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2011-12-29T20:31:00.002+01:00

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Effektivia Rehearsal.

2011-08-30T12:24:00.004+02:00

Vision Forum Film is proud to announce that the preparations for Effektivia are moving forward. The directors and the team have made an amazing job and you will soon be able to see teasers on this blog and on the Effektivia webpage. Make sure you keep your eyes peeled!

ATTEMPTS TO GET INSIDE THE WORLD - Natasha Rosling in London

2011-08-30T11:42:00.003+02:00

A  SERIES  OF  SUB‐THEMES  FOR  REFLECTION  OVER  THE  WEEKEND: 
The  Weird  Drive:  Self‐discipline,  Obsessive  Compulsion  and  Constructive  Confusion. 
Absurd  Paraphernalia:   Shaping  Tools,   Harnessing  Straps  and  Wearing  Prosthetics. 
Living  with  Aliens,  Dragons  and  Dinosaurs:  Time  Travel,  Mind  Travel,  Space  Travel. 
Echoes  in  the  Vessel:   Disembodied  Voices,   Embodied  Objects,  and  Lost  Body  Parts. 
Stuck  with  the  Mud:  The  Edifice,   Support  Structures  and  Temporary  Architectures.    

SATURDAY  3RD  SEPTEMBER  From  2pm  until  the  mid -evening 
Presentations,  Screenings and   Performances  by: 
‐ Per Huttner 
‐ Dr. Watson  and  John Walter 
‐ Celine  Condorelli 
‐ Chooc  Ly  Tan  and  Rishi  Nalin  Kumar 
‐ Corinne  Felgate 
‐ Linda  Franke 
‐ Ian  Lawton  and  Ken  Huggins 
‐ Fatos Ustek    
 
 
SUNDAY  4TH  SEPTEMBER  From  2pm  until  the  mid -evening   
Presentations,  Screenings  and   Performances  by: 
‐ Natasha  Rosling 
‐ Eleanor  Wright 
‐ Sachi  Miyachi 
‐ Isobel  Dunhill,
 Antoine  Bertin and  
‐ Robert  Lisney 
‐ Pauline  Curnier‐Jardin, Screening  
‐ Performance  by  Jose  Campos 
‐ VOL.

* Curated  Screening 

Arthouse  Gallery,  140  Lewisham  Way,  London  SE14 6PD 
Transport:  Rail/Underground ‐ New  Cross/New  Cross  Gate; Buses ‐ 21, 36,  136,  321 

Per Hüttner talks at Shanghai's Mingsheng Museum

2011-08-20T12:34:00.000+02:00

Per Hüttner will talk about his work with focus on current exhibitions in Guilin and Stockholm at Shanghai's Mingsheng Museum.

Symposium "TO HAVE / TO OWN"

2011-08-19T13:04:00.000+02:00

23rd-25th September 2011, Vaasa City Hall, Vaasa, Finland

Platform is pleased to invite you to a three-day symposium around the ideas of "TO HAVE / TO OWN".

The assumption is that the words "to have / to own" activate discussion and generate questions about cultural heritage, aesthetics and ethics, material and immaterial resources, networking, communication and sustainability.

The symposium allows for discussion on these issues, and each day will evolve around a topic that takes the acts of having and owning in different directions; dealing with democracy and activism in contemporary art; artist identity - where localness meets a global context; and finally, dealing with different forms of art collectives and the engagement of the community in contemporary art projects.

TO HAVE / TO OWN sets the frame for Platform's anniversary activities, as a way of summing up since its start in 2000. The symposium coincides with the launch of the book "Don't look back", partly documenting past Platform activities and partly presenting new projects. A selection of recent projects by artists-in-residence at Platform will also be presented. The year's activities will culminate in an exhibition at Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art in December 2011.

Programme:

Friday September 23rd

15-15.30 Ulrika Ferm (FIN/DE), artist, curator, Berlin; Introduction 15.30-16.15 Rolf Büchi (CH/GB), writer, London; Modern Direct Democracy.  16.15-17 Shelly Silver (USA), artist, New York; Response - Responsibility.
30 min break
17.30-18.15 Jaana Kokko (FIN), artist, Helsinki, The Anarch.
18.15-19 Kennedy Browne (IE), collaborative practice of Gareth Kennedy and Sarah Browne, Ireland; How Capital Moves.
19.15-20 Per Huttner (SE), artist; Can art change the world?
20- "Vaasa in Luck"- closing ceremony at the Platform studio

Saturday September 24th   11-11.45 Mika Hannula (FIN/DE), writer and curator, Berlin; Modernity Retired - Outline of a Project.  11.45-12.30 Nina Czegledy (HU), artist, curator and writer; Paradigm Shifts in Contemporary Media Art Practice.
90 mins for lunch
14-14.45 Esther Pilkington (GB), artist and curator, Wales; "Vaasa in Luck". 14.45-15.30 Helga Steppan (SE), artist; "Lost and Found", presentation of site-specific project.

Sunday September 25th    11-11.45 Stine Hebert (DK), acting director, BAC, Visby; Institutionalization of the Self-Organised.  11.45-12.30 Maureen Connor (USA), artist, New York; How to be an Artist in Residence for the US Government - a project of the
Institute for Wishful Thinking.
30 min break
13-13.45 Sophie Hope, practitioner, London; Censorship, compromise and cancellation? The culture of commissioning socially
engaged art in the UK. 13.45-14.30 Minna Heikinaho (FIN), artist, Helsinki. Experiences in the urban space - the incompleteness of community art.

OPEN CALL FOR APPLICATIONS ////// PLATFORM RESIDENCY 2012

2011-08-08T12:30:00.001+02:00

Platform announces an open call for an artist residency in Vaasa, Finland. 2-3 international and 2-3 Baltic or Nordic artists will be accepted for the period starting February 2012 till the end of February 2013.

RESPONSE – RESPONSIBILITY
The root of the word responsibility is response, the first known use of the word meant ‘answerable’ to another for something. The word is a social one, based on a question or call. If we are not in dialogue, if there is no discussion or dialogue between us, if we are not demanding and demanded of, the concept of responsibility falls away.
We are in a time of increasing instability -- social, political, economic, environmental -- these instabilities do not stop neatly at the boundaries between individuals, families, cities or countries. They point to our interconnectedness, our interdependence. In the face of these instabilities, some of which may bring catastrophic changes, what, if anything, is being asked of us; what are we asking of others? Can we ask/demand something of others we wouldn’t be prepared to ask of ourselves? What are the ramifications of doing this?
The word responsibility often carries the implication of guilt, culpability or an onerous chore one would like to avoid. Can we recast this word, that links us to each other, in a more positive, social, desiring and pleasurable way?
Artists typically place themselves in the position of outsider, commentator or instigator. Can artists enter into this dialogue at the same level as others, as opposed to the safer/more strategic positions of outsider, commentator or educator?
The above questions, calling for a response, are linguistically driven, the projects need not be. This open call can be seen as an invitation, a possibility or a challenge.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS 31st AUGUST 2011

THE PROGRAM
Annually 5-6 artists are invited, normally about 2 months, to realize a project. The residency offers accommodation, a studio, covered travel expenses, a monthly grant as well as a production budget.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE
An application consisting of a motivation letter/project proposal, documentation of 5 projects and a cv, all included in one document, to be sent electronically to info@platform.fi during the month of August, but no later than 31.8.2011.
For closer details on the application procedure and the program, please consult our web-page:
http://www.platform.fi/residency

