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Open Space - Zentrum für Kunstprojekte

The Temporary Zones
January 10th - February 9th, 2008
Open Space
Zentrum für Kunstprojekte
Lassingleithnerplatz 2
Schwedenplatz
Wien 1020
Austria
(+43) 699 115 286 32
office@openspace-zkp.org
http://www.openspace-zkp.org

Opening
09.01.08, between 18.00 - 20.30

Artist talk at LABfactory
10.01.08, between 14.00 - 16.00

Project curator: Gulsen Bal

Participant artist

Ergin Çavusoglu
Peter Mörtenböck & Helge Mooshammer
Nada Prlja

Open Space - Zentrum für Kunstprojekte opens its door to the public with The Temporary Zones a stimulating first project developed by the founder and director of Open Space - Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Gulsen Bal. The exhibition offers a space for exploration of current relations of and in predicated conflict as well as negotiation within cultural specific conditions. In pointing out the space of current relations, the scope of the exhibition allows an engagement of a space that identifies the transitional conditions and the flows where the temporal construct seemingly obliterates all its secrets and ambiguities. In a journey of a volatile world, this gives a moment of magnitude by tracing the cross-border dialogues.

Each participating artist creates works that respond in particular ways, to take a deeper look at complex relational powers with a new conjunction of transitions in a designated quasi-accessible space that resides within creative practice.

Ergin Çavusoglu is known for his lyrical and unsettling video installations that reconstitute our sense of space and pose questions about our understanding of place and identity in a globalised society marked by mobility.

His recent single channel video Empire (after Andy Warhol) reframes an ordinary building in reference to the representation of an iconicized structure, while shifting from the global to the local. Borrowing his title from Andy Warhol’s film ‘Empire’, which consists of a single shot of the Empire State Building and runs 8 hours and 6 minutes and keeps the tracks of day to night, Çavusoglu’s video is both poetically engendering a visual anchor against taking deep breath to counter the effects of a metronomic flow that operates unsettling the concepts of domestic comfort through unrelenting gaze.

The Rights by Nada Prlja is a series of video recordings of children who are reading ‘European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedom’ in the manner it presents that there is no protection of human rights and freedom. This exposes the complexity of the issues of immigration and the EU politics around the boundaries of “New Europe”.

Prlja creates a space that identifies the transitional conditions in between new topological zones of inclusion and exclusion through focusing on culturally specific conditions. The Rights provokes the potentiality of “who speaks” outside representational boundaries that define the conjuncture of social forces beyond its discursive construction.

In their work, Visiting Stalin, Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer reflect upon cultural transformations of our contemporary world through exploring the potentials and effects of new social orders. Departing from sites of geopolitical conflicts and social confrontations they seek to extract the knowledge embodied by these new forms of socio-spatial organisation and group action. In doing so, they raise questions about how the emergence of networked cultures has changed our cultural forms of cohabitation and communication, and how we produce and experience the spaces we live in vis-à-vis a globalised world of flows.

In conjunction with the exhibition, a panel discussion is planned to address these issues with the participating artist.

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Open Space - Zentrum für Kunstprojekte aims to create the most vital facilities on non-profit base for contemporary art concerned with contributing a model strategy for cross-border and interregional projects on the basis of improving new approach.

Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10am - 6pm
Admission free

Centre d’art contemporain la Synagogue de Delme

Société Réaliste
TRANSITIONERS: Le Producteur
December 15, 2007 to
February 17, 2008

La Synagogue de Delme welcomes Société Réaliste for their first personal show in an art center in France. Société Réaliste is an artistic cooperative, created by Ferenc Gróf and Jean-Baptiste Naudy in 2004. Their activity consists in developing various research enterprises, successively dealing with territorial ergonomy, experimental economy, counter-strategy, or political design, as is the case of the project Transitioners, initiated in 2006, and for which they have been invited to Delme.

Transitioners is a trend design agency, specialized in political transitions. Transposing the principles of prospective design, generally used by professionals in the field of fashion, to the field of politics, Société Réaliste questions the revolution (transition?) as a central category for contemporary Western society. How can a “democratic transition” be produced? What is the role of design in the permanent conversion of political flux into mythology? How can the effect of an event on citizens be transformed into a controlled affect?

Depending on present atmosphere, Transitioners defines the general climate, in which future social transformation movements will take place, in order to maximize their efficiency. By examining the evolution of revolution as a form, the project offers visual and semantic tools ready to be used by whoever wishes to: logotypes, color charts, lexical fields, etc.

For each new step in the project, Société Réaliste conceives a new trend collection, originated by a precise historical event. In 2007, the inspiration for Bastille Days was the French Revolution. The 2008 collection, entitled Le Producteur and inaugurated at la Synagogue de Delme, is based on the utopias developed during the first three decades of the 19th century, by thinkers such as Fourier, Enfantin, Rodrigues, Cabet, Owen, or Saint-Simon.

The central question of the 2008 collection is related to the progressive separation of liberalism and socialism. While they have a common origin and were not differentiated by major utopist thinkers, the events of 1830 and 1848 progressively opposed them. This binary confrontation between liberalism and socialism still constitutes the basis of our common representations. For Transitioners, the interrogation of this ideological chasm, of its accuracy and its contradictions, is central. The stake of the collection Le Producteur consists in knowing how these movements share a common ideological base, and how the later can nourish the design of future transitions.

