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Unitednationsplaza: The End

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

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unitednationsplaza

unitednationsplaza Berlin is closing.
Please join us for our final weekend program.

November 16 -18, 2007
unitednationsplaza
Platz der Vereinten Nationen 14a
Berlin 10249 Germany
T. +49 (0)30 700 89 0 90
F. +49 (0)30 700 89 0 85
http://www.unitednationsplaza.org

The End

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ry, finale, finis, finish, fulfillment, issue, omega, outcome, payoff, perfection, realization, resolution, result, final product, final result, finished product, handiwork, manufacture, output, product, production, result, retirement, sign-off, stop, target, termination, terminus, windup, wrap-up, aspiration, design, drift, goal, intent, intention, mark, object, objective, point, purpose, reason, last word.

Weekend Program:

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16th

20:00 - The End: voice and drums, Karl Holmqvist and Angel Nevarez.

20:30 - Presentation of the Evidence from the Trial of Anton Vidokle and Tirdad Zolghadr (Madrid, February 2007).
In order to investigate and clarify if their activities are providing critical spaces and possibilities for art, the artist Anton Vidokle and the curator Tirdad Zolghadr invited a group of experts and art-world agents to put them both on trial. The trial took place at a leading international art fair last February.

Featuring Jan Verwoert as judge, Vasif Kortunand Chus Martinez as prosecutors, Charles Esche as defense attorney, Maria Lind as expert, Setareh Shahbazi as artist, Anselm Franke as witness, Keti Chukrov and Liam Gillick as members of the public. Documentation directed and edited by Hila Peleg.

23:30 - World Premiere: La Stampa
Don’t miss the first public outing of this new simple-drum-bass-guitar-rock-outfit from Berlin doing high-energy pop songs.
Featuring Jons Vukorep, Jan Verwoert and Jörg Heiser.

24:00 - Love Songs: a music program by Diedrich Diederichsen and Ekkehard Ehlers.

01:00 - Last night at Salon Aleman - Rock You Like A Hurricane (Again)
drunken dance party with Julieta Aranda, Eduardo Sarabia and Angel Nevarez at Salon Aleman.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17th

13:00 - 18:00 Everything Must Go! : liquidation sale of all objects belonging to the unitednationsplaza.
furniture, printed matter, tools, kitchenware, electronic equipment, office supplies, plants, clothing and much much more.
low low prices! nothing held back!
organized by Martha Rosler and Anton Vidokle

14:30 - 16:30 A program of talks, screenings and performances: Julieta Aranda: The end of the future; Regine Basha: The last haflah; Francois Bucher: Television: an address (the end of cinema); Daniel Bozhkov: SoMoMA; Hadley + Maxwell: Find us at the kitchen door; Valerie Tevere + Angel Nevarez: The end of radio (and WUNP); Florian Zeyfang and guests.

All programs will be broadcast on WUNP. The transmission will end at 17:00 hrs.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18th

11:00 - 17:00 Last day of the liquidation sale of all objects belonging to the unitednationsplaza: everything must go!
furniture, printed matter, tools, kitchenware, electronic equipment, office supplies, plants, clothing and much much more.
low low prices! nothing held back!
organized by Martha Rosler and Anton Vidokle

17:00 - 18:00 Fantastic deviation: a video program investigating the transformation of space, from the space of the gallery, the museum, the theme park to urban environments and the realm of the transcendental. Presented by Florian Wuest.

Program:

A Study of the Relationships Between Inner and Outer Space
David Lamelas, 1969, 20′

a-b-city
Brigitte Bühler, Dieter Hormel, 1985, 8′

Thoreauian
Sterling Ruby, 2002, 13′30′’

Blight
John Smith, 1996, 14′

The End

catering by GOGOFOOD
http://www.musicberlin.com/gogofood.html

***

unitednationsplaza was exhibition as school. Structured as a seminar/residency program in the city of Berlin, it involved collaboration with nearly 100 artists, writers, theorists and a wide range of audiences for a period of one year. In the tradition of Free Universities, all of its events were open to all those interested to take part.
unitednationsplaza was organized by Anton Vidokle in collaboration with Liam Gillick, Boris Groys, Martha Rosler, Walid Raad, Jalal Toufic, Nikolaus Hirsch, Natascha Sadr Haghighian and Tirdad Zolghadr.