ATTEMPTS TO GET INSIDE THE WORLD - Natasha Rosling in London

2011-08-04T11:28:00.001+02:00

26th AUGUST – 11th SEPTEMBER 2011 AT LEWISHAM ARTHOUSE

ZOE ANSPACH, SOL ARCHER, ANTOINE BERTIN, JACOB BLANDY, CHRISTOPH BOTH-ASMUS, SARAH BOWDEN, ANNA BUNTING-BRANCH, CELINE CONDORELLI, PAULINE CURNIER-JARDIN, ISOBEL DUNHILL, MAGDA FABIANCZYK, CORINNE FELGATE, AMANDA FRANCIS, LINDA FRANKE, LUDOVICA GIOSCIA, JAMIE GEORGE, PER HUTTNER, MICHAEL LEE, ROBERT LISNEY, JOANNE MASDING, SACHI MIYACHI, NATASHA ROSLING, KRISTIN SHERMAN, CHOOC LY TAN, FATOS USTEK, WOUTER VENEMA, JOHN WALTER, VICTORIA WATSON, MICHAEL WHITBY, RICHARD WHITBY, LAURA WHITE, ELEANOR WRIGHT

To round up the summer and start the new season Lewisham Arthouse presents, Attempts to Get Inside the World, an exciting series of events initiated with the support of Vision Forum and the Arthouse’s Graduate scheme. Over the course of these two weeks a range of talks, screenings and performances will take place set within a laboratory-style exhibition. The intention is to reveal the raw edges to many of the processes that feed an art practice, shifting eyes away from the product and into the thick the background. Particular attention will be given to research transgressing the boundaries of the studio – either through grappling with unknown subjects and disciplines, or through direct attempts to thrust oneself into the midst of an often extreme set of physical and psychological circumstances.

The exhibition space will house two main conference events, Retreat: in the City – 27th and 28th August, organised by Michael Whitby, and Navigating Extremes - 3rd and 4th September by Natasha Rosling. Artists, curators, architects, choreographers, and theatre practitioners from across Europe and London will come together to present talks, set-up discussions, screenings and performances under the umbrella of Attempts to Get Inside the World. A series of furnitures and rolling projections will occupy the gallery space - displaying works, artefacts, test pieces, experiments and research material selected by each participant in reference to the practices discussed.

PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND PROGRAMME

Lewisham Arthouse, 140 Lewisham Way, London SE14 6PD
Preview: South London Art Map Last Fridays 26th August 6-9pm
Exhibition Open: Wednesday to Sunday, 12-6pm 27th August – 11th September.
Transport: Rail/Underground - New Cross/New Cross Gate; Buses - 21, 36, 136, 321

Dallas Dolls Bestseller

2011-07-28T20:22:00.000+02:00

more info here:

CINEMIXA IN JAPAN

2011-07-21T19:21:00.001+02:00

SILENT FRENCH BLACK AND WHITE AND HAND COLOURED FILMS, MADE IN THE EARLIEST DAYS OF FILM MAKING BY VISIONARY FILM MAKERS, ARE THEN SCREENED AND ACCOMPANIED BY LIVE IMPROVISED ELECTRONIC AND NOISE AND WIND AND KEYBOARD SYNTHESIZER PERFORMED MUSIC. THIS IS A CREATIVE VISION AND SOUND CROSSOVER EXPERIENCE THAT OFFERS AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH AND INTERPRETATION TO VISION AND SOUND.

CINEMIXA™ is a trio from France that features guest musicians when "sound tracking" abroad. This time, special guest is MORGAN FISHER.

CINEMIXA™ are in demand all over the world for their creative, cultural and entertaining performance. Recent shows have been Algeria, Jordan, Russia, Ethiopia, Ghana, South America and many more.

They have "sound tracked" numerous features and short films such as the expressionist "He, who get slapped" [Victor Sjostrom, 1924], the sci-fi visionaire "Paris sleeping" [René Clair, 1923] or the surrealist tale "Balançoire“ [Noël Renard, 1928]. NAME: CINEMIXA at L’Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo (with special guest Morgan Fisher)
NOTE: This is a small premium film venue with excellent sound and vision. There are only 108 seats.
WHERE: L’Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo, Iidabashi, Tokyo
WHEN: July 28th 2011 (Thursday) Doors Open19:00
START: Show Start 19:30 ~ 21:00
COST: L’Institut Members:1500 YEN　
Non Members: 2000 YEN

Tickets On Sale NOW!!!
You must reserve ticket! Ticket Reservations: L’Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo: 03-5206-2500

More info here

On Learning and Creativity- David Bohm

2011-07-11T07:18:00.000+02:00

“One of the primary blocks to such latent creativity is what Bohm refers to as ‘self-sustaining’ confusion in the mind, in contrast to ‘simple’ confusion. Simple confusion is that which we experience when for instance, we don’t understand directions we are given, or when we can’t find the solution to a puzzle. Self-sustaining confusion, on the other hand occurs ‘when the mind is trying to escape awareness of conflict…in which one’s deep intention is really to avoid perceiving the fact, rather than to sort it out and make it clear’ Bohm points out that this process creates an order of its own: a reflexive state of dullness in which the natural agility of the mind is replaced is replaced with a torpor on the one hand, mechanical and meaningless fantasies on the other. Unfortunately says Bohm, this has come to be considered a normal state of mind, and is therefore endemic to our culture.”

-Lee Nichols, Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition of David Bohm’s “On Creativity”, Routledge 1997.

Our Meaty and Sexy Publications

2011-06-27T10:59:00.011+02:00

2011 has been a watershed year for Vision Forum in many ways. One of the great joys have been that we have been able to launch some publications that document or adds depth to our activities in other ways. You will find them in well stocked art book shops. If you want to order a few copies, drop a line to Rudi on info (at) visionforum.eu.

TRAVELS, Editors: Louise Nilsson & Lisa Boström Graphic design: Karl dos Santos. Contributors: Hu Fang, Lillian Fellman, Marie Husson, Per Hüttner, Louise Höjer, Mako Ishizuka, Anna Kleberg, Björn Kusoffsky, Niklas Lundell, Isin Onol and Alessandra Sandrolini. 63 pages, 15 euro . ISBN 978-91-633-7199-8.

The Invisible Generation, ed. Gerrie van Noord, design Marie Proyard, with texts by Gerrie van Noord, Daniele Balit and Olav Westphalen. Published by Vision Forum, Stockholm, Sweden 2011. Isbn 978-91-978934-2-8. Price 18 euro.

SWA Newspaper, 16 pages, colour, edited by Anna Hess et al (Speech and What Archive), published by A Constructed World

The Imminent Interviews, with a text by Cecilia Canziani, interviews by Wang Dan and Li Xiaofei; Language: English and Chinese, published by Fei Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai and Vision Forum 2011, ISBN 978-91-978934-4-2. Price 10 euro

(In)visible dialogues, Edited by Elias Arnér and Per Hüttner, 240 pages, design by Åbäke with contributions by A Constructed World, Richard Allalouf, Andy Cox, Laurent Devèze, Yan Jun, Arijana Kajfes, Natalia Kamia, Konrad Kaufmann, Hugo Lagercrantz, Ebbot Lundberg, Sandra Masur, Predrag Petrović, Samon Takahashi, Véronique Wiesinger and åbäke. Published by Dent-de-Leone 2011. ISBN 978-91-978934-3-5 and ISBN 978-0-9561885-5-7. Price 25 euro.

More to come soon.

