07/01/12


THE RESCUE OF THE EFFECTS - Notes for a Theory of the Reader


// Opening: January 19, 20:00.
// Aditional opening hours: January 20 – 22, 15:00 – 19:00.
// General Public, Schönhauser Allee 167c, 10435 Berlin

In a landscape where reality has long ceased to be seen without the presence of auxiliary instruments, which constructs at the same time its registration and setting it up as an archive, the experience does not conform directly in contact with the world but as a mediated doppelgänger. In this type of situation we should not forget that each of the disseminating and accumulating structures that support the architecture of the information is itself a technology with a built-in ideological organisational criteria, of inclusion and exclusion.

This project is built from reflections on creative reading with an active attitude regarding materials from libraries, archives, collections or found-materials establishing with a critical fascination some series of narrative itineraries that discover hidden relationships from the intra-history, the creation of fictions and the infraordinary to practice a critical reading of their architecture, an anarcheology of the structures of knowledge and the everyday-life as well as an analysis of structures of consciousness formation.  

This research tries to present projects that blur the boundaries between the practice of curators, historians, researchers, cultural producers and artists. Thus, located in this area of indistinct borders, it essays a significant rearrangement of the cultural materials that restate the questions to be undertaken, as well as the focus of interest. In fact, all the participating artists are engaged to or from several disciplines: in addition to the context of art itself, speak of their work also located in editing, research, music creation, educational programmes, curating, organising events and reflecting on exhibition spaces.  

These are works that start at the same time questioning both the analysis of content as the actual means of implementation and presentation: devices, methodologies, materials selection, editing, exhibition strategies or building space.

With: Daniel G. Andújar, Sol Calero, Constant Dullaart, Embankment, Herzbeat hotel, Bettina Hutschek, Jeleton, Christopher Kline, Phanos Kyriacou, Regina de Miguel, Alexandra Navratil, Paloma Polo, Teresa Solar, Poderes Unidos and JODI.

A project by Lorenzo Sandoval
With the support of: Ministerio de Cultura de EspañaGeneral Public, GlougauAIRAltes FinanzamtRaum für Projektion.
Collaborator: Spanische Botschaft

06/01/12



MONTAÑAISLAGLACIAR es uno de los resultados del trabajo realizado en los dos últimos años por del grupo de investigación "Correspondencias desde Eyjafjallajökull" en torno a la idea de Europa. Reune un conjunto heterogénero de aportaciones de los integrantes del grupo y de una serie de colaboradores invitados.

Montañaislaglaciar tiene por objetivo hacer reflexionar al lector desde un discurso polifónico y diverso sobre los procesos de identificación en Europa, y señala algunos de los temas de mayor relevancia en las agendas de pensamiento y debate en torno a nuestro modelo comunitario.

Es un libro que habla de lo que somos, de lo que no queremos ser, de lo que nunca hemos sido y de lo que colectivamente somos capaces de conseguir. Un libro sobre la ceniza, el 15M, la subjetividad, el fracaso, la traducción, la distancia, el olvido, los mercados, los géneros, la narratividad, lo posible, los datos, el tratado de Lisboa y los volcanes a punto de estallar...entre otras cosas.


CARLOS FERNÁNDEZ-PELLO
JAVIER FRESNEDA
EDUARDO HURTADO
REGINA DE MIGUEL
ANTONIO R. MONTESINOS
LORENZO SANDOVAL

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PAVLA ASCHER
SANTIAGO ERASO
JUAN FREIRE
EMANUELE GUIDI
JOHN HOLTEN
NICOLÁS MALEVÉ
MARKUS MIESSEN
LAURENCE RASSEL
ALAN PAULS
MARÍA PTQK
URZSULA WOZNIAK

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Dónde: Residencia de Estudiantes, Pinar, 21 (Metro L10, parada Gregorio Marañón)
Cuándo: vmartes 17 ene. a las 19:30h


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30/11/11

Taller GenderArtNet a cargo de Nicolas Malevé y Maria Ptqk





Este taller forma parte del proyecto de Lorenzo Sandoval "(...) Ciencia, territorio y narrativas subjetivas" para la Convocatoria 2011 de comisariado de Can Felipa.


Calendario: 09, 10 y 11 de enero de 16:00 a 20:00
Lugar: Hangar, Passatge Marqués de Santa Isabel, 40, Barcelona
Inscripciones: La matrícula es gratuita y se aceptan inscripciones hasta completar aforo.
Para inscribirte envía un e-mail a cienciaterritorio@googlemail.com con tu teléfono, nombre y apellidos, Cv, DNI y un breve texto de motivación explicando porque te gustaría asistir al taller.



Presentación
Tanto el lenguaje como los mapas son herramientas epistemológicas. Codifican conocimiento acumulado y delimitan espacios: espacios territoriales y espacios de significado. Como señala la geógrafa feminista Irit Rogoff en Terra Infirma (2000), los mapas, históricamente vinculados con la emergencia del colonialismo, han servido -y sirven- para naturalizar fronteras, regímenes, estados, modelos de gobernanza y sistemas de gestión de la población. Son significantes geográficos pero también identitarios, culturales, económicos y políticos. De la misma manera, siguiendo a Nuria Valera, podemos considerar que el lenguaje no es solamente un reflejo de la realidad, la lengua o el mundo, sino del poder de quienes lo producen. Los mapas, los lenguajes y las narrativas históricas, culturales o políticas que se derivan de ellos son sistemas de ordenación del conocimiento que naturalizan -y objetivizan- determinadas estructuras de poder.

