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Åsa Ersmark at Färgfabriken
Stockholm 10/09/2010-31/10/2010

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This Image Is No More - The Invisible Generation Event in Beijing

"Good TV", in collaboration with Vision Forum and the people of Wu Dao Ying Hu Tong in Beijing welcomes you to an art exhibition based on storytelling performed live.

"This image is no more"
Bejing - Wu Dao Ying Hu Tong
1 - 4 Jul 2010


The exhibition "This image is no more" has been conceived in collaboration between a group of Swedish artists and members of the Chinese community. The project looks for new forms of making and perceiving art, where the art as object has been replaced by the relations and processes surrounding it.

People who live and work in the Wu Dao Ying Hu Tong have been engaged to tell stories of images drawn from memories, dreams or visions. Meaning that the exhibition consists of images only materialized in the act of storytelling. The public will find these storytellers in their everyday settings at home or at work. On request each person/storyteller performs a monologue describing their specific image.

Welcome to opening reception will take place at "illy coffee/Cafe Confucius" on Thursday the 1st of July at 19.00 - 21.00 pm.

Adress: No. 25 Imperial College street, Dongcheng District, Beijing.


The exhibition takes place at 10 different sites within the Wu Dao Ying Hu Tong, Beijing:

Thursday 1 July, 20.00 - 22.00

Friday 2 July, 18.00 - 21.00

Saturday & Sunday, 3-4 July, 15.00 - 18.00

Les Vraoums at Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris

Les Vraoums ambiancent, thursday July 1 at 9 pm at Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris - métro iéna ou Alma-Marceau

the performance is part of Pauline Curnier Jardin's participation in:

*** D Y N A S T Y ***

Palais de Tokyo/Musée d'Art Moderne/ARC-Paris

Commissariat scientifique:

MAMVP/ARC : Anne Dressen, assistée d’Elsa Beaudoin
Palais de Tokyo: Julien Fronsacq, assisté de Jeanne Dreyfus Daboussy
Commissariat général:
Fabrice Hergott et Marc-Olivier Wahler
all the artists here:

more about Pauline here:

CINEMIXA™ Venezuela tour

CINEMIXA™ Venezuela tour
[Antipop, Samon Takahashi, Stefff Gotgovski]
Puerto La Cruz, Barquisimeto, Maracaibo, Caracas
du 18 au 26 juin / from june 18th till june 26th

For more info click here

The Invisible Generation at UCCA in Beijing

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Homomecanicus at CAPC in Bordeau

18 young artist from the University in Bordeaux will together create an 6 1/2 hour performance that dialogues with the film A Clockwork Orange at CAPC on June 2, 2010. Inside the darkened space there will be two large screens where a slowed down version of Stanley Kubrick’s classic A Clockwork Orange is going to be projected so it makes an 6 1/2h version of the film. Next to the projection, 18 artists will perform specially created performances for the event. The performances will not reproduce the film, but to dialogue with it.

For more information click here.

The Invisible Generation at various public locations in Kiev - 2-4 July 2010

Oksana Chepelyk, Oleg Chorny and Gena Khmaruk, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Klas Eriksson, GangDon, Volodymyr Karashevskyi, Alexander Kokhanovsky, Oksana Plysyuk, Per Hüttner and Olav Westphalen, Jean-François Robardet and Simon Hitziger, TanzLaboratorium and Huang Xiaopeng

Curated by Per Hüttner and Yulia Usova



Vision Forum, PAI and Les’ Kurbas Center are proud to announce The Invisible Generation in Kiev.

The Invisible Generation is an ongoing contemporary art project that has appeared in different guises in Beijing, Melbourne and Shenzhen. The venues have been carefully selected due to their specific historical contexts and their perceived trajectories into the future. The project takes its starting point in performative traditions, but focuses on practices and events that cross over into other time-based activities, such as sound, film, video, literature, theatre and workshops. The project offers new situations for art and audience to meet outside of where one expects to meet an art piece or performance. The Invisible Generation allows the artists and audience to investigate how art can become a tool to shift our outlook at reality when it appears with an element of surprise.

full program here.