From our Danish Friends

2011-06-24T17:43:00.000+02:00

The following was posted on www.wooloo.org:

"We [Wooloo] just returned from the opening weekend of the Momentum Biennial, held in Moss, Norway. Wooloo was presenting our work 'Two Years' Untouched Garden' - a proposal to leave the garden outside one of the main exhibition venues fallow for two years, from this biennial until the opening of the next in 2013.

However, the very thought of this experiment has caused intense debate and protests in local Norwegian media, which has now resulted in a political decision to ban our work.

The grass outside the historical villa at Gallery F15 will continue to be cut each Friday."

Isn't the piece better non-realized than realized?

Vision Forum in Focus

2011-06-13T19:08:00.002+02:00

This month the organization, Nordic Culture Point focuses on the work of Vision Forum. Read the article here.

Congratulations to Darius Mikšys and Meris Angioletti

2011-06-05T01:48:00.005+02:00

Vision Forum congratulates Darius Mikšys. The jury has decided to assign a Special Mention to his “Behind the White Curtain” for his participation in the 54th la Biennale di Venezia. The jury comprised of Hassan Khan (President, Egypt), Carol Yinghua Lu (China), Letizia Ragaglia (Italy), Christine Macel (France) and John Waters (USA).

If you want to see the pavilion, you do so:

Behind the White Curtain
Darius Mikšys
(Pavilion in town; Scuola S. Pasquale, Castello 278)
Commissioner: Kestutis Kuizinas

For more info about the pavilion, click here.

We also want to congratulate another Ouunpo member, Meris Angioletti whose beautiful sound installation can be seen at ILLUMInazioni – ILLUMInations at Arsenale in this year's Biennale di Venezia.

Jacopo Miliani et al. at Cartel in London

2011-05-20T15:58:00.000+02:00

Cartel: In the Belly of The Whale. Adam Chodzko,
Côme Ciment, Anthea Hamilton, Jacopo Miliani

Prison Cells: Equilateral Coercion. Suzanne Mooney

kynastonmcshine: Rush Limbaugh is Sick. Diann Bauer//
+ Mark Pearson // BLATNOVA // DJ Fari // Paul O'Neill

Friday 27th May 2011
7pm-1am

With special guests The Culture Show filming.
We are pleased to announce May's Dirty Cop Friday, with 2 exhibition openings in Cartel and The Prison Cells, a late opening for kynastonmcshine and 4 live performances:
The live lineup:
 7-9pm: DJ Fari - resonance fm set 
9.15-9.45pm: Mark Pearson - tyrolian robot set 
9.45-10.30: BLATNOVA - live
 10.30pm-1am: Paul O'Neill DJ set (more info below) 

 L: Orson Welles - Moby Dick. R: Chimney for the Exhibition, Come Ciment, 2011  
In The Belly of the Whale 
Adam Chodzko, Côme Ciment,  Anthea Hamilton, Jacopo Miliani
 Curated by Rosie Cooper and Ariella Yedgar
 Cartel 
PV 27th May 7-11pm afterparty until 1am 
Show continues 28th May- 16th July 
Open Wed-Sat 12-4pm 

 The Old Police Station , 114 Amersham Vale,  London SE14 6LG  

more info here

Double Book Release in Stockholm

2011-05-14T14:01:00.003+02:00

Double Book Release - Art, Books & Travels May 17th
Riche, Lilla baren May 17th 5pm - 8pm Birger Jarlsgatan 4, Stockholm

TRAVELS
Hu Fang, Lillian Fellman, Marie Husson, Per Hüttner, Louise Höjer, Mako Ishizuka, Anna Kleberg, Björn Kusoffsky, Niklas Lundell, Isin Onol & Alessandra Sandrolini.
Editors: Louise Nilsson & Lisa Boström. Graphic design: Karl dos Santos

&

THE PARTICULARITIES OF PLACE
On the process of Non-Places: Ufa – Gothenburg – Belgrade, 2005 – 2009
Contributing artists: Kalle Brolin, Marina Ingrid, Charlotte Karlsson, Milena Putnik, Maxim Rusakov & Pia Sandström. Contributing curators: Dina Bulavina, Maja Ciric & Camilla Larsson.
Editor: Camilla Larsson. Graphic design: Leo Norgren

Release program:
Kalle Brolin – video work Roof Girls
Marie Husson - An encounter is like a stroke in a drawing, just a touch off to one side and everything changes
Mako Ishizuka - Rainbow after Rainbow
Anna Kleberg – Cabanon, Timbre
Tomas Nordmark & Louise Nilsson - Sound(e)scaping, a sound journey through the publications.
Pia Sandström - poster This side of the forest longing for the great ocean

About the publications:

TRAVELS

Travels is a publication that explores and investigates travels, an activity inseparably connected with art and creativity. Why is travelling so closely connected to the artistic process, career, inspiration and education? The art world has spun the globe ever since the ”Grand Tours” in Europe and travels are still a great part of the practice within the field of contemporary art.
Invited artists, curators, philosophers, designers to contribute with their individual travel stories to the publication; the idea of travels, strategies, plans and thoughts. The stories and reflections are diverse and we have embraced these variations instead of presenting one truth about travelling. How travelling is having an effect on life and reality, regarding both the daily and the once in a lifetime travelling experiences. Each chapter takes you on a different journey, exploring the most puzzling aspects of travelling in a series of beautifully paced stories, both imaginary and realistic.
Exile is a powerful fantasy that also hosts its opposite, because there is no exile without the idea of creating a home. Exile always plays ping-pong with the concept of belonging
Per Hüttner

The global art world, although functioning internationally, has a way of flattening out all edges of difference through its rigid system of representation – of people, ideas,and products. It is a dangerous place in that it emphasizes on sameness, it drastically wants it, needs it, produces it in order to “draw numbers”,be sellable and attractive for a lot and in one glance. We knew enough about that; we played that card daily in our jobs.
Lillan Fellman
A friend of mine told me about a Russian sect obsessed with moving. They believe that the only way to escape from the devil is to keep moving, and they even sleep on public transport to practice their belief. Not that I believe what they believe in, but I understand the fear of being captured by some static power that haunts you and controls your life, which would give you limitations and fixed ideas.
Mako Ishizuka

The Particularities of Place.
On the process of Non-Places: Ufa – Gothenburg – Belgrade, 2005 – 2009

One the most fundamental parameters of human life are places we inhabit and visit throughout our lives, although rarely formed by us as individuals. How can one as an artist work with place as both concept and reality? And if there are any non-places how can we conceive these?
Non-Places is stretched out in time and space. Gathering a group of curators and artists the project has two aims. Firstly, it deals with the notion of place vis-à-vis non-place, that is how these notions have been conceptualized in the arts, the discourse of cultural theory and used in the technocratic formation of western social apparatus. We understand the notion in dynamic terms opening up the discussion, reflection and artistic production for the everyday. And, secondly, in a process-based way the project tries to find alternative working models for artistic production.
Non-Places has been running for six years. During these years the project group has been travelling together, visited each other´s home towns and working together. Within the group one thread of interest has distinguished itself during the working process; that is a deeper reflection on how the intimacy of the particular is negotiated within the larger framework of the general. If you dare to be specific as an artist you can manage to say something important about contemporary life.
The publication presents and discusses the project thematically under the three headlines - To Put into Words what Between the Lines, Because it´s never only about “Non-Places” and City Maps – Mental Maps. The headlines are being used to avoid a linear narration in favour of keeping the spirit of the project prevalent throughout the publication that is emphasizing reflexivity and dialogue.
With exhibitions and discussions, both public and closed, being held in Museum of Contemporary Art in Ufa, Russia 2005, Röda Sten in Gothenburg, Sweden 2006, and part of Belef Belgrade Summer Festival, Serbia 2007. This publication is a compilation of images, artist’s presentation, and a discussion on our collaborative work.