GenderArtNet es un proyecto de cartografía experimental de las prácticas artísticas que exploran la interrelación entre género, etnicidad, raza, clase y sexualidades en la Europa contemporánea. Está organizado en torno a 17 galaxias temáticas, compuestas por un icono y una serie de palabras clave, que tratan de acotar semántica y conceptualmente una diversidad de temas y enfoques. Las palabras clave, las galaxias a las que están asociadas y el territorio de referencia están unidos por relaciones dinámicas que niegan la posibilidad de un significado estable -natural, objetivizante- y abren flujos de significado que se modifican en permanencia. Las palabras clave pueden ser interpretadas de una infinidad de formas, en función de los deseos, las experiencias o la sensibilidad de las personas que participan en el proceso. Las galaxias temáticas adquieren de este modo una textura elástica, cambiante y procesual. El territorio -geográfico, conceptual y semántico- que se deriva de ellas se convierte así en un espacio de exploración narrativa, en el que no existe un significado unívoco sino una pluralidad de significados posibles que se exploran, se buscan, se hacen y se deshacen sin cesar.

Objetivos del taller
El objetivo del taller es proponer una narración coral del proyecto “(...) Ciencia, territorio y narrativas subjetivas” y explorar el lenguaje científico desde una perspectiva de crítica feminista. En la configuración actual existen varias galaxias temáticas asociadas con el conocimiento científico y posiblemente serán las más afectadas por los resultados del taller, pero el proceso no se limitará a estas sino que tratará de enfatizar las interconexiones con el resto de galaxias, poniendo de manifiesto el contexto y las narrativas subyacentes al lenguaje y el conocimiento cientificos. Para ello, se utilizará el sistema de galaxias y palabras-clave de GenderArtNet así como las aportaciones de las/os participantes.

El taller incluirá las fases siguientes:
1- Presentación de GenderArtNet: proceso de trabajo, funcionamiento de la base de datos, sistema de etiquetado, etc.
2- Creación colectiva de palabras-clave a partir de los contenidos de
“(…) Ciencia, territorio y narrativas subjetivas”.
3-  Creación colectiva de palabras-clave a partir de los contenidos propuestos por las/os participantes.

Sobre GenderArtNet
GenderArtNet es el resultado de un proceso de trabajo colectivo desarrollado entre 2008 y 2010 por un equipo internacional de artistas, comisarias, teóricas e investigadoras provenientes de diversas disciplinas. En 2011, GenderArtNet fue el objeto de un taller de cartografía experimental realizado en Cluj-Napoca (Romania) en el marco del festival Transeuropa.

GenderArtNet ha sido posible gracias a una subvención de la European Cultural Foundation, Amsterdam (ECF), y a la colaboración del programa de European Media Studies, impartido conjuntamente por la Universidad de Potsdam y la Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas de Potsdam.

Concepto y desarrollo: Bettina Knaup, en colaboración con Maria Ptqk y la organización de media art Constant vzw, Bruselas
Programación: Nicolas Malevé, Constant vzw
Diseño web y gráfico: Ludivine Loiseau
Estadísticas: Anne-Laure Buisson

Para más información: http://www.genderartnet.eu.

Gender Art Net  forma parte de (...) Ciencia, territorio y narrativas subjetivas un proyecto de Lorenzo Sandoval para la Convocatoria 2011 de comisariado de Can Felipa que busca trabajar sobre el potencial transformador de las narrativas subjetivas planteado por algunas productoras culturales que analizan, ficcionan y cuestionan los modelos de representación del territorio y de la ciencia. Se trata de generar una psicogeografía compleja que debate los roles y los formatos de la investigación historiográfica de las imágenes. Este proyecto se construye como una indagación en curso presentada en formatos variables.

Exposición: .Teresa Solar, Paloma Polo, Regina de Miguel, Claire L. Evans y Gender Art Net.
Workshops: .Gender Art Net (María PTQK y Nicolas Malevé) y Future Timeline (Regina de Miguel)
Conferencias: .Juan Vicente Aliaga, Marta Rebollo, Constantvzw

15/10/11



I´m very happy to invite you for:
Wednesday, October 19
The Institute of Exploratory Ology Presents:Field Studies

Researches, displays and demonstrations:
Field Studies 
               by Sol Calero and Christopher Kline
Nothing is left to tell 
               by Emanuel Almborg

Program for the night:
20:00 - S.A.
               by B.R.
21:00 - Cargo Report
               Jonathan Uliel Saldanha
21:30 - Snakebraid

Curated by Lorenzo Sandoval

Developed in an open format, this public presentation proposes a reflection on the productive role of certain human sciences dedicated to the study of actions and thought-processes within particular groups of the past and in the present time.

In articulating this analysis we propose a series of works that suggest the creation of an exploratory ology.  Evoking some of the areas between encyclopedic appropriation, ethnomusicology and taxonomy, we envision a journey through the transforming potential of cognitive narratives, the perception and psychological state of bodies in the middle of a forest of signs.

