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Hvitsten Salong
Join us for this year's edition of Hvitsten Salong 2019 2-4 august opening: friday 2nd of august 18:00Insubordination of bodies booklet
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Entkunstung I Verkunstung
Insubordination of bodies text
In the heat of critical discussions on labor, value and alienation, Paul Lafargue denounced the repressive imperative of work, the all-invading and foundational basis for modern capitalist economies. He manifestes the necessity of establishing the right to laziness, situating this right outside of capitalist exploitation and apparatus of discipline: “to work but three hours a day, reserving the rest of the day and night for leisure and feasting”[1]. Among many other critical trajectories including the anarchist joy of refusing to work, supposedly Eastern-European idleness and non-productivity, critiques of over-production and reproductive labor have become part of a strong tradition of the abolition of work in political and artistic practices.
At the same time, with a transforming economic paradigm of late capitalist production, one can observe how capital and microtechniques of power has become embedded within most private zones of subjectivity: love, rest, dream and laziness, which originally existed outside of the disciplinary matrix of the eight hour working day. What happens when the right to laziness is being commodified in contemporary societies? How has non-productivity become inscribed into the economy, technologies of governmentality and creative production? This notion of subordination, normativity, and resisting bodies was the focal point of this exhibition by the artistic duo Martinka Bobrikova and Oscar de Carmen.
The exhibition presented two works: “Yes, I can (not)” (2014) and “Non-logic Devices in Logic Processes” (2018). “Yes, I can (not)” is a sound installation, consisting of microphones distributed on tripods in various dimensions. Two sets of microphones occupy the space of the gallery. One part of the installation arrests movement from one exhibitionary space from the other. The devices, which normally serve the function of voice amplification, are inverted as loudspeakers that, in different volumes, reproduce two sets of utterances in affirmative and negative forms in all persons, singular and plural, omitting only the first person in singular: yes, he/she/they/we/you can (not). The non-emotional voice belongs to a multilingual mechanic translation system. The construction of the installation could be seen as a metaphor for the nesting of power, both in linguistic and spatial terms. Mladen Dolar etymologically traces the connection between the act of listening and submission: “listening is “always-already” incipient obedience; the moment one listens one has already started to obey, in an embryonic way one always listens to one’s master’s voice, no matter how much one opposes it afterward”[2]. Omitting the modalities of the self, microphones reproduce strong utterances of innate ability, permissibility, and agency. The microphones are also installed at different heights that do not respond to the human scale: one set is too low, the other one is too high.
“Non-logic Devices in Logic Processes” is a composition of six chairs, a backward inclined wall, and a rope marked with a black stripe in it’s middle and a set of two anti-disciplinary exercises, activated by performers at the opening and finnisage of the exhibition. The performers, students of art schools, were paid to perform nothing within the proposed protocol of inactivity. The signed contract assumed that performers simply agreed to do nothing and were paid 7.5 euro per hour. The protocol provided the possibility to change from a sitting position (exercise 1) at one of the chairs to the standing position close to the constructed wall (exercise 2), which partly accommodated the weight of performer’s body. The sitting position also implied holding down a rope with one hand. Communication among both the performers themselves and the performers and the audience was forbidden. The collision of these two works produce supplementary meaning: it seems that the sound instructs the performers on the (im)possibility of their agency.
Observed in a two-dimensional plane, the installation might be seen as a performative illustration, in the form of anti-disciplinary exercises, of the first Newton’s law. The first law of dynamics states that an object will remain at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line unless acted upon by an external force. The classical scholastic illustration is the game of tug-of-war: the arrows represent power which one group of bodies exercises, putting the kinetic system into a state of imbalance. The bodies as agents of kinetic power are inscripted into the normativity of scientific representation, naturalized and systematic. The position of bodies is static: an illustration can not represent the somatic and physical tensions. Copying this illustrative character, with the help of performers, Bobrikova and de Carmen try to stage equilibrium, despite the fact that visually this equilibrium is always violated with one hand pulling on a rope.
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Physical power is normally represented as an arrow that actually relates to Foucauldian notions of modern power: anonymous, diffuse and secretive, performed through permanent mechanisms of supervision and control. Both of the works question the nexus of power and the possibility of insubordination: agency and subversion in it’s frame. As far as power is spread throughout social relations, resistance also should be diffuse. Michel Foucault schematised the relationship between power and resistance as two important counterparts. This tension could be seen as a space for subjectification. Although power techniques could use resistance for reaffirming and re-establishing the system, “the elements or materials that power works upon are never rendered fully docile”[3]. Resistance is not also the “anti-matter” of power, it can be productive and affirmative. Focusing his attention on the body and the productive effects of power-resistance relations allowed Foucault to consider the idea of aesthetic self-creation, which he later termed the techniques of the self. Struggle against the imposed norms and forms of subjectivity was also central in this exhibition of works by Bobrikova and de Carmen.
The contemporary performance in an exhibition space is often described in post-Fordist vocabularies (plasticity, precarity, virtuosity). Bojana Kunst reveals this proximity and the tension of performance art and capitalism: “On the one hand, the work of the artist is at the core of capital speculations on art’s value; on the other hand, by means of its work, art also resists the appropriation of its artistic powers”[4]. Bobrikova and de Carmen actually points out to this entanglement and question the relation of performer’s body, the contemporary disposition of (non)work, and subjectivity.
Aleksei Borisionok
[1] Paul Lafargue, The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1907. P. 29
[2] Mladen Dolar, A Voice and Nothing More. MIT Press, 2006. P. 76
[3] Brent L. Pickett, “Foucault and the politics of resistance,” Polity 28/4, 1996. P. 458
[4] Bojana Kunst, Artist at Work, Proximity of Art and Capitalism, London: Zero Books, 2015. P. 18
INSUBORDINATION OF BODIES
Collection Collective Launches Website
OPEN VIDEO IX
LjudKonst 7Härad
IECES 2018
(X)Sites
Sweet Home Madrid
solo exhibition 35M2
Oslo Open 2018
solo show / oksasenkatu11
solo exhibition BOA
51ZERO/ festival
text RAM
In the second instalment of Bobrikova & de Carmen’s “Living in the beginning of times, 59.923885, 10.758991 / 10.17”, this time at Galleri RAM in Oslo, the multi-temporal experimentation with site-specificity that they introduced in Skien returns, but with some added insights and strategies.1 Specifically, they take on the temporality of plastic and its embeddedness in already existing human and non-human ecosystems. With the material’s slow rate of deterioration, it accumulates and pollutes not just the surface of the earth; through ingestion, it enters into living beings, humans and animals alike, and it is also deeply set in the ground we step on and from which plants grow. With a starting point that already considers plastic as eternally embedded in nature, Bobrikova & de Carmen critically examine and imagine its role in the future. They set in motion an immanent scenario that rests ambiguously between dystopia and utopia, where plastic is lethal, abundant and beyond control, yet also a material that needs to be put to use and re-use, as shelter, in social space and as “photogenic objects”.
The three parts of this exhibition re-imagine the past, present and future simultaneously and as such do not subscribe to linear time. In museum display cabinets situated in the back of the gallery room, the fragmented remains from the now considered distant age of the industrial revolution serve as objects of curiosity. The setup imagines that in the future, our ecologically disastrous capitalist activities, human infrastructures and exploitation of resources will be looked back at with shame, as “The remain of the traces of an unmentionable time.” The three pieces installed here – chunks of welded wire reinforcement – were also part of the previous edition of this project in Skien, presented in situ next to other ruins. At Galleri Ram, however, it is as if they have been excavated and put on display.
Another work in the exhibition unfolds itself in real-time, inextricably tied to the present while re-negotiating the future and past. “PostIsotype” consists of a series of wall-hung LCD screens, a digital synthesizer, sound elements and a pile of paper. Isotypes based on Otto Naurath and Gerd Arntz’s Vienna Method are portrayed on the screens and paper, while a rhythmic, industrial sound emerges from the speakers. Via the synthesizer, the figures on the screens are made into moving images which wobble with the sound pulse. This effect dissolves the clear cut categories that these Isotypes represent, merging and bending the boundaries between constructed binary or exclusive categories such gender (male/female), ethnicity (white/black), class (workers/middle-class/ upper-class), and in an extended sense also the boundary between the human and non-human. The constructed categories of human subjects are scrutinized and questioned, giving way to a future of blurred boundaries. It exemplifies what the philosopher, Rosi Braidotti calls a nomadic exercise or a “nomadic subject”, which she explains as a way of thinking through and moving across “… established categories and levels of experience: blurring boundaries without blurring experience.”2
The monumental construction which is made of the green plastic bags Oslo residents recycle their food in serves as the centrepiece of the exhibition. Dubbed “Photogeny of a contextualization for a new revolution,” it provides creative proposals for a possible future that can arise from the ruins and ecological problems of our past. The lack of human presence is noticeable, opening up for doubt weather this construction emerged spontaneously, by other non-human self-organized means, or if it represents an involuntary and self-inflicted human-plastic relationship by which humans now have to fuse old garbage bags to create shelter because other construction materials are scarce. Regardless, this doubt and ambiguity is productive, because all options present the human exceptionalism and “bounded individualism” we are so used to as unthinkable options. This serves to illustrate one of Donna Haraway’s questions from her recent text, “Tentacular Thinking”:
What happens when human exceptionalism and bounded individualism, those old saws of Western philosophy and political economics, become unthinkable in the best sciences, whether natural or social? Seriously unthinkable: not able to think with.3
Rather than preserving the the anthropocentric idea of the human as the destroyer of the earth, this installation exemplifies how plastic – although a human product – not only outlives us, but also transforms with the natural environment into unintentional figures. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a hoard of plastic debris which is larger than Texas in the North Pacific Ocean, is an example of this. As an imagined future, the installation considers the more likely alternative in which the earth will adapt after the fall of civilisations and human infrastructure, with or without support for human existence. The robotic voice which emanates from speaker elements in this construction may in that case be a trace of our less mortal digital creations, even connoting – as post-apocalyptic works often do – the persistence of artificial intelligence. It could therefore also be seen as an argument for our present time and all its transformations, following Haraway, that the future is forever unfinished, rather than defined by the so-called “age of Anthropocene” as the final epoch.
