Jacopo Miliani et al. at Cartel in London

Cartel: In the Belly of The Whale. Adam Chodzko,
Côme Ciment, Anthea Hamilton, Jacopo Miliani

Prison Cells: Equilateral Coercion. Suzanne Mooney

kynastonmcshine: Rush Limbaugh is Sick. Diann Bauer//
+ Mark Pearson // BLATNOVA // DJ Fari // Paul O'Neill

Friday 27th May 2011
7pm-1am

With special guests The Culture Show filming.
We are pleased to announce May's Dirty Cop Friday, with 2 exhibition openings in Cartel and The Prison Cells, a late opening for kynastonmcshine and 4 live performances:
The live lineup:

7-9pm: DJ Fari - resonance fm set

9.15-9.45pm: Mark Pearson - tyrolian robot set

9.45-10.30: BLATNOVA - live

10.30pm-1am: Paul O'Neill DJ set
(more info below)



L: Orson Welles - Moby Dick. R: Chimney for the Exhibition, Come Ciment, 2011


In The Belly of the Whale

Adam Chodzko, Côme Ciment, 
Anthea Hamilton, Jacopo Miliani

Curated by Rosie Cooper and Ariella Yedgar

Cartel

PV 27th May 7-11pm afterparty until 1am

Show continues 28th May- 16th July

Open Wed-Sat 12-4pm



The Old Police Station
, 114 Amersham Vale, 
London SE14 6LG



more info here

Routine for reimbursements of your costs and handling of receipts

Dear Vision Forum member, 



Here you will find information about how to get reimbursed for project expenses and how to organize your receipts. Your expenditures will be reimbursed after you have used up your entire budget for the term and all necessary information has been received (we only do one payment per term).

You post the information to Per:

Per Hüttner
143 Boulevard de Magenta


75010 Paris
France

Step 1—Receipts:

1. Tape all receipts on A4-sheets and number them.
· See example here: receipts.jpg

2. Make two photocopied sets of these sheet(s).
· Keep one set for your own reference and mail one set to Per along with the original receipts.


3. Make an Excel spreadsheet where you sum up all your costs and convert to Swedish kronor. You can make conversions on here .

· A template that you can use is here: example.xls
· Make sure that the numbers on the receipts from the A4 sheets correspond to the numbers on your list!
· Make two copies of this spreadsheet and mail to Per.

Step 2—Reimbursement:
4. On a separate sheet, include the following information:
· Your name and date of birth/personnummer if you are Swedish
· Your bank's BIC or SWIFT address
· Your bank account's IBAN number 
(If you have a Swedish bank account it suffices to send the account number and the name of the bank. No need for BIC and IBAN.)
· Make two copies of this paper and mail to Per.


5. E-mail your BIC and IBAN to Per: (pah (at) swipnet.se). This ensures that the numbers are correct. If you have a Swedish account it suffices to send the account number and the name of the bank.

Please note:

You will be reimbursed for costs related to travel (tickets, accommodation, etc.) and material costs. If you buy inventory (e.g. computer hardware, camera equipment, etc.) this will belong to LiU and will have to be returned when you finish the course.
 Costs for food, web-hotels and domain names will only be reimbursed in special cases. If this is a major part of your project talk to Per.

Step 3—Check list:

All necessary documents that need to be posted to Per should include the following:

1. All original receipts, taped to A4 sheets of paper and numbered
2. One photocopied set of these sheets (remember to make one set for your records!)
3. Two copies of the Excel spreadsheet
4. Two copies of your personal/account information
5. Email your BIC/IBAN to Per

Once the information is received and in correct order, Per will transfer funds to your account.
If you do not follow the above, your documents will be returned to you for completion. 

If you have any questions, send an e-mail to Per—Good Luck!

Educational Modules

Vision Forum is a development of the organisation Curatorial Mutiny and its dialogue with KSM at Linköpings universitet that started in 2004. Since its inception in 2008, Vision Forum has grown to focus on international education, production and research in contemporary visual art and the integration of these on a regional, national and international scale.