Doors open at 20:00
Field Studies display from  October 19th - October 30th.

28/08/11

Session # 3: Non-Profits, Independent Spaces and Intellectual Rights.

Monday, October 3rd
A User´s Guide to the Millenium # 3
You said free music? Non-Profits, Independent Spaces and Intellectual Property Rights in Germany today



We talk a lot about the impact of intellectual property in music today: bands leaving their labels, new business models, technological and legal mechanisms of control… But let´s get practical. How do independent music initiatives deal with it on a daily basis? This 3rd session of A User´s Guide to the Millenium focus on this topic from the perspective of the music scene in Berlin. An open and informal discussion to gather information and exchange experiences around questions like:

* What is the legal framework of intellectual property in Germany regarding music?
* Which are the agents involved?
* What´s the impact on the sustainability of the music scene?
* What strategies are being used to respond to it?
* What are open licenses and how do they [really] work?
* How would an alternative IP model look like?

To address these issues we have invited Freies Neukölln, Allan Cunningham and Reboot FM. But you are all welcome to join the discussion and share your questions and experiences. 

Ausland, Territory for experimental music, performace and art.
Freies Neukölln is a music bar located in Kreuzkölln, programming only public domain and free licenced music.
Allan Cunningham is a writer. He teaches Intellectual Property on-line at Queen Mary, University of London.
Reboot FM is a free cultural radio station based in Berlin.

A User´s Guide to the Millenium is organized by María Ptqk, Regina de Miguel and Lorenzo Sandoval.

Event starts at 19:00

18/08/11


Marta de Gonzalo y Publio Pérez Prieto. The intention,  4 DV, 22’, 4 wood studios 155 x 144 x 202 cm. 
with 20” screens, drawings, canvas, objects and paint interventions on wall, 2008.


This 2nd session of A User´s Guide addresses some of the issues that currently affect pedagogy, education and the acquisition of knowledge.

How do these concepts get together? What does it mean to approach them critically? Can knowledge be transfered, subverted and appropiated without reproducing old-school patterns? What is the role of authority in the transmission of knowledge? Is it possible to teach and learn polically? And how does the growing privatization of educational institutions affect the “production of talent” in the so-called Knowledge Capitalism?

These are some of the questions that will be inspire the discussion in this 2nd session, lead by Spanish artists and educators Marta de Gonzalo & Publio Pérez Prieto and Berlin-based collective The Public School Berlin.This session will be followed by a class by “The Impossibility of Teaching” by The Public School Berlin taking place on August 26th at 19:00 at Program (Invalidenstrasse, 115). See below for further details.


August  23, 19:00 at Altes Finanzamt (Schönstedtstraße 7)

The Public School Berlin+ A User´s Guide: counter education.
The Public School Berlin .
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL is a school with no curriculum. At the moment, it operates as follows: first, classes are proposed by the public (I want to learn this or I want to teach this); then, people have the opportunity to sign up for the classes (I also want to learn that); finally, when enough people have expressed interest, the school finds a teacher and offers the class to those who signed up.

- The Intention; Las Lindes; 15M presented by Marta & Publio

 Marta de Gonzalo & Publio Pérez Prieto are artists and high school teachers based in Madrid, developing a theoretical work and artistic practice on audiovisual literacy and critical pedagogies. They are involved in teacher’s training, education of artists and self-representation projects with youth. They understand the cultural production as poetic and formal instrument of representation that guide to personal and collective critical attitudes.



August 26, 19:00 at Program (Invalidenstrasse 115)

The Public School Berlin + A User´s Guide: The Impossibility of Teaching.

If teaching is understood as the transmission of knowledge, does that imply that knowledge can be “had”? And can we rethink pedagogy if we leave this conceptual metaphor (knowledge = possession) behind us? If we assume that knowledge is impossible to have, how does that affect the space of teaching, and authority itself? What becomes of the impossible desire to overcome our teachers, who are always “supposed to know” (Lacan)?

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Coordinated by Regina de Miguel, María Ptqk and Lorenzo Sandoval.

01/08/11


I´m very glad to present the Max Payne Library of JODI at Altes Finanzamt.


Friday, August 5
Vernissage: "Max Payne Library" by JODI
followed by Dj set by Jean Michel Genre (rotterdam) djset
and Folksomy.net- vjset of JODI  
6th August- 3rd September

15/06/11

Quedáis invitados a visitar el proyecto que he comisariado para Inéditos 2011 en La Casa Encendida, premio que he me han otorgado junto a Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz y Pedro Portellano (ambos con proyectos que me han gustado muchísimo).







