Yane CALOVSKI "Obsessive Setting" @ ŻAK | BRANICKA Gallery, Berlin

until January 8, 2011
www.zak-branicka.com

INTERSTELLAR STATIC

Davide Bertocchi & Samon Takahashi
December 3 to february 7

MNAC, Bucharest
1st floor: Interstellar Static
4th floor: A video selection

Muzeul National de Arta Contemporana

Str. Izvor, Nr. 2-4
(Palatul Parlamentului, aripa E4, intrarea prin Calea 13 Septembrie),
București

>unknown – Per Hüttner at Zendai Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall

Co-curated by Li Xiaofei and Alessandra Sandrolini



Within his artistic body of work, Per Hüttner engages in an aesthetic and existential quest for personal freedom and its ensuing frictions. To pursue this liberation, he looks for ways to renegotiate the relationships between the individual and the collective, in the social, political and spiritual spheres, and to push further the boundaries of human experience and knowledge.

For this sculptural installation, the artist creates a liquid space where moving images and a select number of objects become a part of a complex system of interconnected ideas.

Four videos form the hub of the exhibition and show mysterious rituals enacted by various characters. The films reveal an intimate and sensual love for the secret knowledge hidden in nature and culture. The characters are engaged in the poetic act of eating books or fruits of peculiar flowers. Even though they are acted by different actors, it seems that we pry into the life of the same human subject. The images show mundane situations that have been shifted ever so slight to reveal the vastness of the unknown in our everyday experience. Simply and wisely, the artist invites the viewer to break the subtle frame of reality and limited illusion and to embrace the unknown.


http://dca.zendaiart.com/en-US/News/NewsDetail.aspx?r=32

CREATIVE WORKERS OR DEPOLITICISED ARTISTS?

Wednesday 8th of December at 6 pm
How can we think of artistic labour in a time when an essential part of the labour market is defined as creative and artistic? Josefine Wikström is a freelancing curator and writer based in London where she recently finished an MA in Philosophy at Middlesex University. Together with art critic Fredrik Svensk she will discuss the difference between productive and artistic labour.

The talk is the first part of the events program Art After Work which takes place in relation to the exhibition Everything Under Heaven is Total Chaos by the Swedish artists International Festival.
The talk will take place in English.


Göteborgs Konsthall
Götaplatsen
412 56 Göteborg
http://www.konsthallen.goteborg.se

Program OUUNPO 10-11-12 (12) 2010 AMS-NIJ

(open for changes)

FRI 18:00 – 20:00
Alexandre Singh
Kunstverein - Amsterdam

FRI 21:00 – 22:00
Snejanka Mihaylova
Rongwrong - Amsterdam

SAT 12:00 - 13:30
Tour de Brain Humane
Dr. Amanda Kiliaan
Museum of anatomy and
pathology – University Medical
Center (UMC)

SAT 14:00 – 15:00
Brain activity of Creation
Paul Gaalman, Samon Takahashi, Miriam de Boer and Stephen Whitmarsh
Donders Neuroimaging Center – Magnetic Resonance Laboratory - Nijmegen

SAT 15:30 - 17:30
OuUnPo meeting - part I
OuUnPo -members
Donders Neuroimaging Center - Magnetoenchephalography Controller Room - Nijmegen

SAT 17:30 - 18:30
Tradition Dutch Winter Dinner & Screening
Donders, Neuroimaging Center – Oval Office - Nijmegen

SAT 18:30 – 20:00
OuUnPo meeting - part II
OuUnPo -members
Donders Neuroimaging Center - Magnetoenchephalography Controller Room - Nijmegen

SAT 23:00 – 00:00
After J.G. Ballard, re-enactment of a performance: “suppression of alpha oscillations in observation of pain in others”
Elena Nemkova with Stephen Whitmarsh
Rongwrong - Amsterdam

SUN 11:00 – 13:00
Future of OuUnPo Brunch
OuUnPo -members
Café Koosje – Amsterdam

(The program is not public)