Sunday, 28.02.2010 -
Friday, 29.06.2012
Beginning from March 2010 to June 2012 Corner College has co-organised and co-hostsed a bookstore offering a wide selection of books, magazines and artists' publications provided by Motto Berlin.
Foyer Shelf
Haute Bricolage
Corner College Shelf
Outside View
For more informations and orders go to:
Motto Distribution
variomatlink::Motto Zürich Facebook::http::www.facebook.com/mottozurich?ref=ts
Friday, 02.12.2011 -
Saturday, 17.12.2011
Established in 11.11.2011 in New York by artist Triin Tamm, this nomadic collection is assembling, archiving and exhibiting art in the form of 35 mm slides in a looping carousel. The evergrowing project will accessible to the public through various "Slide Shows" organized by guest curators and Triin Tamm herself. Confirmed shows for 2012 include Contemporary Museum of Art, Estonia (Tallinn), Sans Serriffe (Amsterdam), KIM? Contemporary Art Centre, (Riga) and Primetime (New York).
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Including slides from more than 60 artists, "Simultaneous Slide Show" will be on display in the Corner College until the 18th of December 2011. If you happen to be in the area, please pass by and submit a slide!
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Contributions by: Benjamin Artola, Johanne Birkeland, Serge Comte, Audrey Cottin & Kelly Schacht, Clôde Coulpier, Stéphane Déplan, Martine Derks, Maarten Dings, Joachim Naudts, Egon Van Herreweghe, Daniel Eatock, Adam Etmanski, Dénes Kalev Farkas, Andris Feldmanis, Kasia Fudakowski, Séverine Gorlier, Sam de Groot, Morten Norbye Halvorsen, David Horvitž, Unndór Egill Jónsson, Krõõt Juurak, Tuukka Kaila, Laura Kaminskaitė, Lucie Kolb, Jiří Kovanda, Paul Kuimet, Mikko Kuorinki, Laura Kuusk, Camille Laurelli, Jürg Lehni, Urs Lehni, Anna Lindal, Nicolas Matranga & Žiga Testen, Fanette Muxart, Rick Myers, Corina Neuenschwander, Aapo Nikkanen, Serge Onnen, Eléonore Pano-Zavaroni, Jurgis Paškevičius, Elise Pautard, Ryan Rivadeneyra, Jani Ruscica, Tõnis Saadoja, San Serriffe, Ellen Henriette Suhrke, Triin Tamm, Laura Toots, Lex Trüb, Stephanos Tsivopoulos, Anja Ulset, Timm Ulrichs, Anu Vahtra, Grant Watkins, Walter Warton and others.
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"It's not called the Wheel. It's called the Carousel."
-- Don Draper
Monday, 12.12.2011
20:00h
Social Works
From the back cover of the book: "At a time when art world critics and curators heavily debate the social, and when community organizers and civic activists are reconsidering the role of aesthetics in social reform, this book makes explicit some of the contradictions and competing stakes of contemporary experimental art-making.
Social Works is an interdisciplinary approach to the forms, goals and histories of innovative social practice in both contemporary performance and visual art. Shannon Jackson uses a range of case studies and contemporary methodologies to mediate between the fields of visual and performance studies. The result is a brilliant analysis that not only incorporates current political and aesthetic discourses but also provides a practical understanding of social practice."
During this Theory Tuesdays session, we will be discussing the second chapter of Jackson's book - the chapter titled: "Quality Time: Social Practice Debates in Contemporary Art".
Wednesday, 14.12.2011
18:00h
1953 wurde die Internationale Vereinigung XYLON gegründet, um die Technik des künstlerischen Hochdrucks zu fördern und die Aufmerksamkeit auf die zeitgenössische Kreativität auf diesem Gebiet zu lenken. Aus dieser Bewegung entstand 1961 die XYLON Zeitschrift, die nun seit fünfzig Jahren erscheint. Der Verein und die Zeitschrift sind aussergewöhnliche Beispiele für dauerhafte Selbstorganisation und die Leidenschaft für ein Medium.
In production right now
Anlässlich des 50-Jahr-Jubiläums erscheint ein einzigartiges Buch und belegt anhand von 50 Künstlerinnen und Künstlern die Vielfalt und die Aktualität des Holzschnittes in unserer Zeit.
Den Abend einleiten werden kurze Referate:
- Kaspar Toggenburger, Redaktor Zeitschrift Xylon: Die Geschichte der Originalgraphik im Buch
- Josef Felix Müller, Mit-Herausgeber Jubeldruck: Das Buch als Medium für die Kunst
Anschliessend Künstlergespräch mit Peter Emch, Kaspar Toggenburger, Josef Felix Müller, Moderation Stefan Wagner.
Am Jubeldruck beteiligte Künstlerinnen und Künstler: Jo Achermann, Ian Anüll, John Armleder, Fred Bauer, Veronika Brusa, Franz Bucher, François Burland, Jacques Cesa, David Chieppo, André Clerc, Claudia Comte, Rudolf Deertz, Thomas Dettwiler, Christiane Dubois, Peter Emch, René Fehr-Biscioni, Alice Gafner, Duri Galler, Eva Gallizzi, Bruno Gentinetta, Marcel Göhring, Otto Heigold, Heinz Keller, Barbara Kuebel, Adrian Künzi, Jean - Luc Manz, Lucien Martini, Mauerhofer Albert, Mettraux Sebastien, Claudia und Julia Müller, Josef Felix Müller, Caro Niederer, Marianne Rinderknecht, Thomas Ruch, Stefan Rutishauser, Roman Signer, Vital Simonet, Peter Stiefel, Christine Streuli, Ana Strika, Stephan Sude, Martin Thönen, Kaspar Toggenburger, Sebastian Utzni, Jean-Jacques Volz, Helmut Wenczel, Rolf Winnewisser, Michael Wissmann, Hans R. Wüthrich, Irène Wydler.