1. Introduction and contexts

"We do not lack communication. On the contrary, we have too much of it. We lack creation. We lack resistance to the present. The creation of concepts in itself calls for a future form, for a new earth and people that do not yet exist."
—Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, "What is Philosophy"


The collaboration between KSM and Vision Forum allows knowledge, experience and vision to meet with artistic and academic creativity to enrich the academic and cultural life of the region of Östergötland. The collaboration brings together students, researchers, producers and influential personalities from the arts, humanities and sciences to dialogue about central life issues. The participants of the project come from all over Europe, often with roots from other continents, and also host a broad age range and a balanced gender mix. The exchange safeguards academic and cultural diversity in the region and inspires students, researchers and staff to find, enrich and develop their creative and academic processes.

The collaboration operates on three levels:


I. Local: To bring knowledge, experience and inspiration and new ideas from all over Europe and further afield to dialogue with and to enrich the unique context of the cultural, institutional and academic world of Norrköping, Linköping and the region of Östergötland.



II. National: To bring knowledge, experience and inspiration and new ideas from all over Europe and further afield to dialogue with and to enrich the cultural and academic worlds in Sweden. To enforce a dialogue with the academic, institutional and cultural world in the rest of Sweden with Norrköping, Linköping and the region of Östergötland.



III. International: To create a platform for international expansion for the academic, institutional and artistic world of Norrköping, Linköping and the region of Östergötland and to use this expansion to enrich the professional processes for academics and cultural practitioners in the region.



To work on these three levels allow the students and researchers to develop their personal practice based on their individual needs, visions and ambitions. But it also allows them to create a platform where they can actively choose to work locally, nationally and internationally. The platform gives them the tools, the network and skills to expand and through that allow the cultural and academic life in the region to expand with them.





2. The nature of the collaboration its future goals.

“One of the primary blocks to such latent creativity is what Bohm refers to as ‘self-sustaining’ confusion in the mind, in contrast to ‘simple’ confusion. Simple confusion is that which we experience when for instance, we don’t understand directions we are given, or when we can’t find the solution to a puzzle. Self-sustaining confusion, on the other hand occurs ‘when the mind is trying to escape awareness of conflict… in which one’s deep intention is really to avoid perceiving the fact, rather than to sort it out and make it clear’ Bohm points out that this process creates an order of its own: a reflexive state of dullness in which the natural agility of the mind is replaced is replaced with a torpor on the one hand, mechanical and meaningless fantasies on the other. Unfortunately says Bohm, this has come to be considered a normal state of mind, and is therefore endemic to our culture.”
— Lee Nichols, Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition of David Bohm’s “On Creativity”, Routledge 1997.

The collaboration between KSM and Vision Forum is built on research about the role and nature of knowledge within in the academic and artistic fields. This foundation allows the students and researchers both to operate professionally in local, national and international art audiences and at the same time develop research that benefits the academic and artistic worlds.

The collaboration needs to be based on a clear understanding of the methodologies, goals and limitations of the respective fields: art, science and humanities. It is essential not only to demarcate the nature of knowledge in respective fields and the overlapping aims between them, but also to respect that there are profound philosophical differences between the genres. But both Vision Forum and KSM also both have far reaching experience of what can be achieved through a dialogue between different disciplines.

In each project carried out by students and researchers, great detail is given on the formulation of the problem as well as the context where the problem is addressed. The projects are created and carried out in such a way that they allow the audience to actively follow the outcome through traces of the process undergone. The project is set up with the goal of realizing the potential of each individual student and researcher and to stimulate a rich cultural and academic environment in Östergötland.


3. Thematic Fields



"The art of constructing a problem is very important: you invent a problem, a problem position, before finding a solution. None of this happens in an interview, a conversation, a discussion. Even reflection, whether it's alone, between two or more is not enough. Above all, not reflection. Objections are even worse. Every time someone puts an objection I want to say 'OK, OK, let's go on to something else'. Objections have never contributed anything. It is the same when I am asked a general question. The aim is not to answer the question, it's to get out, to get out of it."
—Gilles Deleuze


The collaboration between KSM and Vision Forum focuses on three main fields. These have been developed over the last years. Within each field the students and researchers work with meetings, research and production preferably in parallel. The three fields also open doors for work across the fields and students and researchers often work with projects that either is placed between these thematic fields and/or between accepted artistic genres.

The three thematic fields are:


I. 
Performance: Vision Forum has focused on performance from the outset. The practical approach to academic research that has been a trademark of KSM from the start makes it very easy to collaborate in this field and the two organizations have been working together in this genre since 2004.
II. Art and Science
: The collaboration offers artistic production and research to meet scientific and humanist research.
III. Experimental film: Film is and has always been a strong point for KSM, but the creators have had a hard time reaching outside the local. Vision Forum offers the venues for presentation and expansion. This field also works for an expanded local production of experimental film.

