| Cork Caucus continues to generate activity, the most recent of which was Jeremiah Day's recent workshop and presenation in Cork based on the principle of Artists' Self-Organising. See report in News Section and check this site for information on his next workshop planned for May 4 to May 7, 2006 Cork Caucus took the form of a major interdisciplinary, international meeting of 60-80 artists, thinkers, writers, philosophers and other creative individuals during the summer of 2005 and investigated cultural, political and artistic issues. |
| Under the concept of We Rule the School: Conversations and Research and with the format of a theoretical and practical workshop, this educational space is opened to artists, critics and curators who wish to deepen into contemporary practices of art production and detect new possible fields for artistic action. The continuous division of labour within the artistic sphere has caused provoked an excision between experience and knowledge. The progressive distance between theory and practice can be its’ clearest example, considering here, all its forms of activism, or even as a more visible reality between criticism and the curatorial practice. However, there are localised models of practice that offer new possibilities for the construction of semiautonomous spaces of action, reflection, self-organisation and interdisciplinarity, that within their own praxis, open new ways towards the constitution of collective identities. One of the axes of the workshop will consist of healing the sterile fraction between apparently antagonistic models, as: the investigative and conversational, the scientific and the speculative, empiric and poetic, academia and thought, text and context, aesthetics and politics, planning and scenarios. In this regard, the methodology used for working will be determined by a triple-phased constitution: educational, situational and discursive. This methodological aspect highlights the conditions of production in the discourse related to traditions, localisms, geographical limits and site (locale specificities from where these conditions are moulded). This consciousness of a specific place (or a non-place) is fundamental to consolidate an imagined future of creativity applied to any given context, or situation through the strengthening of a (non-perfect) community of producers in a close interaction. The workshop will imply a community formed by different investigators who feel great confidence in the object of their study. The information should be available and accessible for all, but each individual will concentrate on the development of a personal investigation. The exchange of artistic knowledge and the increment of vital experience will be one of the aspects to develop under the conditions of this situation of research. This workshop will circle around the idea of creative improvisation and speculation at the same time that will consider the personal but also collective knowledge of the effects of a community of such characteristics. Finally, it will take into account the necessity of its own members to become productive subjects who will maintain a productive and ethical ecology. The different individual contribution to the workshop will actually depart from the potential of each artistic practice. Guests Apolonija Sustersic An artist, architect and senior lecturer at Stockholm University. She has carried out projects such as Home Design Service, Casco Projects, Utrecht, Ljusterapi, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Community Research Office, IBID, London. She has been at Sputnik in the Kunstverein in Munich and she has worked with Dan Graham. Space is the basic material in her work; to be more precise, the area where a clash occurs between art and architecture. She lives and works in Amsterdam and Stockholm. Haegue Yang An artist who has taken part in numerous collective exhibitions and individual shows. She has formed part of the Rraum group of artists. Her recent exhibitions include: Barbara Wien Gallery, Berlin, Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea, De Appel, 2003 Amsterdam, Unrealistic to Generalise, Public, 2003 París; Manifesta 4, 2002 Frankfurt. She collaborates with Hyunjin Kim on the magazine "Friendly Enemies", Seoul, Korea and lives and works in Berlin. Hyunjin Kim An independent curator, writer and member of the “Friendly Enemies” collective. Her experience as a curator began at LOOP, which is an independent structure in Seoul. She has coordinated several exhibitions and publications including Blink, Artsonje Centre, 2002; Yangguang-Chanran BizArt Centre Shanghai, 2004. She is carrying out research and an artistic project at the Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven. She lives and works in Seoul. Pavel Büchler Artist and lecturer at the Metropolitan University of Manchester. He founded the Darkroom gallery in Cambridge and from 1992 to 1996 he was director of the Fine Art department at Glasgow Art School. Some of his exhibitions include Istanbul Biennale, 2005 Istanbul, Whatever