[spectre] The Juxtaposium / open letter to event organisers

[St.Auby Tamas]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPzRy5Rb4_8  




On Apr 2, 2011, at 7:13 PM, Darko Fritz wrote:

> Dear Juxtaposiumists and Spectrists
> 
> I agree on the urge of new presentation formats for both art practices and related theory and criticism in symposium format.
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> Many artist talks already transgressed reading/papers/listing/slides symposium formats turning the presentations of art practice into specific kind of performances. We can learn from it while searching for new symposium formats.
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> At the other hand, I propose to look closer the cases where theoreticians transgressing their usual formats, making use of an art toolbox in their practice. An example is the presentation of Next 5 minutes festival (N5M) by art historian / organizer / theoretician Eric Kluitenberg made as TJ (theory jay) performance. Performance was dealing with the subject of change of the language within political context, in format of live sound-performance with sampled texts, sounds and text-to-speech (with Theory Machine software designed specially for this event by Adam Hyde). It was presented at the CLUB.NL project that I co-curate back in 2000. Presentation was made after curatorial proposal to present Next 5 minutes festival, but strictly expressed that presentation don't use reading/papers/listing/slides format. This presentation did not prezented realized artworks/projects/activities/outputs of N5M festival as usual, but its content / idea in another format. Same went for several other organizations and institutions that were presented within CLUB.NL project, each choosing different way of presentation. As well, CLUB.NL merge the press-conference with 15 minutes presentations of each invited organization (with standard  reading/papers/listing/slides), while two artist simultaneously made performances in the same space and made some noise that deliberatelly disturbed readability of the presentations / press conference.
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> All in all, it's about leaving the safe zone of established presentation formats and inaugurating new relationship to presented content. It is applicable for ones who are ready for it, with the respect for ones who are not. In some cases standard symposia formats working best for presenting the content, so here I vote for supporting all (new, old and hybrid) formats in the symposia, where the content is in forefront.
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> Best regards
> 
> Darko
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> Darko Fritz
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