Mit Texten von Roland Früh, Stefan Wagner und Véronique Yersin.
Sunday, 18.12.2011
20:00h
Monday, 19.12.2011
20:00h
Critical Christmas Party
To celebrate the last Theory Tuesdays session of 2011, we will be screening the "Santiago Sierra" episode of Art Safari with Ben Lewis.
Santiago Sierra is Spain’s anti-capitalist artist and one of the world’s most radical artists. Ben travels with him to the heavily militarized border between North and South Korea, and then to the globalization hub of Dubai.
Art Safari is a BBC documentary series about contemporary artists in the international art scene.
Total running time: 30 minutes
Language: English (without subtitles)
Monday, 09.01.2012
20:00h
Still from Dave Charlesworth: Wander (Walker), 2011
Nicole Bachmann is an artist based in London and Zürich. She suggests a choice of different films. She writes:
"The choice of films reflects what is being produced in London at the moment. There is a strong narrative element which coincides or collides with the images showed alongside. A sort of video essay but maybe with a more de-constructionalist twist which plays on language and imagery and how they go together. A narrative voice accompanies the viewer through the film taking her along the story albeit it being associative and not a straight line. One exception presents EP Park's film where communication and narration are made difficult."
The following films will be screened:
Dave Charlesworth
Wander (Walker) (2011) 9'25''
The Wander (Walker) takes us on a walk through history and memory. A male narrator recites the story while photographs interchange quickly. "The photographs provide a guide to an off-kill of history"
EP Park
A Friend of Mine (2011) 6'09''
A film made out of filmstills with obscure texts and varying levels of possible reading.
Ralph Dorey
Sunk In (2011) 8'
Ralph Dorey's film deals with the concept of film and how things are constructed. But also with the question of what is an inner and outer structure and how to make them visible.
Annie Davey
no title or length yet
Annie Davey's film is a narrative that takes us on a journey having as starting point a contemporary building in London. On her way she visits a modernist icon and recounts her experience.
All films and artist will be introduced by Nicole Bachmann. Films are in English language with no subtitles.
Tuesday, 10.01.2012
19:00h
Not reconciled (nobody knows what a body is capable of)
Not reconciled (Nobody knows what a body is capable of), Film still, 2009
Marcelo Expósito will show and discuss parts of his new film «Not reconciled (nobody knows what a body is capable of)». Filmed in Argentina, «Not reconciled (nobody knows what a body is capable of)» is a free adaptation of the drama Hamletmachine by the German playwright Heiner Müller, which was staged in Buenos Aires by the group El Periférico de Objetos in the second half of the nineties. The film runs through several historical moments at which tools derived from the tradition of the aesthetic avant-gardes were put at the service of the social movement, in the Argentinean context, and pauses to look at experiences like the «siluetazo» in the eighties, and the participation of political art collectives in the new Human Rights movements, and in the practice of the «escraches» (the public actions that locate and publicly denounce unpunished collaborators with the massacre perpetrated by the last civil-military dictatorship in Argentina), which the movement H.I.J.O.S. (Sons and Daughters [of Disappeared Detainees] for Identity and Justice, against Oblivion and Silence) began to carry out in the mid-nineties.
Vortrag in englischer Sprache.
Eine Veranstaltung in der Vortragsreihe Ästhetik@Subversion
der Vertiefung Theorie in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Master of
Fine Arts des Departements Kunst & Medien der Zürcher
Hochschule der Künste ZHdK.
Wednesday, 18.01.2012
19:00h -
Friday, 20.01.2012
TWO NEW BOOKS
Marc Nagtzaam und Jan Kempenaers
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Roma Publications Amsterdam is back in Zürich with two new books. After the exhibition in August/September 2010 (Exhibition archive) Roma has invited Marc Nagtztaam to present new drawings out of his book "Reissue" (Roma Publication Nr. 164) as well as Jan Kempenaers with photos from the book "Picturesque".
Program:
19h Opening
19:01h Corner Cuisine
20h Talk with Marc Nagtzaam, Jan Kempenaers and ROMA-Editor Roger Willems (in English).
Corner College and Motto Zürich Store are very happy to welcome Roma Publications again.
Thursday, 19.01.2012
18:30h
MA D chit-chat : 20 Bilder x 20 Sekunden = 1 Projekt
Der Master of Arts in Design der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste veranstaltet
ein Semesterabschlussfest unter dem Motto eines Pecha Kucha* Abends und lädt alle herzlich ein.
MA D chit-chat : 20 Bilder x 20 Sekunden = 1 Projekt
MA Design Studierende präsentieren ihre aktuellen Projekte
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Neo-Craft-Lab – Das Kunsthandwerk neu gedacht
Tina Stieger befasst sich mit dem Innovationspotenzial des traditionellen Kunsthandwerks und dessen Überführung in die zeitgenössische Designpraxis.
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Slow to go – Die Verbindung vermeintlich gegensätzlicher Ernährungsphänomene
Fabienne Homberger zerlegt die Phänomene "slow" und "to go" in ihre Einzelteile und kreiert daraus neue zusammengesetzte Optionen für Slow to go-Bedürfnisse.
