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CURATORIAL INDUSTRIES

300 TREAT AVE SAN FRANCISCO CA

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BUCKY FULLER

Self-Storage
April 18 - May 18, 2008
300 Treat Ave.
San Francisco CA 94110
Hours: Wed. - Sun., noon - 4 p.m., and by appointment
More info: http://www.curatorialindustries.org

The Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts presents the exhibition Self-Storage from April 18 through May 18, 2008, at Metro Self Storage, 300 Treat Ave., San Francisco.

Self-Storage investigates the cardboard box and its intrinsic relationship to the archive. It is inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Chronofile, Fuller’s attempt to chronicle his own life in systematic 15-minute intervals. For Self-Storage, a wide range of artists and archivists have been invited to explore various issues related to the standard architecture of the box: the revealing function of the box, the storage function of the box (with respect to both preservation and obliteration), and the legacy of the box in artist multiples and editions.

Their contributions represent a wide variety of artistic and academic practices—differing points of view brought together under the larger contemporary discourse surrounding the nature of the archive. The exhibition will take the form of a temporary special collections library, indexed and housed in a storage unit, with each standardized box in the collection containing the contribution(s) of a particular invited individual. Each box can be understood equally as a solo exhibition, an artist’s file, and/or a self-initiated archive. The storage unit is open to the public, and visitors are allowed to view and handle the boxes. In this way the project proposes a new model of exhibition making that emphasizes a more personal, direct relationship between artwork and viewer.

Participating Artists: Archigram Archive, Fern Bayer, Alejandro Cesarco, Joshua Churchill, Dexter Sinister, Trisha Donnelly, Patricia Esquivias, the John Fare Estate, Buckminster Fuller, Ryan Gander, Kristan Horton, Iman Issa, Marie Jager, Stephen Kaltenbach, Steven Leiber’s Basement, Micah Lexier, the Long Now Foundation, Chip Lord, Tom Marioni, the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Lisa Oppenheim, the Prelinger Library, Lisi Raskin, Amy Robinson, Sean Snyder, Superstudio, Andrew Tosiello, Frances Trombly, Tris Vonna-Michell, and the Winchester Mystery House.

Curated by: Curatorial Industries (Petrushka Bazin, Jessica Brier, Chialin Chou, Courtenay Finn, Anna Gritz, Clare Haggarty, Kate Phillimore, and Sarah Robayo Sheridan)

About California College of the Arts: Founded in 1907, California College of the Arts is noted for the interdisciplinarity and breadth of its programs. It offers studies in 20 undergraduate and seven graduate majors in the areas of fine arts, architecture, design, and writing. The college offers bachelor of architecture, bachelor of arts, bachelor of fine arts, master of architecture, master of arts, master of fine arts, and master of business administration degrees. With campuses in Oakland and San Francisco, CCA currently enrolls more than 1,600 full-time students. Noted alumni include the painters Nathan Oliveira and Raymond Saunders; the ceramicists Robert Arneson, Viola Frey, and Peter Voulkos; the filmmaker Wayne Wang; the conceptual artists David Ireland and Dennis Oppenheim; and the designers Lucille Tenazas and Michael Vanderbyl.

Moderna Museet

Impronta, 1968
Copyright: Piero Manzoni/BUS 2008

Time & Place: Milan/Turin, 1958-1968
1 May - 7 September, 2008

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

http://www.modernamuseet.se

In connection with Moderna Museet’s 50th Anniversary in 2008, three exhibitions will focus on cultural ‘hotspots’ around the world in the 60’s: Rio de Janeiro, Milan/Turin and Los Angeles. The idea is to explore the period when Moderna Museet was created from an international perspective, by featuring a representative selection of works of art, architecture, design, literature, film and music never before shown together in Sweden.

Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, Time & Place: Milan/Turin, 1958-1968 proposes a radically new perspective, intended to concentrate on issues developed by this environment, such as the monochrome, the zero degree of signs, and the tabula rasa of conceptual practice. It investigates a decisive moment in Italian art, focusing on these two cities as emblematic places of birth for a new identity. The exhibition explores the shift from Azimut to Arte povera, the Italian avant-garde that was recognized, already in the 1960s, by former Moderna Museet director Pontus Hultén, in a unique selection which gives a contemporary reflection of the period.

In the first section, the exhibition presents the situation ‘beyond the Informale’, with the birth of Italian experiences, internationally known, of formal and chromatic reduction, through the use of monochrome and the conception of space in researches beyond the surface: next to Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni, artists such as Enrico Castellani, Dadamaino, Gianni Colombo, Agostino Bonalumi, Paolo Scheggi, Mario Nigro, Rodolfo Aricò are represented.

The second part of the exhibition has a documentary tone, presenting the moment of artistic transition from Milan to Turin. This section will also explore the importance of the new sculpture as object, presenting, among others, Manzoni’s Linee (Lines) and Merda d’artista (Artist’s Shit), sculptures by Lucio Fontana and Fausto Melotti , works by Vincenzo Agnetti and Gastone Novelli together with a rich selection of photographs and videos by Enrico Cattaneo, Johnny Ricci, Ugo Nespolo.

The third part features artworks which anticipate and conflate the developments of Arte povera. This is a crucial moment when the frame of reference is moved from post-war Milan to the pulsating social reality of Turin, which sees the emergence of future masters such as Giulio Paolini, Luciano Fabro, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mario and Marisa Merz, Gianni Piacentino, Carol Rama, Alighiero Boetti, Giuseppe Penone, Giovanni Anselmo, Giorgio Griffa, Paolo Icaro and others.