In 2006-07, the Bastille Days collection was presented at Trafo Galéria (Budapest), at the Kunstpavillon (Innsbruck), on the occasion of the 2nd Biennale of Moscow, at Mains d’Oeuvres (Saint-Ouen), at Ze dos Bois (Lisbon) and at the Martine Aboucaya
gallery (Paris).

Société Réaliste will also present Transitioners: Le Producteur from January 29 to February 24, 2008 in the context of Transmediale 08: Conspire, at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt of Berlin http://www.transmediale.de

For further information about projects by the Société Réaliste cooperative:
http://www.societerealiste.net
http://www.cac-synagoguedelme.org

Centre d’art contemporain — la Synagogue de Delme
33 rue Poincaré
57590 Delme
France
Tel: +33 3 87 01 35 61
Opening hours:
Wednesday to Saturday from 2 to 6 pm,
Sunday from 11 am to 6 pm
Admission free

Gwanjgu Biennale

THE 7TH GWANGJU BIENNALE
September 5, 2008 - November 9, 2008

ANNUAL REPORT:
A YEAR IN EXHIBITIONS
http://www.gb.or.kr

The Gwanjgu Biennale Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Hyunjin Kim and Ranjit Hoskote as part of the curatorial team of the 7th Gwangju Biennale. The two curators will be working, with artistic director Okwui Enwezor, to develop the various curatorial strategies of Annual Report, which will open on September 5th, 2008, and take place until November 2008. Bringing together a range of activities produced throughout the world across the span of nearly eighteen months, Annual Report will incorporate into its sequence of galleries and satellite sites a number of activities, ranging from performances, readings, film screenings, music, dance, theater, to exhibitions initiated between January 2007 and September 2008.

Ranjit Hoskote

Ranjit Hoskote (born 1969 in Mumbai) is a poet, cultural theorist, translator, and independent curator based in Bombay, India. He currently holds an Associate Fellowship at Sarai-CSDS (a new-media initiative of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi). He has worked as the principal art critic and assistant editor with The Times of India, senior editor and cultural commentator for The Hindu, and is currently working on a new journal dedicated to developing a critical discourse for emerging contexts and practices, Locus Standi. Hoskote is the author and editor of numerous books on art and artists and is also the author of five collections of poetry including: Zones of Assault (Rupa and Co, New Delhi, 1991); The Cartographer’s Apprentice (Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, 2000); The Sleepwalker’s Archive (Single File, Mumbai, 2001) and most recently, Vanishing Acts: New and Selected Poems, 1985-2005 (Penguin Books, New Delhi, 2006). Hoskote’s essays and art
icles on art, culture and the politics of culture appear in the Neue Zuercher Zeitung, Art Asia Pacific, Art & Thought, and The Hindu, among other publications.

Hoskote is the curator of numerous traveling exhibitions of Indian and Asian art, including a mid-career retrospective of Atul Dodiya, a retrospective of Jehangir Sabavala, and the survey exhibition Aparanta: The Confluence of Contemporary Art in Goa. He was also a co-curator of
Under Construction.

Hoskote was a Fellow of the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa, USA (1995). He has also held a writing residency at the Villa Waldberta, Munich (2003). A recipient of the Sanskriti Award for Literature (1996), Hoskote was honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award by India’s National Academy of Letters (2004).

Hyunjin Kim

Hyunjin Kim (born 1975, South Korea) is a curator and a writer living and working in Seoul. She is also a member of Friendly Enemies, a Seoul based arts collective. Since 2001, Kim has worked as a curator to produce exhibitions in a number of institutions, including the Vanabbemuseum, Eindhoven and the Rooseum Center of Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden, as well as the Insa Art Space, the Artsonje Center, the LOOP alternative space, the Ssamzie Space, the Sangmyung University, and the Sixth Korean International Art Fair, all located in Seoul. She has written for numerous catalogs and has also contributed writings and reviews to various Korean art magazines including Wolganmisool, ArtinCulture, and Vmspace. She is presently working as an associate curator for the 2007 exhibition program for Gallery27 at the Kaywon Art & Design School in Uiwang-si, Korea. Her recent exhibitions include: Movement, Contingency, and Community (Gallery 27, Kaywon Art & Design School, Uiwang-si 2007)
; Outside of (Dehors): Paintings by Jea Oon Rho, Jina Park, Sejun Hwang, (Gallery27, Kaywon Art & Design School, Uiwang-si); Undeclared Crowds in Plug-In: Revisited Collection of Van Abbemuseum (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2006)

Kim received her BFA and MA in art studies from the Hongik University, Seoul, and participated in the Critical Studies Program of 2003-2004 of the Malmö Art Academy & Rooseum Center of Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden. She has recently begun work on her Ph.D. in the Curatorial and Visual Culture departments at Goldsmiths College in London.

For Further information please contact:
Jin kyoung Jeong
211 Biennale-2gil Yongbong-dong Buk-gu
Gwangju, South Korea 500-070

T. +82 (0)62 608 4264
F + 82 (0) 62 608 4269
1212jjk@gb.or.kr
http://www.gb.or.kr