Post-)Conceptual Art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna is announcing the opening of an exhibition through a solidarity statement AGAINST illegalization and FOR free movement and residency rights!

Opening on October 9th, 2008, at 19:00h in Room M1 (1st floor), at Lehargasse 8, 1060 Wien within the framework of the Central Action Day for Free Movement and Residency Rights on October 10th, 2008.Duration of the exhibition: October 10-12th, 2008

Participants:Lisa Bolyos/AnnegangManuela Bojadžijev/Serhat KarakayalıAnnalisa CannitoEmanuel DaneschPetja DimitrovaLina DokuzovićMarina Gržinić/Aina ŠmidDriton HajrediniMuzaffer HasaltayAna HoffnerChristoph KolarLisbeth KovačičDaniela Koweindl/Petja Dimitrova/Eva VotavaMaria KrisperMaraSinan MollahasanovPatrick SchabusRonja VoglTilman Otto WagnerKatarina Zdjelar

Participants of the Workshop "Schengen (z)erstellen"

Participants of the project "No! Against Racism, Exploitation and Colonization!" (Pavelhaus, Juni–September 2008):Araba Evelyn Johnston-Arthur/Belinda Kazeem and The Black Research Group on Austrian Presence and History, Oliver Ressler, Kanak Attack, Petra Gerschner, Rana Bishara, Siniša Ilić, Staš Kleindienst/Sebastjan Leban, roomservices.org, Evren Uzer/Otto von Busch

Participants of the project "Comments on Racism" (KKP der Universität für angewandte Kunst in Kooperation mit Martin Krenn):Lukas Karl Richard Frankenberger, Jasmina Hirschl, Eva-Maria Lausegger/Petra Mallek, Elisabeth Panholzer, Georg Philipp Leopold Sturmlechner/Robert Zimmermann, Daniela Tagger, Stéphanie Ternes

Contact:Eduard Freudmann (ed[at]pips.at)Can Gülcü (cg[at]kraja.org)

NEW DOCU FILM SEMINAR 2008/2009

concept — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:21:37 GMT

Academy of Fine Arts, ViennaClass for Conceptual Art

2008/2009 guest lecture seminar on documentary filmOCTOBER 2008 and JANUARY 2009

Organized and presented by guest lecturer: Daniel Erlacher

Daniel Erlacher ist Musiker, Festivalveranstalter und Programmkurator des agit.DOC Dokumentarfilmprogramms im Forum Stadtpark Graz. Weiters ist er Initiator der Onlinecommunity g24.at und Labelbetreiber (widerstand.org). Seit 2005 ist er Mitglied des ProgrammForum Gremiums des Forum Stadtpark. Er war Co-Kurator des Film- und Musikprogrammes bei No Space Is Innocent im Steirischen Herbst 2006 und Mitbegründer des Elevate Festivals in Graz.

WHERE: Class for Conceptual Art, M1/ Semper depot, 1 floorSemper depot: Lehargasse 8, Vienna

OCTOBER 2008 FILM DOCUMENTARY PROGRAM by Daniel Erlacher

8.10.2008, Wednesday at 18.00 at M1/Semper depot

RFK Must Die (UK/2008)Buch/Regie: Shane O'Sullivan; 94min; eng. OV.

5.Juni, 1968: Robert Kennedy gewinnt die Vorwahlen der Demokraten in Kalifornien und ist damit als Gegner von Richard Nixon als Präsidentschaftskandidat fix. Minuten später erfolgt der tödliche Anschlag des 24-jährigen Palästinensers Sirhan Sirhan. Sirhan kann sich jedoch bis heute nicht an die Schießerei erinnern - nicht einmal unter Hypnose. Führende PsychiaterInnen glauben er war ein "mandschurischer Kandidat", also hypnotisch programmiert um Kennedy zu töten. Neu entdeckte Film- und Photoaufnahmen zeigen drei altgediente mutmaßliche CIA Agenten am Tatort, dem Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles - ein Indiz für die Beteiligung der CIA am Anschlag. Dieser hoch bristante investigative Dokumentarfilm, basierend auf O'Sullivan's jahrelangen Recherchen für die BBC und den britischen Guardian, zeichnet ein neues und verstörendes Bild des tragischen Ereignisses vor 40 Jahren.Trailer: www.agit-doc.org

29. 10.2008, Wednesday at 18.00 at M1/Semper depot

American Blackout (USA/2006)Buch/Regie: Ian Inaba; 92min; eng. OV.