The publications have been generously supported by IASPIS, Swedish Institute, Helge Ax:son Johnsons Foundation, Vision Forum & Stiftelsen Längmanska kulturfonden

Call for proposals for the International Fellowship Programme Studio14.

2011-05-03T15:50:00.000+02:00

The art centre HALLE 14 in the Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei launches this new fellowship program in 2011 with the theme “What Happened to God?”

This year, Studio14 will award two artists who would like to work with this theme a three-month residency in Leipzig, including a monthly stipend, studio space and accommodations. Artists from around the world are eligible to apply. Applications must arrive in Leipzig by May 20, 2011.
I would greatly appreciate it if you could forward the information about our programme and current call for proposals to artists of your acquaintance. The files 'call for proposals' and 'application form' can be downloaded from the website:

www.halle14.org/studio14

Labels- Zoila Méndez Martín at Hyllan, Arbetets museum, Norrköping, Sweden

2011-04-28T20:11:00.004+02:00

It is both human nature and the basis for language to name the objects that surround us and the feelings that they evoke. But how do we label ourselves? The aim of social labels are exclude, to show how we differ from others.

Social labels are everywhere. You meet them no matter where you move through the cities of the world. They have become so fixed in everyday reality and our language that we use them without thinking about it. But what does it mean to be different? What does it mean to be a part of a group? How do we express our fears in what we are and how can we create a sense of belonging?

Spanish artist, Zoila Méndez Martín has photographed a large number of young people in Östergötland. The group of people presented, share a common link. They want to show two or more sides to their humanness and yet they are faces of a unique person. Each image pretends to discover the singular feature of the person and yet it is contradicted by a mirrored sibling. The visitor is viewing every portrait and can indentify something that is not associated with the expected expression. It offers another posed personality.

To underline this duality, the artist sometimes presents the images in black and white and sometime in colour. The photographs show something from the other “I” that the labels do not contain and do not let us to see.

The work which has been realized through Facebook networks reveals how deep technology runs in informing us about who we are and how we want to impress our being on the surrounding world. In Zoila Méndez Martín’s photographs, the act of producing the self becomes itself a form of labour that is moving to the forefront of what is considered work today.

All of the photos are untitled. The purpose is to avoid any kind of label and to make the spectator think about the humanity of this persons without any text reference of them.

Zoila Méndez Martín (1988) lives in Madrid, Spain. She is completing her degree in Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid through an Erasmus scholarship in Sweden and in collaboration with Vision Forum. Her background is in painting, printmaking, drawing, video and design. But for her exchange year she has chosen to focus on photography to express her fascination for how young people in Östergötland relate to their identity.

OUUNPO - Belgrade

2011-03-22T12:45:00.005+01:00

URGENCY Vs LEISURE

March 24th-27th, 2011

"That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles"

"With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company
for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imagining"

"Exceptional estimable, good, nice, dear people they all were but they all, unluckily,
kept asking me about the new novel, and that was excruciating"

Robert Walser

Are you fed up with your job and you feel you deserve a vacation? Do you suspect that in moments of relaxed leisure/pleasure you are more creative and your brain performs better than when you strain it for your work? If your answer is positive, join us in Belgrade, where we will gather our neurons for an intellectual party in the true fashion of every Ouunpo meeting!
Our gathering will take place this time in Belgrade, capital of the former Yugoslavia, a fun city not far from the leisurely coast of the Adriatic sea. The topic ”Urgency Vs Leisure” will of course resonate in relation to the local context, the geo-political history of the Balcans and to the actual revolutions and emerging crises of democracy in Europe and in the word.
But our gathering will be also an occasion to reflect on the nature of our nomadic artistic community. Perhaps the trajectory of Ouunpo has reached a point where we together need to stop and reflect on its democratic/anarchic nature in order to develop our shared future directions without necessarily fixating them. What did we achieve during our past meetings and which path we are now pursuing? What can still be shared between us and in which form?
Can we still find, in the rush of cultural production, the space/time to think freely, to make complex work of art, to engage in human relationships and to deeply commit to a personal or common project?

The activities of Ouunpo have often focused on performance; in Amsterdam and Nijmegen, this has come to the forefront, this is why we will also theoretically reflect on performing art, both intended as a liberating and revolutionary experience and as a form of immaterial labor that reveals itself to be particularly productive in the context of neo-liberalism.
Theses and other subjects will be developed in dialogue with the curatorial collective TkH (Walking theory) who will present their theoretical magazine on performance and their projet ”Deschooling classroom” inspired by the critical ideas on education of Ivan Illich, and during meetings with various Belgrade-based curators and artists. We will work and reflect about the upcoming Ouunpo Report and we will also enjoy performances and happenings taking place in museums and other public and private spaces in town.
Please follow the developments here. We look very much forward to seeing you very soon!

Program
March 24:
Day of arrival. Getting to the Hotel Prag and visit the city.
10 am : Symposium on political performance at European center for culture and debate GRAD. Address : Braće Krsmanović 4, 11000 Belgrade.
Joint dinner.

March 25:
10 am : Visit to the Museum of Yugoslav history (25th May Museum) and Elena Nemkova’s performance.
2.30 to 4 pm: Visit to the Cultural center Rex and meet Nebojsha Milikic with presentation of invited guests Ana Nikitovic, Ivan Grubanov, Marko Stamenkovic, Isidora Ficovic, Ivan Zulic.
4.30 to 6 pm: Visit to the Museum of Nikola Tesla and performance by Fatos Ustek and Per Huttner.
8 pm: Joint dinner at Dačo Restaurant. Address : Patrisa Lumumbe 49, 11000 Belgrade.
March 26:
10 am : meeting with TkH (Walking theory) and presentation of their projects. Working on the OuUnPo Report.
3 to 5 pm : Visit of the Ethnographic museum and performance by Jacopo Miliani.
6 pm : Meditation class by Stephen Whitmarsh.
7 pm : Party at Maja Ciric’s house and sound performance by Samon Takahashi.
March 27:
departure

The Project is supported by Linköpings Universitet and The Swedish Institute in Stockholm.

Don't miss

2011-03-19T15:00:00.003+01:00

(In)Visible Dialogues

Fredsgatan 12, Stockholm, Sweden - Sunday March 20

in dialogue:

Sandra Masur, Ph.D, Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, New York, USA

and
...
Laurent Devèze, Philosopher, Art Critic and Director of École Régional de Beaux Arts, Besançon, France

Probing the Boundaries of Talent.

The previous two dialogues are online on:

here

and

here

(In)Visible Dialogues is neither art nor science, but a platform for both fields to meet in harmony as well as friction. It brings together leading specialists from the two disciplines from Europe, Asia, Australia and USA to dialogue about life and the boundaries of reality. (In)Visible Dialogues was initiated by artist Per Hüttner and Elias Arnér, professor in biochemistry at Karolinska Institutet in close collaboration with graphic designersÅ…bäke in London and a group of international sound artists. The project is a continuation of Begrepp - en Samling (Concepts a Collection) that was realized by the two former in 1992 at the same location.

When you enter (In)Visible Dialogues you will see 120 fluorescent chairs facing a blank wall. On the back of each chair a copy of the project's 240 page catalogue has been nailed and signed by an central person in Stockholm's scientific community. The chair is a version of Jonas Bohlin's design classic Concrete which has been customized by Å…bäke. The side rooms remain empty apart from a solitary lectern painted in the same colour as the chairs and which is connected to speakers that emit strange sounds.

