How materiality resonates politically? The discussion around the worker’s sheds installation Participants: Arne Hendriks, Inês Moreira, Aneta Szyłak, Leire Vergara Five sheds from the Gdańsk Shipyard from the inspiration of the artist Grzegorz Klaman are put on tour to form Solidarność Camp in 5 European cities. Made decades ago by the shipbuilders they were meant to provide some private space within the harsh conditions associated with outdoor labour in heavy industry. Today, no longer in use and rescued from the scrapyard they are being seen as examples of vernacular architecture. The status of the random objects is transformed into an art installation. The questions we would like to raise are: How the meaning of the object is changed according to its location? What does it mean for us to discover them in the center of Madrid? How their materiality influences our thinking about the visual, the vernacular, the somatic, the audible and the performative? How this gesture reframes what we think about the city and how the contrast between the sheds and their temporary surrounding triggers our thinking about the status of the found and vernacular? How the sheds can sound politically to us, whilst thinking about the control over heavy industry by European regulations? These questions and more are to be addressed to four speakers invited to take part in the talk: Arne Hendriks, co-curator of upcoming Alternativa in Gdańsk, Inês Moreira, architect, researcher and curator based in Portugal, Leire Vergara, an independent curator based in Bilbao and Aneta Szyłak, Director of Wyspa Institute of Art in Gdansk. www.mataderomadrid.org/ficha/1009/solidarno%C5%9B%C4%87-camp.html
discussion _matadero, madrid
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ALTERNATIVA 2012 _Gdansk, Poland
The curatorial team has recently been appointed for the 2012 exhibitions of Alternativa in Gdansk.
Alternativa is a two-year pilot program aimed at establishing a recurring large-scale, knowledge-based and politically informed curatorial practice whose distribution will be through exhibition aims, publications, workshops and radio broadcasts in the Gdansk Shipyard. Leire Vergara, Ines Moreira, Arne Hendriks and Alternativa Artistic Director, Aneta Szylak, will work around the notion of materiality for the 2012 edition, whilst Ewa Tatar and Dominik Kuryłek will work from the Wyspa’s archives, looking at early artistic practices that have influenced the stance and forms of work being practiced at Wyspa Institute of Art today. Krzysztof Gutfrański continues to work as a Head of Publications at Alternativa Editions.
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milplanaltos _conference
Uma explosão combinatória de excepções
http://milplanaltos.wordpress.com/
A pesquisa curatorial contemporânea explora diversos processo e formatos, que vão do evento, à exposição, à instalação/dispositivo, a formatos mais imateriais, como textual, relacional, ou outros modos de transferência visível/experiencial/audível. Este projecto assume que a curadoria (enquanto pesquisa e prática) disturba, lê e reescreve ensamblagens existentes, produzindo novos objectos alterados. Propomos uma noção processual e transformativa de conhecimento curatorial, diferindo de exercícios expositivos com objectos originais estabilizados, colecções, arquivos, ou outras práticas expositivas baseadas na cultura material.
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exposing exhibition _conference
Exposing Exhibition is a one-day conference that, following the triennial meeting by ICOM-CC held in Lisbon, aims to be an extended place for reflecting on issues concerning tangible and intangible heritage, particularly in relation to contemporary art.
As the interface moment with the public/spectator, coincident with the display period, an exhibition corresponds to the surface of a layered architecture and chain of actions, tensions, collaborations and/or shifts of power/authority.
Different actors play their roles in the ‘construction’ of an artwork, as well as the ‘construction’ of an exhibition, constructions that can be analyzed and dismounted by disclosing and (dis)articulating methodologies, practices, and underlying intentions.
Bringing together art historians, conservators, curators and professionals working across disciplines, the conference will include communications focused on diverse strategies of presentation and preservation in contemporary art, as well as the mutual influence between those same strategies.
Exposing Exhibition intends to ‘frame the frame’, by describing, examining and questioning – ‘exposing’ – the ways by which the frames are built.
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petit CABANON (Alternativa, Gdansk)
Petit CABANON (private version for Wyspa) exhibited at Labour and Leisure Exhibition, in the context of Alternativa Visual Art Festival 2012, curated by Aneta Szylak at Hall 90B, Wyspa Institute of Art in Gdansk, Poland. The physical installation consists of the reconstruction of the two sheds that Le Corbusier had in his garden: CABANON + the Work Shed. The two buildings were made of cardboard bricks, in a playful construction. The sounds cape inside both volumes would reproduce the atmospheres and summer conversations by Le Corbusier, Eileen Gray and their friends, as an evocation. http://www.alternativa.org.pl/
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aftermath inspiration (reverting a process)
Damian Ortega, Tortillas Construction Module, 1998
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