Ein stilistisch gesehen sehr kämpferischer Dokumentarfilm, der den fesselnden Werdegang der US-Kongressabgeordneten Cynthia McKinney (Demokratin aus Georgia) und die Unterdrückung der schwarzen Wählerstimmen historisch und während der jüngsten Präsidentenwahlen in Florida und Ohio eingehend beleuchtet. Die neueste Produktion aus dem Hause der News-Community Guerrilla News Network gewann beim Sundance Festival 2006 einen Special Award der Jury und beeindruckt sowohl durch Stil als auch durch den brisanten Inhalt: Most people have heard of the voting irregularities that marred the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004. Some even know of the resulting challenges to the electoral votes by African-American congressional representatives. However, because the mainstream media shies away from reporting cases of imperiled democracy the public is left to believe these stories are at worst insignificant rumors or at best one-off incidents that result from an overburdened election system. American Blackout chronicles the recurring patterns of disenfranchisement witnessed from 2000 to 2004 while following the story of Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who not only took an active role in investigating these election debacles but also found herself in the middle of one after publicly questioning the Bush Administration about the 9-11 terrorist attacks. Some call Cynthia McKinney a civil rights leader among the ranks of Shirley Chisholm and Malcolm X. Others call her a conspiracy theorist and a 'looney.' American Blackout gains unprecedented access to one of the most controversial and dangerous politicians in America and examines the contemporary tactics used to control our democratic process and silence political dissent.Mit besonderem Dank an Ian Inaba und gnn.tv!Trailer: www.agit-doc.org

WRITING CENTRAL EUROPEAN ART HISTORY

concept — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:18:19 GMT

Academy of Fine Arts, ViennaInstitute for Fine ArtsDepartment for Conceptual ArtIn charge: Univ. Prof. Dr. Marina GrzinicAssistants/tutors: Ivan Jurica and Ivana Marjanovic, Akbild

TITLE OF THE SEMINAR:Writing Central European Art History

PUBLIC SEMINAR DATES: 24 and 25. November 2008 and 8. January 2009

Writing Central European Art History is a special seminar/course,that was put together by ERSTE Stiftung and WUS with 7 academics/professors from the so called Central European art institutions and academies: Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Serbian and Slovakia. It brings fresh inputs on academic art history and the perception on modernism and post-modernism in the former Eastern European territory.

(download folder: writing central european art history(application/pdf, 79 KB))(download texts: m1.antville.org)

PROGRAM 1 part, 24 and 25. 11. 2008

Monday, 24, November, 2008

SESSION 15.30 until 20.30

AT 15.30 INTRODUCTION AND WELLCOME Marina Grzinic

AT 15.45 LECTURE by Edit András

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Edit András, Senior Research Fellow, Research Institute for Art History of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

Title: One-way traffic, two-way traffic or a dead end? Dynamism of Contemporary Art Discourse in the East-West Relation

The author intends to shed light upon the shifts, gaps and discrepancies between mainstream art history writing and its Central European local, national variants focusing mostly on the period after the political changes. It would explore burning issues of what could be absorbed into the main debate, what remains invisible from outside, and how the border patrolling mechanism operates. Case-studies would be given of contemporary Hungarian artists like Little Warsaw, Andreas Fogarasi, Kriszta Nagy, Emese Benzcúr etc.

DISCUSSION 17.15 – 17.45/ facilitated by Grzinic and the tutors

PAUSE: DRINKS, SANDWICHES

AT 18.15 LECTURE by Vojtech Lahoda

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Vojtech Lahoda, Deputy Director of the Institute of Art History of the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic. University Professor at the Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Title: Regional Cubism? How to write on Cubism in East Central Europe

The author's aim is to concentrate on the issue of Cubism outside Paris, especially in the region usually called East Central Europe. The discussion will deal with the question whether it is still valid to write about a homogeneous western born "Cubism", or whether we should think about different local and regional "Cubisms" within the territory of Central and Eastern Europe. The author proposes the term Regional Cubism for Cubist hybridization east of Paris and stresses international aspects of Cubist regionalism.

DISCUSSION 20.00 -20.30/ facilitated by Grzinic and the tutors

TUESDAY, 25 November 2008

SESSION 9.30 until 14.00

AT 9.30 LECTURE by Ljiljana Blagojevic

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Mart Kalm, Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Art and Culture Estonian Academy of Art, Tallinn, Estonia

Title: What is Estonian Architecture?

