21.05.2013
20,00 Uhr
Theory Tuesdays
I, An Actress...
Drag in Artist’s Moving Image.
For this Theory Tueday session, Ian Wooldridge has put together a selection of artists’ films and videos whereby male performers take on a drag persona.
1: I, An Actress, George Kuchar (1977) 8min
2: Mario Banana No1, Andy Warhol (1964) 3min
3: Excerpt from: Hail The New Puritan, Charles Atlas (1986) 6 min
4: Excerpt from: The Laziest Girl in Town, Mark Morrisroe (1981) 3 min
5: Keys to Our Heart, Kalup Linzy (2008) 24min
6: K-CorealNC.K (section a), Ryan Trecartin (2009) 33 min
The following two texts will also be briefly discussed in relation to the films.
"George Kuchar - Text & Interview" by Ed Halter
"Lipstick Traces: The Films of Mark Morrisroe" by Stuart Corner
The films, texts and discussion will be in English.
> George Kuchar
> Lipstick Traces
22.05.2013 -
23.05.2013
I’m that angel
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Tyler Coburn’s I’m that angel explores the conditions of how we work on and against the computer, narrated from the perspective of a “content farmer”: an emergent type of online journalist contracted to generate articles based on words peaking in Google Trends.
As a text, I’m that angel takes shape as a stony stone, a cut in the stream—a book. Its format shores up the paraliterary, confessional, and epistolary precedents for our virtual vernaculars. Designed by Eric Nylund, the pages concretize found quotes, trending language, anecdotes, notes and rants; call it inattentionality as method.
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If the book sustains a material limit that belies the diffuse shape of the cloud, then its readings attempt similar concretions by having reader and audience occupy the sites that compose the physical form of the Internet. On other occasions, readings pair with documentation shot on server floors, thus temporarily constructing the data center within the art institution. Each scenario discloses securitized spaces in which reader and audience already reside, for we encounter the material doubles of our virtual subjectivities as data stored in server form.
Rather than concede to the seeming intractability of cognitive capitalism, these readings potentiate novel, critical operations through shared access, listening and discussion. Across its parts, I’m that angel argues for a renewed consideration of the immanent horizons of subjectivity, sociability and creativity.
PLEASE NOTE:
The reading-performance will take place at Google Zurich and is booked out. No seats available anymore.
Thanks to Google for supporting and hosting "I'm that angel".
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In May and June, Coburn is performing at data centres and institutions throughout Europe, including Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp; CAC Vilnius; Grazer Kunstverein; the Pionen Data Center, Stockholm; EvoSwitch, Amsterdam, in collaboration with San Serriffe; e-shelter, Berlin, in collaboration with Archive Kabinett; Volta, London, in collaboration with South London Gallery; and Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, in collaboration with Peep-Hole. Copies of I’m that angel are available at bookstores and institutions worldwide.
24.05.2013
19,00 Uhr
Practical Fridays
Practical Fridays is a series of activities extending the "Each One, Teach One" philosophy of Theory Tuesdays. During this Practical Fridays session, Daniel Morgenthaler will conduct a composting workshop, on-site, in his Schrebergarten.
What goes into a compost, and what should not? How do you build a compost? What exactly happens inside it? And how many worms should you ideally find in a handful of compost?
This workshop will provide answers to these and other questions on compost, also known as the «gold of every biological garden». Please bring along with you what you think makes for good compost.
We will meet at Corner College at 7pm and then go to the Schrebergarten together.
In case you are late, take Tram No 3 from Lochergut to Fellenbergstrasse, then call 077 460 18 72.
25.05.2013
16,00 Uhr
On-Curating
Issue 17: Design Exhibited
Mit einem Gespräch zwischen Urs Lehni, Burkhard Meltzer, Tido von Oppeln, Sarah Owens, Stefan Wagner
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Design auszustellen, ist heute kein Ausnahmefall mehr. Vielmehr begegnen wir Ausstellungsszenarien nicht nur in spezialisierten Museen, Galerien oder Messen, sondern darüber hinaus auch in vielen Alltagssituationen. Situationen, in denen Design weder im Gebrauch noch primär als Produkt erscheint. Design im Sinne industrieller Herstellung hat sich in eine Disziplin des Ausstellens gewandelt. Dabei ist auch das Herstellen zum favorisierten Ausstellungsthema geworden. In Ausstellungssituationen werden jedoch nicht nur alternative Produktionsmöglichkeiten für Produkt- und Grafikdesign erprobt, sondern viele Designentwürfe entstehen auch ausschliesslich dafür. KünstlerInnen wie Mamiko Otsubo oder Tobias Madison setzen sich in ihren Arbeiten mit einem Designverständnis auseinander, das vor allem über Ausstellungssituationen etwas herstellt. Die von Burkhard Meltzer, Tido von Oppeln und Sarah Owens konzipierte Ausgabe führt verschiedene Perspektiven aus kuratorischer Praxis, Design, Kunst und Theorie zusammen. Ein Gespräch, das die HerausgeberInnen während der Produktion geführt haben, begleitet Interviews und visuelle Beiträge.