In connection with the exhibition, Moderna Museet will also host a programme of films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini and other Italian film-makers.

Curator: Luca Massimo Barbero, Venice, Italy.
Project curator: Cecilia Widenheim, Moderna Museet.

Time & Place: Milan/Turin, 1958-1968 is sponsored by Scania.

For further information and downloadable press images, please go to http://www.modernamuseet.se/press or contact the press officer, Maria Morberg, m.morberg@modernamuseet.se , tel +46 8 5195 5279, mobile +46 708 83 89 62

Networked Cultures

Networked Cultures – The Dialogues
May to December 2008

http://www.networkedcultures.org

Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam
Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto
Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York
Trafó Gallery, Budapest
The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
Proekt Fabrika, Moscow
Pro qm, Berlin
santralistanbul, Istanbul
Open Space – Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Vienna
Whitechapel Gallery, London

Networks have become the most powerful figure to describe our conception of the world: networks dominate the prevailing structures of cultural, economic and military power. Departing from sites of geopolitical conflict and social confrontation, the Networked Cultures project, an international platform of artists, architects, curators and theorists, aims to reconsider cultural transformations by examining the potentials and effects of networked spatial practices.

From May 2008 Networked Cultures will connect locations across the globe for a series of public events, the Networked Cultures Dialogues, curated by Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer. These installation and discussion forums will follow four thematic strands: Network Creativity – Contested Spaces – Trading Places – Parallel Worlds.

Attention will be focused on the phenomenon of network creativity, by tracing the routes of networks laid out by translocal artistic production. The site that will be opened up, marks an arena of engagement between space and conflict and leads to an interrogation of contested territories across Europe and beyond, examining the architecture of contestation, and proposing models for geocultural negotiation. Investigating their modus operandi, the focus then shifts to governmentality and self-government by examining the organizational matrix of black markets, informal settlements and accompanying parallel economies. Responding to these global realities, the parallel worlds of mobility and migration are discussed in relation to the current politics of connectivity and the emerging ‘archipelago of peripheries’.

Building on the network logic of this project, the series of Networked Cultures dialogues offers a range of settings to connect the project contributors with a multitude of local actors, including the launch of a comprehensive publication and film archive, as well as exhibitions, video installations and live discussions.

Live contributions by Asu Aksoy, Lucia Babina, Gulsen Bal, Jochen Becker, Adrian Blackwell, Eric Cazdyn, Sudeep Dasgupta, Igor Dobricic, Nikolett Eröss, Asya Filippova, Iacopo Gallico, Emiliano Gandolfi, Cordula Gdaniec, Joseph Grima, Gita Hashemi, Guven Icirlioglu, Luis Jacob, Catherine Karl, Erden Kosova, Marc Neelen, Poka-Yio, Irit Rogoff, Despoina Sevasti, Christine Shaw, Samu Szemerei, Hakan Topal, Srdjan J. Weiss, Franciska Zólyom, and many others.

PROGRAM:

1 May 2008 – Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam
7 May 2008 – Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto
15 May 2008 – Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York
27 May 2008 – Trafó Gallery, Budapest
31 May to 27 June 2008 – The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
5 June 2008 – Proekt Fabrika, Moscow
10 June 2008 – Pro qm, Berlin
25 June 2008 – santralistanbul, Istanbul
10 October to 9 November 2008 – Open Space, Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Vienna
16 October 2008 – Whitechapel Gallery, London

For detailed information please refer to the venues’ websites.
For a complete listing of events see: http://www.networkedcultures.org

This series of presentations and debates will be continued in Rio de Janeiro, Warsaw, Athens, Ústi nad Labem, Skopje and other cities in fall/winter 2008.

PUBLICATION:
Networked Cultures: Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space

The Networked Cultures Dialogues are supported by a book co-edited by Peter Mörtenböck and
Helge Mooshammer.

It includes essays by Adrian Blackwell, Marina Grzinic, Irit Rogoff and AbdouMaliq Simone, and conversations with Özge Açıkkol, Azra Aksamija, Ayreen Anastas, Ricardo Basbaum, Jochen Becker, Matei Bejenaru, Ursula Biemann, Sylvie Blocher, Stefano Boeri, Katherine Carl, Sarah Carrington, Branka Curcic, François Daune, Igor Dobricic, Ana Dzokic, Joan Escofet, Jesko Fezer, Asya Filippova, Rene Gabri, Iacopo Gallico, Sophie Hope, Natasa Ilic, Guven Incirlioglu, Katrin Klingan, Vasıf Kortun, Erden Kosova, Olga Lopoukhova, Margarethe Makovec, Marc Neelen, Philipp Oswalt, Kyong Park, Marta Paz, Constantin Petcou, Tadej Pogacar, Poka-Yio, Marjetica Potrc, Gerald Raunig, Oliver Ressler, Josep Saldaña, Marko Sancanin, Günes Savas, Florian Schneider, Despoina Sevasti, Pablo de Soto, Srdjan J. Weiss, Eyal Weizman, Seçil Yersel and Claudia Zanfi.

The book, accompanied by a DVD with audiovisual reports, offers a highly comprehensive overview of the project.

Publisher: NAi Publishers, Rotterdam
Design: Thonik, Amsterdam
Format: 17 x 24 cm, 320 pages
ISBN 978-90-5662-059-2

CONTACT:
Peter Mörtenböck & Helge Mooshammer
info@networkedcultures.org