Alrededor es imposible
Una exploración de lo inesperado por los sistemas cartográficos de Google

La Casa Encendida
Inaguración 27 de junio
Duración:
29.06.11 - 11.09.11


Los sistemas de cartografía de Google son una herramienta total: en su voracidad absoluta de representación de todos los rincones incluyen incluso lo que fueron las formas de enfrentarse a las representaciones colonialistas. Evitando un posicionamiento laudatorio que celebre el conocimiento técnico (o lo que se denomina comúnmente nuevos medios), la necesidad de este proyecto se localiza en la narrativa sobre este fenómeno desde una fascinación crítica: al igual que los mapas tradicionales, las producciones cartográficas de Google no tienen nada de neutro.
En un momento en el que la asimilación en la consciencia de la información del espacio digitalmente generado comienza a ser ubicua, se hace urgente analizar la aplicación de este tipo de tecnología a la vida cotidiana, la mediatización interesada de las emociones y las construcciones ideológicas de unos nuevos productores culturales amateur que han abandonado su pasividad de espectadores para producir unos contenidos, que han de pasar una serie de filtros y protocolos, marcando lo que formará parte de la representación del mundo y lo que no.
Además de los diversos problemas que normalmente se señalan en relación a la privacidad, hay que preguntarse sobre cómo se construye selectivamente esa representación del mundo en función de restricciones territoriales que incluyen, excluyen y alteran datos e imágenes por cuestiones ideológicas. Frente a un aplanamiento del mundo a partir del sistema omnipresente de Google, frente a los recorridos hegemónicos que se nos asignan, volver a buscar lo inesperado (o producirlo) en esas representaciones del mundo, como hacen los artistas incluidos en este proyecto, es la manera de escapar al diseño del planeta como un todo idéntico.


Obras de Jesús Acevedo, Peter Baldes & Marc Horowitz, Robin Hewlett & Ben Kinsley, Daniel Jacoby, Jodi, Regina de Miguel, Max Neupert, Nick Newcomen, Antonio R. Montesinos y Jon Rafman.



Vinculadas a la exposición "Alrededor es imposible" se realizarán las siguientes actividades:
  • Performance "GoogleMapsRoadTrip/Madrid. El Caminar. The Walk". Performance a cargo de Peter Baldes & Marc Horowitz. En La Casa Encendida el 28 de junio a partir de las 12 h.
  • Conferencia "Punto de vista y perspectiva: porqué nos gusta mirar desde la órbita". Charla y debate a cargo de Max Neupert. En La Casa Encendida el 30 de Junio a las 18 h.
  • Taller "(1:1) Juego de escala". Workshop a cargo de Antonio R. Montesinos. En Rampa el 11 y 12 de junio. 
Descargar el catálogo.

03/06/11

Wednesday,  8th - 19th of June.Javier Fresneda 
Stamina (restoration ruin)
-Wenn hier der Touri uriniert ist die Ruine ruiniert-
Stamina is an artistic research process about architecture and heritage,
and its reuse from pseudo-vandalic exercises, false archeology and
outsider exploration sites.
Javier Fresneda (1982) is an artist and researcher. His work has been
exhibited at the V Biennial Vento Sul (Brazil), Künstlerhaus Bethanien
(Berlin), Liste Art Fair (Basel) and Festival Internacional de la Imagen
(Bogota) amongst others.
Javier Fresneda's research and production link symbolic negotiation
models and methodological adaptations from the field of art with
the development of prototypes generated by collaborative working
groups in a variety of disciplines. His works make a series of ironic
commentaries on the substitution of systems and values.

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Concert of  Bob Rutman.
Bob Rutman (live)
Born 1931 in Berlin, is musician, painter, instrument builder, sculptor
and inventor of sounds. Immigrated to the US when he was 19, in the
60s he founded a gallery in NY where he developed the first prototypes
for his Steel Cello and Bow Chimes, and in 1975 creates the Steel
Cello Ensemble. In 1990 returned to Berlin, where he currently lives.
He has worked together with artists such as Peter Sellars, Merce
Cunningham, Einstürzende Neubauten, Robert Wilson, Wim Wenders,
Dorothy Carter, FM Einheit as well as many others.

Doors open at 20:00
Bob Rutman show starts at 21:00


Spenden: 3 to 5
In collaboration with GlougauAIR.

16/05/11

Estoy muy contento anunciando la apertura de la convocatoria para participar en el workshop (1:1) Juego de escala de Antonio R. Montesinos es el taller que abre el proyecto Alrededor es imposible. Una exploración de lo inesperado en los sistemas cartográficos de Google, proyecto que me han seleccionado en Inéditos.

La inauguración es el 28 de junio en La Casa Encendida.

Los artistas que participan en este proyecto son:

Jesús Acevedo con Aquí.

Marc Horowitz & Peter Baldes con Google Maps Road Trip, Caminamos.

Robin Hewlett & Ben Kinsley con Street with a view.

Daniel Jacoby con Location Unreachable to Google.

Jodi con GeoGoo.

Regina de Miguel con El último término que alcanza la vista.

Max Neupert con Der Über-Blick.

Nick Newcomen con World´s biggest writing.

Jon Rafman con 9-eyes.

Antonio R. Montesinos con (1:1) Juego de escala.

Junto a la exposición, tendrán lugar tres actividades:


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Punto de vista y perspectiva: porqué nos gusta mirar desde la órbita.

Charla y debate a cargo de Max Neupert en La Casa Encendida.

30 de Junio.


