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A report from dOCUMENTA (13)

There are an infinity of things that one can say about this international exhibition that manifests the marriage of artwork, institutional professionalism and good sense. It is meticulously organised to the last detail. So well sign-posted that it is impossible to get lost – even if you try to. And it is installed with such impeccable fingerspitzgefühl that proves that the white cube has more rabbits to pull out of its hat than we could have ever imagined. It is all done so well and with the knowledge that it works for the greater good and that it is humane and righteous. And everyone is very happy to participate: artists, curators, audience, technicians, critics, caterers, police – everyone is happy to be in Kassel. We can finally all agree - gott sei dank!

There is of course an array of amazing work that only can be hailed. William Kentridge’s opera on time sweeps us away and leaves us begging for more with masochist pleasure. Geoffrey Farmer’s "Leaves of Grass" is a breathtaking – a magical manifestation of the beauty and everyday toil in the 20th century. Haegue Yang’s slow awakening over the disused railroad tracks is a kiss on the eyelids of anyone who has ever woken up alone or in the arms of a loved one. Marcos Lutyens and Raimundas Malašauskas’s "Hypnotic Show" a treat for those who have time to be lead away by the former’s velvet voice in the innermost mazes of your own subconscious. Or the joy of meeting the angry and humourous minimalist techno of Erek Cevdet on the top of a nameless shopping centre . There are many more and I am eternally grateful that I had the pleasure of living these experiences.


But how can we relate to the hundreds of incredibly well researched projects about distant places and long past events that reek of cultivated zeitgeist and do exactly what they are expected to do today – not yesterday and not tomorrow? There are thousands of artworks that scream that they are sure that they will help us to build a better tomorrow. In short dOCUMENTA (13) is so well-oiled and smoothly surfaced that it slips away on its own impeccable middle-of-the-roadum.

I do not show any work on the blog. It is more appropriate to show some of the thousands of signs that accompany the artwork and sometime are part of them – they show a truer face of dOCUMENTA (13) than anything else. If you want to see more images, you can do so here.

-Per Hüttner

Vision Forum and OuUnPo wins prestigious ECF-grant.

Vision Forum is proud to announce that we have been awarded a prestigious European Cultural Foundation Collaboration Grant for the OuUnPo session in Beirut in November and December 2012. The events will be organised by Fatos Üstek and Sara Giannini. Confirmed partners in Beirut are Batroun Projects and Ashkal Alwan.

For the the meeting in Beirut, OuUnPo will join forces with the international research project "GAM – Global Art and the Museum". GAM is a research program initiated by Hans Belting and Peter Weibel at the ZKM – Centre for Art and Media Karslruhe in 2006. For more information about OuUnPo click here. For more information about the Beirut session, click here.

THE ENTREMET - In Toulouse

Åbäke, A Constructed World, Alex Cecchetti, Jochen Dehn, Aurèle Duda, Mark Geffriaud, Aurélie Godard, Per Hüttner, Seulgi Lee, Luna Suzuki Ståhl, Fabien Vallos, Adva Zakai.

Curated by Géraldine Longueville

Back in the XIVth century, the word “entremet” was used to define a dish served between courses during royal banquets: consuming animated sculptures and drawings turned the table into a stage. Entremet recipes allow us to recreate these dishes today. Instead of approaching it as a traditional re-enactment, the project The Entremet is more focused on the process of writing, exchange and interpretation of the recipe. Apart from it being the signature of a chef, the recipe recalls a past experience through the desire to pass it on to someone else. The recipe as archive, protocol and anticipation offers a model to think about the economy of an artwork, from its inception to its distribution.

The Entremet is the result of a process involving a dozen of participants since the end of 2010. Through a trip to Bahia, a residency at the Villa San Michele in Capri, discussions, performances, games, walks, books, dishes, sculptures and portraits, a common ground was formed between the participants. This experience took the shape of a box containing fourteen pieces to be used by future users as the ingredients of their own recipe.

The Entremet is presented during the exhibition “The Life of Forms” at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France, on the invitation of Olivier Michelon.

-Residency at La Villa San Michele, Capri From February 2 to 12 2012.
- Exhibition "The Life of Forms" Opening Thursday 28 June, 2012, 18:00 Exhibition opened from June 29 to September 3, 2012
-Event The Entremet Thursday 5 July 2012, 18:00 – 23:30 For its first interpretation, The Entremet will be played by all its authors during a banquet. The content of the box will be set out several courses alternating dishes, sculptures, performances and talks. Only by reservation : kl@lesabattoirs.org

More info here and here.

