[spectre] Discursive Camping

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From: Dorothee Albrecht <netdoro at gmx.de>
To: betacity at betacity-lists.de
Subject: [betacity] Discursive Camping
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:50:39 +0200

INVITATION! - WE/YOU ARE: INVITED!
DISCURSIVE CAMPING_dwelling on the move.

UNWETTER, an international, Berlin based group of artists, curators, 
critics, and theorists, will do DISCURSIVE CAMPING_dwelling on the move in 
Malmö from the 13th to the 15th of August 2004. 

On Friday, the 13th of August, Slottsparken, in front of the City Library, 
>from 4 to 11 pm. 
On Saturday, the 14th of August, meeting for workshops in several public 
locations at 2 pm at the coast next to Kockum Fritid. On Sunday, the 15th 
of August, Rooseum, Center for Contemporary Art, from 5 pm, till?

The project will take up a model, which was put into practice in New Delhi 
during the Gujarat conflict in 2002. It works as a potluck, where everybody 
is both guest and host at the same time. It aims at opening up a situation 
for both local and international, spontaneous and thoroughly elaborated 
contributions, where visitors, guests, or the public become actors, 
performers, hosts, then listeners and audience again, in continuously 
changing roles. The DISCURSIVE CAMPING connects people and ideas in an 
ongoing process of reciprocal exchange. People need only arrive from 
different directions and unpack what they have brought along. This 
ambiguity of planned/unplanned will produce a stumbling over agendas, 
stones and melodies. 
Blankets, food and drinks are always welcome.

WE/YOU ARE: INVITED! 
Please join us.


Participants will include: 
Aeswad, Mattias Arvastsson, Maria Bustnes, Farida Heuck, Laura Horelli, 
laika, Andrea Melloni, Ingrid Molnar, Poesi Bingo, Ord Pa Scen, Bert 
Rebhandl, Miguel Rothschild, Simon Sheikh, Ira Schneider, Tejal Shah, 
Philipp Ekardt, Benno Gammerl, Ulrike Solbrig, Jole Wilcke, Christine 
Wolfe, Elena Zanichelli, Dorothee Albrecht and other individuals and groups 
>from Malmö and its surroundings.

Contact: Dorothee Albrecht, netdoro at gmx.de.



THE PAVILION_MALMÖ-_video atlas

Parallel to the Discursive Camping
Dorothee Albrecht 
invites for a reception and talk, on Sunday, the 15th of August 2004, 
at the Rooseum, Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, 7 pm.

Between table tennis and free tea THE PAVILION unfolds its space between 
flexible architectural elements which host material collections as 
connections to other theoretical, historical and geographical fields.

By analogy with the ideas of Hanna Arendt of the public space, THE PAVILION 
relies on the simultaneous presence of innumerable perspectives and aspects 
for which no common measurement or denominator can ever be devised.
An assemblage of the VIDEO ATLAS will be the focus of attention of the 
installation in Malmö. During her fieldtrips in the last years, Dorothee 
Albrecht collected video-statements from groups, projects, collectives, all 
exploring non-academic or marginal fields of knowledge production. These 
include small try-outs, soft and delicate attempts, convincing and very 
professional strategies to build up own methods and channels, to challenge 
hegemonic worldviews.


Long version

INVITATION! - WE/YOU ARE: INVITED!

DISCURSIVE CAMPING_dwelling on the move.

In Malmö, from the 13th to the 15th of August 2004, we will take up a model 
which was put into practice in New Delhi during the Gujarat conflict in 
2002. For at least two weeks, day and night, artists, musicians, 
intellectuals opened up a location in a public space, next to an arterial 
road, for contributions of all kinds.

DISCURSIVE CAMPING_dwelling on the move, will set up its tents for the 
first time, in an off road situation in the city space of Malmö, from the 
13th to 14th of August, and on the 15th in the Rooseum, the local Center of 
Contemporary Art. 

On Friday, the 13th of August, Slottsparken, in front of the City Library, 
>from 4 to 11 pm. 

On Saturday, the 14th of August, meeting for workshops in several public 
locations at 2 pm at the coast next to Kockum Fritid. On Sunday, the 15th 
of August, Rooseum, Center for Contemporary Art, from 5 pm, till?

DISCURSIVE CAMPING_dwelling on the move, will take up and continue the 
multiple threads and practices that emerged around the DISCURSIVE PICNICS 
held in Kassel, Vienna, Belgrade, Malmö, Berlin and Oslo since 2002. The 
DISCURSIVE PICNIC, as well as the DISCURSIVE CAMPING, connect people and 
ideas in an ongoing process of reciprocal exchange. It works as a potluck, 
where everybody is both guest and host at the same time. Our aim is to open 
up a situation for both spontaneous and thoroughly elaborated contributions 
where visitors, guests, or the public become actors, performers, hosts, 
then listeners and audience again, in continuously changing roles. We 
arrive, invite, exchange, alter and move on in different directions, to 
meet somewhere again.