Desde el Renacimiento a periodo de las pinturas ilusionistas barrocas había siempre frescos en los techos representando los cielos con ángeles y putti. Con la iluminación la vista se desplazaba hacia el horizonte junto a imágenes panorámicas de batallas, ciudades o hacia otros milagros realizados por el hombre. La perspectiva del pensamiento de hoy es de signo orbital. Desde que Gagarin miró hacia abajo, hacia nuestro planeta desde una nave espacial, estamos fascinados por el punto de vista auto-contemplativo sobre nuestro planeta. Las aplicaciones informáticas que representan un mundo virtual instaladas en el escritorio de nuestro ordenador hacen la exploración de este punto de vista disponible a cualquiera mientras que las fuentes permanecen intensamente militarizadas y oscuras. No sabemos muchas cosas acerca de los satélites que proveen las imágenes ni somos conscientes de lo dependientes que somos de esa tecnología.

La conferencia pondrá de relieve algunos aspectos de interés histórico en la perspectiva que se interconectarán para construir una imagen mayor.

El contenido combinará la Tesis de Max Neupert [1] y su investigación actual [2]  Satellite Zodiac y el punto de vista orbital.




GoogleMapsRoadTrip/Madrid. El Caminar. The Walk.

Performance a cargo de Peter Baldes & Marc Horowitz en La Casa Encendida.

28 de junio a partir de las 12:00.

En esta nueva performance del proyecto GoogleMapsRoadTrip, Peter Baldes y Marc Horowitz estarán explorando Madrid cada uno por su parte para acabar encontrándose en el opening en La Casa Encendida.

Los visitantes a la exposición están invitados a participar a través de chat de vídeo o de texto, como si fuesen personas encontradas en la calle así como ellos hacen el  recorrido hacia La Casa Encendida “andando” en el sistema cartográfico de Google Streetview.

(1:1) Juego de escala.
Workshop a cargo de Antonio R. Montesinos en Rampa [www.proyectorampa.net]
11 y 12 de junio.


(1:1) Juego de escala es un taller que se establece como un ejercicio contradictorio que pretende crear una serie de experiencias, a medio camino entre la realidad y la ficción, mediante la utilización de las posibilidades que Google-Maps ofrece para el control del territorio. Por último pretende demostrar como esa misma experiencia puede negarse a ser presentado/controlado en su totalidad por Google-Maps.
Durante el taller se realizará una experiencia a medio camino entre el taller y juego. Se pretende tomar elementos de ambos formatos que, en el fondo, son muy parecidos: una experiencia reglamentada y simplificada dirigida o coordinada por un “maestro de ceremonias”.
El taller se plantea basándose en como ciertos juegos de rol y de estrategias construyen una historia en base a una cartografía estableciendo una relación dinámica y retro-alimentada entre la creación de un territorio y una narración. Se pretende, por tanto, realizar un ejercicio que utiliza el espacio cartográfico y virtual de Google-Maps y el espacio real de las calles de Madrid para construir una serie de narraciones que después se representarán/ocultarán un plano que constituirá la pieza final.
Este taller está dentro del proyecto Alrededor es imposibe de Lorenzo Sandoval para la convocatoria para jóvenes comisarios Inéditos de La Casa Encendida.
El proceso de la actividad se desarrollará en tres fases principales:
1 Creación de una historia/cartografía utilizando Google-Maps, exploraciones en el espacio urbano de Madrid y métodos de narración colectivos.

2 Creación de la cartografía final y un título para la narración construida.
3 Ocultación de los datos geoetiquetados, dejando sólo los tracks y tags, pero sin información alguna.
Estas tres fases constituirán las reglas de un taller/juego que producirán la pieza final consistirán en:
1 Organización de los grupos.

2 Elección de un lugar de inicio en base a las preferencias personales de cada grupo.

3 Organización de turnos de jugada y de actividades en base a la tirada de un dado piramidal de cuatro caras. Cada cara establecerá diferentes formas de creación de la narración: recogida de datos reales, memorias del lugar, trabajo de exploración y ficciones.

4 En base a la actividad que dicte el dado los participantes en el taller trabajarán la narración en base a Google-Maps o a experiencias de exploración en las calles de Madrid, en este caso se registrará la actividad mediante dispositivos GPS para su posterior implementación.. Mediante los diferentes turnos y en consenso de todos los grupos se construirá la narración.

5 Una vez construida la historia se realizará la cartografía final y la elección del título.

6 Por último se precederá a la ocultación de todos los datos narrativos, dejando sólo las referencias espaciales (tracks y tags), pero sin ninguna información.

7 Por último se realizará un plano en papel con los recorridos y sus títulos.
La pieza final será una instalación que consistirá en un plano en papel y el dado sobre una mesa, un ordenador personal con la web del proyecto, una pila de planos en miniatura con la narración completa escrita y tachada.


Más sobre este taller aquí

Y en breve subirá más info sobre Alrededor es imposible.

15/05/11

Friday 27th of May
A User´s Guide for the Millennium
 
 
This is the first of a series of sessions devoted to the backstage of artistic and cultural 
projects: money, precariousness, legal stuff, working conditions, etc. Those issues we usually 
address when the public event is over and we go for a beer, as if they were not a 
structural part of what we do (even though we know they are).