Simultaneity - in Stockholm and Beijing

Oana Camilleri, Yan Jun and Zhifei Yang
Curated by Anne Klontz
April 24–May 16, 2010

The Simultaneist poem teaches a sense of the merry-go-round of all things; while Herr Schulze reads his paper, the Balkan Express crosses the bridge at Nish, a pig squeals in Butcher Nuttke’s cellar.
~ From the Collective Dada Manifesto

As the Dadaist poem illustrates, our day-to-day existence is rife with overlapping occurrences. The mundane is embellished by simultaneous situations which include aspects of the physical and mental, spiritual and scientific. Simultaneity is the passageway through which these notions can interact in union and explains the occurrence of things which seemingly exist in parallel, though separated by time and space. It is always in motion, both within the literal sense of society’s multi-faceted interactions and to unknown realms beyond.
The exhibition Simultaneity is an open invitation extended to you. Choose to ride with it and the co-existence of the realities you are a part of can be experienced. There is a path provided; however, the direction you take is completely up to you. There are points both within and outside of the Romanian Culture Institute where three works of art await your participation and discovery. As you wander, tune-in to the psychological intuitions which endure…there, within the artists’ works, lingers simultaneity — released.
When Herr Schulze leaves work, he steps into an elevator sounding from another time. The butcher smokes a cigarette outside his cellar door and wonders about the mysterious landscapes behind the windows on Brunnsgränd. Before the bridge at Skeppsbrokajen, the Balkan Express makes a stop at King Gustav III’s statue to daydream.


In the space of a window frame, multiple narratives take place, from people walking by on the outside to a person drinking coffee or typing at their desk on the inside. Who hasn’t stopped in the midst of their actions to wonder what the other person is doing or thinking on the other side? Based on these desires, what if you could — metaphysically speaking — create another time and space for yourself?
Science can explain how an electron can be in two places at once, but the idea that one person can exist in two places at the same time remains open to debate. However, one can argue that evidence of this phenomenon exists through accounts of individual recollections. Oana Camilleri, in her video The Places Where I Live (2007), touches upon this possibility through a visual memoir. Framed inside two windows of the Romanian Culture Institute and viewable to those passing by outside on Brunnsgränd, are two distinct landscapes from Camilleri’s life; one filmed from the fourth floor balcony of the flat where she grew up in Cluj, Romania and the other filmed from the window of the house where she lived in Camberwell, England. Each landscape is a symbolic image of how her life has been affected by factors of choice and opportunity. At the age of 18 she fled Romania after the downfall of the Berlin Wall. As Camilleri describes, although she is a part of each place, she doesn’t really belong to either one. The Places Where I Live is a personal reflection about displacement and fluctuating in-between the places where one’s identity is established. Camilleri’s work expresses something inherent to all aspects of simultaneity, in essence, its quality as an intimate process of exploration.
The architectural frameworks of the institute also provide the platform for experiencing the sound installations of Beijing-based poet and musician, Yan Jun. As stated earlier, simultaneity has a life cycle which is in a continuous state of motion in relation to time, space and those involved in the experience. Two sound installations created for the exhibition by the artist exemplify these aspects. Through overlapping soundscapes, a subjective progression takes place, beginning when one enters the building. Both One and Two (2008-10) is a duet of kissing sounds and the wind in trees performing at the entrance. Relying only on hearing with no external visual stimulation to suggest a narrative, what visions or sensations are triggered within you mentally and emotionally?
Continue inside through the hallway and you will discover Neither Three nor Four (2010), a manipulation of the mechanical sounds taken from and played within the building’s antique elevator. Position yourself within its wood paneled interior and add another dimension to the atmosphere by riding the elevator to the top floor. Through a similar situation, a passage has been created connecting you to someone in Beijing hearing the same mechanically altered sounds within another location. Without knowing this other person, you share something in common, intrinsic to the space within the elevator.
At each sound point, the presence of life and interaction is expressed, but no physical evidence can be found. In place, a layered composition is created step-by-step, elevating consciousness to a point of reality that exists within the mind’s eye. This progressive narrative constructs a reality dependent on one’s associations through emotions, thoughts or past memories in connection to the living experience of the sounds. At the threshold of contemplation, you cross the entrance into discovery. As you close the door behind you, the path never ceases.
Beyond the institute’s exterior, the merry-go-round of life presents a scenic stage for a public performance of Day Dreams II (2010), by the artist Zhifei Yang. Located at King Gustav III’s statue and contrasting the hard surface of Skeppsbrokajen, is the soft calmness of Yang sleeping on an extremely large, white pillow. Her body is almost consumed by the pillow’s voluminous size; a metaphor of how the dreaming mind and human existence are innately connected. True testimonials exist of people dreaming about a specific event while at the same time, someone else, such as a close companion, is actually living the experiences revealed in the dreamer’s mind. Are you one of these individuals? The blank surface of a pillow case will be waiting for you to pen your dream during the artist’s performance.
The intricate ways in which the unconscious mind and waking world communicate is not only a passageway into our inner thoughts, but also a powerful and mystifying experience when separated by time and space in relation to another event. In her work, Yang seeks to develop this communication into a shared network of experiences to include her own daily reflections as well as the recollection of others through archiving individual dream narratives. These collections provide the basis for the second installment of Yang’s work, a video titled Day Dreams (2009), and viewable through the web site of the Romanian Culture Institute.
If one takes the time to reflect and to recognize the ways in which our world fluctuates in rhythm, one can open the way toward unique insights, whether it is in terms of how one experiences a work of art or a new realm of possibilities which exist as an alternative dimension to our conscious world.
Look out your window, what do you see? As you walk past, are you looking in?