This presentation will discuss the establishment and formation of the Estonian architecture culture during the 20th century. From Finnish architects serving Estonian society before the first Estonian architects emerged to the Baltic-German and Estonian architects in inter-war Estonia-the course will explore Estonian interpretations of traditionalism and modernism. From there, the architecture of Soviet Estonia, with eyes in West but organization and rules from Moscow, is followed by the post-communist Estonian architecture – and is now dissolved in globalization?

DISCUSSION 13.30-14.00/ facilitated by Grzinic and the tutors

LUNCH BREAK 14.00 UNTIL 15.30

SESSION 15.30 -18.00

AT 15.30 LECTURE by Misko Suvakovic

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Misko Suvakovic, Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory Faculty of Music, University of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

Title: Politics and Art after the fall of the Berlin Wall

The author will point to the crucial changes that happened in society, philosophy and art after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and more precisely, after the end of the cold war division of the world. The era of postmodern social, cultural and artistic plurality was turned into a period of globalization and of restructuring of the social, political, cultural and artistic local-global relations. These processes are marked in art by a fundamental change in the media of artistic representation and expression, converting new media practices into the mainstream art of this epoch.

DISCUSSION 17.00 to 17.30/ facilitate by Grzinic and the tutors

18.00 END NOTESXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXPROGRAM 2 part, 8.01.2009

Thursday, 8, January 2009

AT 15.30 INTRODUCTION in II second final part by Marina Grzinic

AT 15.45 LECTURE by Jan Bakos

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Jan Bakos, Member of Presidium of the Slovak Academy of Sciences Faculty of Letters, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Title: Humanists versus Relativists. Visions and Revisions of the Vienna School Methodological Doctrine

The Vienna School of Art History based art historical research on the belief in method and its scientific nature. The orthodox epistemological model of the Vienna School as formulated by Alois Riegl regarded art history as an exact and non-partial objective science. Riegl’s followers developed and transformed or critically revised his model. The present paper deals with the process of transformations and revisions of the Vienna School orthodox model.

DISCUSSION 17 to 17.30 facilitated by Grzinic and the tutors

PAUSE 17.30 – 18.00: DRINKS, SANDWICHES

AT 18.00 LECTURE by Piotr Piotrowski

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Professor and Chair of Art History Piotr Piotrowski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

Title: Towards a Horizontal Art History

The author proposes a theory of a horizontal art history as both a critique of the vertical one, understood as hierarchical and Western oriented scholarly practice, as well as the proposed methodological approach to rewrite a history of modern art along with the pluralistic and non-hierarchical model. The model suggested here is based on an equality of different art historical narratives. Its crucial point is to negotiate different discourses, not in order to create one alternative super-structure, but rather to unveil a dynamic process of exchanging values between them.

DISCUSSION 19.30-20.00/ facilitated by Grzinic and the tutors

AT 20.00 end notes

WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS THAT AKBILD STUDENTS FROM THE CLASS and ACADEMY IN GENERAL CAN ATTEND THIS SEMINAR AS A FACULTATIVE COURSE, WHERE YOU CAN GET ADDITIONAL GRADE/MARK, besides your mark for the conceptual art class.

PREPARATION INTO THE SEMINAR/COURSE Writing Central European Art History

28.10.2008 TUESDAY, Akbild, SEMPER depot/M1

At 16.00 until 19.00/20.00Grzinic, Jurica and MarjanovicNON PUBLIC STUDENT INTRO INTO THE SEMINAR: Writing Central European Art History, part 1PUBLIC SEMINAR DATES are 24 and 25. November 2008 and 8. January 2009

On 28.10 2008 it will be a non public/i.e for students presentations of positions and texts by Edit András, Vojtech Lahoda, Ljiljana Blagojevic, Mart Kalm and Misko Suvakovic, with a resume of their basic points of departure, reading passages from their other texts published in English, commentaries.

29.10.2008 WEDNESDAY, M1

At 12.00 until 17.00Grzinic, Jurica and MarjanovicNON PUBLIC STUDENT INTRO INTO THE SEMINAR: Writing Central European Art History, part 2PUBLIC SEMINAR DATES are 24 and 25. November 2008 and 8. January 2009

On 29.10 2008 it will be a non public/i.e for students presentations of positions and texts by Edit András, Vojtech Lahoda, Ljiljana Blagojevic, Mart Kalm and Misko Suvakovic, with a resume of their basic points of departure, reading passages from their other texts published in English, commentaries.