In Malmö both local and international contributors will participate. There 
will be space for presentations, concerts, video screenings, games - 
theoretical and practical, seductive and dry. People need only arrive from 
different directions and unpack what they have brought along. This 
ambiguity of planned/unplanned will produce a stumbling over agendas, 
stones and melodies. Blankets, food and drinks are always welcome.

WE/YOU ARE: INVITED!
Please join us.


Contact: 
Dorothee Albrecht, netdoro at gmx.de, Philipp Ekardt, philipp.ekardt at gmx.net, 
Ulrike Solbrig, usolbrig at t-online.de, Jole Wilcke, jole at go-gangbustah.com, 
Elena Zanichelli elena.zanichelli at web.de 

Participants include: Aeswad, Mattias Arvastsson, Maria Bustnes, Farida 
Heuck, laika, Laura Horelli, Andrea Melloni, Ingrid Molnar, Poesi Bingo, 
Ord Pa Scen, Bert Rebhandl, Miguel Rothschild, Simon Sheikh, Ira Schneider, 
Tejal Shah, Philipp Ekardt, Benno Gammerl, Ulrike Solbrig, Jole Wilcke, 
Christine Wolfe, Elena Zanichelli, Dorothee Albrecht and other individuals 
and groups from Malmö and its surroundings.

Examples of contribution to the DISCURSIVE CAMPING:

The video, I LOVE MY INDIA, is set against the backdrop of the genocide 
against the minority Indian Muslim community in the state of Gujarat 
(starting Feb 2002). It takes place (one year after the genocide) at a 
popular public recreational space, the 'balloon target shooting'. The text 
I LOVE MY INDIA is formed by balloons on a target board. The text acts as a 
catalyst and and the board as an interface screen within the visual space, 
through which larger concepts of religion, national identity, self & 
community are mitigated. It's a performance set within the recreation & 
violence in the everyday while drawing comments on the world's 'largest 
democracy'. The responses are sometimes hilarious and often apathetic, 
culminating in a sense of loss of a perceived nationhood and a love for 
home. (Tejal Shah video 10 min) 

Möllevången, Malmö, Sverige (DV-film 3 1/2 min)
Möllevången is a part of the city of Malmö, known for its working class 
history and recent multicultural changes. The video work Möllevången, 
Malmö, Sverige was made after an investigation of the visual environment of 
this part of the city.
What are the signs and symbols of multicultural conditions and how do they 
manifest themselves in a cityscape like Möllevången? How could an artist 
make use of these signs and symbols to visualize the environment and its 
development? The video work experiments with a cinematic language and 
references from the history of modern art to highlight the
 social reality of the area and question accepted ways of understanding 
culture, difference and repetition. (Maria Bustnes, August 2003)

Ira Schneider's legendary Woodstock Videos on the 2nd Woodstock Festival of 
1994 and  the Rolling Stones' Free Concerts, 1969 / 2002. On the 6th of 
December 1969 the Rolling Stones gave a concert, which was destined to go 
into rock history: After the last minute refusal of permission for the 
planned performance location by the authorities, they shifted to another 
area. The choice of using Hells' Angels as security guards proved to be a 
fatal error.  

Ira Schneider made his first videos in 1969. Born in New York in 1939, he 
became cofounder, publisher and one of the editors-in-chief of the magazine 
"Radical Software" (1970-74), as well as president of Raindance Foundation 
(1972-94), and Associate Professor at the Cooper Union School of Art, New 
York (1980-92). In 1976, together with Beryl Korot, he published "Video Art 
- an Anthology". (Ira Schneider)

selfSTORAGE, (60 min) by Ingrid Molnar. New Yorkers from various social 
backgrounds invite us to view their private storage spaces. 
http://www.storage-the-film.de

The Art(s) of HÔTE investigates the in/distinction of guest and host-states 
that are named by the French word lhôte. (Duchamp: a guest + a host = a 
ghost). The project DRESS - THE SEASONS 1: Theory_to_go covers terrain 
>from weather-conditions to processes of self-organization that come as 
fashions (Art of HÔTE-t-shirts, "I AM YOUR GHOST-wearables, candy wraps). 
(Philipp Ekardt)

Everything in the world is doomed to decompose compares the production, 
harvest and transport of imported and autochthonous vegetables and makes 
their decompostition processes visible. How do differences, produced within 
a globalized economy, (de)materialize? 

