VISION FORUM AUTUMN MEETING 2011 – SEPTEMBER 27-28

Vision Forum is proud to announce its third international workshop with KSM in Norrköping and Linköping September 27-28, 2011. It is a packed program with participants from all over the world that will meet local players for inspiration and creation.

This year’s meeting focuses on two main topics: What does artistic research imply and how does knowledge function in the artistic field? We will look at these questions with specific emphasis on the audience and audience participation.

We are very happy to develop the established collaborations in Norrköping and pleased to travel to Linköping to meet new institutions to work with. Below you will find a detailed program (subject to change).

We all look forward to welcoming you!


TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 27 – Norrköping

9.30-12 (Konstmuseet - the Art Museum)

* Introduction and Welcome - Per Hüttner, Mattias Åkesson, Anna Berglind and Kosta Economou.
* A newly produced video by Li Xiaofei, New York.
* Australian artist duo A Constructed World talk about their artistic practice and their project Speech and What Archive.



* Parisian curator Géraldine Longueville talks about the preparations for the project ‘L’entremet’ that will take place on Capri in spring 2012..
* Filmmaker Jesper Frilund talks about project ‘Effektivia’.

12-13 Lunch

13-17 (Arbetets Museum)
* London-based artists Vanda Playford and Lisa Skuret will make a workshop based on the experiences from the project London Houses.
* Henrik Ferdfelt from Södertörns högskola will make a workshop about creativity and economy.



20.00 Program at Verkstad:

Installations/performance/music/presentations by Li Xiaofei, Linnea Hansander, Jonathan Lewald and Ebba och Cerefie.


SEPTEMBER 28 – Linköping

9-10 (Train Norrköping-Linköping)
* Isabel Löfgren will create an event that connects to the project ‘Ö’ - a travelling experience.

(10-12 Länsmuseet i Linköping)
* Lena Wiklund, regional consultant for visual arts in Östergötland presents her work.



* Presentation by Wolfgang Peter Menzel, artist

12-13 Lunch

(13-14.30 Passagen, Linköping)
* Zhang Guangjuan will show her exhibition.
* Discussions and conclusions

Passagen director, Christer Fällman talking about the work at Passagen and beyond

The program has been realized in collaboration with KSM at Linköpings Universitet and with kind support from Östsam.

For more information and press images contact Moa Hannerz Simå: verkstadkonst (at)gmail.com, or Per Hüttner, pah(at)swipnet.se.

In Tasmania

More info here.

Ou.Un.Po. Greece

Ou.Un.Po. Greece
29 September – 2 October 2011

"Worlds have a longer life than deeds".
Pyndaros

Ouunpo is a three days symposium that will take place in various locations across and around the city of Athens through conventional and non-conventional investigations. The symposium, dedicated to the “oral tradition”, will include performance, round-table discussions, lectures, screenings, visits and walks to various selected sites.

Greece is a country where myths, art, epic and lyrical songs originated from oral tradition and kept alive by travelling poets. This country is also in the limelight due to the current political and economical crisis.

Our visit will be an occasion to investigate the tradition of storytelling and myth as a form of sharing knowledge and performing history, which often stand in opposition to the methodology of institutions. We will try to re-evoke the oral memory of events in contemporary (art) world, with a specific approach to the rituality and the improvisation that are always connected to oral narratives. Performance and initiation to a secret knowledge will be also the objects of our conversations with members of the esoteric milieu and of the masonic lodge.

Inspired by the great religious, theatrical, democratic and artistic traditions of Greece, and in dialogue with local artists, musicians, composers, art historians and curators, we will observe the present moment, and reflect about how a genuine revolutionary movement needs to brake with literal repetition of the past. To perform something means to interpret it, to betray it, to distort it. Boris Groys affirms that “the opposition between living spirit and dead letter informs the whole traditional Western discourse on religion”, but also on art itself, as embodiment of the creative spirit of change.

A symposium proposed by Vanessa Theodoropoulou in collaboration with Nadja Argyropoulou and organised by Alessandra Sandrolini.

