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.