Participating sound artists: Andy Cox and Richard Allalouf, Natalia Kamia, Samon Takahashi, Ebbot Lundberg and Yan June

(In)Visible Dialogues is supported by: Karolinska Institutet; Linköpings Universitet; Vision Forum; Ragnar Söderbergs Stiftelse; Sven och Dagmar Saléns Stiftelse; Akademien för de Fria Konsterna, Göran Lagervalls stiftelse and Statens kulturråd.

Line by Line - in Stockholm

2011-03-11T18:05:00.000+01:00

Line by Line

Opening reception: Thursday, March 17, 18.00 ‒21.00

March 17‒31, 2011

 Lumaparksvägen 7, Hammarby Sjöstad

 Line is more than just a mark on paper—it is an exhibition.

There is only one direction to travel this spring—Hammarby Sjöstad! Twelve exceptional artists and designers working in different parts of Sweden will present their creations in a unique atmosphere unlike anything seen before. Participants include; Petra Lilja and Jenny Nordberg (of Apokalyps Labotek); Matilda Nordgård and Partrik Nilsson (of Argue Design); Beatrice Hansson, Eva Marklund, Helene Hortlund, Kristina Matousch, Mako Ishizuka, Maria Zetterstrand, Markus Degerman and Vivian Chan.

These individuals are diverse in practice, but have been united under the most fundamental element of design—line—which forms a visual language of expression used by artists, designers and craftsmen alike. Together, the essence of their works reveals how line is continuously present in our everyday lives through some form or another; from the first scribbles of a child to the organization of society through time, transportation and even virtual communication.
Calling to mind sketches on a piece of paper, Helene Hortlund’s works Unknown Territory (2008) and Rumsteckningar (2001) outline three-dimensional sculptures which elegantly stretch from floor to ceiling. The award-winning design group Apokalyps Labotek directs the eyes downward to Parquet (2009), a geometrical floor pattern specially made from old tires. Set against the magnificent view overlooking Hammarby Sjö, the drawings of Mako Ishizuka capture the constructed, man-made lines of different cities as demonstrated by Bird’s View of the World, in Paris (2008-10). During the opening, a special performance titled Lök, will be presented by the artist duo Made in Sweden. Lök merges the borders of art, craft and theater to question how two individuals with completely different backgrounds can face the exact same problem when trying to assimilate into one culture. The following week on Thursday, March 24, featured speaker Markus Degerman will present an overview of his company UglyCute which brings together various aspects of art, architecture and design.

Curators Anne Klontz and Nicolas de Tassigny are excited to collaborate with the artists in the space of the exhibition, which is a 1200 m2 raw factory; incredibly rare to find within the frameworks of the Stockholm art world. The space has been a true source of inspiration for everyone involved in the event’s creation and now Stockholmers are encouraged to walk the line and take part in the atmosphere of its creativity.

Line by Line is curated by Anne Klontz (anneklontz(at)gmail.com) and Nicolas de Tassigny (nicolasdetassigny(at)hotmail.com).

The performance Lök will be featured during the opening event on Thursday, March 17 from 19.30.

The presentation by Markus Degerman is Thursday, March 24 and will begin 18.30.
Doors open at 18.00.

The event is sponsored by Fabege, Vision Forum, Absolut Vodaka Sweden, Dynaprint AB.

The Invisible Generation publication release in Stockholm, March 8

2011-03-02T13:30:00.004+01:00

Vision Forum proudly presents its first major publication the Invisible Generation and invites you to a discussion on performance art in the public space.

Gerrie van Noord (editor, London), Marie Proyart (designer, Paris), Per Hüttner (artist, Paris), Olav Westphalen (artist, Stockholm) Alessandra Sandrolini (curator, Paris and Bologna), Natasha Rosling (artist, London) Klas Eriksson (artist, Stockholm) and Stephen Whitmarsh (researcher, Nijmegen) moderated by Hanna Hannerz (producer, Norrköping).

Program
18.30 Round table discussion on performance in public spaces and the art publication as mediator of artistic content, moderated by Hanna Hannerz.
20.00 Klas Eriksson performance “No one likes us - we don’t care”

The Invisible Generation was a project that focused on non-announced performances taking place in the public and it involved over 30 artists from a dozen countries. The project took its starting point from a series of performative instructions by William S. Burroughs and was curated by Per Hüttner, Yulia Usova and Daniele Balit and took place in Melbourne, Beijing, Shenzhen and Kiev in 2009-10.

Editor Gerrie van Noord has together with graphic designer Marie Proyart tried to convey and translate the performative aspect of the project into the publication which she refers to as a non-catalogue. The group will together discuss how art publications can mediate artwork in a more create ways.

At Knast bar, Upplandsgatan 7, Stockholm , Sweden; 8 March, 6.30pm. Free admission

PROGRAM - VISION FORUM SPRING MEETING 2011

2011-02-16T14:32:00.008+01:00

The first VISION FORUM SPRING MEETING - March 9 -10, 2011.

MARCH 9
10-12 (Kåkenhus - 6th floor)
Introduction and Welcome - Per Hüttner, Mattias Åkesson and Kosta Economou
Clemence de Montgolfier and Anna Hess - Speech and What Archive
Natasha Rosling - Presentation

12-13 Lunch

13-14 (Konstmuseet - the art museum)
Mattias Åkesson presents Konsumera Mera.
14-17 (Harlekinen- Konstmuseet - the art museum)
Gerrie van Noord and Marie Proyard - present the publication "The Invisible Generation" with hannah hannerz.
Pauline Curnier-Jardin - Performance
4 x 5 minute presentations by MA students
Video by Li Xiaofei
18-22 Program på Verkstad
Dinner.

Performance by Natalia Kamia and Nemcom
Installations/performance/presentations by Cecilia Ahlqvist, Anna Mård, Ida Lindfors, Zoila Méndez Martín

MARCH 10
9-11.30 (Visualiseringscenter)
Elias Arnér - Karolinska Institutet - (In)Visible Dialogues
Stephen Whitmarsh - Donders Intitute, Nijmegen; Alessandra Sandrolini, Curator Bologna/Paris - Ouunpo Holland
11.30 Lena Tibell, professor at the institute for technique and natural science at Linköpings universitet and Arijana Kajfes, artist, presents the the project "NanoFormgiving".
4 x 5 minute presentations by MA students

12-13 Lunch

13-15 (Kåkenhus - 6th floor)
Åsa Ersmark - Wishing Well
Discussions and conclusions

The program was realized with generous support from KSM at Linköpings Universitet and Östsam.

klossowski on nitzsche

2011-02-16T13:28:00.001+01:00

"In rough and naïve men, one conviction also predominates in their mores and even in their tastes: they are the best possible. In cultured people there reigns a certain tolerance in this respect: but one holds all the more rigorously to one's own criterion of Good and Evil: according to which one wants to have not only the most refined taste but also the only legitimate one. This is commonly reigning form of barbarism: that one doesn't even realize that morality is a matter of taste."

LAUNCH OF THE ANNETTE GIACOMETTI PRIZE

2011-02-14T18:21:00.002+01:00

the Annette Giacometti Prize for the copyright of works and artists will award a €10,000 grant to assist in the production of an individual or group project, of any kind, helping to attract the public’s attention to the counterfeiting of works of art. To find out more and to download form click here.

