The Invisible Generation publication is taking shape

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

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

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"

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

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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

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

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’

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