9.12.2008 TUESDAY, M1

At 16.00 until 19.00Grzinic, Jurica and Marjanovic

NON PUBLIC STUDENT INTRO INTO THE SEMINAR: Writing Central European Art History, part 3PUBLIC SEMINAR DATES are 24 and 25. November 2008 and 8. January 2009

On 9.12.2008 it will be a non public/i.e for students presentations of positions and texts by Jan Bakos and Piotr Piotrowski with a resume of their basic points of departure, reading passages from their other texts published in English, commentaries.

23.01.2009 in the RUNDGANG:EXAM as a public discussion with the students enrolled in the course

Preparation of this presentation will be facilitated by Ivan Jurica and Ivana Marjanovic in the time from 11 to 17.01.2009.

FOR: applying for the seminar and questions contact please as well:

Ivan Jurica ivan_u72@hotmail.com

Ivana Marjanovic ivanamar@gmail.com

Projects PCAP

concept — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:24:02 GMT

pictures of the rooms at theatercombinat

barbara wilding — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:10:36 GMT

there are some pictures of the rooms at theatercombinat at the folder images...t4.antville.orgi have to confess i did a bad job, not knowing what i do and not asking...hopefully it is possible to get an impression of the rooms - if not, there ar more digital pictures on the computer (apple with two monitors) in the class and there will be analog pictures in the library (ask lilo)

Articles on www.malmoe.org

stefanap — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:25:27 GMT

_Texts written for Malmoe #33 now online!

"Partizipation macht IN"by Josef Steinkogler

"Für eine Politik der sanften Abwertung"by Thomas Schoiswohl

"Die 'Community' als Material"by Kevin Dooley and Stefan Pedersen, translated into German by Kati Morawek. English version not published in Malmoe can be found here (RTF file).

Not Sheep: New Urban Enclosures and Commons

stefanap — Wed, 10 May 2006 20:58:24 GMT

May 13 - 20, 2006 Opening Friday, May 12 at 8pm

Brief opening remarks from the curators, UrbanSubjects, and from Nicholas Blomley, author ofUnsettling the City: Urban Land and the Politicsof Property.This project has been organized by Urban Subjects(US): Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen, Helmut WeberNot Sheep: New Urban Enclosures and Commonsgathers a varied set of examples and speculationson new urban enclosures and commons from 50international artists, writers, architects andtheorists. The title of the project takes itsname from the wooly emblem of the historicalenclosure of common land that began in 16thcentury England as peasants were driven fromarable farming land to make room for sheep-walks.But rather than being a mythical moment incapitalism, the enclosing of commons is a processthat is in full force today, and visible in thechanging shape of cities globally.Not Sheep looks at the ways that city territoriesare becoming increasingly closed off and commongoods and spaces enclosed, privatized or gatedoff. From the privatization of Dresden's publichousing stock to pay the city's debts, theeviction of community gardeners to make warehousespace in Los Angeles, to more subtle shifts inthe production of public space, the process ofenclosure is a strategy that is remaking urbanexperience today. Yet examples of "commoning,"the making of common spaces and resources, arealso visible: Caracas turning urban brown spaceinto sites of urban agriculture, squattingactions such as Woodsquat in Vancouver and thePope Squat in Toronto challenging an ownershipmodel that closes off housing space, and theopening of wireless LAN systems such as BristolWireless.These intertwined processes of enclosing andcommoning have been investigated, initiated andintervened by contributors from cities as variedas Gdansk, Berlin, New York, Vancouver, Vienna,Bucharest, Sao Paulo and Rotterdam. Not Sheep isa catalogue of urban projects and writing thatexamines both new and old forms of urbanenclosures and urban commons. Each contributionto the project was emailed and later printed outfor exhibition, effectively pointing to digitalcommunication as another possibility forenclosures and commons.Marian Penner Bancroft (Vancouver), Judith Barry(New York), Jochen Becker (Berlin) Ron Benner(London, Ont.), Bik Van der Pol (Rotterdam),Nicholas Blomley (Greater Vancouver), ClaudiaBosse (Vienna), Class of Post-Conceptual (Art)Practices/Academy of fine Arts (Kevin Dooley,Katharina Morawek, Lilo Nein, Stefan Pederson,Michael Pötschko, Josef Steinkogler, Vienna),Clint Burnham (Vancouver), Mariana Celac + IosifKiraly (Bucharest), Vitor Cesar (Sao Paulo /Vienna), Steve Collis (Greater Vancouver), OliverCroy (Berlin), Calin Dan (Bucharest / Rotterdam),Doménec (Barcelona), Roger Farr (GreaterVancouver), Marina Grzinic (Ljubljana / Vienna),Mona Hahn (Vienna), Jamelie Hassan (London,Ont.), Antonia Hirsch (Berlin / Vancouver),Ashley Hunt (Los Angeles), Fiona Jeffries(Vancouver), Susan Kelly + Stephen Morton(London, UK), Klub Zwei (Simone Bader / JoSchmeiser, Vienna), Martin Krenn (Vienna), Lin +Lam (New York), Ralo Mayer (Vienna), Vlad Nanca(Bucharest), Mark Nowak (Minneapolis / St.Paul),PAUHOF (Michael Hofstätter / WolfgangPauzenberger, Linz, Vienna), Lisl Ponger + TimSharp (Vienna), Elspeth Pratt (Vancouver),Geraldine Pratt (Vancouver), Oliver Ressler(Vienna), Stefan Römer (Munich / Berlin), KlausRonneberger + Georg Schöllhammer (Frankfurt /Vienna), Jayce Salloum (Vancouver), BirgitSchlieps (Berlin), Gregory Sholette (New York),Neil Smith (New York), Sophie Thorsen (Copenhagen/ Vienna), Transição Listrada (Sao Paulo), AaronVidaver (Vancouver), Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss (NewYork / Belgrade), Agnieszka Wolodzko (Gdansk),Michael Zinganel (Vienna).-- ARTSPEAK233 Carrall StreetVancouver British ColumbiaCanada V6B 2J2T (604) 688-0051F (604) 685-1912E artspeak@artspeak.caW http://www.artspeak.caH Tuesday to Saturday 12 to 5pm