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Full Color Planet: Hollow Grounds – Die Bewohner von Ella, Teil I
Jeremy Spillmann führt Hollow Grounds vor, das erste Spiel rund um den Kartographen Piri, aus der dreiteiligen Independent Video Game Serie Full Color Planet.
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Daina: Das Herbarium - ein märchenhaftes Computerspiel für Jung und Alt
Dario Hardmeier und Raffaele de Lauretis benutzen das Prinzip des "Meaningful Gameplay" sowie analoge Medien, um ein neuartiges Abenteuerspiel zu entwickeln, welches insbesondere Kinder ansprechen soll.
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Follow or being followed – Communication based on synchronic acting
Andrés Villa Torres explores the sensorial boundaries and the paradigms of information transference between people. He studies cases where communication happens when people interact by observing, acting and copying each others movements.
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Decay – Designing for Ephemerality in Interactive Artefacts
Luke Franzke's project deals with emerging biodegradable technologies for use in interaction design, analysing the consequences of this prospect and developing new design approaches for this field of research.
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be cool use swiss wool – Schweizer Wolle als Rohstoff im Design nutzen
Madlaine Cappat befasst sich mit der Schweizer Wolle und deren Potenzial im Produkt Design.
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GPS Wetsuit – Grafik Design und neue Technologie für persönliche Produktbindung und Produktweiterentwicklung
Tina Luft untersucht die Möglichkeit durch Grafik Design und neue Technologien die emotionale Bindung zwischen Surfer und Neoprenanzug zu verbessern.
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A CASA. COMO CONVÉM – Kunstbuch bleibt Kunstbuch.
Priscila Gonzaga beschäftigt sich mit einem Haus im Nordosten Brasiliens und erstellt einen Guide zu einer ausgefallenen Kunstkommune in Recife; ein Projekt welches sich zwischen Kunst und Buchgestaltung bewegt.
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Visualization and Valorization – Ein Konzept für die archäologische Visualisierung und die Wissensvermittlung
Bernard Reymond entwickelt am Beispiel des römischen Cigognier-Heiligtums in Avenches(VD) ein Vermittlungskonzept, das die wissenschaftlichen Sachverhalte einem breiten Publikum erschliessen kann.
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master.design.zhdk.ch
*Pecha Kucha wurde 2003 in Tokio als ein Veranstaltungsformat für junge Designer entwickelt, um ihre Arbeiten einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit zu zeigen und somit neue Kontakte zu knüpfen. Das Format wird mittlerweile in Hunderten von Städten auf der ganzen Welt eingesetzt und inspiriert Kreativen weltweit. Basierend auf einer einfachen Idee: 20 Bilder x 20 Sekunden, das ist ein Format, dass Präsentationen kurz und prägnant macht, und die Veranstaltung vielfältig und in einem dynamischen Tempo hält.
www.pecha-kucha.org
Monday, 30.01.2012
20:00h
Planning Session 2012
Theory Tuesdays is organized around an "Each One, Teach One" participatory model. It's very simple. If you would like to suggest a specific text, film or invite a visiting artist for a Theory Tuesdays session in 2012, please come to the planning session with your ideas. We will then, collectively, fill in a calendar with everyone's suggestions and begin official sessions starting in February. Below is a list of requirements to keep in mind as you prepare your suggestion(s).
1. TEXTS - Art, architecture, design, critical & social theory texts (in both English AND German).
2. FILMS - By and or about specific artists, art & design movements, etc.
3. VISITING ARTISTS - The visiting artist will be expected to present their work and engage in a discussion about their practice.
4. TRAVEL SERIES - Present your photos, stories and experiences from a specific art event (examples: Venice Biennial, Documenta, Manifesta).
AUF DEUTSCH: Theory Tuesdays is not exclusively an English language reading/discussion group. Please don't hesitate to make suggestions that are in German!
Monday, 06.02.2012
20:00h
Visiting Artist Talk: Róza El Hassan
"No Corruption, Social Brand Wicker Art"
“No Corruption” was conceived as an international brand to produce functional objects based on wicker techniques. The products of the "No Corruption" brand demonstrate the high level and elegance of objects produced by the most discriminated people, if given temporarily, the same opportunities as the middle class.
In Hungary, about 600,000 people belong to the Roma minority. Most of them live in extreme poverty in small villages in eastern and southern Hungary. One of the traditional crafts of the region is a special wicker technique. When El Hassan arrived in the village of Szendrőlád, the elder masters still knew the ancient and unique techniques of wicker and special wood chip braiding, called szilács.
The starting point for El Hassan was in functional design: laptop-bags and camera-bags made of wicker. "No Corruption, Social Brand Wicker Art" brought together freelance artists and designers, scholars and Roma basket weavers to work alongside one another and develop products.
Project link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g28YYjPzMSc
Monday, 20.02.2012
20:00h
During this session, Daniel Morgenthaler will be presenting excerpts from the book “See it Again, Say it Again: The Artist as Researcher”, edited by Janneke Wesseling and published by Valiz.
“See it Again, Say it Again” sheds light on the phenomenon of research in the visual arts. In ‘artistic research’, practical acts (the making) and theoretical reflection (the thinking) go hand in hand, in a manner similar to creating and thinking being inextricably linked with artistic practice. This volume has been written from the perspective of art as practice.
