[spectre] REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT contributes to Product and Vision, Berlin [u]

[Geert Lovink [c]]

> Education as a Design Process
> The Influence of Pop and Consumer Culture on Knowledge
> Transfer and  the Marketing of Education
>  
> Installation in the framework of Product and Vision
> Interfaces and boundaries in art and economy
>  
> Kunstfabrik am
> Flutgraben
> Am Flutgraben 3
> 12435 Berlin
>  
> 9th September -  9th October   2005
> Opening: 8th September 2005, 7 pm
> Performance "I'm an archive", Barbara Steveni (Organisation + 
> Imagination, London)
>
> Opening hours: Wed/Thur 2 - 8 pm, Fr 2 - 10 pm, Sa/So noon - 8 pm
>
> What happens if a corporation - in this case, the Berlin-based 
> publishing house Cornelsen - opens its doors to a group of  artists? 
> Can artists or arts and Cornelsen or the corporate sector in general 
> learn something from each other, or will their autonomy be questioned? 
> The participants of Product & Vision have studied, amongst others, the 
> finance structure, the identification of the employees with the 
> company, the products (schoolbooks), the production process, the image 
> of the company, and the organisational structure. This exhibition 
> presents the results of this artistic process in installations, 
> videos, pictures and performances, together with other works from the 
> field of art and business.
>
> Product & Vision is initiated by artists Mari Brellochs and Henrik 
> Schrat in cooperation with the Berlin-based art venue Kunstfabrik am 
> Flutgraben. Product & Vision focuses on businesses/enterprises as a 
> dominating form of social organisation. Interfaces and boundaries 
> between art and economy are one of the central issues. How do 
> companies learn, how do artists learn? What does social responsibility 
> mean for artists, and for companies? On the other side the enterprise 
> becomes a model, a source of inspiration for artistic and academic 
> work. To provide a real-life example, the publishing house Cornelsen 
> has been incorporated into the project as a case study, producing 
> exciting interactions for both sides. The company gave the 
> participants of the project insight into their organization and into 
> the working processes, to develop ideas, comments and criticism about 
> them.
>
> As part of the project, a Reader "Sophisticated survival techniques. 
> Strategies in Art and Economy" is published. A catalogue will be 
> published after the exhibition.
>
> Participants of the exhibition:
> Acces Local (Paris), Mari Brellochs (Berlin), Cornelsen Verlag 
> (Berlin), Neil Cummings/Marysia Lewandowska (London), Katja Diallo 
> (Dordrecht/Berlin), etoy.CORPORATION (Zürich/international), Rainer 
> Goerss (Berlin), Kent Hansen (Kopenhagen), Imagination Lab (Lausanne), 
> Lucy Kimbell (London), Learning Lab Dänemark (Kopenhagen), Orgacom 
> (Amsterdam), osb-i systemische Organisationsberatung (Tübingen, Wien), 
> REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT (Dresden), Institut für Ressourcenschonung 
> Innovation und Sustainability (Berlin), Henrik Schrat (Berlin), Enno 
> Schmidt (Frankfurt a.M.), Barbara Steveni (London), Joël Verwimp 
> (Berlin)
>  
> For more information and a detailed schedule see 
> www.produktundvision.com
>  
> special thanks by RG to Barnaby Drabble, Jutta Breuer und NARVA 
> Lichtquellen GmbH + Co. KG
>
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