project intentions

stefanap — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:21:43 GMT

[the second tentative draft of project intentions for the “Not Sheep” exhibition:]

Intentions for the “Not Sheep” exhibition at Artspeak gallery, Vancouver, May 2006

As a basis for our contribution to the “Not Sheep” project, we will use the knowledge and experience we have gained during our brief (now prematurely ended) involvement in a so-called public art project in Vienna, which will be realized this summer in the 2nd district of the city (without our participation). We had developed a proposal for this exhibition project, which in the end was rejected by the project organizers and curators. This experience made us realize again how language (spoken, written, visual) is appropriated to push discourses of spatial, social and economic exclusion in contemporary (neo-liberal) city development in Vienna. Thus we were once again faced with the question of the role(s) of art(ists) and cultural industries in such processes.

Taking this process as a starting point, we are developing a critical approach to these discourses. While making an analysis of uses of certain words, terms, images and symbols, we are simultaneously developing our own language, understanding, definitions when we communicate about these issues.

This process of understanding, analysis, critical response and questioning is what we want to present in the context of “Not Sheep”.

//students of the class of post-conceptual art practices, art academy vienna//

radioprogram

barbara wilding — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 14:02:44 GMT

as i told in the group, i am thinking to connect the radio-show to the trip to usti and dresten, as well to the trip to dacar (senegal) in may to the bienale of africa.

there is no exact structure of the radioshow planed right now, just ideas:

reading of the text made up on the topic (how public art funktions politically, in which role artist are forced...)
interviews recorded in usti, dresten and dacar.fragmentary put together to get an impression how internationally things happen.
fieldrecordings?

please post ideas and especially questions for the interviews.

examples:

how and where do public-artworks take place?
what is it like to meet kurators? the way of talking, do you get insight in their politician and the politics behind them?
what are the outcomes? (also regarding long-time outcomes)
how do you sense the city you live in as culturally growing city?

my formulations lack!maybe somebody finds other questions or other formulations.