How do you finance our artistic and cultural projects? Do you make a living out of them? 
Do you pay taxes? Do you have a health assistance? And unemployment benefit? And 
maternity allowance? What about retirement pensions? Is public funding sustainable in 
the current context of global financial crisis? Is private funding an option for every kind 
of project? And what about crowd-founding? What is the impact of the so-called creative 
economy policies on the life and the work of artists and cultural workers? Can we invent 
new ways of dealing with economic (un)sustainability?

Presentations by Juste Kostikovait (Kioskproject, Berlin) and Arantxa Mendiharat 
(Conexiones Improbables, Bilbao) followed by Q&A with the audience.
 

Juste Kostikovaite is a curator and cultural manager. Together with Kioskprojects, a
curatorial initiative based in Berlin and Vilnius, she initiated the Artist-In-Residency project 
CAN which invites artists from Baltic and Scandinavian countries for the AiR program in 
Berlin, a platform organising workshops, open work process situations and discussions.


+info http://www.kioskprojects.org/spheresofpower/

11/05/11

Next event i´m curating in Altes Finanzamt: 
13-5-2011: Performance night of Jeleton + Caddy/Northam
+ opening of Jeleton. Exhibition until 28-05-2011



Vernissage+Performances

Jeleton (text, vinyl record)
performance + opening
Turntable Piece n. 5

Artistic team Jeleton makes annotations on cultural consensus through drawing, performance, music or writing. The term turntable is for a vinyl record player but also for a revolving table or a turn alternator. Their "turntable pieces" are exercises on how to perform a vinyl record, how can be reactivated the listening or receiving situation of a prerecorded message. Talking to the records, reading texts to them, manipulating them through scratch.
www.jeleton.com

And performance by Caddy / Northam (cello, motorized ukulele)
Ruminations on Horizon Lines

Michael Northam has been finding ways to tap into sonic rivers - from dense studio excursions with laborious methods - to situational sound actions on singular phenomena for nearly 20 years. there are numerous publications as well as an international list of performance/installation/events. http://oro.preg.org/mn

Anthea Caddy explores the relationship between recorded sound, spatialisation and instrumental performance, much of Caddy’s work focuses on the incorporation of acoustic, electro-acoustic and recorded space within performance and multi-channel installation. 
together they are working with extending acoustic phenomena between cello and semi-automated ukelele with minimal electronics and oscillators. wrapping time around the lenght of some short and long strings.

Doors open at 21h
Performance starts at 22h
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How to find us:

Altes Finanzamt
Schönstedtstraße 7, access through the yard
U7, Rathaus Neukölln

www.altesfinanzamt.blogspot.com

01/05/11




The posters that are results of the workshops curated by Emanuele Guidi and me, are going to be spread around all the cities of the festival. The workshops were: Hackitectura in London in the Chelsea College of Arts and Design, Imagining Commonversity, the Gende Art Net in Cluj-Napoca and the Visualizing Transnationalism  are goind to be  presented in all the "houses" of the festival.

Some info about the festival:
Transeuropa Festival is at once a cultural festival and a political event. It is the first transnational Festival happening in 12 cities simultaneously: not twelve different festivals at the same time, but one festival throughout Europe promoting democracy, equality and culture beyond the nation state. Transeuropa creates a common political and cultural space for exchange, debate and action.

Using a plurality of mediums, from debates, lectures and congresses to art installations, projections, and music, the festival promotes innovation, experimentation and radicalism both in its politics and in its cultural production, and sees the visualising of a new community through the arts as an inalienable component of building a new society.

Transeuropa Festival does not shy away from the most pressing and difficult topics confronting European society and the rest of the world. In 2011 the main themes of the Festival will be migration, Roma and traveller rights, media freedom, and a more just economy for after the crisis.

These main themes will be discussed and explored in all twelve Festival cities, conclusions and experiences passed from city to city until the closing weekend, when transnational forums will take place on each theme.

The Festival is coordinated by European Alternatives, and is organised by TRANSEUROPA Network: a team of over 50 activists, writers, thinkers, artists and curators from throughout the continent. You are welcome to join the festival in any one of its cities or online, and to join the Network no matter where you are or are from.

25/04/11

I´m participating in this Spheres of Power. Tension & Exchange organized by Kioskprojects  as one of the guest participants. It will be take place from 26th to 28th of April.


Renzo Martens’ work “Enjoy Poverty. Episode III” (2008), shown in 2010 at Berlin Biennial deals with notions of poverty and power. In some segments of the film, we see Martens engaged with local people - he tries to make the mechanisms of their exploitation clear to them. He teaches them to enjoy their poverty: the words, “Enjoy Poverty,” are spelled out in big neon lights mounted on a raft with which he travels along the Congo River. His video explores the tension between the depravity of the neon signs and its obvious reference to the art industry and their message, displaced to a foreign context. Even more interesting is the relative pointlessness of the action: the artist discredits his own effort by the nature of the act. If he really wants to bring forward the cause, what is the purpose of launching a campaign which will only be perceived by a selected arty audience?
DRAFT PROGRAMME
April 26 - 30, 2011, Berlin
Topics:
Inbetween different economies
Here we freely interpret “economy” as a concept of a self-standing realm of relations and activities, that could be defined through the terms of demand, market, supply and exchange.
If we arbitrarily acknowledge, that art world functions as an economy by itself, within what other “economies” one finds his/her artistic venture operating?
Where and how do these economies intersect? What tensions are operating at these intersections?
The act of exchange.
How are certain images or gestures transferred and translated from one sphere to another?
How does the meaning/affect change when it is transfered from one economy to the other?
How can alienation/estrangement function successfully as an artistic strategy?