OANA CAMILLERI (b. 1972)
The Places Where I Live, 2007
Dual video – Installed in the windows of the Romanian Culture Institute located on Brunnsgränd, adjacent to Skeppsbron. Viewable during the evening from 6:00 p.m. for the duration of the exhibition.

YAN JUN (b. 1973)
Both One and Two, 2008-10 – Installed at the entrance of the building. Neither Three nor Four, 2010 – Installed inside the elevator, to the left of the institute’s main entrance. Both works are open to the public during opening hours between 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. for the duration of the exhibition.

ZHIFEI YANG (b. 1982)
Day Dreams II, 2010 – Performance at King Gustav III’s statue, beginning of Skeppsbrokajen. Saturday, April 24 between 7 – 10 p.m. and Sunday, April 25 between 1 – 4 p.m.
Day Dreams, 2009
Video – Posted on the web site of the Romanian Culture Institute of Stockholm for the duration of the exhibition, www.rkis.se.

interview # 6 - francesco ventrella

FRIDAY - APRIL 30th 2010
8.30 PM (GMT + 1)

LIVE BROADCAST ON HTTP://WWW.PERFORMANCESEASON.COM/

INTERVIEW # 6
FRANCESCO VENTRELLA

CATEGORY: GENDER PERFORMANCE

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THURSDAY- APRIL 29th 2010
8.30 PM (GMT + 1)

LIVE BROADCAST ON HTTP://WWW.PERFORMANCESEASON.COM/
BAD_W.H.0R,E_D,S.

PERFORMANCE BY THE GROSSI MAGLIONI MAGIC DUO

BETWEEN CATEGORIES: GENDER / RANDOM PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE

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WEDNESDAY - APRIL 28th 2010
8.30 PM (GMT + 1)

LIVE BROADCAST ON HTTP://WWW.PERFORMANCESEASON.COM/
MORE “MORE THAN A MOUTHFUL”

PERFORMANCE BY SHEILA BISHOP

BETWEEN CATEGORIES: REENACTMENT / GENDER / THEATER PERFORMANCE

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FROM FRYDAY 23rd TO SUNDAY 25th - APRIL 2010

NON STOP FROM 10 AM TO 5 PM (GMT + 1)

LIVE BROADCAST ON WWW.PERFORMANCESEASON.COM

SKIP SKIP SKIP THAT NOW IS SLIP SLIP SLIP!

PERFORMANCE BY SIMON HITZIGER & JEAN-FRANÇOIS ROBARDET

CATEGORY: RANDOM PERFORMANCE

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The Invisible Generation in Kiev - POSTPONED

Following an ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano eruption and the closure of much of European Airspace, Vision Forum has decided to postpone the events in Kiev until July 2-4.

We are very sad about this and apologize to all involved for any inconvenience caused.

Please keep look here for updates.