barbara

platform _open project

mich — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:00:15 GMT

PCAP GROUP PROJECT

proposal (english/german)links and archivediscussion

++open project is the working title of a group project which is being developed by approx. 14 students of the post conceptual art practices class.++m1 (t4) and del.icio.us are our platforms to exchange links and texts relating to the project.++a print-out and book archive relating to the project will be available in the nomanden space /m1.++the platform is open to public.++questions: michael.poetschko@gmail.com

proposal/english

Academy of Fine Arts, ViennaPost-Conceptual Art Practices

Prof. Marina Grzinic M.Grzinic@akbild.ac.at

Participants:Kevin Dooley kevingular@hotmail.comEva Egermann eva@medien.akbild.ac.atMichael Fleischner michaelfleischner@blackbox.netJenny Kneiss e-jenny@web.deLisa Lnenicka lisa.lnenicka@gmx.atKatharina Morawek katimo@gmx.atStefan A. Pedersen stefan@lostclusters.dkMichael Pötschko Michael.poetschko@gmail.comLilo Reissert lilo.nein@gmx.netJosef Steinkogler jxstein@web.deHenning Schorn henning@datenspionage.deThomas Schoisswohl panelak@t0.or.atBarbara Wilding blablara@gmx.netTina Wimmer tinawimmer@gmx.at

ProposalFor the Project “Open Market”

As art students whose work has to be accompanied by a critical awareness towards taking positions in various contexts of art, our first question concerns our own positions – as artists. According to our understanding, artists are actors in social processes. We try to be aware of these roles, and of the relations between art and society.This approach will be the basis of our intervention, which we want to realize in the context of “Open Market”. Our focus will be to establish an analysis of the frame of conditions and structures, in which art manifoldly affects the public field and city domain.Two main points of conceptual departure will be used: “reconstruction” and “contamination”. Reconstruction of data and contexts, contamination of art, infrastructure, responsabilities and knowledge.

The aim of our project is to enlarge and distribute knowledge about the factors and the potentials of urban planning, city development and forms of participation in relation to art and to develop critical, activist and sustained positions, basically (re)acting within the context of “Open Market”. The presentation of the project will use new publics and new exhibitions spaces, as proposed by the organisers: radio, book and internet.

In order to learn more about existing structures and procedures, our first step is to do interdisciplinary research work.As we are also interested in researching the run-up work to “Open Market ” and we will engage in interviews with those involved in the organisation, participants and other relevant actors.The way of working will be a cooperation and exchange with the organizers (curators, producers and institutions) involved in the project “Open Market” in order to be able to work seriously with data, visuals and thoughts concerning the context and history of “Open Market”. Therefore we would like to take up the curators, especially Mr. Schönys, invitation. A classical artistic conceptual approach with acquiring, processing and documenting data will be used.Urban transformation is a process of communication on several layers. As we learnt from the first draft for “Open Market”, the participation of local citizens should be initiated. The impact of such attempts will be emphasised in our work.

In a second step, we are planning to develop a knowledge platform, in order to realise our work:

A) Organizing a series of public lectures on the topic of Public Art

B) Organizing a theoretical seminar on transformation deconstructions of space and contaminationimpact on social reality with/out art.

C) Organizing a radio workshop in collaboration with the art radio unit of the University of Weimar

Finally, we want to make our analysis publicly available, therefore we will, in a third step, develop the following actions/results:

Production of a radio program that will be presented on the Internet and/or aired through normal radio frequencies. This radio artwork will be developed in collaboration with the art radio unit from the University of Weimar.
A book will be published after the conclusion of the project “Open Market” that displays our research results.

Minimal Budget Requirements

Radiofeature (production)300 Euro

Radio Workshop500 Euro

Publication850 Euro

Organisation of Lectures480 Euro

Seminar250 Euro

Documentation (technical needs)150 EuroWebsite200 Euro

Summe2730 Euro

very best,

Kevin DooleyEva EgermannMichael FleischnerLisa LnenickaJenny KneissKatharina MorawekStefan A. PedersenMichael PötschkoLilo ReissertJosef SteinkoglerHenning SchornThomas SchoisswohlBarbara WildingTina Wimmer

proposal/german:

Akademie der bildenden Künste WienKlasse für Postkonzeptuelle KunstpraktikenProf. Marina Grzinic M.Grzinic@akbild.ac.at

TeilnehmerInnen:

Kevin Dooley kevingular@hotmail.comEva Egermann eva@medien.akbild.ac.atMichael Fleischner michaelfleischner@blackbox.netJenny Kneiss e-jenny@web.deLisa Lnenicka lisa.lnenicka@gmx.atKatharina Morawek katimo@gmx.atStefan A. Pedersen stefan@lostclusters.dkMichael Pötschko Michael.poetschko@gmail.comLilo Reissert lilo.nein@gmx.netJosef Steinkogler jxstein@web.deHenning Schorn henning@datenspionage.deThomas Schoisswohl panelak@t0.or.atBarbara Wilding panelak@t0.or.atTina Wimmer tinawimmer@gmx.at