Rumsfeld video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiPe1OiKQuk
> Artist as Researcher Text 1
> Artist as Researcher Text 2
> Artist as Researcher Text 3
> Artist as Researcher Text 4
> Artist as Researcher Text 5
Tuesday, 21.02.2012
20:00h
Album 1 - From Kunstkammers to Vanitas
Charlotte Cheetham is a french curator of graphic design and runs the blog manystuff.org. She will visit Corner College and have a lecture about her exploration and promotion of graphic design. Her practice, constantly redefined, is based on an experimental approach embodied in publishing experiences, in exhibition moments, and in a flow of information over the Internet. Working on interpretation, on reinterpretation, she is interested in the thinking process - multi-disciplinary, poetic, experimental and surprising - that leads to the final "form".
Monday, 27.02.2012
20:00h
Space - Place - Society: Are we all suburbanized?
During this session, Maarit Ströbele will be presenting three texts on the topic of "The Suburban". Departing from the Suburban as an important type of daily living environment, the three chosen texts will introduce ways of thinking about space and society. Robert Fishman analyses suburbia in a historical perspective, Thomas Sieverts writes about the contemporary (1991) European cityscape, and Prigge presents aspects of Lefebvre's conceptualization of space.
The session will be held in English.
> Suburban Text 1 - Fishman
> Suburban Text 2a - Sieverts
> Suburban Text 2b - Sieverts
> Suburban Text 3 - Prigge
Tuesday, 28.02.2012
20:00h
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Art writer and science fiction novelist Mark von Schlegell will read from and discuss his forthcoming book DREAMING THE MAINSTREAM: critical fantasies of U.S. power (Merve Verlag, Berlin). The talk will propose the state of publishing today, the history and transformation of science fiction in the 21st century context -- and propose "fictocriticism" as a coherent generic response to the current cultural context.
Thursday, 01.03.2012
19:00h
Rein Wolfs in conversation with Danh Vo
The relationship between curator and artist is the most decisive and probably most complex factor in the development of an exhibition project. Notions like trust, accomplishment and responsibility are keystones in the strengthening of this relationship. The curator is profiling his exhibition program, is choosing the artists, is setting up the best possible spatial, financial, physical and other necessary conditions and is responsible for the mediation of the artistic message. In a small series of talks, Rein Wolfs (Artistic Director of Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel/Germany) will invite artists who hold a strong and specific position in the force-field of curating.
Danh Vo, WE THE PEOPLE (Detail), Foto: Nils Klinger
Danh Vo (1975, Vietnam, resides 2012 in Basel) presented in his solo-show JULY, IV, MDCCLXXVI at Kunsthalle Fridericianum among other pieces a duplicate (original technique of hammered copper; original size and weight) of the Statue of Liberty, entitled WE THE PEOPLE. The exhibition touched fundamental questions in terms of production, finances and logistics, next to more philosophical and political questions. After the show in Kassel, parts of WE THE PEOPLE (will) appear in other exhibition spaces (New Museum New York, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Art Institute and Renaissance Society Chicago, etc).
Danh Vo discusses with Rein Wolfs the 'Making of WE THE PEOPLE' and the different questions being evoked by this seminal piece.
A conversation organised by The Postgraduate Programme in Curating, ZHdK.
Monday, 05.03.2012
20:00h
Film: Un Homme Qui Dort (A Man Asleep)
A young student (Jacques Speisser) decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him. His inner musings, as he wanders the luminous streets of Paris, are narrated in the form of an unwritten diary by Ludmila Mikael. A sublime and sometimes terrifying film about existentialism and ennui, Queysanne’s masterpiece won the 1974 Vigo prize.
“Un Homme Qui Dort” is based on the novel by George Perec who was a member of OuLiPo Group (L' Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle). OuLiPo also included members such as Marcel Duchamp, Italo Calvino, Oskar Pastior or Raymond Queneau.
Directed by Georges Perec & Bernard Queysanne
Total Running Time: 77 Minutes
Language: English
Monday, 12.03.2012
20:00h
During this session, Stefan Wagner will summarize Artur Żmijewski's text "Applied Social Arts". To make Żmijewski's artistic practice more transparent, there will also be a screening of "Two Monuments" (2009, 14 min 35 sec, English subtitles) and a discussion about the 7. Berlin Biennale, in which Żmijewski has been invited. The Berlin Biennale, that Żmijewski co-curated with Joanna Warsza and activist group Voina, has had a wide media presence after a project from the Czech artist Martin Zet. Zet asked to hand in Thilo Sarrazin's book "Deutschland schafft sich ab". The session will conclude with a controversial discussion about current artistic practices.
Artur Żmijewski, Still from
Download here Applied Social Arts from Krytyka Polityczna magazine.
Tuesday, 13.03.2012
20:00h
Experimental Connections -
Exploring Avant-Garde Movements in Japan
Takiguchi's study, 1980, Kiyoji Ohtsuji © Ohtsuji Family
If the japanese collective Gutai is more or less known internationnally, most generally as filling the gap in an evolutive vision of history of art between "action painting" and performance, many major collectives and avant-garde experiments in Japan (as Mavo, Jikken kobo, Zero Dimension, The Play, Hi Red Center) are still today quite unknown outside Japan. This lecture will present some of the many avant-garde developments that took place in Japan since the start of the twentieth century, and try to highlight their fonctionning and connections with artists and collective outside Japan.
The lecture will be framed by several japanese film screenings at AP News.
Lecture and screenings are based on a collaboration of AP News and Corner College.
Monday, 09.04.2012
20:00h
Text:
"Writing the Self: Of Diaries and Weblogs" by José van Dijck from the book "Sign Here!: Handwriting in the Age of New Media (Transformations in Art and Culture)" edited by Sonja Neef
> Writing the Self - Jose Van Dijck
Tuesday, 10.04.2012
20:00h
Cage & Stockhausen, 1958
A few days after the World Trade Center attacks in 2001, the German avantgarde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928−2007) held a press conference in which − taken out of context − he made the remark that they had been the greatest work of art. This caused great uproar and led to his condemnation by a general public who had not heard of him before. With some ten years distance, this lecture-performance will try to come to a less emotionally charged understanding of the ways in which these enigmatic comments may be interpreted.