Text by Liv Brissach
1 The first installment of “Living in the Beginning of Times” took place in Ibsenhuset in Skien, Norway during Greenlightdistrict, 11-14.05.17
2 Rosi Braidotti, Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory, (Columbia University Press, 1994), 4.
3 Donna Haraway, ”Tentacular Thinking: Antropocene, Capitalocene, Chtuhulucene,” e-flux Journal #75 (September 2016): http://www.e-flux.com/journal/75/67125/tentacular-thinking-anthropocene-capitalocene- chthulucene/ accessed 05.06.17
Living in the beginning of times
Arts in the Environment
Nordic Anthology #9
5th Odessa Biennale
Agrikultura
Greenlightdistrict Festival
Oslo Open
Structural Disparities
Micro Politics
HomeBase Saitama / Saitama Triennale
HomeBase Project, a nomadic artist-run-residency and research program which explores the notion of “home” is participating in the first Saitama Triennale, taking place from now through December 11, 2016, in Saitama (さいたま市), a neighbour city of Tokyo, under the theme of Future and Soft Urbanism.
NEWROPE
Østlandsutstillingen
Alt_Cph_2016 CROSSCUTS
APORIAS
‘Aporias’ is an exhibition that consists twelve artists from Turkey, Serbia, Austria, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain who search ways to reflect upon this term within their own artistic practice. Aporia, a Greek term which means a ‘barred passage’, indicates a feeling of getting stucked, puzzlement, insolubility and undecidability when confronting a philosophical question.
Aporetic concepts are self- contradictory as they stand on the distinction line separating binary oppositions. They confirm that the passage from one term to its opposite is both possible and impossible. The distinction line between Absence/Presence, Life/Death, Self/Other, Material/Immaterial, Ephemeral/Permanent, Sovereign/Subservient are the sites where these im/possible passages might appear.
The artworks which are produced with different mediums such as painting, installation, digital collage, video and sculpture underline both the differences and the similarities between cultures. The exhibition questions the stability of the distinctions which are necessary for identity construction and it searches how Aporias can be represented visually. It also investigates on which distinction lines we can find Aporias, such as: Conceptual determinations – lines that frame the meaning/definition of concepts, the limits of the Body and Gender, borderlines between the countries and territories, limits of the language and the meaning, the im/possibility of translation.
Small / Big World
OSLO OPEN 2016
FEED
Østlandsutstillingen 2016
Participating artists: Terje Abusdal, Hilde Alfhei, Aleksander Johan Andreassen, Joakim Blattmann, Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen, Aud Bækkelund, Siren Elise Dversnes Dahle, Anne Marthe Dyvi, Marisa Ferreira, Hanne Lydia Opøien Figenschou, Charlie Fjätström, Mona Grønstad, Johannes Borchgrevink Hansen, Emmy Harnes, Line Hatland, Dorthe Herup, Live Hilton, Hanne Frey Husø, Tonje Høydahl Sørli, Christine Istad, Cecilia Jiménez Ojeda, Karl Eivind Jørgensen, Marthe Karen Kampen, Jan Marius Kiøsterud, Ulf Kristiansen, Mona K. Lalim, Karen Lidal, Anne Cecilie Lie, Hedvig Lien Rytter, Sarah Vajira Lindström, Ana Maria Lopez, Odd Maure, Ingrunn O. Myrland, Greger Stolt Nilsen, Janne Paulsen, John K. Raustein, Hilde Rodahl, Hanna Roloff, Ulla Schildt, Line Schjølberg, Leo Shumba, Marit Silsand, Kjetil Skøien, Ellen Henriette Suhrke/Hilde Skevik, Eline Medbøe Thoresen, Ellen Grimm Torstensen, Kristin von Hirsch, Gelawesh Waledkhani, Margrethe Weisser, Siri Wohrm, Barbro Zezuluo.
Kulturkontakt AIR exhibition
The Austrian Federal Chancellery and KulturKontakt Austria extend a cordial invitation to an exhibition of works by Artists in Residence. Daniela Dostálková (Czech Republic), Andreas Greiner (Germany), Fu Bin (China), Marge Monko (Esland), Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen (Slovakia + Spain) and the composer Daniela Fantechi (Italy) are presenting their works at the exhibition space of the Austrian Federal Chancellery on Concordiaplatz.
The Federal Chancellery, in cooperation with KKA, offers scholarships for residencies in Vienna. The scholarships are funded by the Federal Chancellery within the framework of the Artists in Residence programme and are organised and implemented by KKA, which also provides support and advice to the scholarship winners.
TRANSCULTURAL EMANCIPATION
Monday, 29. February @ FLUC, PRATERSTERN 5 , 1020 WIEN 19:30
TRANSCULTURAL EMANCIPATION
Exhibition of Artists in Residence of the Federal Chancellery and KulturKontakt Austria curated by Ursula Maria Probst featuring artist: Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen, Daniela & Linda Dostálková, Andreas Greiner.
Prosjektrom Carl Berner
Superfluous Identity @ nastupiste 1-12
Tbilisi Triennial
superfluous identity IV
Welcome to the first exhibitions this autumn with guest artists for August: Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen, Vera Boele-Keimer
opening of the exhibitions on Thursday 20th of august at 7 p.m. at Babel Art Space
20.-30.08.2015
The exhibitions last day is august 30th.
Opening hours: Thursday/ Friday 2 - 6 p.m.; Saturday/Sunday 12 - 4 p.m.
Babel Art Space, Mellomveien 4, Trondheim
tlf: 47655871
Superfluous Identity III
It is an honor for us to invite you to Superfluous Identity III exhibition curated by Zuzana Jakalova. The venue of the exhibition is Entrance Gallery. The exhibition will be held on July 17th to August 9th, 2015.
The opening of the exhibition will be on July 16th 7pm.
We will be pleased to see your presence in the exhibition.
Find more details about the venue and address in the invitation.
Tasting&Launching
Come to taste the problem of surplus, get a copy of the publication documenting the past 2 years of events and eventually book a night in our upcoming project Kitchen Dialogues B&B happening in collaboration with PQ in MeetFactory from 18th till 28th June.
Wednesday 03.jun 2K15 7:05pm
Berlinskej Model, Pplk. Sochora 9, 170 00 Prague, Czech Republic
http://berlinskejmodel.cz/
SUPERFLUOUS IDENTITY II
We invite you to the opening ceremony, which will take place in the Gallery KIN JIDELNA 4. 5. 2015 18:00-20:00.
Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen / SUPERFLUOUS IDENTITY II
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Gallery KIN jidelna Kavkazská, Praha 10 – Vršovice
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The second entrance door of the building Koh-i-noor Inc. Kavkazská street away from Čechovo square.
tram no. 22 - Čechovo square tram no. 4, 7, 24 - Koh-i-noor bus no. 124, 139 - Čechovo square bus no. 101, 124, 139 - Koh-i-noor
Opening hours Galerie KIN jidelna at the time Lunch is served at Koh-i-noor Inc. weekdays 11: 30-13: 00 and at the time of opening.
Supermarket Art Fair
A.M.180's "Let's Not And Say We Did" @ Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm featuring/
Ján Gašparovič /SK Aleš Čermák /CZ Martin Kohout /CZ Anežka Hošková /CZ & Anders Grønlien /NO Jan Brož /CZ Richard Nikl /CZ Adam Macháček /CZ The Rodina /CZ Barbora Kleinhamplová /CZ Zbyňek Baladrán /CZ Milan Mikuláštík /CZ Jakub Hošek /CZ Tomáš Vaňek /CZ Nik Timková /SK Milena Dopitová /CZ Jaroslav Kyša /SK Stina Löfgren /SE Dora Kendera /SK Lumír Nykl /CZ Boris Sirka /SK Martinka Bobrikova /SK & Oscar de Carmen /ES David Krňanský /CZ Mira Gáberová / SK Zuzana Žabková /SK Lucie Mičíková / CZ Alarma Futura /IT-DE Alexey Klyuykov /RU-CZ Ninna Berger /SE Ladislava Gažiová /SK Aron Kullander-Östling /SE Tina Poliačková /SK Jiří Kovanda /CZ Pål Rodenius /SE Barbora Švehláková /CZ Vít Svoboda /CZ Josef Bolf /CZ Peter Fabo /SKongoing project made by A.M.180, Prague in cooperation w/ Aron Kullander-Östling and Stina Löfgren, Stockholm
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@Supermarket - Stockholm Independent Art Fair 16-19 April 2015. Opening hours Thursday-Friday 12-20, Saturday - Sunday 11-20
Svarta Huset, Telefonplan. Next to Konstfack.
