Archive for October 2009
Academy Dweller’s Survival Guide
Academy Dweller’s Survival Guide (ADSG) is an online resource designed to help students find their place within the academy. Through this guide students will learn how to survive by reading about potential threats, such as where the teachers are, and escape routes.
The Cowboy and the Cleaning Lady
Starting point for a research about equivalents to artistic role and proposals for wastelands in their use. Research is contained within a blog acting as a digital library and archive and collected in a manner akin to an online sketchbook. The Cowboy and the Cleaning Lady blog will include references from books, gaming, websites and other artist projects.
The View Inside the Studio
Project proposal:
How many different places, times and cultures feed into a studio space? How can you perceive these through the material present within these spaces?
Wallpainting excavation
Immersion – Harun Farocki
For the video installation Immersion Farocki visited a workshop organised by the Institute for Creative Technologies, a research centre for virtual reality and computer-simulations. One of their projects concerns the development of a therapy for war-veterens suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Farocki is interested in the use of virtual realities and games in the recruiting, training and now also therapy for soldiers. Farocki explores the connection between virtual reality and the military – how the fictional scenarios of computer games are used both in the training of U.S. troops prior to their deployment in combat zones, and in psychological care for troops suffering battlefield trauma upon their return.
The Reject
«The Reject»
‘The Reject’ is a solo exhibition of K., a ‘Reject artist’ who has applied for and been rejected by most of the art academies in Norway.
‘The Reject’ will be presented at Kunsthallen, a prominent presentation space in Bergen, and feature a selection of art works, a documentary about K.’s life and research material generated from interviews by experts working within the artistic field. By exhibiting a ‘Reject artist’ within a reputable space such as Kunsthallen, it is intended to open a critical discussion concerning the politics of inclusion and exclusion and criteria for determining cultural/artistic value by looking at who does and does not get accepted into the art academy. Read the rest of this entry »
Timekeeper by Pierre Huyghe
Walker Art Center curator Peter Eleey discusses Pierre Huyghe’s Timekeeper and the Walker’s exhibition The Quick and the Dead.
Visual Geographies : Kate Armstrong, Garnet Hertz, Michelle Teran
This summer I participated in a three way conversation with Canadian artists Kate Armstrong and Garnet Hertz. Kate Armstrong is a Vancouver multi-media artist and scholar, Garnet Hertz is an artist and scholar based in California and I am a media artist based in Berlin.
All three of our practices deal explicitly with contemporary ways of mapping space, or in some cases, a contemporary poetics of space.
Here’s a link to our discussion starting from the final blog post and ending with the first.
Imaginary Geography – The New Babylon
In the late 50s, Dutch avant-guard artist Constant Nieuwenhuys started designing a Utopic city called New Babylon. Inspired by the writings of Guy Debord and founding member of the Situationist International, his designs were based on an anti-capitalist society, predicated on freedom, play and critical thought. Constant’s city was inhabited by a ludic, non-utilitarian society in which each citizen, freed from productive work, could start to explore his or her own creativity.
A List of Research Areas
a list of research areas based on a collective discussion and brainstorm by workshop participants
1. Restricted Spaces within the Academy
- Where are they?
- How are they used?
- Who gets to decide if they are restricted or not?