Jacopo Miliani in Lugano - WAITING PANORAMA

Vision Forum Member Jacopo Miliani participates in WAITING PANORAMA in Lugano. More info here. To download a pdf-catalogue click here.

Time Capsules and Conditions of Now Catalogue

Time Capsules and Conditions of Now is available at:

Banner Repeater, London
Inc. livros e edicoes de autor, Porto
Audiatur, Norway

Instructions follow as:
A. Fold out the publication on a large surface
B. Each contribution occupies 3, mostly 4 and sometimes more than 4 pages
C. Follow the key (name-image) on the back cover to find out who has contributed with what
D. Fold the publication via bringing complementary pages together
E. Or fold and read as you wish
F. Do not forget to fold across sides


More info about the project here.

Latour and Networks

As Latour writes in Reassembling the Social, the term

…network does not designate a thing out there that would have roughly the shape of interconnected points, much like a telephone, a freeway, or a sewage ‘network’… It qualifies [rather] its objectivity, that is, the ability of each actor to make other actors do unexpected things. (129)

Fatos Ustek

Enrique Moral Morris at KSM lab

Spanish artist and Vision Forum member Enrique Moral Morris shows new work at KSM lab at Norrköpings stadsmuseum June 19 - July 5. The private view is at 3pm on June 19.

Here are a few words where he reflects on the work:

A Reflection is what you see when you look into a mirror. What you see is an image, something that defines you. But what is it that defines a person and his/her identity? It could be a number on your identity card, but also the place or statue that you have in the society. It could also define the relation that we have with ourselves.


Identity is of huge relevance nowadays, yet nobody seems to think about it or define what it means. During my year in Sweden, I have been studying the different aspects of identity. The goal with this exhibition is to make the viewer think about his own identity and how is it shaped, but also be able to truly understand my own identity.

More info about Enrique and his work here and and article about the exhibition here (in swedish only).

The River Film shoot in Sichuan, China

Vision Forum Film's second production with the working title The River is currently being filmed with a Swedish-Chinese crew and Chinese actors. The script is written by Yang Tingting who is also directing. The story is incredibly strong and the filming is progressing very well and the team is doing an amazing job!!!

We post a few images here to give you an idea about the progress. You will find more info here, here and here. The project is supported by Statens kulturråd, Östsam and Norrköpings kommun.

Swedish composer Andreas Unge at The River shoot in Sichuan

Swedish composer Andreas Unge has been commissioned to make the music for Vision Forum Film  The River. He is currently at the shoot in Sichuan where he records traditional musicians whose music will be part of the soundtrack. More info here, here and here.

ROBERT BARRY WHITE STRIPES / BOY GEORGE MICHAEL JACKSON POLLOCK

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tuesday june 19th to september 16th

INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS, London [England]

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3. SOUNDWORKS

[sound exhibition]

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Samon Takahashi presents his audio diptych:

ROBERT BARRY WHITE STRIPES / BOY GEORGE MICHAEL JACKSON POLLOCK

In conjunction with the exhibition of Bruce Nauman’s Days, SOUNDWORKS presents a series of sound commissions by a hundred artists from around the world.

http://www.ica.org.uk/32839/Exhibitions/SOUNDWORKS.html

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ICA

The Mall,

LONDON,

SW1Y 5AH

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CLAUDIA SQUITIERI / MAI HOFDSTAD GUNNES / SAMON TAKAHASHI

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Sunday Screening #7

From 10 June, 2012 to 10 June, 2012
Opening 10 June, 2012 from 2pm to 6pm

Magda Danysz Gallery - 78, rue Amelot - Paris 11

A proposal project by Alexandra Decraene, Lo Spazio

with

Samon Takahashi : El Dorado, 2006 USA, vidéo Pal, 10 min

Claudia Squitieri : En premier lieu, 2012 France, vidéo Pal, 10 min

Mai Hofstad Gunnes: An everywhere of silver, 2009 Suède, 16 mm / vidéo HD, 10 min 29

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The Amazing Aurèle Duda

Aurère Duda is a French artist based in Metz and member of the Vision Forum node The Entremet that will be shown publicly at Les Abattoirs in Toulouse as part of La vie des formes that opens June 28.  Aurèle works with folding and origami and we invite you to enjoy his wonderful website (in French only)

Marina Turmo at KSM lab - Norrköpings stadsmuseum

Vision Forum member Marina Turmo is showing new work at KSM lab - Norrköpings stadsmuseum.  Mixing videos with drawing and mementos from journeys in Europe, the artist invites us to reflect on nature's frictional relationship to culture and how our identities are created by how we relate to this paradoxical couple. More info here and here.