Professional Preview > Wednesday 15 April
SUPERFLUOUS IDENTITY I
Klubovna would like to invite you for the exhibition of Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen / Superfluous Identity I Exhibition will be the first part of a bigger project Superfluous Identity, that is a Memento Mori of our current economical model. Come to see and discuss about the questions, that the piece of this international couple, raises.
Opening: 11.3. 2015 in 6pm
Exhibition: 11.3. – 2.4. 2015
Kitchen Dialogues: Do It YourSelf
OPENING: Thursday 5/3 from 18-19.30 OPEN HOURS: Fri- Sun 12-16
FINISSAGE: Sunday at 16.00
Trailer Gallery and the artists are proud to presents next exhibition Kitchen Dialogues - Do It Yourself.
Kitchen dialogues come from the idea of lounging around the kitchen outside of the consumption system through the alternative of creating various social interactions.
The project aims to change consumer sensory intellectual concept of overproduction of food from supermarkets.
Apart of that, we also like to focus on another aspect of the project, which involves transport/ smuggling of waste though, Europe. Not only we personally hunt the food in the local dumpsters, but we also move the food from place to place to offer to different audience variety of products not possible to gather in the that place.
The formula we seek in Kitchen dialogues is that people can taste "the problem of surplus".
The project has as a reference “Food” of Gordon Matta-Clark, Rirkrit Tiravanija relational works, Dieter Roth, “Eat Art” of Daniel Spoerri, “Food Cultura” by Antonio Miralda or Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Fillia's “Manifesto of Futurist Cooking”.
Trailer Gallery is located next to Vänortsparken
salonvideo_SUBmissions
SALON VIDEO and MAGMA Contemporary Art Space cordially invite you to the opening of the archive-exhibition salonvideo_SUBmissions. The project provides an interactive platform for the audience, which we can both actively select and be viewers of the different works. The exhibition presents 70 sound and videoworks, which were submitted to salonvideo's open call from 2013 for the exhibition MATTERS OF METHOD (Iași, December 6 –22, 2013).
a project by Daniela Pălimariu and Luminița Apostu
at MAGMA Contemporary Medium, Sf. Gheorghe
opening: 17 decembrie 2014, ora 19.00
on view: 18/12/2014 – 11/01/2015
Hva gjør vi her?
Under vignette "Hva gjør vi her?" we use the "pavilion" at Grorud to create a temporary Kunsthall, where we willshowcase three different site-specific art projects.
Location: Grorud Metro, Bergensveien 10 (taxi station) Date: Saturday September 20. 13.00 to 15.00
Grorud Libretto by Gunhild Mathea Olaussen and Jørn Tore Egseth Hear the sound of a subway opera.
Like, no guarantee by Shwan Dler Qaradaki, John Høie, Esther Marie Bjørneboe and Behjat, Omar Abdulla A drawing performance.
Kitchen Dialogues of Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen curated by One Night Only Gallery. An art project about the over-production of food.
Culture Mesén
Read more on the blog: http://kulturbyraet-mesen.tumblr.com/
Høstutstillingen 2014
KUNSTNERNES HUS 13. SEPTEMBER - 12. OCTOBER
We are very proud to be part of Høstutstillingen 2014.
Høstutstillingen was held for the first time in 1882. Norwegian Visual Artists Association is responsible for the operation of the exhibition which is held every year at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo. The exhibition is based on free submission.
Kunstnernes Hus, Wergelandsveien 17, 0167 Oslo http://www.hostutstillingen.no/
DOUBLE YOU
opening night 18:00 - 21:00, august 29 Monday–Sunday 13:00–17:00, August 30–September 7
Skånes Konstförening, Bragegatan 15 KHM Gallery, Ystadvägen 22
GLASMO was initiated in Glasgow in 2013 by the singaporian artist Chun Kai Qun. GLASMO is a collaborative art project by recently graduated artists from Malmö Art Academy and Glasgow School of Art. The first part took place in Glasgow, in autumn 2013. The second takes place in Malmö this year. Next to workshops and talks, two large scale exhibitions with all participating artists open at Skånes Konstförening and KHM gallery next Friday, August 29th.
GLASMO 2014 invited the Berlin based art historian Nico Anklam to curate this years’ exhibition.
Under the title Double You the two sites serve as a starting point to present all 13 artists not once but twice in two parallel group exhibitions. As such, Double You offers two distinct views on how the same group of artists can be presented, and what different interplay or synergies their works might entail. Situated on the same block Double You aims to reveal and carve out particularities that become visible through a two site exhibition experience.
Participating artists: Martinka Bobrikova, Oslo (SK), Oscar De Carmen, Oslo (ES), Malin Franzén, Copenhagen (SE), Ingrid Furre, Malmö (NO), George Gray, Glasgow (UK), Nina Jensen, Malmö (SE), Darius Kowal, Glasgow (AU), Stephen Murray, Glasgow (UK), Joo Choon Lin, Singapore (SG), Maiken Stene, Malmö (NO), Bjarni Tor Petursson, Stockholm (IS)
ART YOU CAN EAT
Art You Can Eat is a presentation and discussion session on the topic of food and eating related activities in the practice of art. Presentation and discussion session will feature two speakers who raised the issue of food in artistic practice.
Event Details == == This presentation and discussion sessions will be held on: * Day / taggal: Thursday, August 14, 2014 * Place: lifepatch * Time: 16:00 pm * Speaker:Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carment, Elijah Nurvista This session is free and open to the public.
Detailed information can be found in http://lifepatch.org/Art_You_Can_Eat
photo: Elia Nurvista work in collaboration Dining Space Project in Jakarta Biennale 2013
MATERIALISING THE IMMATERIAL
Artist Talk by Chun Kai Qun
(with Guest Artists Martinka Bobrikova and Oscar De Carmen)
31 July 2014 (Thursday),3:45 to 4:45 pm
RSVP: info@latentspaces.com
BIOPOLITICS OF THE SOUTH SIDE
Je ne travaille jamais catalog
only in Czech language
Hunky Dory catalog
language: CZ/EN
TUTTI FRUTTI
contemporary art festival 28.05 - 30.06.2014
The event aims to create a space for temporary art, activism or other interventions aimed to test the participatory and collaborative principles in the public space of the marketplace in Trnavske mýto. The festival is held in symbiosis with everyday life Market.
Tržnica na Trnavskom mýte, Bratislava
http://www.tuttifrutti-festival.sk/
INTER-FORMAT SYMPOSIUM
Programme of Inter-format Symposium On Flux of Sand and Aquatic Eco-systems in May 22-25th
The Inter-format symposium is a main yearly Nida Art Colony event which is a merge between academic conference, art festival and cosy performative meeting of interdisciplinary professionals.
TECHNO-ECOLOGIES
In 2014 the 4th Inter-format symposium is a part of the larger techno-ecologies project(2012-2014) run in cooperation with RIXC (Latvia) and other partners. Besides the symposium Nida Art Colony hosted long-term residents dealing with the topics of Techno-ecologies.
Nida Art Colony of the Vilnius Academy of Arts
Taikos str. 43, LT-93121 Neringa, Lithuania http://www.nidacolony.lt/
čo sme si navarili
Bratislava City Gallery, Pálffy Palace, Panská 19, 6 May – 22 June 2014
opening: Tuesday 6th of May 17:00
RADISLAV MATUŠTÍK SCHOLARSHIP
FOOD WE HAVE PREPARED
Participating artists:
MARTINKA BOBRÍKOVÁ & OSCAR DE CARMEN, LUCIA DOVIČÁKOVÁ, TOMÁŠ DŽADOŇ, PETER HOMOLA & PETR KORECKÝ, ZUZANA KMEŤOVÁ, JAROSLAV KYŠA, STANO MASÁR, RASTISLAV PODHORSKÝ
Curator: DIANA GARAFOVÁ
24h SOUND FESTIVAL
26-27 April 2014 (12:00-12:00)
PODIUM Hausmannsgate 34, OsloPUBLIC HOUSE
5 April at 19:00 MeetFactory, Prague
It's time for the next Public House! We're hosting another party that will bring some serious excitement to our cultural scene, connecting all of our departments together on one special night. You'll float through space and your senses will be filled with the arts, music, theater, artists of our residency program, our post-apocalyptic film and a breathtaking performance.