Publications

Many of the meetings and public events are discussed and critically analysed in publications that are distributed in Europe, Asia and South America. More information here.

Below you find a selection of Vision Forum's publications.

• The Quantum Police, with texts by Anne Klontz; Johnny Ross and Willie Hansen (1969) and a short story by Wang Xiao Ping (in Chinese and English). Design by Erik Månsson, 96 pages in full coulour + 5 fold-out sheets. Published by Lambert Gallery and Vision Forum 2011, ISBN 978-91-978934-5-9.

• SWANewspaper, 2011, 16 pages, colour, edited by Anna Hess et al (Speech and What Archive). Published by A Constructed World.

• TRAVELS, 2011, edited by: Louise Nilsson and Lisa Boström, graphic design Karl dos Santos, Language English, contributions by: Hu Fang, Lillian Fellman, Marie Husson, Per Hüttner, Louise Höjer, Mako Ishizuka, Anna Kleberg, Björn Kusoffsky, Niklas Lundell, Isin Onol and Alessandra Sandrolini.

• (In)visible Dialogues, 2011, Edited by Per Hüttner and Elias Arnér, languages: English and Swedish, 240 pages, design by Åbäke. Published by Dent-de-Leone. ISBN 978-91-978934-3-5 and ISBN 978-0-9561885-5-7

• The Invisible Generation, 2011, 144 pages. Texts by Gerrie van Noord, Daniele Balit, Olav Westphalen and Per Hüttner. Language: English. Design by Marie. Published by Curatorial Mutiny and Vision Forum. ISBN 978-91-978934-2-8

• The Imminent Interviews, 2010, Edited by Hanna Hannerz, 90 pages, languages: English and Chinese, published by Fei Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai and Vision Forum 2010, ISBN 9789197893442

Performance practice

Vision looks at performance in a very open way and also investigates the porousness between exhibition and performance through projects like Ö- A Möbius Trip. Or by initiating meetings where boundaries between creator and audience is blurred. This is the case in Ouunpo meetings. Vision Forum is also looking for performative aspects in situations like lectures and sometimes creates workshop-like situations where new forms of meeting between researcher and audience is created.

This research has been developed in close collaboration with KSM and there search for alternative ways of documenting and presenting academic research. For more examples about these cross-over look at the information about meetings/seminars and exhibitions/performances.

Vision Forum Film

Vision Forum Film is Vision Forum's youngest research field. It has been started with the specific situation in Östergötland and Norrköping in mind and to develop its relationship to the capital region of Stockholm. Within KSM in Norrköping there is great talent fostered each year. But there is little support or possibility to grow in the region. We have therefore set up this research to stimulate film making in the region and to develop dialogue with the capital region and the international network in Vision Forum.

We are specifically interested in genre cross-overs, fostering production that allows film and visual art to meet. Vision Forum has previously been particularly successful in creating meetings between visual art and music, visual art and science and visual art and drama and builds on these experiences and contacts.

More info here.

Art and Science

Vision Forum has from the outset worked with researchers in the hard sciences to investigate how meetings between specialists in the two fields can inspire creativity on both sides. During one of the (In)visible Dialogue sessions organised by Vision Forum in 2011, Sandra Masur (Mount Sinai, New York) and Laurent Devèze (ISBA, Besançon) underlined how the scientific laboratory has gradually grown more into a communal working place for research and development over the last decade. The practice has shifted to larger research teams where the responsibilities are divided and tasks differentiated, but still retaining a common goal. On the other hand, the artist has retained his/her singular brand name and a more insular process. We have seen movements where artists form groups (Superflex, General Idea), but also artists like Olafur Eliasson and Tomàs Saraceno develop studios that emulate the working methods of architectural firms. But we our preparatory research suggests that by implicating methodologies from the sciences that this can develop further.

Vision Forum sees great potential developing parallel strategies to institutions like the Santa Fe Institute that look at large populations in major cities or the interactions in schools of fish. Here the extended specialization and at the same time demand for amassing and evaluating gigantic amounts of data has forced researchers to collaborate with researchers in the humanities and design. Vision Forum has developed both a practice and the theoretical and digital tools to create situations for true artistic research and production based on the above mentioned working methods.