[spectre] Fwd: FORMER WEST: Documents, Constellations, Prospects at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

[Andreas Broeckmann]

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Betreff: 	FORMER WEST: Documents, Constellations, Prospects at Haus der 
Kulturen der Welt
Datum: 	Mon, 11 Feb 2013 06:00:10 -0500


FORMER WEST: Documents,
Constellations, Prospects
18–24 March 2013

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin, Germany

http://www.formerwest.org

FORMER WEST: Documents, Constellations, Prospects — seven days with
artworks, performances, dialogues, talks, rehearsals, screenings, and
workshops—takes place 18–24 March 2013 at Haus der Kulturen der
Welt in Berlin.

The Berlin part of the long-term research, education, exhibition, and
publication project FORMER WEST (2008–2014) engages in a critical
reinterpretation of post-1989, post-Cold War histories by proposing a
number of tentative constellations of various documents and
prospects from the fields of art and theory, uncovering the fault
lines of the West's "formerness."

FORMER WEST: Documents, Constellations, Prospects is guided by five
currents, each of which involves artists, theorists, and the public in
a variety of presentations and deliberations. Art Production,
conceptualized by philosopher and art critic Boris Groys, looks at
artistic labor as representative of the contemporary functioning of
society as a whole, raising acute questions concerning the political
dimensions of art under our current condition. Infrastructure,
brought together by theorist Irit Rogoff, explores how when we in the
West, or in the industrialized, technologized societies, congratulate
ourselves on having a well-functioning infrastructure, we forget the
degree to which these have become protocols that bind and confine us in
their demand to be conserved and resisted. Thus, how can we envision new 
paths to understanding infrastructure otherwise? Curated by poet and 
curator Ranjit Hoskote, Insurgent Cosmopolitanism explores how the 
polity — and thus the public — has been changing through recent 
insurgent upheavals, and proposes that we might retrieve the ideal of
cosmopolitanism as an active and critical strategy from within these
political hotbeds.

A week-long educational performance engages some 150 students from
institutions around the world in Learning Place, conceived by writer
and cultural critic Boris Buden, which engages in collective research on 
topics such as the commodification of knowledge, critique of creativity, 
and functioning of edu-industries in today's cognitive capitalism.
Dissident Knowledges, conceptualized by curators Maria Hlavajova and
Kathrin Rhomberg, propose both temporal and spatial dynamic
interventions in this gathering of artworks, performances, film
screenings, and brief improvised statements. As part of this current,
the overall project concludes with a Berlin Public Editorial Meeting
hosted by curator and writer Simon Sheikh, inaugurating a two-year
trajectory of such meetings leading to the realization of the FORMER
WEST publication.

With contributions by Bini Adamczak, Maria Thereza Alves and
Jimmie Durham, Daniel Baker, Ute Meta Bauer, Neil Beloufa,
James Benning, Franco Berardi Bifo, Homi Bhabha, Beatrice von
Bismarck, Arianna Bove, Ethel Brooks, Tania Bruguera, Boris
Buden, Chen Chieh-jen, Chto Delat?/What is to be done?, Keti
Chukhrov, Josef Dabernig, Ekaterina Degot, Manthia Diawara,
Katja Diefenbach, Helmut Draxler, Marlene Dumas, Köken Ergun,
Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani, Marcus Geiger, Nida Ghouse,
Boris Groys, Stefano Harney, Adrian Heathfield, Tom Holert,
Ranjit Hoskote, IRWIN, Hassan Khan, Július Koller, Nicolas
Kozakis and Raoul Vaneigem, Brigitta Kuster, Maurizio Lazzarato,
Dieter Lesage, Maria Lind, Thomas Locher, Isabell Lorey, Teresa
Margolles, Radhouane El Meddeb, Angela Melitopoulos, Aernout Mik,
Andrea Milat, Louis Moreno, Nástio Mosquito, Rabih Mroué,
Marina Naprushkina, Stefan Nowotny, Boris Ondreička, Marion von
Osten, Ahmet Ögüt, Stefan Panhans, Nikos Papastergiadis, Alexei
Penzin, Piotr Piotrowski, Tihana Pupovac, Li Ran, Gerald
Raunig, David Riff, Irit Rogoff, Rasha Salti, Katya Sander,
Christoph Schlingensief with Nina Wetzel and Matthias Lilienthal,
Keiko Sei, Simon Sheikh, Judith Siegmund, Société Réaliste:
Ferenc Gróf and Jean-Baptiste Naudy, Praneet Soi, Jon Solomon,
Allan deSouza, Felix Stalder, Hito Steyerl, Mladen Stilinović,
Zoran Terzić, Christopher Thomas and Tom Trevatt, Füsun Türetken
and Burak Arikan, Ultra-red, Anton Vidokle in collaboration with
Liza Babenko and Tisha Mukarji, Ina Wudtke, Qiu Zhijie, Dolores
Zinny and Juan Maidagan, and others.

Conceptualized by Maria Hlavajova and Kathrin Rhomberg in
collaboration with Boris Buden, Boris Groys, Ranjit Hoskote, Katrin
Klingan, and Irit Rogoff.

For the full program, complete list of contributors, and live
streaming, as well as full project archive, please visit the FORMER WEST
Digital Platform at www.formerwest.org

FORMER WEST is initiated and developed by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst,
Utrecht. FORMER WEST: Documents, Constellations, Prospects is a joint
project by Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and BAK, basis voor
actuele kunst, Utrecht.

Funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural
Foundation); Culture Programme of the European Union, Brussels;
Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam; Goethe-Institut; and ERSTE Foundation, Vienna.


Haus der Kulturen der Welt is supported by the Federal Government
Commissioner for Culture and the Media as well as by the Federal Foreign
Office.

The activities of BAK, basis voor actuele kunst have been made possible
with financial support from: City Council of Utrecht and Ministry of
Education, Culture and Science, the Netherlands.

Further information:
Haus der Kulturen der Welt www.hkw.de

BAK, basis voor actuele kunst www.bak-utrecht.nl

Accreditation requested: presse at hkw.de <mailto:presse at hkw.de>

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