Program:
Music: WWW Neurobeat + Fajt (http://www.biggboss.cz/www) tvprodukt dj-set
OPEN STUDIOS: Tom Kotík, Oscar de Carmen, Martinka Bobríková, Matěj Al-Ali, Jarmila Mitríková, Ivan Izquerdo, Dávid Demjanovič, Viktor Valášek, Tomáš Moravec, Piotr Lakomy
Screening: Mad Max (AUS / 1979, dir. G. Miller)
Exhibition: Circular Ruins
Performance: Krištof Kintera, David Helán, Linda Mikolášková, Petr Pufler
Theater: Aleš Čermák, Jana Pidrmanová
Free Entry!
Metonymie
VIKTOR ČECH: JE NE TRAVAILLE JAMAIS: Metonymie
guests: Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen
Monday 24th March 6pm. The project is a theoretical study on the topic of creative process, but also a generator of its further possibilities. The theoretical and artistic moment will represent a relationship of a laboratory technician and a guinea pig, while this interaction might reveal the relativity of the distance between scientific and artistic positions. The process will consist in a continual work activity of the “theoretician” and several public “invitations”.
www.inigallery.cz http://jenetravaillejamais.wordpress.com/
non-lecture
FAMU CAS, Center for Audio Visual Studies, Smetanovo nábřeží 2, 116 65 Prague , Czech Republic
PDP/AV1
Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen
20.02.-02.03.2014 Atelier Nord ANX
Opening 20.02. at 7 pm.
Open Thursday – Sunday from 12-17
Apart from an interesting audio-visual form the installations become the social criticism of the current consumerist society and also offer a certain alternative for a further use of fruit and vegetables, which were considered as redundant and unsalable by superstore chains.
NEW ALBUM
urban noise invasion: manifesto [os02]
Work presented during the Urban Observatory (PL: Obserwatorium Miejskie) Festival in 2012 in Toruń/Poland.
obserwatoriumiejskie.tumblr.com
___ Within Urban Observatory were had created new sound spaces in Toruń – URBAN SOUND AWARENESS project. At various points in the Old Town Area there had been placed recordings submitted by artists from Australia, Canada, USA, Germany, France, Belgium, Poland, Spain, Ireland, Slovakia, Hungary, Great Britain, Pakistan, Taiwan and Bangkok. Field recordings from remote locations and sound impressions to be heard in the urban fabric were designed to change the perception of the place where they were presented.
os02 - originally presented at the entrance of Wozownia Art Gallery - Toruń, Ducha Św./Rabiańska Street
credits
released 27 January 2014 Curated by Pamela Granatowski Mastered by Mateusz Wysocki Cover artwork by Krystian Kujda Cover design by Marcin Jankowski Web Graphics by Justyna Kociszewska
Produced by: Pawlacz Perski net-label & Fundacja smacznego!
WINTER SOLSTICE
NO CHRIST-MESS BUT A WILD FEAST
(Welcome to the 2nd edition of the Winter Solstice exhibition)
saturday 21th december 2013 23:00pm - 05:00am
exhibition: Inger Wold Lund, Per Platou, Hedda Roterud Amundsen, Per Westerlund, Raisa Porsanger, Philippe Dumas, Senta Rebecca, Sigmund Skard, Sara Christensen, Sigbjørn Dyrøy, Ragnhild Aamås, Garry Williams, Frode Mikal Lillesund, Mimmi Mattila, Endre Mathistad, True Solvang Vevatne, Martin Bech-Ravn, Siri Leira, Mattias Cantzler, Ayat Gali, Serina Erfjord, Magnus Oledal, Jørund Aase Falkenberg, Hanan Benammar, Andreas Hald Oxenvad, Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar De Carmen, Tuukka Haapakorpi & Sanna
KorteniemiPerformances: NEXT LIFE, Espen Lomsdalen, Torunn Avelsgaard Lien, Ole-Petter Arneberg, feilkontroll, LAO
Un-curated by Hanan Benammar
matters of method
SALON VIDEO - MATTERS OF METHOD
a project by Daniela Pălimariu, in collaboration with tranzit.ro / Science, guest curator: Luminita Apostu
6 to 22 December 2013 Iasi, Romania
Dan Acostioaei [RO] · Felix Aftene [RO] · Marijke Appelman [NL] · Liliana Basarab [RO] · Matei Bejenaru [RO] · Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen [NO] · Joanna Bonder [PL] · Ștefan Botez [CH] · Pavel Brăila [MD] · Gui Castor [BR] · Gabrielle Conilh de Beyssac & Jules Guissart [FR] · Doplgenger [RS] · Bjoern Drenkwitz [DE] · Giorgio Garippa [GB] · Johannes Gerard [DE] · Stéphane Ghozzi [DE] · Eugenia Gortchakova [DE] · Paul Hendrikse [DE] · Stephanie Hough [IRL] · Kai Miedendorp [DE] · David Mikulan [HU] · Jolene Mok [HK] · Monotremu [RO] · Andreco & Manuel Moruzzi [IT] · Mircea Nicolae [RO] · Mari Ohno [JP] · Doris Prlic [NL] · Günter Puller [AT] · Jagrut Raval [USA] · Blanca Rego [ES] · Jozeth van de Snepscheut [NL] · Topp & Dubio [NL] · Ricardo Trigo [DE] · Ioana Cazan - Tufescu [RO] · Sylvia Winkler & Stephan Koeperl [DE] · Ina Wudtke [DE] · Young Poor Artists [LT] · Ana Zubak [HR]
Opening: December 6 2013, 6pm - 9pm
18:00 tranzit.ro/ Iași: IAȘITEX Building, Primăverii Bd., no. 2, 7th
19:00 Galeriile Fundației Regale, BCU Building, Păcurari St. no. 4
21:00 Galeria Meru, Carol Bd. nr. 4
In Process – artist talk
28. november 2013 at 7:30pm
TEA- Tenerife espacio de las Artes
martinka bobrikova / oscar de carmen / aristides santana
In Process
exhibition opens: 25th november 2013
25/11/13 - 16/03/13
TENERIFE ESPACIO DE LAS ARTES – TEA
curator: Aristides Santana
A museum or arts centre collection is the backbone of the institution - apart from the planning and the programming. Within it is the museological plan which dictates the works´ procurement policies, aimed at building a culturally valuable and coherent collection. To which, in the case of public institutions, social responsibility is added, meaning, as well as its coherence and cultural value, that the collection should have a social value within its environment.
This approach leads us to study and question the arts centre/museum collection as a starting point to probe not only its statements, but also the intrahistoria of the institution, as well as its value to society as a whole.
Martinka Bobrikova and Oscar de Carmen are two artists who within their particular exhibition project present works belonging to the TEA Collection as an engine to challenge today´s museum concept, its functions and its operations. Testing, in turn, the different museographic models in the reception and exhibition of artistic works, as well as the production processes integrating external collaborators.
In Process doesn´t only feature the work and opinion of just those artists with works in the centre´s collection – as creators or political subjects – it also amplifies the visual and semantic potential of the exhibition, developing different collaborative networks between people, space and media.
It features contributions from a variety of cultural agencies that are participating with performances, including contemporary musicians, singers, cultural associations and performing arts technical experts.
The result of this pooling of multiple contributions is what constitutes the current exhibition, presenting a different institutional model, more concerned with the consolidation of local framework and creation of new cultural fabric. Perhaps a more sustainable operating model.
PAO festival 2013
Sunday November 3rd: 14:00 - 17:00
Place: Atelier Nord / ANX at Olaf Ryes Plass
Theme: Diversity / Multiplicity within performance art.
Entrance: 50.- (cash) Includes coffee/tea and soup!
Artists: Alan Armstrong, Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen (duo), Benedicte Clementsen, BBB Johannes Deimling, Arti Grabowski, Tonje Lieberg, Terese Longva, Gustaf Londré, Elisabeth Mathiesen og Inger-Reidun Olsen.
More info about the artists here: http://www.performanceartoslo.no/news.html
PAO has invited artists with different backgrounds, where some are established, and others in the beginning of their artistic practice. The artists work with a variety of materials, concepts and visual images. With this festival PAO wish to show the diversity of performance art and artists living and working locally in Oslo, Norway and abroad.
OPEN FORUM
Martinka Bobrikova (Slovakia) and Oscar de Carmen (Spain) are a nomadic artist duo since 2005 and graduates from Malmö Art Academy, Sweden and the University of La Laguna, Spain. The duo explains,
“One of the long-term projects, we just started, is Kitchen Dialogues. This project focuses on visualization of the issues of excess intake through consuming food in a kitchen. Other aspects of the project will center on research of socialization in a kitchen, as well as through its ability to generate new social ecosystems. The goal is to present the project in the various spaces where food is eaten - like a kitchen, creating hybrid spaces that are based on the different shaft like a domestic kitchen found in a common household and industrial kitchen in a real restaurant.”
For the lecture at Open Forum Bobrikova and de Carmen decided to bring Kitchen Dialogues into Kunstnernes Hus and to initiate a discussion and present their practice through sharing a meal together.