For further information, please contact Magdalena Magiera:
magdalena@unitednationsplaza.org

Paul Russo - Black Abstracts

Who Makes and Owns Your Work?

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

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Iaspis

WHO MAKES AND OWNS YOUR WORK?

17 November 2007 12:30-23:00
Årsta Folkets Hus

Multipart event in Stockholm on sharing, distribution and intellectual property
http://www.whomakesandownsyourwork.org
http://www.iaspis.com

Who owns the rights to artistic work in today’s information-based economy? How can one as an artist or producer of culture position oneself in relation to the existing regimes of copyright and the distribution of material and non-material products?

The project Who Makes and Owns Your Work has grown out of a year-long discussion held during the Open Content meetings which centred on ownership, distribution and forms of sharing within contemporary cultural and knowledge production. Through monthly meetings hosted by different organisations and a dedicated Wiki site http://www.whomakesandownsyourwork.org the project has evolved to test conceptual and political implications of openness foregrounding specific proposals made by a loose network of artists and other cultural producers. The project was initiated in the autumn of 2006 by Maria Lind and Robert Stasinski, Iaspis together with London based artist Marysia Lewandowska currently a professor at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design and Stockholm based artists Goldin+Senneby.

Join us for the following presentations:

- Public consultation event. Discussion of the current copyright debate led by Dr. Jaime Stapleton,
Associate Research Fellow of the School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London, and Anna Eineborg, artist, Stockholm. Participants: Marianne Levin, professor of intellectual property law, Stockholm University; Rasmus Fleischer, Ph.D. candidate at Södertörn University College and co-founder of the Bureau of Piracy; Mats Lindberg, managing director of BUS, Visual Arts Copyright Society
in Sweden.

-The Missing Link, new edition of Jan Lööf’s children’s book, The Tale of the Red Apple (Sagan om det röda applet) upgraded by artist Dorinel Marc.

- Opening the Open, a new thematic issue of the Geist, Swedish based art magazine, addressing the concept of openness in relation to the Swedish law concerning statutory right of access to private land. Organised by Andjeas Ejiksson, Fredrik Ehlin and Oscar Mangione. http://www.geist.se

- Artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive) present a live electronic set including performances by Per Åhlund and Mathias Josefson (Fylkingen). Plus release of new CD Clips, Blips and Loops featuring out-of-copyright sound recordings and new copyleft remixes. http://www.openmusicarchive.org

- Men’s and Women’s Club. Web based project by Konstfack students Sara Wolfert, Maria Lagergren and Lina Persdotter.

- Self-reflexive history is a self-reflexive process of writing the history of the WMAOYW initiative, based on a dialectic process organised by the artist Saskia Holmkvist.

- Film Screening and discussion by artists Andreas Mangione and Palle Torsson, Rasmus Fleischer, PhD candidate in Contemporary History and the Filmklubben.

- Seeders and Lurkers. In dialogue with different organizations working to encourage participation and sharing of knowledge online, a collection of recommendation and advices was put together. Organised by Magnus Liistamo.

- A project with Art In The Public Realm. MA stundents at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design; Cameron MacLeod, Kjersti Vetterstad, Randi Grov Berger, Ulrika Casselbrant, Therese Kristiansson. Organised by Marysia Lewandowska, artist and professor Konstfack, Andrea Creutz, artist and senior lecturer at Konstfack, Per Hasselberg, artist and founder of Konsthall C.