Role and position of the artist/cultural producer

In Renzo Martens' work "Episode 3", one sees by the end of the movie that the only "contribution" he can offer for the local community in Congo is the 'Western-art' industry solution. Is this a cynical statement on the redundancy of the help gesture, coming from Martens' position? However, is a pro-active role possible at all?
How artistic gestures can be affective? In what realm they DO work?
What other roles are available? Can the role of the artist be positioned as one of an “ignorant schoolmaster”?
Suggested reading list:
Ranciere, Jacques. The Ignorant Schoolmaster, Stanford University Press, 1991.
Roberts, John. Collaboration as a Problem of Art’s Cultural Form // Third Text, 18(6), pp. 557-564. November, 2004.
Rogoff, Irit. Smuggling, An Embodied Criticality.
Zizek, Slavoj. Violence, Picador, 2008.

11/04/11

Gender Art Net in Cluj-Napoca. From 12th to 16th of April 2011.
Casa Tranzit, str. Bariţiu (Malom utca) nr. 16 

This is the second workshop i´m curating of a series together  with Emanuele Guidi for the Visualizing Transnationalism  project in the frame of Transeuropa Festival



In the framework of the Transeuropa festival, a transnational festival happening simultaneously in 12 cities throughout Europe, the GenderArtNet’s team and Lorenzo Sandoval will give a cartography workshop in Cluj Napoca, Romania. During the workshop we will explore two threads:
  • A collective discussion of the contents of the festival from a gender perspective and their introduction in the GenderArtNet’s database.
  • How to visualize the local territory of Cluj Napoca from a gender perspective?
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Actualizing: more info here.

06/04/11

Ursula Böckler
Aldi in america

Altes Finanzamt, 8th of April, 21:00.

Schönstedtstraße 7 - EG Neukölln 12043 Berlin Access through the yard
U7 Rathaus Neukölln (Exit Schönstedtstraße)



In Altes Finanzamt i´m curating with Matador Projecktrauman exhibition from Ursula Böckler, with a serie of books and slides made in he nineties while she was travelling in America, showing trough the diaries a personal approach  to the realities she found, based in a strong idea of experience and travel.


In the early nineties i traveled several times to america: north, middle and south america. i met friends, fell in love, cruised around. i took a lot of black & white photos and color slides. most of the time with rather trashy snapshot equipment. back home i compiled handmade photographic diaries. they are a mixture of traveling documentary and romantic story. these books are existing in a edition of two. I made one edition for the friend i was traveling with and kept the other for my own memories.

Ursula Böckler
http://www.grawboeckler.de/photos_01.html

18/03/11







I´m curating a serie of workshops with Emanuele Guidi for the Visualizing Transnationalism  project in the frame of Transeuropa Festival:



"Imagining Commoniversity"

London. 28-29-30 march
Pablo de Soto (hackitectura.net), Alejandro González (60rpm.tv)
Coordinated by Emanuele Guidi and Lorenzo Sandoval
Chelsea Collage of Arts & Design



The workshop "Imagining Commoniversity" by Hackitectura.net in London will take place in the context of the project Visualizing Transnationalism. The workshop takes as starting point the assumption of University as a Common to engage with the recent university protests in the UK (due to the taxes increase) as well as the European movements experience that emerged in the last years to tackle the Bologna process issue. As a temporary laboratory, the workshop will join, continue and collaborate with exisiting european group "Commoniversity" that met at Universidad Libre de La Rimalla in Barcelona last november.

Hackitectura.net, will direct the research towards the future and try to imagine how a common University in Europe could look like, how it should work and what should be its role in society. Through mapping strategies, open collective discussions and the implementation of new media technologies, Hackitectura.net will work on the experience and the tradition of a British group such as Archigram, to sketch and design the ‘vision’ of an ideal and utopian Common University of the future.

The workshop will be open to a registered audience (max 20 people) with an interest in education/university, new media technologies, activism, mapping techniques, art and architecture.

Hackitectura.net (represented by Pablo de Soto and Alejandro González) coordinated by Emanuele Guidi and Lorenzo Sandoval will follow different approaches during the workshop:

* Presenting the philosophy and the research behind the practice of Hackitectura.net. Looking at the experiences of avant-garde free-universities and utopian architects as Archigram. Presenting the history and contemporary practices on data visualization.

* Mapping contemporary practices and initiatives emerging in the last years in Europe.

* A more local focus on the London and UK situation, the actual crisis and the protest movements so as to start a critical reflection on themes, priorities and urgencies that should characterize the University.

* The methodoloy of the workshop will include the use of n-1, an autonomus and distributed digital social network set up by the hacker and free software movement as a tool for activists to organize and improve knowledge production.

* One or more images will be produced in forms of maps and/or plan to research a possible representation of a common university. Augmented reality, through Quick Recognition Codes (Qr codes) will be employed as tool to open a dialogue between a more classical form of map/plan/drawing with the resources available in the internet space.