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Please join us at Kunstnernes Hus, Wergelandsvein 17, every Monday at 19.00. The program is free and runs in English. Open Forum is a student initiative conceived in 1999 and is supported by the Academy of Fine Art, Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
more on: http://aapentforum.khio.no/
CONSTANT. DECAY.
Elgesetergate 30B 05. October - 02. November 2013 Open every day from 11.00 - 21.00
Artists: Pernille Elida Fjoran Karianne Stensland Per Kristian Nygård Maja Nilsen Øyvind Aspen Tegneklubben Marte Vold Rune Følgerø Silje Linge Haaland og Andrea Bakketun Sandra Nyberg Jens Stegger Ledaal / 1.Rgt. / Kunstmilitsen Ann-Cathrin Hertling Martinka Bobrikova og Oscar de Carmen TUF - Trondheim UtopiForening Cathrine Ruud Karen Margrehte Sørensen Hermann Grøndahl Anne Cecilie Lie Philip Buer Elvegård Øyvind Sørfjordmo
Architects: Arkitekturfabrikken August Schmidt Heim&Land Diana Espinosa Albornoz
Writers: Espen Stokke Trond Åm Oliver Lowenstein
- a group exhibition in the old house which is our neighbour.
An apartment building set to be torn down, and the state of uncertainty it has been in for the last sixty years, is the red thread running through the exhibition Constant. Decay.
RAKE visningsrom has a tall neighbor on its south side. The neighbor’s name is Elgsetergate 30B, and it is going to be torn down. The building was constructed back in 1911, but already in the fifties it was decided that it had to be torn down to make room for the planned widening of Elgsetergate. Today the once so beautiful building is so worn down and broken that it has been deemed unfit as place to live.
The NPRA (Norwegian Public Roads Administration) has bought the building, and intend to tear it down as fast as possible in order to make room for the new “Elgseter boulevard”. If everything goes according to the plans, this boulevard will start to take shape some time during 2015. So sixty-five years might actually laps between the decision to tear down 30B, and the actual tearing down.
Constant. Decay. deals with the uncertainty the residents of 30B has had to live with, but for us it is also an opportunity to experiment with new and different ways of exhibiting the work we want to show our audience. A building with fourteen apartments and two spaces shaped to sell tobacco, fruit and everything between, seemed to us like a great opportunity to make something happen. Trough this exhibition we want to send our neighbor off in style, while at the same time bringing new life to Elgseter gate and the city of Trondheim.
The exhibition opens on the 5th of October, and stays open until the 2nd of November. During this period the building will be available to the public between the hours of 11.00 and 21.00. With a helping hand from a group of architecture students, Arkitekturfabrikken and Diana Espinosa Albornoz have reshaped the old kiosk on the ground level into a “social room”. This room is the entry-point to Constant. Decay. – a place where you can get information about the program, have a cup of coffee, read a book or just enjoy the heat from the fireplace.
Her kommer ingenting (Here comes nothing) is a series of exhibition that will be held in the second room on the ground level of the building. In this room there will be an exhibition opening every Friday during the course of Constant. Decay. All the artists exhibiting are students at KIT, and the openings will coincide with other happenings on the premise, such as performances and concerts, and, on certain occasions, with a dinner party. In one of the apartments the collaborators Martinka Bobrikova and Oscar de Carmen are hosting a series of dinner parties, which you can make reservations for by way of e-mail. To carry out this project they have joined forces with Heim&Land Architects.
PROGRAM: 05. October - 02. November Open every day from 11.00 - 21.00!
To book a dinner with Martinka Bobrikova and Oscar de Carmen - write an e-mail to: coming soon
Grand vernissage: 5. October at 18.00! 18.00 Performance by Karen Margrethe Sørensen 18.00 Performance by Andrea Bakketun and Silje Linge Haaland Hang-out in the old Frukt&Tobakk-kiosk. 19.00 Official opening 20.00 Endapartoo: "Toys in the attic" 23.00 AUKRA 24.00 Ronny
Opening: 11. October at 19.00 19.00 Hermann Grøndahl 19.00 Per Kristian Nygård
Opening: 18. October at 19.00 19.00 Anne Cecilie Lie: They swarm together in a celluliod mass to cancel each other out in a pool of tangled light and action 21.00 Sunk Cost
Release: 12. October at 21.00 21.00 Selburosa by TV (Truls Lorentzen and Vigdis Sjelmo)
Opening: 25. October at 19.00 19.00 Philip Buer Elvegård 20.00 Karianne Stensland
Opening: 01. November at 19.00 19.00 Øyvind Sørfjordmo
Grand Finissage: 02. November at 19.00
Meziuchy/ Betweentheears
Saturday September 28, 2013, 2 - 10 pm. Gallery Hole/Díra, Galerie Školská 28, Handa Gote, Mlok Asociation, Radio Lemurie listening session.
The program tributed to all sorts of earwigs bugs focus on contemporary music, sound poetry, performance, sound art for 8 hours continuous session.
We would like to introduce your own music and sound compositions, including improvisation, field recordings, original radio plays, dramatization of literary texts, all designed exclusively for group listeners equipped with headphones.
Meeting on Meziuších is as well lounch of the new design of the web "Zvuky Prahy" sonicity.cz
sound work, music and soundpoetry by: Justin Bennett, John Hudak, Tariq Emam, Ken Ganfield, Karel SIdorjak, Slavek Kwi, Jorge Boehringer, Patrick Franke, Lloyd Dunn, John Tenney, The Artbreakers (Pavel Klusák), Jay-Dea Lopez, Krysztof Topolsky, James Wyness, Stanislav Abrahám, Ryba and Chyba, murmer (Patrick Mcginley), Marold Langer-Philippsen, Jez Riley french, Alexander Baker, Cédric Peyronnet, Peter Cusack, Martin Janíček, Akita.y, Michael Delia, Julius Fujak, Konrad Geca, Udo Noll, Petra Kapš, Michal Kindernay, Dallas Simpson, Jan Žalio, Mikuláš Mrva, Josef Mrva, Martinka Bobríková, Oscar de Carmen and others...
For more information: Miloš Vojtěchovský, Kindernay Michal, Petr Vrba
www.skolska28.cz
ALWAYS ON THE MOVE
Glasgow Malmö International Artists' Exchange Exhibition (Part of the Glasgow Masters Series)
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19 - 27 September 2013
Preview: 19 September 2013 (Thursday, 6 - 9 pm)
Fleming House Underground Carpark 134 Renfrew Street Glasgow G3 6ST
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Artists
Sae Jin Choi Kai Qun Chun George Gray Choon Lin Joo Darius Kowal Gabriel Leung Steven Murray Fraser Sim
Martinka Bobrikova Oscar de Carmen Ingrid Furre Malin Franzen Martine Sepstrup Jensen Nina Jensen Bjarni Þór Pétursson Maiken Stene
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www.glasmo.co.uk www.theglasgowmastersseries.org
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Curated by Kai Qun Chun
HUNKY DORY
Opening August 21st 6 pm
Exhibition until September 15th 2013
Exhibiting artist: Peter Barényi (SK), Martinka Bobriková & Oscar de Carmen (SK, ES, NO), Billy Gallery: Tymek Borowski (PL) & Paweł Sysiak (PL), Clakula: Ashley Clark (USA) & Matej Vakula (SK, USA), Ashley Clark (USA), Dávid Demjanovič (SK), Jaś Domicz (PL), Antonín Jirát (CZ), Martin Kochan (SK), Petr Krátký (CZ), Jaroslav Kyša (SK, UK), Calvin Laing (UK), Kata Mach (SK), Nicole Morris (UK), Karíma Al-Mukhtarová (CZ), Janek Rous (CZ), Martin Špirec (SK), Milan Vagač (SK), Miroslava Večeřová (CZ), Zuzana Žabková (SK)
Curators: Viktor Čech & Katarína Slaninová
The exhibition HUNKY DORY focuses on a specific feature present in art practices of the current young generation of artists – the way how they reflect in their work their life experiences stemming and, often unconsciously, combining the real and virtual world, the intellectual and ordinary world. Their creative approach is characterized by a highly sensitive, and of many peculiarities sensible, insight. They draw their inspiration from particularities of daily life, obsessions with tedious things and activities, which, using principles well informed in the history of art of previous decades – especially conceptual art - they, transform into unforgettable experiences and moments. Despite an apparent intellectual colouring and conceptual structure of work, their approach strongly accentuates a private dimension. Yet, it is not about exaggerated individualism. Their experience is civil, akin to any experience of any individual in the postindustrial technological civilization. Their world naturally combines the real private space and similarly natural virtual space - the world of the internet and new technologies - as well as low-cost approaches in terms of “innocent” DIY, or conscious “ugliness”, “sluggishness”, ridiculousness and banality.