Oksana Chepelyk will still start the upcoming events by perform her FLYING UP SKY-SCRAPERS on 18 June, at 19-00 at Rusanovskaya Naberezgnaya - Welcome!

performance by OXO

TUESDAY - APRIL 20th 2010
8.30 PM (GMT + 1)

LIVE BROADCAST ON HTTP://WWW.PERFORMANCESEASON.COM/

PERFORMANCE BY OXO

BETWEEN CATEGORIES: GENDER / RANDOM PERFORMANCE

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interview # 5 - caterina iaquinta

MONDAY - APRIL 19th 2010
8.30 PM (GMT + 1)

LIVE BROADCAST ON HTTP://WWW.PERFORMANCESEASON.COM/

INTERVIEW # 5
CATERINA IAQUINTA

BETWEEN CATEGORIES: THEATER /RANDOM PERFORMANCE

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DE HUMANI CORPORIS VOX FABRICA–LEZIONE D’ANATOMIA performance by gruppo zëri-t

THURSDAY - APRIL 15th 2010
8.30 PM (GMT + 1)

LIVE BROADCAST ON HTTP://WWW.PERFORMANCESEASON.COM/

DE HUMANI CORPORIS VOX FABRICA – LEZIONE D’ANATOMIA
PERFORMANCE BY GRUPPO ZËRI-T

CATEGORY: THEATER PERFORMANCE

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interview # 4 - raffaella bordini

TUESDAY - APRIL 13th 2010
8.30 PM (GMT + 1)

LIVE BROADCAST ON HTTP://WWW.PERFORMANCESEASON.COM/

INTERVIEW # 4
RAFFAELLA BORDINI

CATEGORY: RANDOM PERFORMANCE

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The Invisible Generation at various public locations in Kiev - 2-4 July 2010

Oksana Chepelyk, Oleg Chorny and Gena Khmaruk, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Klas Eriksson, GangDon, Volodymyr Karashevskyi, Alexander Kokhanovsky, Oksana Plysyuk, Per Hüttner and Olav Westphalen, Jean-François Robardet and Simon Hitziger, TanzLaboratorium and Huang Xiaopeng

Curated by Per Hüttner and Yulia Usova



Vision Forum, PAI and Les’ Kurbas Center are proud to announce The Invisible Generation in Kiev.

The Invisible Generation is an ongoing contemporary art project that has appeared in different guises in Beijing, Melbourne and Shenzhen. The venues have been carefully selected due to their specific historical contexts and their perceived trajectories into the future. The project takes its starting point in performative traditions, but focuses on practices and events that cross over into other time-based activities, such as sound, film, video, literature, theatre and workshops. The project offers new situations for art and audience to meet outside of where one expects to meet an art piece or performance. The Invisible Generation allows the artists and audience to investigate how art can become a tool to shift our outlook at reality when it appears with an element of surprise.

The numerous interventions of The Invisible Generation will take many shapes and appear at many unexpected places. During three days Private Contractors (Olav Westphalen and Per Hüttner) will offer a free service to the citizens of Kiev. In three different public locations they will set up a vending table and some information placards, offering to censor books and printed matter professionally and free of charge.

Kiev artists’ collective TanzLaboratorium will stage two distinctly different projects. They drive around a group of strange aliens in an impressive SUV. When the creatures leave the car they are lead by the hand by immaculately dressed people and taken around to see all the tourist sites of the city. The group will stage heated discussions in the metro about philosophical issues - the words spoken are quoted from Plato’s dialogues.

Huang Xiaopeng will distribute posters and pamphlets around Kiev that offer new outlooks on political history and activism. He takes politically charged texts from the communist past and capitalist present that have been google-translated so many times that their message has been totally scrambled. He mixes these with explosive imagery that beckons us to believe that the content is forceful and subversive.

On a more poetic note, Kiev based artist Oksana Chepelyk will release a large number of Chinese paper lanterns in the form of skyscrapers. These will blow away in the Kiev night sky, allowing us to see the calm beauty while reflecting on how real-estate speculation affect to our daily lives.

On Friday July 2 a DJ evening will take place at the yard of Les’ Kurbas Center including Alexander Kokhanovsky, Jean-François Robardet and Klas Eriksson. Among the many events there will also be film screenings by Oksana Plysyuk, Oleg Chorniy&Gena Khmaruk and Huang Xiaopeng.