Beiträge von Jan Boelen, Konstantin Grcic, Urs Lehni, Tobias Madison, Burkhard Meltzer, Tido von Oppeln, Sarah Owens sowie einer künstlerischen Intervention von Mamiko Otsubo.
Anschliessend Grill.
28.05.2013
19,00 Uhr
Die Hasena, seit 1981
Aktion des Komponisten Hans-Joachim Hespos in der Reihe "Kunst die Wissen schafft" der Hasena, Dalvazza 2006
Anlässlich der Aufarbeitung des Archivs der Hasena, welches kürzlich einen erstem Stopp in der Ausstellung "serge stauffer – kunst als forschung" im Helmhaus Zürich hatte, sprechen die Teilnehmenden über "die Hasena". Dieses Institut, gegründet 1981 von Peter Trachsel, ist ein unabhängiger Kunstraum, ein Salon, ein offenes Gästehaus, ein interdisziplinäres Experimentierlabor, seit 1987 situiert im Prättigau (Graubünden). Die Hasena manifestiert sich in den Worten von Kathrin Gantenbein in "unterschiedlichsten Topographien als öffentlicher Raum, in dem Frei- und QuerdenkerInnen jeglicher Couleur ihre Feldforschungsresultate, Versuchsanordnungen, Visionen und Utopien zur Diskussion stellen."
Ein Gespräch mit Elisabeth Blum, Julie Harboe, Birgit Kempker und Stephan Kunz. Moderation Michael Hiltbrunner. Mit einer Einführung in das Archiv der Hasena von Birgit Kempker.
31.05.2013
14,00 Uhr
INTERVENTIONS
A philosophical symposium with work and work in progress by international scholars and thinkers
Intervention 2012
Interventions is an informal and open symposium that allows scholars and thinkers to present their recently finished work and their work in progress. Interventions thrives on the unexpected juxtapositions and clashes that result from addressing a wide range of philosophical and political issues such as autonomy, economy, finitude, aporias, capitalism, and many more. Interventions does not limit itself to a specific discipline and welcomes all intriguing papers from Switzerland and abroad.
SCHEDULE
14:00 Methods of tricksters in Húsavík, or: how to find new forms of intervening. Anabel Sarabi
14:45 Remembering Mnemosyne. Jacob Miller
15:30 On Thinking. Julia Hölzl
16:15 Appropriation: Ich und […] die Frage der Aneignung. Daniel Marti
17:00 Perhaps this time we have gone too far. Luce deLire / benedikt wahner
17:45 “When the Forms of Musick change, ’tis a Promise of civil Disorder.” Christian Hänggi
18:30 Geo-strategic vectors influencing the crossing of the Central Alps in the High Middle Ages. Gian Trepp
19:30 Barbecue
For full program see PDF below.
Interventions is organized by Christian Hänggi.
01.06.2013 -
08.06.2013
CAS/MAS Bilden – Künste – Gesellschaft
«KÜNSTLERISCHE BILDUNG»
The ZHdK study program «Bilden – Künste – Gesellschaft» enables its students to develop and undertake their own artistic and arts education practices within and outside institutions, as well as within socio-cultural settings involving diverse social groups.
During one week at Corner College, the 2012-13 students will present the result of collective projects they realized, around the three different themes : civil disobedience, tragedy of the commons and youth representation.
Vernissage: Tuesday, June 4 at 7pm
Exhibition Discussion: Tuesday, June 4 at 8pm
14.06.2013
20,00 Uhr
Practical Fridays
Practical Fridays is a series of activities extending the "Each One, Teach One" philosophy of Theory Tuesdays.
Ian Kerr - Diagram
In this Practice Friday session, Amélie Brisson-Darveau, Christoph Brunner and Jacqueline Poloni will explore different kinds of diagrams, in artistic, performance and philosophical practices. Diagrams are strange devices and techniques which attempt to make relations tangible and at the same time evade straight formats of representation. They are expression in physical as much as in immaterial ways. The goal is to familiarize ourselves with diagrammatic practices as means for tracing and enabling movement. Not dividing between movement in space and movement of thought we want to foreground and experiment with techniques of non-representational expression and relational movement. The material exposure will be complemented with collectively developed techniques and propositions for diagrammatic practices.
Resource for inspiration:
http://diagramworkshop.wordpress.com
20.06.2013
19,00 Uhr
Between Here and There
Contemporary Art In Romania
Lia Perjovschi, The Universe, 2007
Olga Stefan will present the political and cultural context, selections of work by practicing artists and initiatives, as well as the current debates and issues affecting the art scene in Romania.
In conjunction with this presentation will be launch of the On Curating Magazine's issue co-edited by Olga Stefan, Social Curating and Its Public: Curatorial Reports from Eastern Europe.
22.06.2013
Die vergessenen schönsten Schweizer Bücher
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More coming soon!