- Student projects by Konstfack

- Untitled (conceptual artist) (2001) by Hinrich Sachs

- The Employed Among Us by Michele Masucci

- Therese Kristiansson presents: Stockholm Green Map

- Audio/visual documentation by Tomas Nygren

Funded by: Iaspis, Konstnärsnämnden, Konstfack and ABF

For more information:
http://www.whomakesandownsyourwork.org
http://www.iaspis.com

History Will Repeat Itself

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

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KW Institute for
Contemporary Art

Heike Gallmeier, “War & Peace Show: Minipanzerschlacht”, photography, 2004

History Will Repeat Itself
Strategies of Re-enactment in Contemporary Art

Sigalit Landau The Dining Hall

Opening:
November 17, 2007, 5 - 9 pm
Dates:
November 18, 2007 - January 13, 2008

http://www.kw-berlin.de

History Will Repeat Itself
Strategies of Re-enactment in Contemporary Art

Participating artists include: Guy Ben-Ner, Walter Benjamin, Irina Botea, C-Level, Daniela Comani, Jeremy Deller, Rod Dickinson, Nikolai Evreinov, Omer Fast, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Heike Gallmeier, Felix Gmelin, Pierre Huyghe, Evil Knievel, Korpys/Loeffler, Robert Longo, Tom McCarthy, Frédéric Moser / Philippe Schwinger, Collier Schorr, Tabea Sternberg, Kerry Tribe, T. R. Uthco & Ant Farm, Artur Zmijewski.

Concept: Inke Arns (HMKV Dortmund)
Curators: Gabriele Horn (KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin), Inke Arns (HMKV Dortmund)
Co-Curator: Katharina Fichtner

The exhibition History Will Repeat Itself focuses on current strategies of re-enactment in contemporary art and performance, and presents the positions of 22 international artists. Re-enactments have become more and more popular in recent years. The re-creation of historical battles or important events seem to exert a fascination particularly because they provide the opportunity to gain a different entry into history by re-experiencing it. In contemporary art there has been an increasing number of artistic re-enactments. Unlike popular historical re-enactments, artistic re-enactments do not simply affirm what has happened in the past, but question the present by taking recourse to historical (often traumatic) events that have left their traces in collective memory. Because history and memory are seldom directly experienced but more often mediated through media, re-enactments also represent an artistic interrogation of media images. They try to scrutinize the reality of the im
ages, while at the same time pointing towards the fact that collective memory is essentially mediated memory. A comprehensive catalogue with texts by Inke Arns, Katharina Fichtner, Gabriele Horn, Tom McCarthy and others is available.

History Will Repeat Itself is a co-operation between Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.

The exhibition History Will Repeat Itself is funded by:
Kulturstiftung des Bundes / German Federal Cultural Foundation
Kunststiftung NRW
Der Ministerpräsident des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
Kulturbüro Stadt Dortmund
PHOENIX
dortmund-project
Bundesamt für Kultur BAK (Switzerland)
NRW Kultursekretariat Wuppertal
The Henry Moore Foundation
Pro Helvetia
Bureau des Arts Plastiques/Culturesfrance — French Embassy
The British Council
Medion

Sigalit Landau The Dining Hall

KW Institute for Contemporary Art is pleased to present the The Dining Hall, a new and site-specific installation by Israeli artist Sigalit Landau, in its main hall. Ten years after participating in Documenta X, this is her first large solo exhibition in Germany. Landau’s works relate to her Jewish identity, centering on questions of place and borders, foreignness and migration, individual and collective, reality and utopia. Using highly diverse techniques, she combines sculpture, installation, video, and performance at different formal and narrative levels. In her new work for The Dining Hall, Landau focuses on food and feeding places, alchemy, and the preparation of food, which she discusses as a frictional condition of survival while also taking into account the bitter taste these themes have in times of global capitalism. Sigalit Landau integrates historic aspects into her site-specific project, where lack and abundance, community and the individual, periphery and center,
East and West, as well as past and present meet.

A catalogue of the past ten years of projects by Sigalit Landau will be available from January 2008.

Curator: Gabriele Horn

The project The Dining Hall is funded by:
Kulturstiftung des Bundes / German Federal Cultural Foundation
Embassy of Israel in Berlin
Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart
Lily Elstein — MusicArt Ltd. — International Center for Music and Art, Zichron Yaacov/Israel
FC (Flying-Cargo) International Transportation Ltd., Lod/Israel
Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd., Haifa/Israel

KW Institute for Contemporary Art
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D-10117 Berlin
Phone 0049 [30] 2434 59 0
Fax 0049 [30] 2434 59 99
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