When : thursday, 29th september to SUNDAY, 2ND OF OCTOBER

Who : Jacopo Miliani, Meris Angioletti, Raimundas Malasauskas, Marco Pasi, Paola Anziche’, Per Huttner, Alessandra Sandrolini, Yane Calovski, Klas Eriksson, Fatos Ustek, Elena Nemkova, Natasha Rosling, Samon Takahashi, Stephen Whitmarsh.

With : Sasha Chaitov, Nadja Argiropoulou, Marios Chatziprokopiou, Chiara Fumai, Kostantinos Dagritzikou, Iordanis Poulkouras, Stefanos Rozanis, Georgia Spiropoulos, Vanessa Theodoropoulou, Yianna Tsokou, Yorgos Tzirtzilakis + ...

Where : ATHENS, Eleusys, aegina

and in collaboration with Deste Foundation and Six Dogs, Athens

Presentations in Estonia

Bie Erenurm is starting up an Art Room in Kalamaja Tallinn and is looking for people/galleries/networks to cooperate with. So far they have had two poetry readings in the beginning of the summer. The first one two swedish poets and one of them is also is an artist - Katarina Norling and she brought her exhibition with. The second one was with Andy Willoughby and Kalle Niinikangas (finnish-english).

The space is 37 squaremeters and right under my appartment - with one door to the street and one out in our garden! I live in a Kalamaja typical house with 8 appartments. One of them is mine so the cellar - i call it Kelder.

The 18 sep its gonna be Avataud Ateljeed here - Open Galleri day everyone is welcome.

If you are interested. contact Bie Erenurm: bizzibee22(at) hotmail.com

Another Quote by Per from the same source

"...rational knowledge sets the same limits to life as reasonable life sets to thought; life is subject to knowledge and at the same time thought is subject to life. Reason sometimes dissuades and sometimes forbids us to cross certain limits: because it is useless (knowledge is there to predict), because it would be evil (life is there to be virtuous), because it is impossible (there is nothing to see or think behind the truth). But does not critique, understood as critique of knowledge itself, express new forces capable of giving thought another sense? A thought that would go to the limit of what life can do? A thought that would affirm life instead of a knowledge that is opposed to life. Life would be the active force of thought, but thought would be the affirmative power of life... Thinking would then mean discovering, inventing, new possibilities of life [which is] the essence of art."


-Gilles Deleuze on Nietzsche

This is now by Stuart D. Fallon

This is Now is an interesting online catalogue that documents a continously changing exhibition project with the same title.

Enjoy!

Community without Propinquity in Milton Keynes

Community without Propinquity is a project exploring the roles of contemporary art and communities in New Towns across the globe. The project includes an exhibition, a video programme, six new artist’s commissions, a research laboratory, publication and symposium.
The exhibition, in the Project Space, includes work related to Shenzhen (China), Chandigarh (India), Brasilia (Brazil) and UK New Towns, such as Harlow, Thamesmead, Runcorn and Stevenage, providing a context for cities built on land with no previous significant population.
The video programme, in the Events Room, explores the utopian social and architectural plans of New Towns, from Chinese replicas of a British seaside town to a German modernist estate, via a new city that exists entirely online.

The Project Space also serves as a research laboratory and forum for public events and artists commissioned to make new work, exploring the social and cultural policies of early Milton Keynes with organisations such as The Open University, MK’s Channel 40 TV station from the 1970s and the communal housing communities. This evolving project will culminate in a final weekend of events, a public symposium where research is presented and a publication.

The project is organised by independent curator Claire Louise Staunton with curatorial group Inheritance Projects, while the research lab and publication have been commissioned from An Endless Supply.

Artists in the exhibition include:
Paulo Catrica, Nathan Coley, Cao Fei, Jesal Kapadia, Wayne Lloyd, Vincent Meessen, Paul Noble, Ishmael Randall Weeks, Pia Rönicke and Stuart Whipps.

More info here.