Monday, 16.04.2012
20:00h
Text:
Excerpts from Text Zur Kunst / Issue 82: Artistic Research
Tuesday, 17.04.2012
19:00h
Park Fiction – die Wünsche werden die Wohnung verlassen und auf die Strasse gehen
Die Chancen standen schlecht: Mitte der 90erjahre führen St. PaulianerInnen mit schillernden Ideen für einen Park am Hafenrand, ihren Kampf gegen ein millionenschweres Bauprojekt - und setzen sich durch. Das Hamburger Park Fiction Projekt kombiniert Kunst & Politik, nomadische Kriegsführung und oszillierende Wünsche. Margit Czenki fragt in ihrem Vortrag nach der Stadt - und was sie sein könnte. Am Beispiel der zentralen Park Fiction Begriffe (Aneignung, kollektive Wunschproduktion, paralleler Planungsprozess), stellt sie vor, wie ein politischer Prozess zu einer Plattform des Austauschs und der Produktion von Ideen werden kann.
Eine Veranstaltung in der Vortragsreihe Ästhetik@Subversion
der Vertiefung Theorie in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Master of
Fine Arts des Departements Kunst & Medien der Zürcher
Hochschule der Künste ZHdK.
Monday, 23.04.2012
20:00h
Harvey Stromberg "Keyhole"
Text:
"A Productive Irritant : Parasitical Inhabitations in Contemporary Art" by Post Brothers & Chris Fitzpatrick
Link:
http://fillip.ca/content/parasitical-inhabitations-in-contemporary-art
Thursday, 26.04.2012
19:00h
‘What does the appointment of art dealer Jeffry Deitch as director of the Los Angeles Museum as director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art have to do with the trend of global financialization restarted at the Toronto G20 Summit in 2010? And how does the 25 percent attendance increase at the 2010 Gwanju Biennale fit in the picture?’ The editorial of the first issue of No Order: Art in a Post-Forsit Society, published by Archive Books, suggest that these events are among the symptoms of a global transformation of labor whereby knowledge, creativity, sociability, and ultimately life itself, are taking on the role played by machines in the Fordist era.
No Order magazine focuses on the relationships between contemporary art systems and capitalism’s production processes. By means of an investigation into current creative industries – and their social, economic and semiotic assemblages – the magazine contributions (essays, articles, interviews and dialogues as well as artists’ projects) aim to deconstruct, analyse and intervene within the ambit of the procedures and forms of cognitive capitalism. It concentrate, in particular, on the phenomena of the ‘biennalisation’, ‘financialisation’ and ‘spectacularisation’ of the political, beginning with the control and distribution of forms of artistic education, production and display on a global scale.
The Editorial Board is comprised of a series of transversal figures from various geographic and cultural environments, and includes Asef Bayat, Harun Farocki, Peter Friedl, Maurizio Lazzarato, Sylvère Lotringer, Achille Mbembe, Angela Melitopoulos, Christian Marazzi, Nelly Richard, Florian Schneider, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas and Françoise Vergès.
Amongst the numerous contributors to the first, 400 page issue are: Roger M. Burgel, Charles Esche, Harun Farocki, Stephen Willats, Maurizio Lazzarato and Christian Marazzi.
The cover picture is taken from the demonstrations at the Milan Triennale in 1968. The underlying theme of the XIV International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts and Modern Architecture was ‘Large Numbers’. The XIV Triennale never opened. It was occupied by students during the demonstrations and all the exhibition areas were destroyed. ‘Why not try to start again, precisely here in Milan? In that same space in which the great process of social transformation was interrupted?’
Marco Scotini (Editor in Chief of No Order, independent curator and director of the departments of Visual, Multimedia and Performing Arts at NABA, the New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan) and Andris Brinkmanis (coordinator and lecturer for the MA of Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies at NABA and International Editor of No Order) will introduce to the public the first issue of the magazine.
No Order
An event organised by The Postgraduate Programme in Curating, ZHdK.
Sunday, 29.04.2012
20:00h
Imitat, Raubkopie oder Fake-Design? Chinesische Baukunst
Das Authentische hat auch in China Konjunktur. In Zeiten der Globalisierung mit ihrem rasanten Verschleiss an ästhetischen Vorbildern und immer kürzeren Frequenzen der Erneuerung, stellen sich Fragen nach Vorbildern und Identität. Der Westen ist schnell mit oberflächlicher Kritik an den echten und vermeintlichen Kopien, die sich im Wildwuchs des chinesischen Aufstiegs zur Weltmacht finden lassen. Doch sind diese Stilblüten wirklich repräsentativ? Oft liefern ausländische Kollegen ihren zweiten Aufguss alter Konzepte, zitieren sich selbst oder transferieren tradierte Typen aus der eigenen Heimat.