sansculottes? get culottes!  "sansculottes" were introduced within  a 
workshop setting at this year's Design Mai in Berlin as a way of inspiring 
a comeback for culottes. The name sansculottes joins the term culottes with 
the French "sans" = without. "Sans-Culottes" originally was a name given to 
a faction of rebellious workers during the French Revolution.  A Japanese 
review of the project declares "In the 70s we also had them in Japan but 
this one is more like a skirt; it has a new feeling!" 
http://www.japandesign.ne.jp/HTM/REPORT/berlin_ab/06/index6.html (Ulrike 
Solbrig)                  

Time to Market / Das Wetter erklären explores methods for the valuation of 
knowledge and information in the capitalist society. The reorganization of 
knowledge in the global knowledge-based economy and its understanding of 
value-production: wealth of nations / weather of nations. (Jole Wilcke)

THE PAVILION_VIDEO ATLAS 
An assemblage of the VIDEO ATLAS will be the focus of attention of the 
installation in Malmö. During her fieldtrips in the last years, Dorothee 
Albrecht collected video-statements from groups, projects, collectives, all 
exploring non-academic or marginal areas of knowledge production. These 
include small try-outs, soft and delicate attempts, convincing and very 
professional strategies to build up own methods and channels, to challenge 
hegemonic worldviews. (Dorothee Albrecht)

GRAND TOURS 
On the basis of conceptual procedures that combine image and text the 
selected artists produce disjunctive orders of knowledge: culturally coded 
concepts of happiness and science generate lacunae. 

Miguel Rothschild, Paradies, since 1998 Paradies, Paradiso, Paraiso, 
Paradise, Paradis, points to a number of conventions that are tied to 
religious dogmas and representations of a mobile beyond.  Rothschild 
uncovers an emptiness that stands behind the signifier "Paradies" which is
filled differently on each occasion: step by step projections ranging from 
trivial commodity-aesthetics to the lyrical tensions of empty 
(Paradise)-Streets are concretized. This conception of paradise is 
gradually revealed as a deception. The work is realized through a technique 
of serial
accumulation that displays its mechanism  a strategy already included in 
the projects title.

Andrea Melloni, (Slow eye movements), DVD, 2004 . Departing from 
microscopical images of viruses, spurs, and bacteria, Andrea Melloni 
imitates some sort of evolutionary chain. The charming visualization of 
this (digitally generated and invented) process is accompanied by a text 
>from an American manual for self-protection against bioterrorist attacks. 
Mass hysteria is transformed into an elegant journey into the self: The 
slow eye movements mentioned in the works title go back to a dream-like 
phase. The low frequencies which induce sleepiness are transposed into a 
soundtrack
for the work. (Elena Zanichelli)

UNWETTER is an international, Berlin based group of artists, curators, 
critics, and theorists. Our members come from Germany, Italy, Austria, the 
United States - amongst others - and currently work in Germany, Sweden, in 
Great Britain, and in the USA etc. The most important goal of UNWETTER's 
work is knowledge production in and about the drastic world-changes brought 
about by the process of globalization. UNWETTER brings together artistic, 
theoretical and political practices. We operate in public space as well as 
in the art-context. We cooperate with local initiatives and establish 
temporary situations (picnics, walks, etc) which connect the most diverse 
strands of research and streams of knowledge.

UNWETTER _Curriculum Vitae:
2002
Discursive Picnic_Kassel
UNWETTER-Summer-of-2002-Tour:
Wiener Secession, Vienna
Real Presence, Museum "25th May" (Museum of National History of 
Yugoslavia), Belgrade
Critical Studies, Academy of Fine Arts, Malmö
UNWETTER Walk_Berlin

2003
Discursive Picnic_Dis-positiv, Staatsbank, Berlin
Discursive Picnic_Landschaftspflegehof e. V, Berlin
Commodified, Parasitic Picnic, Volkspark am Weinberg, Berlin
To Hike to the East, Hohenschönhausen, Berlin
UNWETTER_Sparwasser HQ, Berlin
UNWETTER_G.U.N., Oslo
UNWETTER Walk_Oslo 
Old Habits Dye Hard, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Norwich Gallery, GB, 
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway

2004
Discursive Picnic_Berlin North, Sparwasser HQ-Plattform, Nationalgalerie im 
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin

Coming soon:
Ringbahn-Picnic (Circleline-picnic), London, Berlin
Discursive Camping_Dwelling on the move, at the Liverpool Biennial 
Independents 04

UNWETTER: 
Elena Zanichelli, Dorothee Albrecht, Jole Wilcke, Philipp Ekardt, Christine 
Wolfe, Benno Gammerl, Clemens Krauss, Ulrike Solbrig...