Despite thematization of a multi-faceted and variable nature of everyday life, their work lacks any avant-gardepathos and they do not necessarily and inevitably elevate a common life to a subject worthy of serious interest of art. The both worlds stand in the same line; it is only an angle of interpretation that is shifted. Unusual, humorous or odd ordinary moments and situations become for them a theme as well as a structure. Their perception of our world of generated experience, where the media and private reality are intertwined with one another, is fresh and playful. In many respects their work can be included in a recent concept of Altermodern introduced by Nicolas Bourriaud, which in the Czech environment is often referred to by artists and theoreticians tended to a more “academic” position and an expression based on analysis of formal legacy of modernism. Or, as it is true mainly in the Slovak art, it is intentionally not reflected, or completely ignored in contemporary theoretical discourse. Nevertheless these artists still have to cope with the “creation” of experience and post-colonial or post-industrial legacy of modernism in a social meaning of the word. Their life is not pervaded by a forward or backward going vision, nor by a need of civic engagement. What is crucial is a transmission, transgression of an everyday experience and its communication and sharing with the viewer. Notwithstanding the similarities of their works, each of these artists remains an individual and, should we borrow a word popular in avant-garde art, but currently bearing more negative or sceptical connotations, original author.
RE-LAY
A group of animals engage in a task or activity. After a while, they are replaced by a similar group that completes the task.
Relay is a durational performative installation. May 18th, Inkonst Theater, Malmö 16:00 – 23:00
Relay is a durational performative installation composed of different contributions by 14 artists whose work sustains live and which have elements that make-happen.
Relay consists of a curatorial structure where artists contribute work that reacts to a work from another artist. By association, each artist provides something to transmit to the next artist, in a continuing dialogue. Performance, installation, video and live streaming works take part within the theater space.
Relay is an approach to making a collective exhibition. The works, planned or improvised, pass on the concept that is transformed. A structure for time-based work is provided, reflecting on the role of the mediator and the artist, while dealing with decision-making and responsibilities. The performance is organized by artist, Claudia del Fierro.
URBAN HUNTER
Martinka Bobríková and Oscar de Carmen
Curator: Katarina Slaninová
Opening: 17.4. 2013 / Wednesday / 17.00
The exhibition runs until 02.06.2013
SALON - Nitra Gallery, Župné námestie 3, Nitra
more on: www.nitrianskagaleria.sk
The project explores the issues of current patterns of production, consumption and over-production. Special interest is placed on the consequences occurring in connection with legislation and the quality policies existing in supermarkets and their relation to a consumer. In an effort to draw attention to the issues of over-production and waste of food, the artists have long been preoccupied with their ecological, research-based project; at the end of the day the artists collect food from supermarket dumpsters and eat it as a part of their daily diet. In the course of their research, they have found several historical references with social relations connected with this re-interpretation of a scavenger as a hunter. Placing themselves within what we could name a modern-day social and economic status, their treasure is waste, which has a symbolic value as it has no other value for society, a hidden treasure. For others, they eat carrion, considering the foodstuffs legitimately thrown out by the supermarkets as inedible. The representation of presented works has been determined by the context in which they are shown - institutional territory of contemporary art - gallery. The artists act as if they were collectors; they adopt a fictitious objectivity mode in their presentation. Helped by historical perspective, they build a collection based on copies of works of art featuring the theme of hunting; the masterpieces they have chosen are The Gleaners by Jean-François Millet, Basket of Fruit by Caravaggio, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson and Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber. By means of re-appropriation and re-purposing of selected artworks, the artists hide the primary information about the work itself.
Turul Romaniei in 7 zile 2/2
A Tour of Romania in 7 Days
2/2
January 15 – February 28, 2013
Opening on Tuesday, January 15, at 7 pm
Participants: Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen, Larisa Crunteanu, Teodor Graur, Olivia Mihaltianu, Dorin Moldoveanu, Alexandru Niculescu, Lala Panait and Bogdan Ghiu
Club Electroputere Bucharest 16 Biserica Enei Street (Caminul Artei)
Club Electroputere Bucuresti invites you on Tuesday, January 15, at 7 pm, to the opening of the second and last exhibition entitled „Turul Romaniei in 7 zile - TR7Z” (A Tour of Romania in 7 Days).
The two exhibitions reproduce, in different phases, various works that speak about a Romania where the contrasts and the searching build up the normality. During the tour, the artists encountered destructive contrasts which then were to be analysed; here, one may speak about the tricolour symbolism which presence has become a trace of a past experience; the search for the self or for its own identity lies in the choice for the routes – vertically or horizontally. Artists shot and recorded with an obsessive intensity, they wrote, spoke and kept silence in a performative and demonstrative way.
The exhibition represents the final phase of the project TR7Z, which took place during 4-10 of September. The project was conceived as a dynamic workshop of alternative creation, where artists as well as individuals involved in the current artistic context were invited. TR7Z had an experimental feature, pursuing for the participants to disconnect from the ordinary rhythm through interaction and creation of a complex relational context.
The route has been thus conceived in order to add value to the Romanian space from different perspectives and to encourage the approaching of various working subjects related to urbanism, economy, architecture, regional development, landscape, folklore etc. The selected route and the relational context created by the development conditions and people involved represent the source of inspiration and research for the works presented within this exhibition.
24 hour Festival of Sound
Podium presents 24hour Festival of Sound, a collaborative event of Academy of Fine Art in Oslo and Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo.
Where: Podium Hausmannsgate 34, Oslo
When: Saturday 24th of November 12:00 o'clock (noon) till Sunday 25th 12:00 o'clock (noon).
There is a grey area between fine art practice and music, where artists are merging visual and sound forms. Festival of Sound presents results of a collaborative seminar and workshop, where students from KHiO and NMH worked together in this new, emerging field of art. The festival features a rich and diverse 24hour program full of performances, concerts and sound installations with artists reflecting different approaches to sound, art and music.
Free entrance, everyone is welcome!
The event was made possible thanks to generous contribution from National Academy of The Arts in Oslo, Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, Kulturhuset Hausmania, PODIUM and very enthusiastic collaborative effort of all the participants.
shinytoys festival
SHINY TOYS *FESTIVAL | explore sight & sound | 16.-17. november 2012 | Mülheim a. d. Ruhr, Germany
SHINY TOYS *FESTIVAL is an international festival for audiovisual experiments. The annual festival is celebrating a constant process where artists from all over europe impart their ideas on art, society and technology. By crossing the universe of music, image artwork, live production and performance SHINY TOYS *FESTIVAL is working on a layer between analog and digital technologies that – through manipulation, control and modulation of information – discovers and establishes new communication streams as well as creating alternative social contexts and connections between virtual and physical spaces.
Shrubbn!! & Transforma (DE) – Fred Penelle & Legoman (BE) – Mariska de Groot (NL) – Peter Kirn (US) – Michele Cremaschi (IT) – Martinka Bobrikova (SK) & Oscar de Carmen (ES) – Odaibe (PL) – Bonne Knibbe (NL) – the GEGENSCHEIN (DE) – Krach Kisten Orchestra (DE) – Olgar (NL) – You Are So Me (DE) – Avyd & Murks (DE) – Roman Heller (UA) – Hidden Technology (DE) – Spherical Disrupted (DE) – Ray Vibration (DE) – Tina Tonagel (DE) – Klaus Urbons (DE) – Herr Schoder von Schallbild & Lynx de Luxe (DE) – Peter Helmke (DE) – Pitt Wenninger (DE) – Marius Tippkämper (DE) – Steffen Hartwig (DE) – Hubert Steins (DE) – LichtGestalten (DE) – Peter Schmalenbach (DE) – Skribble Gebibble (DE) – Herbert Theodor (DE) Jerome Krüger (DE), Jan Ehlen (DE) MTBC…
Kunst & Küche
Freitag, 09. November 2012 - 19:00 Uhr Schloßstraße 24 - 45468 Mülheim
Die Gastkünstler Martinka Bobrikova und Oscar de Carmen laden zum Gespräch und zur Prozessbeobachtung in ihre Küche auf Zeit. Im Rahmen des Festivals für audiovisuelle Experimente “SHINY TOYS” wurden die beiden zu einem Arbeitstipendium eingeladen und präsentieren erste Rezepte und Konzepte die während des Aufenthalts in Mülheim an der Ruhr geköchelt wurden.
more on: http://www.shinytoys.eu
URBAN OBSERVATORY 2012
festival of sound art in TORUŃ old town
28.09-5.10.2012
opening friday 28th september 5pm
The festival will be spread around the city in different venues, see the map.
Our sound piece "PROTESTER" will be installed at the entrance of the Wozownia art gallery on 2nd of October.