Speech and What Archive? Melbourne Flottante

A Constructed World
Liv Barrett
Etienne Bernard
Fiona Connor and Tahi Moore
James Deutsher and Simon Taylor
Christelle Foucoulanche
Marie Gautier and Emma Crayssac
Anna Hess and Rémi Roye
Marie Husson
Ben Kinmont
Hoert van Mensvoort
Clémence de Montgolfier
Sébastien Pluot
Julien Prévieux
Raphael Zarka

Please join us on Saturday the 10th of April from 18-20h

Speech and What Archive? began on a floating house on a river in Chatou at the invitation of A Constructed World.
In Melbourne Flottante, we continue to consider what is kept and why it is kept, how things may be mapped, traced or stored, the possible shape and content of an archive, who may speak and what is kept unsaid, and generally what is privileged in culture so that it is available to the future.
The exhibition is composed of a presentation element, where objects that in some way act as archives will be exhibited at Y3K, and archive development, where the curators will work on methodologies of archiving and re-presentation for the duration of the show.

Speech and What Archive? Melbourne Flottante is curated by Marie Gautier and Anna Hess (Paris) and Liv Barrett and James Deutsher (Melbourne) with the support and counsel of A Constructed World.

Speech and What Archive is a project of A Constructed World. This project was made possible with funding and support from Vision Forum and Linköping University; CNEAI, Chatou; Social Practice MFA Program, CCA, San Francisco; and Villa Arson, Nice.
Exhibitions open until Saturday the 1st of May. Y3K open from 12 noon till 6pm Thursday, Friday and Saturday, or by appointment.

Please join us on Saturday the 17th April at 2pm for a talk as part of the Speech and What Archive? exhibition.
Y3K
http://y3kgallery.blogspot.com
205 Young St.
Fitzroy
Melbourne
Australia
3065

THURSDAY - APRIL 1st 2010
8.30 PM (GMT + 1)

LIVE BROADCAST ON HTTP://WWW.PERFORMANCESEASON.COM/

INTERVIEW # 3
DANIELE BALIT

BETWEEN CATEGORIES: THEATER / REENACTMENT

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THURSDAY - APRIL 1st 2010
9.00 PM (GMT + 1)

LIVE BROADCAST ON HTTP://WWW.PERFORMANCESEASON.COM/

BISHOP BISHOP'S PERFORMANCE SEASON
PERFORMANCE BY SHEILA BISHOP
CATEGORY: THEATER PERFORMANCE
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NOWHERE THIEF HIDEOUT performance by paulina wallenberg-olsson

SUNDAY - MARCH 28th 2010
8.30 PM (GMT + 1)

LIVE BROADCAST ON HTTP://WWW.PERFORMANCESEASON.COM/

NOWHERE THIEF HIDEOUT
PERFORMANCE BY PAULINA WALLENBERG-OLSSON
CATEGORY: RANDOM PERFORMANCE
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FITNESS INCREASING IN SPRING performance by kristine hymøller

TUESDAY - MARCH 16th 2010
8.30 PM (GMT + 1)
LIVE BROADCAST ON HTTP://WWW.PERFORMANCESEASON.COM/

FITNESS INCREASING IN SPRING
PERFORMANCE BY KRISTINE HYMØLLER
BETWEEN CATEGORIES: THEATER / GENDER PERFORMANCE

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contact: performanceseason@gmail.com

In the limbo of the signifier: workshop in Paris on Linear Logic

This first introductory workshop on Linear Logic will be held in Paris on March 27th, 2010, at Ars Longa (67 Avenue Parmentier - 75011 Paris). We start in the morning at 11h30, until around 17h00.
Speaker: Samuel Tronçon, philosophy of logic.

The aim of the workshop is to test the intersection between two universes: contemporary art on the one hand, and on the other hand the world of mathematical logic as it has been restructured since the years 1970/80 by Jean-Yves Girard.
There are very few places. Email Christophe Bruno if you are interested in attending or if you want more details.

Contact & info:  http://www.christophebruno.com

INTERVIEW #2 - harpa project

WEDNESDAY - MARCH 10th 2010
8.30 PM (GMT + 1)
LIVE BROADCAST ON HTTP://WWW.PERFORMANCESEASON.COM/

INTERVIEW #2
HARPA PROJECT
CATEGORY: THEATER PERFORMANCE

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STUPIDI ORGANI performance by sara basta

TUESDAY - MARCH 2nd 2010

8.30 PM (GMT+1)

LIVE BROADCAST ON HTTP://WWW.PERFORMANCESEASON.COM

STUPIDI ORGANI

PERFORMANCE BY SARA BASTA

CATEGORY: GENDER PERFORMANCE

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contact: performanceseason@gmail.com