* One or more poster will be printed as in the following weeks as final result of the workshop and will be presented together with other posters produced within the context of Visualizing Transnationalism. The posters will be displayed in different cities of the Transeuropa Festival both in form of ‘take-away’ installation and hanged in different public spaces and festival venues.

* A presentation of the workshop will be presented during the festival at the Home of the Festival in London and possibly a second presentation will be arranged in a second city (to be confirmed).



+ info here.

17/03/11

Mehr Licht
GlougauAIR
Friday, March 25, 2011 from 8 pm - 0 am
Saturday, March 26, 2011 from 5 pm - 9 pm


With one of the works of the project Sketches for building up a paradise, i´m participating in this exhibition:


"Mehr Licht" – More Light - is a group exhibition that brings together GlogauAIR current and former resident artists. The exhibition is a tribute to the founder of GlogauAIR, Chema Alvargonzález (1960-2009), to inaugurate the new project space, based in his former studio.
The title of the exhibition is based on the light installation that Alvargonzález created for the Swiss Embassy in Berlin in 2001. The last words that Goethe uttered before dying "Mehr Licht" were given to the invited artists as a starting point to develop new works for the exhibition. The different proposals offer a reflection on the role of the light from the most varied perspectives composed by the artists who, by working and living there, give life to the Alvargonzález's project.
GlogauAIR was founded as a multidisciplinary platform for artistic production and discussion, collaboration and exchange. Located within Berlin´s independent art scene of Kreuzberg and Neukölln, GlogauAIR is a non-profit residency program, which provides three to six months residencies for international artists. Every three months the resident artists open their studios to present newly developed work, inviting the public to join a dialogue about artistic practice and contemporary art. Moreover, GlogauAIR is pleased to open a new project space for exhibitions as well as screenings, performances, lectures and artist's talks. The aim is to offer an experimental space for discourse and cultural production, connecting GlogauAIR  with the international art scene and the city of Berlin.

Open Studios with
Ann Shelton, Cezary Poniatowski, Giulio Zanet, Jesús Portal, José Moñú, Kasper Vang, Kuno Ebert, Phanos Kyriacou, Tinka Bechert, Toshifumi Hirose, Witte Wartena


“Mehr Licht” group exhibition with
André Catarino, Ann Shelton, Anna Szigethy, Cezary Poniatowski, Elisa Balmaceda, Felix and Mumford, Funda Özgunaydin, Giulio Zanet, Irene Pascual, Javier Chozas, Jesus Portal, Jonny Amore, José Moñú, Juan Manuel Moreno, Juan Varela, Jorgos Glaukos, Kasper Vang, Kuno Ebert, Lorenzo Sandoval, Mariana Viegas, Oliver Roura, Phanos Kyriacou, Sergio Frutos, Silvia Hornig, Tinka Bechert, Tobias Sternberg, Toshifumi Hirose, Witte Wartena

15/03/11

Friday, March 18th
Vernissage -"I’m going to have to disappoint you", by Phanos Kyriacou
exhibition curated by Matador Projektraum 
with the collaboration of GlogauAIR Artists in Residence Program 




Where has nature gone? It has certainly disappeared from our daily lives; it has become the sublime we encounter when taking time off from the everyday. It is almost as if we are seeking solace in the artificial; we look back with nostalgia to that which is lost forever; life in the natural world.

What is evident in ‘I’m going to have to disappoint you’ is that these simulacra point to the city and the degree to which it has separated us from nature: a fake trunk made out of pretending-to-be-wood plastic; a deserted room with a wallpaper that hints at what we have forever deserted; bizarre encounters with nature/borrowed memories, printed on mugs: a joke on the triumphant victory of the digital era.

Do we experience disappointment in our day-to-day encounters with this artificiality? Probably not, since artificiality has become so natural. Kyriacou’s assemblage of materials and images that he encounters while drifting in the city and along the information superhighways is unique, witty, but above all, thought provoking.

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Aditionally to the opening, there will be a concert by:

De Vega & Di Placido

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Doors open at 21:30, with the vernissage of "I’m going to have to disappoint you", by Phanos Kyriacou
Concert starts at 22:00

02/12/10

THE MAC GYVER PROBLEM
THU. 2. DECEMBER , 6-10 PM

THE FORGOTTEN BAR /
GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL




I´m participating with this photomontage: Socialismus (Sketches for building up a paradise series), 2010


Jesus Portal, Belén Rodriguez, Axel Koschier, Heiko Pfreundt, Phanos Kyriacou, Anna Szigethy, Teresa Solar Abboud, Javier Chozas, Lorenzo Sandoval

9 artists from spain, germany, austria, hungary and cyprus left to their own devices, will relate their work to the improviser´s talents of the intelligent, optimistic, laid-back, resourceful secret agent TV character Angus Mac Gyver, Following the character´s idea to solve a range of problems on your own along with just tape and a swiss knife very spontaneously each artist´s work will create this very moment of confidence - that you can work with what you got.For those who didn´t trust Joseph Beuys, this show works it out as the Mac Gyver Problem.
THE FORGOTTEN BAR /
GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL

BOPPSTRASSE 5
10967 BERLIN
www.galerieimregierungsviertel.org