Per's Quote of the Day

“If someone wills the truth it is not in the name of what the world is but in the name of the world is not. It is understood that ‘life aims to mislead, to dupe, to dissimilate, to dazzle, to blind.’ But he who wills the truth always wants to depreciate this high power of the false: he makes life an ‘error’ and this world an ‘appearance’. […] The man who does not want to deceive wants a better world and a better life; all his reasons for not deceiving are moral ones. And we always come against this virtuism of the one who wills the truth: one of his favourite occupations is the distribution of wrongs, he renders responsible, he denies innocence, he accuses and judges life, he denounces appearance. ‘It has gradually become clear to me… that the moral (immoral) intentions in every philosophy have every time constituted the real germ of life out of which the entire plant has grown… I accordingly do not believe a “drive to knowledge” to be the father of philosophy.’ –However this moral opposition is itself only a symptom. The one who wants another world, another life, wants something more profound: ‘Life against life.’ He wants life to become virtuous, to correct itself and to correct appearance, for it to serve as the way to the other world. He wants life to repudiate itself and to turn against itself: ‘An attempt to use force to taint force.’ Thus behind the moral opposition there stands another kind of contradiction, the religious or ascetic contradiction.”

- Gilles Deleuze on Nietzsche

Anne's Quote of the Day.

“The really shocking fact that we must face is this: that, throughout the country, people of the basest ignorance are sitting in judgment upon art, upon the universities, upon the very meaning of thinking itself”. ‒Ben Shahn

Effektivia Rehearsal.

Vision Forum Film is proud to announce that the preparation Effektivia is progressing well. The directors and the team have made an amazing job and you will soon be able to see teasers on this blog and on the Effektivia webpage. Make sure you keep your eyes peeled!

ATTEMPTS TO GET INSIDE THE WORLD - Natasha Rosling in London

A
 SERIES 
OF 
SUB‐THEMES
 FOR 
REFLECTION
 OVER 
THE
 WEEKEND:

The 
Weird 
Drive:
 Self‐discipline, 
Obsessive 
Compulsion
 and
 Constructive 
Confusion.

Absurd 
Paraphernalia:

 Shaping 
Tools,

 Harnessing
 Straps
 and
 Wearing 
Prosthetics.

Living
 with 
Aliens,
 Dragons
 and
 Dinosaurs: 
Time
 Travel,
 Mind 
Travel,
 Space 
Travel.

Echoes 
in 
the
 Vessel: 

Disembodied 
Voices,

 Embodied 
Objects,
 and
 Lost 
Body 
Parts.

Stuck
 with 
the 
Mud: 
The 
Edifice,

 Support
 Structures
 and
 Temporary
 Architectures.
 



SATURDAY 
3RD 
SEPTEMBER
 From 
2pm 
until
 the
 mid
-evening

Presentations,
 Screenings
and

 Performances 
by:

‐
Per
Huttner

‐
Dr.
Watson
 and
 John
Walter

‐
Celine
 Condorelli

‐
Chooc 
Ly 
Tan 
and
 Rishi 
Nalin
 Kumar

‐
Corinne
 Felgate

‐
Linda
 Franke

‐
Ian 
Lawton 
and 
Ken 
Huggins

‐
Fatos
Ustek

 





SUNDAY
 4TH
 SEPTEMBER
 From
 2pm 
until
 the 
mid
-evening
 

Presentations,
 Screenings
 and

 Performances
 by:

‐
Natasha
 Rosling

‐
Eleanor
 Wright

‐
Sachi
 Miyachi

‐
Isobel 
Dunhill,

Antoine
 Bertin
and


‐
Robert
 Lisney

‐
Pauline
 Curnier‐Jardin,
Screening


‐
Performance 
by
 Jose 
Campos

‐
VOL.

*
Curated
 Screening


Arthouse
 Gallery, 
140 
Lewisham
 Way, 
London 
SE14
6PD

Transport: 
Rail/Underground
‐
New 
Cross/New 
Cross 
Gate;
Buses
‐
21,
36,
 136, 
321


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Marcus Petterson wins poster competition

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