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Effektivia Rehearsal.

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

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

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"

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


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



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

more info here:

CINEMIXA IN JAPAN

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

“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 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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

(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

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(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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

The new issue of Nowiswere is out!

download your own copy here.

The Next Vision Forum Workshop.

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

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.