LE CHOIX DU TITRE EST UN FAUX PROBLÈME - Samon Takahashi

2011-02-10T05:34:00.002+01:00

Samon Takahashi presents LE CHOIX DU TITRE EST UN FAUX PROBLÈME at CNEAI in Paris February 11 - March. Vision Forum members Natalia Kamia and Per Hüttner appear in the program along with Ouunpo member Daniele Balit and previous Ouunpo guests Julia Udden and Lorenzo Benedetti. More here.

Nowiswere 8

2011-01-24T13:02:00.002+01:00

The new issue of Nowiswere is out!

download your own copy here.

The Next Vision Forum Workshop.

2011-01-11T11:06:00.004+01:00

Following the success of the meeting in September 2010, Vision Forum Organizes a new 2 day workshop March 9-10. (More info and program for the September workshops can be found here.) The March workshop will be co-organized with Verkstad and The Art Museum and will include performances by Pauline Curnier Jardin, Natalia Kamia and the release of the catalogue for the project The Invisible Generation, presentations by Stephen Whitmarsh and Alessandra Sandrolini about the last Ouunpo meeting and tons more. Keep your eyes on this blog for updates.

Stockholm Dialogues

2011-01-11T11:01:00.005+01:00

Vision Forum organizes a series of dialogues about art and science i collaboration with Karolinska Institutet at Konstakademien in Stockholm. A dialogue takes place every weekend in March. More infor here.

Have a look at the program and book the tickets to Stockholm.

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

2010-12-12T20:30:00.000+01:00

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

INTERSTELLAR STATIC

2010-12-12T20:00:00.002+01:00

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

2010-12-10T11:06:00.002+01:00

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?

2010-12-07T15:33:00.001+01:00

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

2010-12-06T17:06:00.001+01:00

(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)

The Invisible Generation publication is taking shape

2010-11-28T19:26:00.005+01:00

Hello Everyone,

The Participants of The Invisible generation projects in Melbourne, Shenzhen, Beijing and Kiev are all waiting for Vision Forum's first publication that looks at the outcome of these magnificent projects. Editor Gerrie van Noord and designer Marie are working day and night on either side of the English Channel to get everything ready to send off to the printers after Christmas. Here are two unofficial samples of how it might look! For more documentation and info about the project click here.

THE QUANTUM POLICE @ DKTUS, Stockholm

2010-11-28T19:15:00.010+01:00

Per Hüttner in collaboration with Jean-Louis Huhta - curated by Anne Klontz
Performance – Saturday 4 December kl 19

“There is an invisible and little known force amongst us called ‘The Quantum Police’. They operate internationally and assimilate unnoticed into civilian communities. Their actions strive toward renegotiating the relationship between individual and society and claim that the law, morality and reality are all unique to the inner self.”

For the event at DKTUS, artist Per Hüttner will create a performance based on an anonymous woman’s role as a QP mediator and will include her entire transcribed interview along with videos and music played outside the gallery’s courtyard. In collaboration with Hüttner, musician and DJ, Jean-Louis Huhta will perform using a unique musical score created by Charlie White, an artist who in the late 80s developed a series of performances he called “Interviews” based on conversations with QP founder Johnny Ross. White believed that over time, Ross lost sight of the true meaning behind QP and therefore wanted to re-establish his voice as the strength of the movement. White added a soundtrack to the interviews which were then re-interpreted by a DJ as White performed wearing an LAPD uniform and using materials like glass sheets, halogen lamps and vinyl texts.

A reflection on the event can be found here.

Natalia Kamia @ Mors Mössa Gothenburg

2010-11-14T13:02:00.003+01:00

Natalia Kamia presents her trans-disciplinary work at Gothenburg's cult gallery Mors Mössa. She will perform live with Martin Nurmi on the first and last days of the exhibition. Kamia also recently performed at Noid Gallery in London.

More info about the two events here.

Public discussion at Verkstad - "Upplev Norrköping" or "Poland is Normal"

2010-11-08T01:34:00.008+01:00

Time: Thursday 11/11, 6pm
At: Verkstad, Kvarngatan 38, Norrköping.

Participants:
Eva Arnqvist, artist
Josefina Syssner, researcher at Tema Ethnicity, Linköpings universitet
Kerstin Volminger, the Tourist board of Norrköping
Chaired by : Matilda Bengtsson, curator Verkstad

***

Also, we want to remind for those of you who have bought your new suits, red ties and who have had their hair cut, to not forget to sign up for our new internship program.

More info here:

Vision Forum in NYC, Philadelphia and Detroit

2010-10-23T23:59:00.007+02:00

Vision Forum members Fatos Ustek and Per Huttner are on a mini-tour of the East Coast. They will present new performances at Blago Bung/Emily Harvey Foundation in New York (Neither Dead nor Alive) and at Basekamp (Observe the Apprehension) in Philadelphia and also interview the father of cryonics Robert Ettinger in Detroit for Nowiswere.

keep an eye here, here, here and here for documentation and more information.

Creativity

2010-09-20T00:13:00.009+02:00

Stills from "The Limits of Control" by Jim Jarmusch, 2009

Creativity is the fountainhead of human civilizations. All progress and innovation depend on our ability to change existing thinking patterns, break with the present, and build something new. Given the central importance of this most extraordinary capacity of the human mind, one would think that the underlying neurocognitive mechanisms of creative thinking are the subject of intense research efforts in the behavioral and brain sciences. To study creative ideas, and how and where they arise in the brain, is to approach a defining element of what makes us human. […] There are several reasons why neuroscientists did not tackle creativity with the same kind of resolve as they did, say, with attention, memory, or intelligence. The most important of these is surely the problem of finding a way to study the creative process, especially its neural basis, in the laboratory […] The most important of these is surely the problem of finding a way to study the creative process, especially its neural basis, in the laboratory— under tightly controlled conditions. Clearly, one cannot simply take a volunteer, shove him/her into the nearest brain scanner, and tell him/her: Now, please be creative! The same, one might think, holds for insights. An insight is so capricious, such a slippery thing to catch in flagrante, that it appears almost deliberately designed to defy empirical inquiry.

A Review of EEG, ERP, and Neuroimaging Studies of

Creativity and Insight, Arne Dietrich and Riam Kanso, American University of Beirut

Natasha Rosling ‘Foreign Bodies’

2010-09-09T15:57:00.004+02:00

September 9 - October 17, 2010
Private View: Wednesday 8 September, 6-9 PM

Hidde van Seggelen Gallery presents an exhibition by Natasha Rosling (London, 1985). Constructed within the new gallery, Rosling has integrated the gallery wooden roof as a rack from which her largescale structures dissect and hover above the ground. Over the recent years Rosling has produced installations internationally: at OCAT Center of Contemporary Art, China; Sculpture Space, Utica, United States; Badjidala Centre of Contemporary Art, Mali; European Ceramic Work Centre, Den Bosch and W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

www.hiddevanseggelen.com

Program Vision Forum/KSM workshop

2010-08-24T05:21:00.001+02:00

Ateljé 2, Kåkenhus, Linköpings universitet, and Verkstad för Konst, Norrköping, September 2-3, 2010

Hello Everybody,

We are looking forward to hosting you all at this two day seminar and offering everyone this opportunity to meet and to exchange ideas and experience.

Thursday September 2
10.00 Arrival and presentation of KSM and Vision Forum - Mattias Åkesson, Anna Berglind and Per Hüttner.
11.00 Anne Klontz – Simultaneity a project at RKIS in Stockholm and Platform China in Beijing with artists from Romania, China and Holland. (http://anneklontz.blogspot.com/)

12-13 Lunch.