Vision Forum organizes "Think Again" in Shanghai

Think Again – Shanghai and Hangzhou 21-29 May, 2012.

(For Chinese version click here)


Vision Forum is proud to present a eight-day event in Shanghai and Hangzhou. Think Again is an interdisciplinary research project and brings together artists, curators, academics and inventors from Europe and China to reflect on the nature of creativity and how it can be encouraged and developed through international partnership.

Think Again takes many different forms:

-    Specially conceived artwork by Olav Westphalen will be shown at Mingshen Museum; by Chen Wei and Natasha Rosling at Fei Art Center.
-    Performances and presentations will take place at Rockbund Museum in collaboration with Shanghai University.
-    Talks and discussions will take place at other venues including The Art Academy in Hangzhou, Fei Art Center and 2666 Library.
-    The group will also carry out communal research in Shanghai Hangzhou and at Fei Art Center.

The sessions will touch on such diverse issues as new environmental technology, humour, new forms for meeting and living together, utopian architecture and finding new forms for art education and artistic research. But they are held together by a true ambition to understand and foster creation and also create platforms for better understanding between east and west.

The project is a collaboration between Linköpings Universitet and universities in Shanghai and Hangzhou. Participants include, Olafur Jonsson, Melanie Gilligan, Vincent Honoré, Per Hüttner, Wooloo (Anders Lichinger, Sixten Kai Nielsen, Martin Rosgaard,) William Rawlings, Natasha Rosling, Chen Wei, Olav Westphalen, Li Xiaofei
, Yang Zhifei, Doris Duanmu, Wang Dan, Gong Lilas and Science Fiction.

For detailed program click here.

Finally, the Danes are attacking...

After a few hundred years of peace between Denmark and Sweden, Wooloo strikes a blow to the Swedish heartland by building a rocket launching structure aimed at the Royal Castle. For more information, read here and here.

Rumours have it that the next battle will take place in Shanghai. Will the Swedes prevail again, or is the 21st century Danish? Find out more here.

Vision Forum at Excentricités

Vision Forum members Cecilia Ahlqvist, Natalia Kamia, Fatos Ustek and Per Hüttner will all present new performances in Besançon in France.


Click on the image for full program. For more info contact, Julien Cadoret

Institut Supérieur des Beaux Arts de Besançon/Franche-Comté.

Chargé d'action culturelle.
+33 6.82.39.34.52
julien.cadoret08 (at) gmail.com
http://www.erba-actu.com/

Ingrid Volume 1

Ingrid-- the new Swedish collective/label launched by Lykke Li, Peter Bjorn and John, Miike Snow, Teddybears, and Vision Forum member Tomas Nordmark has announced the details of its first release, Ingrid Volume 1. Out on Record Store Day (April 21), the compilation includes contributions from all of the collective's members.

Poste Restante

Our new members Vilma and Susanna brought Poste Restante to our attention. Here is what it says on their website:

"Poste Restante makes interactive performances where the visitor’s individual experience and active participation is the focal point. The works consists of honest yet unexpected constructed activities, where every single part of the space, every wardrobe and cleaning closet is available to the visitors. These activities may be evening classes in the art of socializing with strangers or an institution that provides secular rooms for religious introspection.

In Poste Restante’s works, new agreements with the visitor are made, he/she is personally addressed and can actively use these constructed activities to dwell in difficult questions.

Poste Restante’s pieces are made site- and situation specific for locations and contexts outside of the traditional theatre space. There is no off and on stage, and every new space is selected according to the demands of the constructed activity at hand.

The ideas behind the constructed activities often derive from identified inner conflicts experienced as shameful, and personal questions to witch there might not be an answer. The pieces work to create legitimacy and an understanding to these problems rather than presenting a solution."

To enjoy their website click here.

Neither You Nor Me - 2 Performances in Stockholm

Neither You Nor Me is a cross-over platform, using the theatre practice as venue for meetings between artists from different fields, where everyone participates with their specific knowledge and expertise in a journey through the narratives Antigone, Parzival and Bartleby . The first story presents a number of dialectic positions – man/woman, king/citizen, law/religion – whereas the second is an invitation to follow a movement from singularity to subjectivity and the third about participation, creation and man's relationship to technology. The project is a co-operation between director Anders Paulin, actor Anders Mossling and artist Per Huttner.

Anders Paulin and Anders Mossling will perform Parzival twice at Hallwylska Museet April 13 (12 noon and 3 pm) and Bartleby at Tekniska Museet April 11, 6 pm. The latter is free of charge and no booking is required, but the former costs 70 SEK and you have to make a booking in advance here. A third performance and banquet is planned for Tysta Maria gången/garaget in June 2012.