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Ein Diskurs auf Augenhöhe, der die lokalen Fragen ernst nimmt und unvoreingenommen nach neuen Lösungen sucht, ist dagegen selten anzutreffen. In manchen Fällen mag das kopierfähige Modell die richtige Antwort sein, in anderen die Entwicklung neuer Strategien und die Suche nach angepassten Raumstrukturen, die einer sich entwickelnden Gesellschaft Rechnung tragen. Im Zeitalter der Collage, der Versatzstücke und Zitate, der „Inspiration“ durch fremde Kulturen und der eitlen „Trendsetter“-Architektur, bedarf es genauer Analysen und unvoreingenommener Lösungen, die jenseits hergebrachter Vorbilder mit Neugier und Offenheit den Weg für eine kulturelle Erweiterung suchen. Doch welche Konzepte sind tragfähig im neuen China? Welche kritische Haltung entwickelt sich und mit welchen Argumenten wird sie vorgetragen? Gibt es Lösungen jenseits dogmatischer Festlegungen die auch für die westliche Entwicklung von Belang sein könnten? Schlicht, können wir von China lernen?
In Zusammenarbeit mit Public City.
Tuesday, 01.05.2012
19:00h
Im Zentrum ihrer künstlerischen Arbeiten stehen Eingriffe in bestehende kulturelle Systeme. Dazu bedient sich die !Mediengruppe Bitnik der Strategien des Hackings und erweitert diese zu einer Praxis des Umnutzens, Neuausrichtens und der Kritik. Hacking als künstlerischer Eingriff in ein bestehendes System bedeutet, dass das System für andere Nutzungenn Neunutzungen und Umnutzungen geöffnet wird. Bitnik interessiert sich insbesondere für mediale Systeme, mediatisierte Wirklichkeiten und Live-Medien, die sie in einer Weise reproduziert und manipuliert, dass sie der Betrachterin eine neue Sichtweise auf die Mechanismen ermöglicht. In einer ihrer jüngsten Arbeiten beschäftigt Bitnik sich mit städtischen Überwachungsräumen. Mit einem portablen Koffer, ausgerüstet mit Schachcomputer, Videosender und Richtantenne spüren sie Überwachungs-kamerasignale im Stadtraum auf. Sie entführen das ursprüngliche Überwachungsbild und ersetzten es mit einer Aufforderung zu einem Schachspiel: «Spielst du Schach mit mir? - Du bist Weiss ich bin Schwarz». Der Überwachungsmonitor im Kontrollraum des Überwachenden wird von Aussen übernommen und zu einer Spielkonsole gemacht. Mit der Spielaufforderung durchbricht die !Mediengruppe Bitnik die Machtstruktur der Überwachungssituation – eine subtile Performance für einen einzelnen und speziell ausgewählten Rezipienten.
http://errrrrrrrror.bitnik.org/
Eine Veranstaltung in der Vortragsreihe Ästhetik@Subversion
der Vertiefung Theorie in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Master of
Fine Arts des Departements Kunst & Medien der Zürcher
Hochschule der Künste ZHdK.
Thursday, 03.05.2012
18:00h
Aesthetic Journalism
How to Inform Without Informing
Italian writer, curator and artist Alfredo Cramerotti will give an introduction in his book "Aesthetic Journalism: How to Inform Without Informing". Recognising the “blurring of margins between artistic and information practices” as a main feature in contemporary culture, Cramerotti sets out the Who, What, Where, When and How, and Why of Aesthetic Journalism.
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Cramerotti identifies this “'investigative approach” in contemporary art and photography as the use of fieldwork, reportage, interviews, document analysis, graphic mapping and information distribution. He cites a number of artists who employ these strategies: Hans Haacke, Martha Rosler, Lukas Einsele, Laura Horelli, Renzo Martens, Alfredo Jaar, Renée Green, The Atlas Group/Walid Raad and Bruno Serralogue. For Cramerotti, Aesthetic Journalism implies the critical use of documentary techniques and journalistic methods where the medium itself undergoes questioning. He posits that aesthetics, understood as a “process in which we open up our sensibility to the diversity of the forms of nature (and manmade environment)” can open up the mechanisms of art and media to expose the limitations of photojournalism, documentation and the ethics of representation. In doing so, Aesthetic Journalism renders productive readings of reality, information, fact, fiction and objectivity.
The concepts outlined in the book have been a key tool in the development of the Chamber of Public Secrets’ curatorial approach for the 8th edition of Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art: Manifesta 8 taking place in the region of Murcia, Spain.
Friday, 11.05.2012
17:00h
The Gentlewoman, a Modern Magazine
Veronica Ditting (Grafikdesignerin und Art Director) spricht über die visuelle Entwicklung der Zeitschrift The Gentlewoman. The Gentlewoman ist eine Zeitschrift für moderne Frauen und erscheint zweimal jährlich. Es geht um starke, echte, modebewusste Frauen und deren Ansichten, Lebensentwürfe und Berufe. Anspruchsvoller Journalismus, Fotografie und Gestaltung werden durch ein kleines Team realisiert. Veronica wird u.a. den Sprung von Fantastic Man zu The Gentlewoman erläutern, auf verschiedene Aspekte der Frauenzeitschrift eingehen und den visuellen Entstehungsprozess zeigen.
The Gentlewoman
Veronica studierte Grafikdesign an der Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam und ist seit 2005 als freischaffende Grafikerin tätig. Sie ist Art Director von den Zeitschriften The Gentlewoman und Fantastic Man und arbeitet vorwiegend im kulturellen Bereich. Bevorzugte Medien sind Bücher und Zeitschriften die in enger Zusammenarbeit mit den Auftraggebern entwickelt werden. Sie arbeitet hauptsächlich in Amsterdam sowie in London.
http://www.veronicaditting.com
http://vimeo.com/39263988
Monday, 14.05.2012
20:00h
Criticism of Measure: God and the Naked Woman
Aesthetics of Differends, section 1, detail, photo credit: MNAM-Centre Pompidou
Since 2008 Benoît Maire has started writing a manual of aesthetics where images, objects and writing take form to bring forth some of contemporary aesthetics’ main issues. Starting from the differend (insurmountable conflict) between saying and seeing, Benoît Maire works in an in-between where art and philosophy merge into a practical use where forms spread out and surpass one another. Neither philosophy, nor art, the Aesthetics of Differends looks to corrupt classical formats by the experimental use of theory. This reading in Zurich will be based on the relationship between liberalism, nudity, pleasure and language to propose a criticism of measure: the work and thoughts of Manet, Masacio, God, Perry Anderson, Catherine Malabou, Jean-François Lyotard, Bruno Bostells and Judith Butler will notably be at stake.