13.00 The MA students make their 5 minute presentations.
13.30 Yulia Usova and Viktor Sobiianskyi presents The Invisible Generation, a performative project in public the public space in Kiev. (http://tig-kiev.blogspot.com/)
14.30 Francesca Grossi and Vera Magnioli – Performance Season, the world’s first (?) online performance project. (http://www.performanceseason.com/)
15.30 Laura Guy – Project After S – buried duck eggs art and architecture between Shenzhen and London. (http://laura-guy.blogspot.com/)
16.30 Good TV – This Image Is No More – non object based exhibition about memories in Beijing. (http://visionforum2009.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-image-is-no-more-invisible.html)

17.30-19.00 Break

19.00 – Dinner at Verkstad för konst. (http://www.verkstadkonst.se/)
20.00 – Open bar Verkstad för konst with videos and performaces. (Invite your friends to join!!!)

Friday September 3
9.30 Louise Nilson and Lisa Boström – Travels, two publications about travel in the contemporary art world. (http://lisaandlouise.blogspot.com/)
10.30 Fatos Ustek – London Houses, from museum to retreat in 6 months. (http://visionforum-londonhouses.blogspot.com/)

12.-13 Lunch.

13.00 The Vision Forum students make their 5 minute presentations.

13.30 Geoffrey Lowe – A Constructed World and Speech and What Archive two ongoing projects investigating the nature of communication and audience. (http://speecharchive.blogspot.com/)
14.30 Claire Louise Staunton – Inheritance Shenzhen and New Cities Project
(http://inheritanceprojects.org/inh-sz/)
15.30 Summery and reflections - Mattias Åkesson, Anna Berglind and Per Hüttner.

You are, VERY, VERY WELCOME!!!

Introduction to the Vision Forum nodes 2010-11

2010-08-03T14:24:00.001+02:00

Project 1 - Oounpo

Oounpo is the development of If you don’t want god you’d better have a multiverse, an itinerant project which explores the concepts of time, space and the role of subjectivity. The project intends to address art as place where these concepts can be translated into form and become the location for interplay between artists, curators, academics and the public.

Ouunpo is a play upon Oulipo: Ouvroir de littérature potentielle (“workshop of potential literature"), a loose gathering of (mainly) French-speaking writers and mathematicians which seeks to create works using constrained writing techniques. It was founded in 1960 by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais, while other notable members include novelists Georges Perec, Italo Calvino and Hervé Le Tellier, poet Oskar Pastior and poet/mathematician Jacques Roubaud. The group defines the term 'littérature potentielle' as: "the seeking of new structures and patterns which may be used by writers in any way they enjoy."
Constraints are used as a means of triggering ideas and inspiration. As well as established techniques, such as lipograms and palindromes, the group devises new techniques, often based on mathematical problems such as the Knight's Tour of the chess-board and permutations. Oounpo works in the same way, though its primary concern is visual art.

For more info about the project:

http://visionforumouunpo.blogspot.com/

http://visionforum-rome.blogspot.com/

Project 2: Speech and What Archive

Speech and What Archive is also a continuation of a Vision Forum project from 2009-10 lead by the artist duo A Constructed World. This year it will function as a moving conversation between participants in different places seeking new ways to represent fragmentation. Rather than identifying with the unified, constituted subject this course seeks to find shared relations through construction and fragmentation. ACW now have productive group of students and researchers and it would be very purposeful to continue with them.
Conversations — in small groups, altogether in workshop meetings, one-on-one, by Skype, by phone, in person — are the media used by participants to make an account of, and represent, ways we may be linked together in a fragmented world. The course will bring together students and collaborators from places including Paris, Angers, Sweden, Barcelona, Jakarta, Melbourne, San Francisco and New York.
Students will decide appropriate ways to represent their participation making art works using video, text, image, performance or any other appropriate media. Outcomes can include events, exhibition, publications and opportunities for collaboration with students from other schools that ACW are attached to as professors and associates. (ACW are currently working with students from Ecole nationale supérieure d’art Nice and are professors at Ecole supérieure des beaux-arts d’Angers.)

For more info about the project:

http://speecharchive.blogspot.com/

http://visionforumparis.blogspot.com/

Project 3: The New Cities Project

In the past year, as a Vision Forum node, myself and my team members initiated a temporary project in the 'new town' of Shenzhen, South China. Inheritance - Shenzhen, is a project space that acts as an experimental hub with the aim of investigating and dealing with the art history of such a young city, to promote and commission new work and to provide a local space for art happenings. We worked in partnership with the British Council, Asia Art Archive, Arthub Asia, PRSFoundation and the Contemporary Art Terminal/He Xiangning Museum and the Shenzhen/Hong Kong Biennial.

The project in Shenzhen is merely the first in a long-term project that I hope to initiate that networks 'New Towns' around the world (both in real life and online) We have identified:
Shenzhen (CN)
Chandigarh (India - an entire city designed by Le Corbusier),
Brasilia (BR)
Milton Keynes (UK)

The New Cities project is entirely experimental - determined by its indeterminacy. There are some places, there are some artists and there are some preconceptions. There surely must be some commonalities? There is certainly a sense of strangeness in each of these places that necessarily comes without an indigenous population. The officials and planners of these cities are forever attempting to make up for something that is missing - but they will never be able to since what is missing is a past. They are attempting some sort of time travel. Which in a sense, is what I hope the project will be. A journey through time and space, with the medium of art as some sort of vessel or even a channel/pathway. There is also a sense of freedom that comes with a city that has no recognisable geographically fixed tradition or peoples and within this I would like to develop the most experimental in-between (infrathin!) context for communication and art making.

For more info:

http://inheritanceprojects.org/

http://visionforummiltonkeynes.blogspot.com/

Project 4: What Cannot be Said

Collaboration between Fei Art Center and Vision Forum

What Cannot Be Said brings together 4 young artists and curators to create a series of interviews that discuss the limits of what can be expressed – in words, in art or in science. It develops themes that are at the core of Vision Forum’s activities such as:

What are the boundaries of human knowledge? What role should art play? How can art be more visionary and give more to its audience? The project also addresses issues as, how do you deal with experiences and phenomena that cannot be expressed or explained.

What Cannot Be Said addresses questions related to censorship, what is the difference between an inner censorship and an exteriorly imposed silence? How can knowledge be safeguarded and passed on without becoming instruments of oppression?

What Cannot Be Said is firmly grounded in the culture of visual art and also approach the boundaries of what art can address, express and how it functions differently from other genres and sciences.

In keeping with the Vision Forum spirit the participants are invited to question academic forms of writing and also invite non-art professionals to be interviewed to ensure an interdisciplinary approach and to safeguard that the dialogue does not become to introverted, but deals with real issues in life.

Wang Dan
Angelo Romano
Liu Xinyi
Susanne Ewerlöf

The project will be published on the Vision Forum and FCAC websites in parallel in English and Chinese.

For more info about the project:

http://visionforumshanghai.blogspot.com/

http://www.feiartcenter.com/en/archive.asp/

Project 5: Vision Forum – London

The set of activities:
- Meeting at a pub for a table soccer tournament, Shoreditch, East London.
- Visiting Houses of people who have produced meta-statements in the course of their lives. i.e. Freud, John Soane, John Latham, Swedenborg, John Hunter, T.S.Eliott...
- Visiting Julian Barbour in his residency at Oxfordshire and have an afternoon of talking on the condition of time as a construct.
- Going for a 10 day meditation retreat to North England

The structure:
The group will be visiting 9 selected houses in the course of 3 months. During the visits, the housekeepers, directors, curators will be asked to introduce us the imagined territories those people have mapped. Let this be the introduction to Freudian acknowledgement of subconscious or the flat time theory of John Latham...
These introductions will be followed by the inner group dialogue while residing in the premises for the course of three hours.
After the visits, the group will travel together to northern England to attend a 10-day meditation. Hence the space of encounter will shift from social to the personal.