Projektantrag für das Projekt "Open Market"

Wir sind Studierende einer Kunstuniversität, die in ihrer Arbeit versuchen müssen, kritisches Bewusstsein gegenüber Positionierungen in Kunstkontexten zu entwickeln. Dies schließt unsere eigenen Positionen als Kunstproduzierende ein. Unserem Verständnis nach sind KünstlerInnen AkteurInnen in sozialen Prozessen. Wir versuchen, die Rollen, die dabei eingenommen werden, kritisch zu reflektieren, und damit das Verhältnis von Kunst und Gesellschaft.

Dieser Zugang bildet die Voraussetzung für die Intervention, die wir im Kontext des Projekts "Open Market" realisieren wollen. Unser Fokus wird auf einer Analyse der Bedingungen und Strukturen, innerhalb derer Kunst im Feld von Öffentlichkeit und Stadt vielfältig wirkt, liegen. Zwei konzeptuelle Ansätze werden dabei zum Einsatz kommen: die Rekonstruktion von Informationen und Kontexten und die Verschmelzung von Kunst, Infrastrukturen, Verantwortung und Wissen.

Ziel unseres Projekts ist die Herstellung, Sammlung und Distribution von Wissen über Faktoren und Potentiale künstlerischen Handelns in Zusammenhang mit Prozessen der Stadtplanung und Stadtentwicklung, sowie den möglichen oder verunmöglichten Formen von Partizipation. Wir streben die Entwicklung kritischer, aktiver und nachhaltiger Positionen an, die sich in Bezug auf den Kontext von "Open Market" engagieren. Das Projekts wird neue Öffentlichkeiten und neue Orte der Präsentation suchen, wie auch von den KuratorInnen vorgeschlagen: Radio, Buch und Internet.

Um mehr über vorhandene Strukturen und Prozesse herauszufinden, werden wir diese einem ersten Schritt anhand einer Reihe von Forschungsarbeiten mit interdisziplinärem Zugang untersuchen. Darüber hinaus sind wir an den Strukturen und der Genese des Projekts "Open Market" interessiert und möchten Interviews mit OrganisatorInnen, TeilnehmerInnen sowie im weiteren Sinne Beteiligten führen. Die Kooperation und der Austausch mit den Organisierenden (KuratorInnen, Institutionen, GeldgeberInnen) des Projekts "Open Market", ist uns wichtig, um auf seriöse Weise Material über die Entstehungsgeschichte und den Kontext sammeln zu können. An dieser Stelle werden wir gerne auf die Einladung der KuratorInnen, insbesondere Herrn Schönys, zurückkommen. Unser Ansatz ist ein künstlerisch-konzeptioneller, der Informationen sammelt, aufbereitet und dokumentiert.

Der Umbau/die Transformation städtischen Raums findet auf verschiedenen Ebenen statt. Wie wir der ersten Projektskizze zu "Open Market" von Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Wien und 17&4 entnehmen konnten, soll eine Partizipation ansässiger BürgerInnen initiiert werden. Die Bedeutung solcher Ansätze wird ebenfalls einen Schwerpunkt unserer Arbeit darstellen.

Um unsere Arbeit zu realisieren, planen wir in einem zweiten Schritt die Initiierung einer Wissensplattform:

A) Organisation einer Reihe von öffentlichen Vorträgen zum Thema "Public Art"

B) Organisation eines Seminars zur Transformierung von Raum und Beeinflussung sozialer Realität durch künstlerische Intervention bzw. ihre Abwesenheit.

C) Organisation eines Radio-Workshops in Kooperation mit dem Institut für experimentelles Radio der Bauhaus Universität Weimar.

Schlussendlich wollen wir unsere Untersuchungen öffentlich zugänglich machen, indem wir in einem dritten Schritt folgende Initiativen setzen:

Produktion eines Audiobeitrags, der im Internet bzw. auf normaler Radiofrequenz gesendet wird. Die Sendung wird im Rahmen eines Workshops in Kooperation mit dem Institut für Experimentelles Radio der Bauhaus Universität Weimar entwickelt.
Publikation eines Buches, nach Abschluß des Projekts "Open Market", das die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse wiedergibt.