Tuesday, 15.05.2012 -
Friday, 25.05.2012
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Stray Topology is a group show of photographic works by students from the F+F Schule fur Kunst und Mediendesign Zurich. The works have been produced in response to an open ended dialogue on the perception of place and its representations. The show includes a screening and discussion as part of Theory Tuesdays.
Taking the position that place is both exactly where it is and a digression from itself, the project examines the encounter with place through perspectives on urbanism, architecture and literature.
These vantage points animate our relationship to place, suggesting a meshing of subjective experience with the processes of recollection. The project considers the politics of place in relation to the selection, construction and mediation of the photographic image.
Project coordinator: Mary Maclean
Opening: Wednesday, 6:30 - 8:30pm
Opening hours: Saturdays, 12am - 5pm or by appointment
Friday, 18.05.2012
17:00h
From March till July 2011 Dutch graphic designers Bart de Baets (Knokke, Belgium, 1979) and Sandra Kassenaar (Johannesburg, South Africa, 1982) were resident artists at the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo.
Due to the recent events in Egypt and especially its capitol, their initial date of arrival on the 1st of February 2011 was postponed for a month. Being stunned by the political tidal wave flooding the country, the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the phenomenon of having a curfew — something they had only heard of in World War II stories — the designers found themselves gazing from the sidelines, not knowing how exactly to react to all of this. They asked themselves ‘Would it be arrogant to confront the Egyptians with our assumptions? And ‘isn’t it ignorant to pretend to have a nose bleed?’
Success and Uncertainty
Their unclear position and the new situation the country found itself in proved to be an inspiring discovery, which eventually lead to the project "Success and Uncertainty." The title of this work is an existing headline taken from the 12th of February 2011 front page of "The Evansville Courier & Press," a local Indiana newspaper reporting Mubarak’s resignation as the president of Egypt.
Success and Uncertainty at San Seriffe in W139, Amsterdam
On Wednesday June 1st 2011 a lightbox was hung outside the Townhouse Gallery that announced the start of the project and showcased the first of twenty-one posters. During the month of June 2011, each day a new poster was presented, generating a growing exhibition. The daily changing posters could be seen both in- and outside of the gallery and — just like newspapers — showed bold statements and gruesome facts, next to light-hearted messages, such as casual observations and rumours that caught Sandra and Bart’s attention during their residency. The content provided by both therefore created a clash of information that will influence the way one reads a poster. It was this constant dialogue between the designers that lead to "Success and Uncertainty."
http://www.successanduncertainty.wordpress.com
Organized in collaboration with Motto Zürich.
Monday, 21.05.2012
20:00h
As part of the F+F Schule fur Kunst und Mediendesign show "Stray Topology", Theory Tuesdays will screen excerpts from Robinson in Ruins directed by Patrick Keiller. The film excerpts will be followed by a discussion on the role of ruin aesthetics in relation to the sites and non-places of urban modernity. Mary Maclean and students in the project will hold a critical discussion of the work in the exhibition.
Robinson in Ruins
Production year: 2010
Running time: 101 minutes
Director: Patrick Keiller
PLEASE NOTE: ONLY EXCERPTS FROM THE FILM WILL BE SHOWN.
Sunday, 27.05.2012 -
Wednesday, 30.05.2012
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Pursue Other Avenues is an experiment which takes the form of an open and public "exhibition making workshop". By showing the negotiation, research, and dialogue that typically finishes before the vernissage this experiment aims to give participants an understanding of artists and their work, greater to that of seeing a mere static display of material products. This experiment views all participants as producers, audience, critics, and curators, and with the aid of Isabelle Krieg, Clare Kenny, and Flurin Bisig everyone present will contribute to the development of the exhibition process. This experiment will display the traditionally private stages of an exhibition—doing away with the traditionally public stage entirely. Contrary to most exhibitions, Pursue Other Avenues will not be pure documentation of prior actions, discussions, or collaborations, but the exhibition will be the discourse and connections as they are created. The exhibition becomes flexible and public, and by the time it ‘matures’ it will not then be arrested and stagnate, but this will signal its end.
Schedule:
Monday May 28, 2012 6pm-9pm
Artists talks and open discussions.
Tuesday May 29, 2012 6pm-9pm
part one- Connect and contrast the artists work. Thematic? Non-thematic?
part two – Which works would we (all participants) showcase by each artists? If new works were created what would they look like?
Wednesday May 30, 2012 6pm-9pm
part one – Discuss space and the effect that different spaces would have on the artist and their works.
part two - Effect that context can have on meanings of work and how this could change what we (all participants) know about the work.
Thursday May 31, 2012 6pm-?
part one – How could we communicate these artists' work effectively to people who did not take part in this process?
8pm – vernissage
Find more informations on the Pursue Other Avenues-Blog
Organized by Lindsey Sharman.