PECHA KUCHA #20
Give a mic to the architects or artists and you are kept for hours with their never ending lecture. Pecha Kucha has though a limit of 6 minutes and 40 seconds to perform short, dynamic and (very often) also with humor. 20th edition of popular evening will present on the big screen in S2 following creators:
- A quattre pattes vers les Carpattes (On four legs - direction Carpats), two French traveling five months to Žilina on horses,
- Zuzana Godalová, organising contemporary art in Topoľčany’s Nástupište 1-12,
- Jana Hoffstädter from Youth Council of Slovakia with a project 72 volunteering hours
- Peter Hapčo and Kamil Mihalov, counting down the donations for our white piano,
- Martin Paušly, graffiti writer and streetartist,
- Martina Bobríková and Oscar de Carmen, Made from Waste from Sweden,
- filmmakers from DogDocs, premiering About Young Parents and preparing a new Cyklofilm,
- Peter Lényi from PBlog, intervening in public space of Považská Bystrica,
- designer Michal Riabič, working for famous chair producer TON,
- composer Marek Piaček, with his last piece for former car factory space,
- architect Imro Vaško, teaching at VŠUP in Prague,
- Marek Kubinec from Chata Žiar in Rajecká Lesná, involved in Endorfun,
- 4AM, forum for architecture and media from Brno,
- artist Jakub Pišek,
- artist András Cséfalvay, currently exhibiting in New Synagogue.
www.pechakucha.sk
www.pecha-kucha.org
Garbage music
children workshop
Saturday - Sunday, 15. - 16. September 2012, from 2pm
Two-day childrens´ workshop, relized by spanish-slovak duo Martina Bobríková and Oscar de Carmen (Made from Waste), will take us on journey of past, when energy was gained from food. This fragile way of harvesting energy from natural sources will be joint by making sounds out of this energy. An ancient legend, about grass laughing and crying, will became reality in front of our eyes. Electric signal, made by food, is possible to transform to amazing sound sceneries.
This workshop is focusing on manufacturing simple music instruments, which gather energy from fruits and vegetables and transform it to a sound, which we will further work with, and compose it to nice, catchy sounds, as well as unpleasant ones.
Program:
Saturday - preparation of batteries with help of various kinds of food and drinks, with various powers and flux.
Sunday - constructing various sounds.
What to bring: Food and drinks. Old potatoes and other kinds of old fruits and vegetables, according to your taste and choice. Sour drinks, coca-cola, wine, beer. Cheese is also a good electricity conductor. The best would be to use old food, and not to waste new. We would be glad, if you´d bring little mechanic toys, damaged as well. We welcome in general any kind of small-sized electro and mechanic waste (radios, toys, mobile phones…). Everything else is provided by us.
Workshop is dedicated for children from 6 to 11. There is no need for previous experiences nor knowledge of such things for your child to attend.
Info: martin@stanica.sk, 0908 938 339
Participation fee: 2,00 € / day
at http://www.stanica.sk/
TELEVISION
TELEVISION
curated by Sarah Lundy
at TACTIC CORK, 12th September 2012, 7pm / 3rd floor, Sample-Studios, Former Government Buildings, Sullivan's Quay, Cork
All works for Television were taken from the MART online archive www.mart.ie.
MART is an arts organisation with bases in Ireland and the UK. Their primary aim is to create a platform for New Media, Installation, Sculpture, Experimental Film, and Performance artists to showcase their work and provide an Art resource that is accessible, interesting and enjoyable to the public.
See www.tactic-art.info for exhibition information.
Margaret O’Brien, Darragh O’Callaghan, Lorraine Neeson, Adrian Duncan, Aoife Giles, Barry W Hughes, Ciara Scanlon, Eoin O’Dowd, Gavin Campbell, Laura O’Connor, Ruth Le Gear & Nina Hynes, Tonya McMullen, Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen, Emily Boylan, Ciaran Hussy, Coleen Keough, Jessica Fenlon, Joan Healy, Jonathan Mayhew, Louise Marlborough & Olive Barrett, Laura Fitzgerald, Mary Dempsey, Rebecca Kinsey, Vanessa Daws
Performance Lab
Lufthavna Performance Laboratorium
GALLERI 69 08/09/2012 kl 13:00 - 17:00
Franzisca Siegrist (ES - CH) Tegneklubben Afemme (NO)
Videoprogram:
Tanja Thorjussen (NO) presenting artists: The Icelandic Love Corporation (IS), BBB Johannes Deimling (DE), Anja Carr (NO), Martinka Bobrikova (SK) & Oscar de Carmen (SP)
Art Screen (SE) presenting artists: Dan Lestander (SE), Yin-Ling Chen (Taiwan/UK), Roland Wegerer (Austria), Dorna Aslanzadeh (SE), Ellen Wetmore (USA), Maggie Brown (AU)
Jonatan Habib Engqvist (SE) presenting artists: Pilvi Takala (FI), Magnus Sigurdarsson (IS)
BAKGÅRD
13:00 Mia Øquist (NO) - Tankesvev 13:30 Rus Mesic (NO/BA) - Here, There, Nowhere 14:00 Ulrika Berge from Skälva (SE) Bodies takes space 14:30 Kompani iRo (NO) - Re-action 15:30 Galleri 69 suppe
MIR kl 16:00 - 01:00
16:30 Hugger-Mugger (NO/SE) - Sound effects 16:45 Elisabeth Kjellesvik (NO) - In her hands 17:00 BBB Johannes Deimling (DE) - Lecture: Notes on Performance art 17:30 Ulrika Berge (SE) - Artist talk on Skälva and working in public space 18:00 Tone Gellein (NO) - I BEG 18:30 Elisabeth Færøy Lund (NO) - A guided soundwalk 19:30 Hugger-Mugger (NO/SE) - Microphone session 20:00 Tonje Liebe (NO) - Sigøynerinstallasjon 20:30 Hilde Marstrander (NO) - Galleriassistenten / The Gallery Assistant 21:00 Bjargey Ólafsdóttir (IS) - Skype performance 22:00 Dromedar (NO) - Concert performance ⇢ 01:00 DJ M (NO)
new portfolio
Please, feel free to check/download our new updated pdf online portfolio.
monochromes and other chromes
Bobrikova/De Carmen & Lekve Eide / Halvorsen
Kurant, Tromsø, 15. - 24. juni 2012, Åpent tors-søn 12.00 – 17.00
Åpning 15. juni 21.00
NOTAT; DET ER FLERE SORTE HULL I FORTAUET. Folk ramler nedi, men det later til at ingen lar seg affisere, eller at det har blitt en vane. Frykten, av enorm styrke, som bygger seg opp fra et sted i underlivet, kommer ikke av redselen for selv å falle nedi, men for hva som vil hende den dagen hullene er fullstendig fulle av folk.− Johan Harstad -
Kurant ønsker velkommen til utstillingen Monochromes and other chromes. Utstillingen viser to unge kunstnerduoer som begge jobber med mat som tema i sin kunst. Mat er noe alle har et forhold til. Vi er nødt til å spise hver dag, flere ganger om dagen for i det hele tatt og overleve. Matindustrien er verdens største industri og kanskje en av de mest skitne.
I tillegg til en skitten industri er vi som forbrukerer heller ikke særlig «rene». Det kastes ekstremt mye mat i Norge (og resten av «Vesten» forøvrig). Vi vil ha billigst mulig mat, samtidig som vi ønsker et levende landbruk. Vi vil ha trygg mat men vil ikke betale. Kunstnerduoene Lekve Eide / Halvorsen og Bobrikova/De Carmen jobber begge med mat som tematikk i sin kunst. Kurant har satt dem sammen og håper utstillingen vil belyse en av vår tids viktigste problemer. Vårt forhold til mat, produksjon og konsum.
annual exhibition
Welcome to Malmö Art Academy’s Annual Exhibition 2012, 10 until 27 May.
The Annual Exhibition has become an institute in Skåne’s art life. During a little more than two weeks the whole school transforms into a 4500 square meters gallery with 66 exhibiting artists. The eight artists at Malmö Art Academy’s international Master’s programme Critical and Pedagogical Studies will have their group show at Inter Arts Center. At the Annual Exhibition you may, perhaps for the first time, see many of the artists that in the future will impress the region’s art life and contribute to make Skåne one of the most exciting and vital scenes for contemporary art in Scandinavia. The Annual Exhibition 2012 can be summarized in three words: curiosity, sincerity and playfulness.
The exhibition is open until 27 May.
Opening hours 12.00 until 18.00. The 15th and 17th May the exhibition will be open until 20.00.
NB! The opening at IAC will be between 16.00 and 19.00. The exhibition at IAC will be open Wednesday to Sunday 12.00 until 18.00. May 17th open until 20.00.
soundings 2
Nordic Sound Art Graduate Show
Opening: April 27th 2012, 5pm – 7.30pm with a performance by Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen at 6 pm.
Exhibition period: April 28th – June 3rd 2012
Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art, Staendertorvet 3A, DK-4000 Roskilde
Web: www.samtidskunst.dk
Opening hours: Tuesday-Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday and Sunday 12am-4pm
Entrance fee: Adults 40 DKK. Senior Citizens & Membership reductions 20 DKK. Children, Youth under 18 yrs & Students FREE
Guided tours (in danish): Sundays at 2 pm, free after paid admission
Sound Art is a volatile art form, oscillating between different genres and media. It readily adopts and adapts itself to varying aesthetic expressions. The exhibition SOUNDINGS 2 – NORDIC SOUND ART GRADUATE SHOW presents examples hereof. In the diverse soundscapes we meet calm, relaxing sounds, intense sounds that scares and provokes, transient, delicate sounds. The humming and buzzing or the total lack of acoustic stimulus can be persistent, disrupting of our everyday disregard for involuntary noises, or simply meditative. As the sounds press on our mental and physical space we must enter the installations to co-create a particular experience of heightened sensibility. With SOUNDINGS 2 the Museum of Contemporary Art facilitates such sensuous experiences.