Mindestkalkulation

Radiosendung 300 Euro

Radio-Workshop 500 Euro

Publikation 850 Euro

Vorträge 480 Euro

Schwerpunktseminar 250 Euro

Dokumentation/Equipment 150 Euro

Website 200 Euro

Summe 2730 Euro

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Kevin DooleyEva EgermannMichael FleischnerJenny KneissLisa LnenickaKatharina MorawekStefan A. PedersenMichael PötschkoLilo ReissertJosef SteinkoglerHenning SchornThomas SchoisswohlBarbara WildingTina Wimmer

POST PROPOSAL

postwoman — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:40:47 GMT

Today I was thinking the proposal text has ben here long enough now. who would like to read it again, is welcome to ask for it.

A NEW IDEA!

kevingular — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:04:42 GMT

NEW IDEA: We could make a project with the sole aim of networking and invite a group of people I met in Indonesia to be our other group. There would be a europe asia difference if that means anything but any further ideas for developing this project are desperately needed!

SIMPLE (BAD GERMAN) VERSION:

Wir laden eine gruppe aus asien ein, einfach als netzwerk! Bessere ideen für diese idee sind sehr willkommen!

(my german is not good barbara helped me) please reply! deadline is getting deadlier!

kevin

CESTA IN GENERAL

postwoman — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 22:06:35 GMT

first

postwoman — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 22:05:47 GMT

CESTA PROPOSAL

kevingular — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 13:32:44 GMT

ROLES:

The (ruling figure's) role will be to

EITHER: purely play the role of a figure opposed to dialogue and who is in control of our productivity

OR: to somehow overcome the contradiction of engaging in a dialogue with a group whilst having no control of said group, or put differently to engage in a dialogue with us, but whilst maintaining and being restricted by the framework of a worker-master relationship.

Our role as the workers in both cases is to overcome all aspects blocking dialogue whilst maintaining the basic relationship.

WHY INTERESTING?

seems interesting because we would posit a relationship that seems contrary to dialogue, in order to create dialogue. Of course in this respect the dialogue might very well fail, but there is nothing wrong with failure!
another noteworthy factor would be the contradictory idea that we as artists/collective/humans in a way give up that privileged power we have of self in order to have those rights dominated by another, to have our potential productivity be willingly exploited.
also interesting to attempt a dialogue when our power of expression, and ability to talk is determined by the entity to whom we should be talking.

PROBLEMS:

because of contradictions inherent in the project the whole thing might not work!

First Thoughts

postwoman — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 18:18:21 GMT

Questioning Entrance Exams

jesus — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:30:45 GMT

End of September is the time of the entrance exams for those who want to study in the field of art, in spite of Beuys. Trying to pass that exam for the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, I wanted to know what my co-applicants were thinking about being obliged to go throught that kind of examining procedure.

The result is a sound installation, realized on Sept. 29 and 30 in the entrance hall of the building where the exams took place (Semper-Depot, Vienna, Leharg. 6). It's a montage of statements made by applicants as well as by members of the Academy (some professors and assistants, the vice-rector), recorded during short interviews (5 to 8 min.) that I made during the first to days of the exams. The questions I put where roughly of the following type:

do you think entrance exams for artistic studies are necessary and that they make sense?
what do you think of the way Joseph Beuys' acted when he was a professor at the Academy of Düsseldorf, taking all students that were applying and finally occupying the office of the Academy together with those students who were not taken (would you take everyone if you were a professor)
do you have some feeling of competition or pressure in connection with the exams, and do you think that competition is an important thing in comtemporary art.

The installation is locally and temporally bound to the "happening" of the exams itself - it is a kind of installed real-time reflection. The Rector of the Academy allowed that both the entrance area of the "Semper-Depot" and the entrance hall of the Academy building on Schillerplatz can be used for a parallel installation, but with respect to the latter location, it turned out to be impossible because of lack of equipment.

The sound-file prepared for the installation can be downloaded here. It can freely be reused by everyone, provided that the address of the original download-link (this page) will be mentioned. Finally, I would like to mention that the whole thing was realized using exclusively free and open-sourced software (actually, I worked on Gentoo-Linux, using audacity for cutting and editing). And many thanks to the people who gave me an interview, of course.

Please feel free to comment both the project and the questions themselves, as well as the answers and statements given on the sound file.

download links:

acoustic reflections.mp3
acoustic reflections.ogg

(Download only one of the two! mp3 is heavily licenced, if you want to use that, ok. ogg is an open-source format, you can play it on Freeamp, xmms, noatun, and other open source players...)