Contact pursueotheravenues@gmail.com
> Invitation Card "Pursue Other Avenues"
Thursday, 31.05.2012
19:00h
Alphonse Allais, Album Primo-Avrilesque, 1897
David will introduce some historical artists' publications and trace one origin story for this genre of experimental books. It won't be a full history - maybe a one hour chapter from a 10 part drama mini-series - but there will be a lot of action and adventure. In the mix will be content from three recent shows that he has assembled from the library collection at MoMA - Access to Tools: Publications from the Whole Earth Catalog, 1968-1974, Scenes from Zagreb and Millennium Magazine.
Tuesday, 05.06.2012
19:00h -
Friday, 08.06.2012
A PARADISE OF LETTERS (AN EXHIBITION THAT NEVER TOOK PLACE)
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For a long time, Letterism – established by Isidore Isou – has remained the unknown avant-garde of European Post-war art. Using copies and documents, A Paradise of Letters looks at two aspects of the movement’s production: their notion of a ”metagraphic” or ”hypergraphic” novel, and their experiments with a ”discrepant”, ”chiseling” and ”nuclear” cinema. The display and accompanying lectures will ask the speculative, hypothetical question: what would be the result if these largely forgotten practices were reinscribed into the narrative of post-war poetry, art and cinema?
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A Paradise of Letters is organized by Jonas (J) Magnusson and Kim West. Both will give a lecture (each 1h) about the following topics:
”Hypergraphics, or the art of re-reading and re-writing our world-text” by Jonas (J) Magnusson
Jonas (J) Magnusson will discuss the hypergraphic novels by Isidore Isou (Les Journaux des Dieux, ”The God's Diaries”, 1950; Initiation à la haute Volupté, ”Initiation to High Voluptuousness”, 1960; Jonas ou le corps à la recherche de son âme, ”Jonah, or the Body Searching for its Soul”, 1984), Gabriel Pomerand (Saint Ghetto des Prêts, ”St Ghetto of the Loans”, 1950) and Maurice Lemaître (Canailles, ”Riff-raff”, 1950).
Metagraphics (or post-writing), invented by Isodore Isou in 1950, and four years later renamed hypergraphics (or super-writing), aimed both at subverting the novel as it was known at the time, and at extending Letterist painting to the totality of characters of all writing systems in their existing or invented transcriptions, seen through their ideographic, lexical and alphabetic categories.
”Nuclear cinema: Letterist film experiments” by Kim West
With their first Letterist films, Traité de bave et d’éternité and Le film est déjà commencé? (both 1951), Isidore Isou and Maurice Lemaître wanted to radically extend cinema’s scope of possibilities. Scratching the film frames, separating images and sounds, voices and bodies, and employing the cinema theater as an aesthetic element, they introduced a number of innovative techniques that predated the experiments of ”structural” and ”expanded” cinema, as well as the renegotiations of film language by the Nouvelle Vague filmmakers.
In his combined lecture and screening, Kim West will discuss Isou’s and Lemaître’s classic films, as well as the work of other Letterist filmmakers such as Marc’O (”Nuclear Cinema”, 1952, Closed Vision, 1954, Les Idoles, 1968), Gil Wolman (L’anti-concept, 1952), and Roland Sabatier (such as Pensiez-vous (vraiment) voir un film de Roland Sabatier?, 1973).
Isidore Isou, Les journaux des dieux
Opening hours: Thursday and Friday, 5-7pm; Saturday, 12am-5pm
The project is made with support by Moderna Museet, Stockholm and Allianz Kulturstiftung.
Wednesday, 06.06.2012
20:00h
"Traité de bave et d'éternité" est un film expérimental français écrit et réalisé par Isidore Isou en 1951, produit par Marc'O, et monté avec l'aide de Maurice Lemaître.
Ce film, qui fit scandale à Cannes en 1951 et reçut le Prix des Spectateurs d'Avant-Garde, est basé sur le principe de ce qu'Isou appelle le montage discrépant, qui consiste en une disjonction totale entre le son et l'image, traités de manière autonome sans aucune relation signifiante.
Ainsi, la bande-son est constituée de poèmes lettristes (servant de générique et d'interludes), auxquels s'adjoint une narration contant l'histoire de Daniel, auteur d'un manifeste pour un nouveau cinéma (le cinéma discrépant), de son discours face à un public hostile et de son histoire d'amour avec une dénommée Ève.
L'autonomisation du son a pour but de le faire s'épanouir pleinement, sans tenir compte de l'image, lui offrant ainsi toute la richesse stylistique de la prose, devenant un véritable roman parlé (procédé qui inspirera notamment Chris Marker pour son film La Jetée).
La bande-image, quant à elle, constituée, en grande partie, de found footage, présente une succession d'images banales : Isou errant dans le quartier de Saint-Germain-des-Près ou en compagnie de personnalités (comme Cendrars ou Cocteau), des fragments de films militaires récupérés dans les poubelles de l'armée ou d'exercices de gymnastique filmés, et des plans d'actualités de personnalités de l'époque, telle l'actrice Danièle Delorme.
Ces images servent de prétexte à l'utilisation de la ciselure, procédé rendu en peignant, grattant ou rayant directement la pellicule, séparant ainsi chaque photogramme, habituellement perdu dans le mouvement général d'un film, pour l'explorer en lui-même et l'anéantir. L'image se retrouve parfois réduite à des écrans blancs ou noirs à divers moments du film.
(Wikipedia)
"Traité de bave et d'éternité" (Venom and Eternity)
Directed by Isidore Isou
France, 1951
b/w, 111 Min, English Subtitles
Read here more about lettrist cinema:
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/OCTO_a_00019