>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)

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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