For more info about the project:

http://visionforum-londonhouses.blogspot.com/

Project 6: L'entremet de Panama

2011, Panama City.

Jochen Dehn, Mark Geffriaud, Ulrich Gall, Per Hüttner, Ben Kinmont, Géraldine Longueville, Charles Mazé, Raimundas Malasauskas, Jon Phillips, Pratchaya Phinthong, Natasha Rosling, Coline Sunier, Fabien Vallos, Olav Westphalen.

Receptary : writing of cookery
The writing of a recipe probably comes from a culinary experience whose result seemed satisfying enough to keep and compile its elaboration. It recounts the different steps of the making of a dish to guaranty the success of its repetition : anticipation of the ingredients to purchase, direct use of the materials, planning of the result. A recipe is like a game book describing how a practical experience is carried out by suggesting a few narrative ingredients. Its writing was developed by medieval chefs (middle of the 14th century). The main purpose of these treatise was to point out the culinary talents of these masters, bringing their renown to the kings that would then hire their service1. But right before that in fact, the first recipe books, called receptaries, were written by several hands, margins commonly used to complete or precise one step or to add an ingredient. One of the first known receptary, the Viandier de Guillaume Tirel dit Taillevent, is more of a collective compilation of recipes (written between 1373 and 1381) than the work of a single author. The notion of authorship not being primordial at that time, a text would frequently bear the marks of several contributions. In the different manuscripted and printed versions of the Viandier, entire chapters are erased, added and modified. Besides recipes, receptaries would also compile medical cures, descriptions of historical feasts and preparations of entremets. A recipe is a narrative and practical genre in itself, a mix of culinary ingredients, allegorical representations and political propaganda. L'entremet The entremet is an entertainment combining luxury dishes, disguised food and plays, animated or not, served and performed between the courses of fastuous banquet. The interlude brook the highly codified ceremonial of the banquet composed as a representation of power. Without having to leave, the guests would thus take a break and give free will to their comments and activities. The entremet attests to the taste for ornamentation and architecture, notably expressed by the erection of monumental patés and by the arrangement of feathers on the roasted game. The entremet evolved towards artistic representation as described in the last chapter of the Viandier. The entremet of painted and carved images was not so much about edible food than representation of allegorical scenes through paintings, sculptures and live performances, all of which first took place on the table before being progressively removed on specifically designed stages. There were real shows with scenarios, actors and dramatic action. Added to the luxurious ornamentation of the table set, the entremet was a pretext for a monumental, allegorical and fantasmagorical imagery.

An example of an entremet, writing by the chief Chiquart in his book Du fait de cuisine in 1420. He describes a famous banquet organized by Amédée VIII. The text is written in an old french. It describes enormous meals made for example with head wild boar or pork, roasted, painted in green, gold and yellow glaze, spitting out fire. Some towers carried by children angel dressed, where rose water and wine flow across machicolation. Fruits, birds, roasted chicken, big fish cooked into three ways : the head is boiled, the queue is roasted, the middle is fried, and for each part a new sauce : green, orange etc...

For more info about the project:

http://visionforumpanama.blogspot.com/

Project 7: SPACING ONE’S THOUGHTS (provisional title)

Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam – 12-23 November 2010 (tbc)

Spacing one’s thoughts is a series of events organised as part of a collaboration between Yael Davids and Vanessa Desclaux. The point of departure for this project is common interest in questions of the articulation of language, speech and voice in the production of subjectivity and political agency.

The project is grounded in two projects: Learning to Imitate, an ongoing performance project by Yael Davids, and A Stuttering Exhibition, an exhibition in the form of a lecture by Vanessa Desclaux. This new series of events will take place over a period of 10 days at Galerie Akinci and will present these two projects alongside others by artists, writers, theorists and curators invited by Davids and Desclaux. Guest participants will be asked to reconfigure the space of the gallery for the specific purpose of their presentations.

For more info about the project:

http://visionforumamsterdam.blogspot.com/

Project 8: POOL PARTY KABUL

We are intrigued with the Olympic swimming pool on top of Tapa Bibi Mahroo in Kabul. The amenity was built by the occupying Soviet forces in the 1980s, who were probably posted on the hill to watch out for Afghan mujahedin. It has never been officially used as a pool, because there was no way that even the Soviets could get water to travel uphill at such a steep angle. In the mid- 1990s the Taliban pushed blindfolded criminal offenders from the highest springboard to test whether they would survive, if not they were sometimes still not freed but shot. Today kids play in the cement construction, men bet on their fighting hens or dogs in it, and every now and then after heavy rain fall one can cool off in it. This site of shabby majesty has never seen much water or collective happiness. We would like to change that by organizing an international pool party. The project aims at putting a group of local and foreign artists, Kabul children, students and other representatives from the city together to clean and paint the pool and find a way to fill it with water.

Vision Forum and KSM workshop september 2-3

2010-08-03T13:55:00.002+02:00

Vision Forum and KSM are co-organizing a 2 day seminar september 2 and 3.

A dozen interesting artists and curators (from all over europe, australia and the us) who have realized projects for Vision Forum in 2009-10 will present this work, their respective practice and their outlook on life and art. Verkstad för konst will also organize a bar and social events on september 2. It will be a wonderful opportunity for each of you to be stimulated by their inspiring and creative work and also to meet and talk to them in person.

Speakers include:

Geoffrey Lowe, A Constructed World, Paris
Fatos Ustek, Nowiswere, London and Istanbul
Claire Louise Staunton, Inheritence, London

You can find more info about what they do on:

http://visionforum2009.blogspot.com/

and

http://visionforum2010.blogspot.com/

more details about the events will appear here in late August.

2010-06-02T22:00:00.004+02:00

Routine for reimbursements of your costs and handling of receipts

The routine for reimbursements of your costs and handling of receipts works as follows. Your expenditures will be reimbursed as soon you have used up your entire budget (one payment per term) and you have sent the original receipts plus one photocopy of each sheet to Per:

Per Hüttner
143 Boulevard de Magenta
75010 Paris
France

1. Tape up all the receipts on A4-sheets – see example here: receipts.jpg

2. Make two photocopies of the sheet(s). (Keep one for your own reference and send one to Per)

3. Make an excel-file where you sum up all your costs and convert to Swedish kronor. You can make conversions on www.xe.com/ucc . Make sure that the numbers of the receipts correspond to your list.

You find a template that you can use here: example.xls

4. Include a paper which has the following information:

Your Name and Address,
Your Bank's BIC address
Your Bank account's IBAN number

5.Name of the course that you are taking:

Tvärmedial gestaltning och samtidskonst 739G01,
Utställningen som medium 739G08,
Tvärmedial gestaltning och samtidskonst, avancerad 739A22,
Utställningen som medium, avancerad 7739A23,
KG MASTER-projekt (Swedish master) 739A25,
INT. MASTER 2009 – 739A35

6. e-mail your BIC and IBAN to: pah@swipnet.se

Please note:

- that you will be reimbursed for costs related to travel (tickets, accommodation etc) and material costs. If you buy inventory (e.g. computer hardware, camera equipment etc.) this will belong to LiU and will have to be returned when you finish the course.
- that costs for food, web-hotels and domain names will only in special cases be reimbursed.

- that if you do not follow the above, your documents will be returned to you.