AN EXERCISE performance by sheila bishop

FRIDAY - FEBRUARY 26th 2010
9.00 PM (GMT + 1)
LIVE BROADCAST ON HTTP://WWW.PERFORMANCESEASON.COM/

AN EXERCISE
PERFORMANCE BY SHEILA BISHOP
CATEGORY: RANDOM PERFORMANCE

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contact: performanceseason@gmail.com

INTERVIEW #1 - valerio del baglivo

TUESDAY - FEBRUARY 16TH - 2010
9.00 PM (GMT+1)
LIVE BROADCAST ON HTTP://WWW.PERFORMANCESEASON.COM/

INTERVIEW #1
VALERIO DEL BAGLIVO
CATEGORY: REENACTMENT PERFORMANCE

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contact: performanceseason@gmail.com

I-COPY 2: EMMA performance by julia kläring

WEDNESDAY - FEBRUARY 10th - 2010
9.00 PM (GMT + 1)
LIVE BROADCAST ON HTTP://WWW.PERFORMANCESEASON.COM/

I-COPY 2: EMMA
PERFORMANCE BY JULIA KLÄRING
CATEGORY: REENACTMENT PERFORMANCE

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Ouunpo Ouvroir d’Univers Potentiel Saturday, 23 January 2010, Rome.

Ouunpo

Ouvroir d’Univers Potentiel

Saturday, 23 January 2010

2:00-6:00 pm

MACRO, via Reggio Emilia 54

Please join us for the first meeting of the newly founded Ouunpo, taking place in Rome. You’re more than welcome to enroll in one of the following sections, or just drop in while the meeting is in progress.

Share ideas with Oounpo members Meris Angioletti, Daniele Balit, Yane Calovski, Cecilia Canziani, Jacob Dahl Jürgensen, Adrienne Drake, Mark Geffriaud, Raimundas Malasauskas, Darius Miksys, Jacopo Miliani, Daniela Paes Leao, Samon Takahashi, Stephen Whitmarsh!

Creation

is the first and most important section. New methods of experimentation are discussed, with descriptions and examples, and Ouunpo members will talk about new ideas for projects. A constraint can be presented by one or more Oounpo members. Many constraints can also generate complements, variations, renovations.

Rumination

is the section in which possible, ‘not yet worked out’ projects are examined. Here, ideas of new constraints are discussed, though they are still not developed enough to produce a work and, consequently, to be part of the previous section.

A part of the ruminations are also reflections on fundamental oulipian notions: constraint, potential, etc.

Erudition

is a conversation about works by non Ouunpo members. In this section works that were created before the existence of Ouunpo are presented. The authors of these works are called “plagiarizers by anticipation”.

It is not unusual that an erudition, after discussion and adaptation, leads the workshop towards one or more creations.

Action, past and Future

features Ouunpo activities around the globe. All actions that have been staged outside of the workshop (public lectures, commissions, etc) are recalled and discussed in order to be evaluated and to list the next scheduled or interventions.

Small Talk or Gossip

Well, that’s straightforward enough!


Notes:

Oounpo is the final step in If you don’t want god you’d better have a multiverse, an itinerant project which explores the concepts of time, space and the role of subjectivity. The project intends to address art as place where these concepts can be translated into form and become the location for interplay between artists, curators, academics and the public.

Ouunpo is a play upon Oulipo: Ouvroir de littérature potentielle (“workshop of potential literature"), a loose gathering of (mainly) French-speaking writers and mathematicians which seeks to create works using constrained writing techniques. It was founded in 1960 by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais, while other notable members include novelists Georges Perec, Italo Calvino and Hervé Le Tellier, poet Oskar Pastior and poet/mathematician Jacques Roubaud. The group defines the term 'littérature potentielle' as: "the seeking of new structures and patterns which may be used by writers in any way they enjoy."

Constraints are used as a means of triggering ideas and inspiration. As well as established techniques, such as lipograms and palindromes, the group devises new techniques, often based on mathematical problems such as the Knight's Tour of the chess-board and permutations. Oounpo works in the same way, though its primary concern is visual art.

If you don’t want god you’d better have a multiverse is produced and organised by 1:1projects in collaboration with Vision Forum and KSM Linköpings Universitet, Sweden.

Partners Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; press to exit project space, Skopje

Supported by KSM Linköpings Universitet, Danish Arts Council, Mondriaan Foundation

Happy New Year