Happened to Social Democracy? Rooseum 2005 Malmö; Conversation Pieces, Galleria Saskia, 2002 Tampere, Finland. Asier Mendizabal (Basque Country). An artist, he has taken part in numerous exhibitions including Manifesta 5, 2004 San Sebastián; Untitled as yet, Yugoslavian Biennale of Young Artists, 2004 Vrsac; Después de la noticia, CCBB, Barcelona 2003; Great Theatre of the World, Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei Biennial, 2002 Taiwan. He made the film Goierri Konpeti together with Iñaki Garmendia, with whom he is also organising Eat this document. Søren Andreasen is an artist who lives and works in Copenhagen. He has participated in the São Paulo Biennial (with the artists group Koncern), the Yokohama Triennial and Manifesta 3 (with the artists group rasmus knud). He has co-curated the group show The Echo Show (at Tramway, Glasgow). He teaches at the Aarhus Art Academy. Lars Bang Larsen is a curator and critic who lives in Bilbao and Copenhagen. He has co-curated Populism (at CAC Vilnius, Oslo MOCA, Stedelijk and Frankfurt Kunstverein), Insurrección invisible de un millón de mentes (at sala rekalde), and The Echo Show together with Søren Andreasen. He writes for various art magazines and is preparing a book about the psychedelic art of the 1960s. Tone Hansen is an artist and writer based in Oslo. Currently working as a research fellow on the subject Megamonstermuseum at the Academy of fine art, Oslo. Hansen was chair of the Young Artists Union for three years, and is a founding member of the Institute for art and theory. Appendix, consisting of a manifesto for an independent art arena, and an alternative vision for the structure of the newly merged National Museum. |
| “Summit” meeting, Donostia/San Sebastian Transakzio Denbora: The Timing of Transaction Conceived by Clémentine Deliss, Santiago Eraso, Franck Larcade and Hinrich Sachs At Miramar Palace, Arteleku and the city of Donostia www.arteleku.net Transakzio Denbora/The Timing of Transaction will bring together a wide range of artists, thinkers, designers, architects, directors of institutions and other cultural players from the local and international arena. The event will be devised as a summit meeting, and will be held in the Miramar Palace and Arteleku from the 5th to the 9th of May 2003. Participants will include leading personalities from the Basque Country and Catalonia, Germany, Austria, Korea, France, Greece, the Netherlands, India, Italy, Norway, the United Kingdom, Senegal and Sweden. Participants will investigate the role of new aesthetic practices and try to re-map the issues affecting the relations that exist between art and civil society today. Date : Miramar Palace and Arteleku from the 5th to the 9th of May 2003 Transakzio denbora: The Timing of Transaction, the Donostia/San Sebastián summit, was held from May 5 to 9, 2003, at Miramar Palace. With the aid of a written document called “supradoc”, drawn up prior to the summit, debates behind closed doors and another written document called “post doc”, following the summit, the 30 participants in the meeting reflected on the role of new aesthetic practices by laying down a new map of relations between art and civil society today. Those invited to participate, “parallel thinkers” who vary in nationality and profession, are: Senegalese artist and writer Issa Samb, cultural engineer Abdou Bâ, Scandinavian artist Åsa Sonjasdotter, art historian Ina Blom, Basque and Catalan creators Asier Pérez González, Ibon Aranberri, Martí Guixé and Carles Guerra, directors of institutions of renown concerned with transformation and adaptability: Catherine David, director of the Witte of Rotterdam, Manolo Borja Villel, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona, Charles Esche, director of Rooseum art centre of Malmö, Lisette Smits of Cascoprojects, Alexis Vaillant from the Toastin Agency, Peio Aguirre and Leire Vergara of DAE. Dutch designer Felix Janssens, Greek architect Cristos Papoulias, sociologist Mauricio Lazzarato, publisher Christoph Keller, theorist Geert Lovink, curators Barnaby Drabble and Adam Szymczyk and artists, Karl Holmqvist, Phyllis Kiehl, Gardar Eide Einarsson and Haegue Yang. Intervention on the part of Ibon Aranberri, Martí Guixé and Phyllis Kiehl resulted in a visibility platform aimed at the city’s residents. Fictitious press articles written by Phyllis Kiehl to announce the summit, the summit’s official photo created by Ibon Aranberri and published in the media and “the Donostia/San Sebastián summit pintxo”, interpreted and developed by different establishments in the city following the instructions of its inventor, designer Martí Guixé, which could be savoured during the whole week. Included in the multiple manifestations of continuity deriving from Transakzio denbora: The Timing of Transaction, the Donostia/San Sebastián summit, is the production of a publication. Produced by Arteleku (Regional Council of Gipuzkoa) in collaboration with consonni and with the support of the Basque Government and the AFAA, French Society for Artistic Action. |