Artists: Martinka Bobrikova (SK), Oscar de Carmen (ES), Cecilia Jonsson (SE), Signe Lidén (NO), Christian Mastrup (DK), Joonas Siren (FI), Elin Øyen Vister (NO), Lauri Wuolio (FI).
The Exhibition is sponsored by KUNO, Nordic Culture Fund, and The Royal Academy of Fine ArtsWHY ART NOW
Opening: 31 March, 8pm
Duration: 31 March to 7 April
Opening Hours: Working days 5-9 pm, Sunday 1 April & Saturday 7 April 12-5 pm
In the current financial situation, according to which culture tends to be institutionally treated as a needless luxury, OpenShowstudio held an Open Call inviting art students to respond through their work to this very question: Why art now; a question, which actually troubles the majority of creators in Greece and in Europe.
BYOB Malmö
January 22nd from 12 pm to 8pm
STPLN, fd Stapelbäddsparken, Stapelbäddsgatan 3, Malmö, Sweden
Amanda Martinez, Andrea Kåberg, Cecilia Flink, Cecilia Sterner Mani Kotko Elin Alvemark, Georges Jacotey, Joy Cheng, Kristian Nihlén, Lina Linde Malin Mathiasson, Olof Werngren, Peter Wallentin, Radek Rembowski Sebastian Rozenberg, Silvia Haraszti, Tommy Boije, Jonas Lund, Kim Engelen Anika Schwarzlose, Martinka Bobrikova, Oscar de Carmen, Susanne Ovelius & Anna Virta, Alemo & Simonsson, Paulina Posch Ahl, Jonas Stenberg ochIvar Boson
more info: BYOB
Tvärkonstkväll
Tisdagen den 6/12 19.30 Skånes scen för live och crossoverkonst - Skånes konstförening Bragegatan 15
När Decembermörkret faller och Julen annalkas bjuder C-Y på en kväll i tvärkonstnärlig anda. Vi presenterar en brokig blandning av konstyttringar i nära samarbete med Skånes konstförenings höstsalong, allt som vanligt med en tydlig medlemsanknytning. Även ett samarbete me...d Frimsyd utlovas.
För att ytterligare höja (eller sänka) jultemperaturen är ett av kvällens huvudnummer Kabaré Skarabé – Noël macabre. En julshow som inte handlar om julen med Konrad das Elende, Topzy Vanilla, Den okände sjömannen och Jo-Anne. ”Pengarna är återigen slut. Än en gång samlas vännerna i Kabaré Skarabé. Blir det någon jul och blir det några klappar? Vad spelar det för roll, det finns ju ändå inga snälla barn.” I övrigt får vi uppleva dans, performance och videoverk.
Medverkande: Operation Opera - Helena Röhr, Hedvig Jalhed, David Hornwall och Johan Reis. Ola Paulson och Malin Astner, Ida Höög, Martinka Bobrikova och Oscar de Carmen, Fabio Monni och Alessandro Perini, Stefan Klaverdal och video av Thomas Romlöv.
YOUNG ART SHOW 4
From 7th October to 30th October 2011
opening: Friday, 7th October 2011 at 7 pm in HOUSE OF ARTS PIESTANY, Nábrežie Ivana Kraska 1, 921 01 Piestany, Slovakia
YOUNG ART SHOW is an exhibition of modern art providing the space for communication and presentation of young and novice artists in world-famous spa town Piešťany. The project is primarily aimed at students and graduates of domestic and foreign schools of art. A part of current Slovak and foreign art scene preview is offered to the audience.
The first goal of YOUNG ART SHOW is to help young authors to present their works. Get awareness for their personality and work. The exhibition is a way for young artists to reach their audience and communicate with it. This is mostly the opportunity to enter the stage and play own show.
The second goal of YOUNG ART SHOW is the education activity. To excite the interest of audience made of residents and visitors of Piešťany.
Our major effort is to attract young audience, familiarize it with the current art happening and art thinking, to arouse greater interest about the events on Slovak as well as foreign art scene.
for more info click here
RAINFOREST IV
vernissage: 26.05.2011 - 7 p.m. – Live-Performance wed sun 14 – 20 h Long Night: 19.06. Kleiner Wasserspeicher: Entrance Diedenhofer Straße Entry: 4 / 3 € (for both reservoirs)
To open the 2011 season, the singuhr sound gallery is pleased to present the work of American musician and composer David Tudor: "Rainforest IV". “It occurred to me that one should reverse the application of loudspeakers so that they would not merely reproduce sound but actually produce sound. The idea is based on taking any number of fixed materials and transmitting sound through them; through their resonance frequencies they become a new instrument”, wrote Tudor.
Under the direction of Canadian composer, sound artist and Tudor specialist Matt Rogalsky, the work, which was created in 1973, is newly interpreted in a workshop with students of the Scandinavian master's programme “Nordic Sound Art”. Found, converted or self-made objects are arranged freely around the room. Transducers on the objects cause the items to emit sounds. Resulting is an abundant, accessible “rainforest” of sounds. The installation will be opened with a live performance.
Participants: Martinka Bobrikova, Oscar de Carmen, Seth Davis, Cecilia Jonsson, Joonas Siren, Lauri Wuolio, Flopper (Christian Mastrup), Signe Lidén, Jonas Olesen (Koordinator)
Årsutställningen
vernissage: 12th may at 5pm
the exhibition will run: 13-22 may 12-6pm, on 17/5 and 19/5 open till 8pm. adress: Konsthögskolan i Malmö, Föreningsgatan 42, 211 52 Malmö
Welcome to the Annual exhibition at Malmö Art Academy. The whole building will be filled with art from all of our students. This years they are 72 and originate from countries like Brazil, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Iran, Iceland, Lithuania, Canada, Malaysia, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and Germany.
for more info click here
SPOR FESTIVAL
BYOB in Cph
Bring Your Own Beamer CPH - 28th April, 17-22 pm Fabrikken for Kunst og Design, Sundholmsvej 46, 2300 Copenhagen S
BYOB is a way of making a zero budget show, a celebration of the projected image and a collaborative DIY experience. On the 28th of April from 17 until 22 we will pack between 30 and 40 artists into the space of The Factory for Art & Design in Copenhagen - each of them wielding their own projector. Each artist can project whatever they want, wherever they want, on whatever is in the space at the time. BYOB is an event based exclusively on the participating artists own projecting equipment and labour. Motivated by the increased ubiquity and flexibility of portable projection, this is an experimental and independent night of projections based on a concept by artist Rafaël Rozendaal.
Participating Artists:
Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum, Charlotte Grum, Christina Bredahl Duelund, Claus Kristensen Og Begitte Lynge Andersen, Emil Salto, Foreningen Kauris, Helen Nishijo Andersen Og Ea Rasmussen, Iben Andersen, Jacob Borges, Jacob Jessen , Jens Simon, Jesper Carlsen, Jette Ellgaard Kristensen, Knasterne, Lasse Krog Møller & Anders Visti, Lennard Grahn, Louise Bech Pedersen, Maja Zander, Martin Erik Andersen, Martinka Bobrikova, Merete Pryds Helle, Mette Høyen Andersen, Mille Rude, Nanna Lysholt Hansen, Natascha Thiara Rydvald, Niels Plenge, Per Elbke, Pernelle Maegaard & Nina Kleivan, Pernille Madsen, Rachel Cohn, Rikke Benborg, Dark Matters, Sha Lom, Signe Vad, Simon Hjermind Jensen, Stine Marie Jacobsen, Åse Eg & Jesper Fabricious, Pernille With Madsen, Ursula Nistrup, Jeanette Land Schou, Camilla Sort + more!
Initiated by Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum based on a concept by Rafaël Rozendaal.
NSA at KUNSTARKEN
The students from NORDIC SOUND ART are at KIT and they will have a presentation tonight,
monday 4.4 at 7pm
in Kunstarken, Innherredsveien 7, inngang kirkegata (på hjørnet)
join us!
YOU HAVE TO GO RIGHT NOW!
VERNISSAGE: Friday 18th Mars 5 - 8 p.m.
exhibitio will be open 18 - 20 march, 2011 12-17
galleri ROTOR2, Vasagatan 50 (ingång Teatergatan), Göteborg
welcome!
SILAKKA Radio Show
Two participants of NORDIC SOUND ART workshop in Helsinki, MARTINKA BOBRIKOVA & OSCAR DE CARMEN are visiting March 13, 2011 SILAKKA Radio Show.
They would introduce their collaborative projects. LISTEN!
PIKSEL.10
The festival subtitle (Un)stable, points to the temporarily placed and unsteady constructions – mobile spaces, code in constant development, a globally charged political climate.
Madefromwaste will perform Fruit+emotion=noise piece, at studio USF saturday 20th november 5pm.
Fruit+emotion=noise is a collaborative project between Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen and Victor Mazon.
AMBER’10
Amber\'10 Art and Technology Festival which has chosen its theme for this year as "Datacity" with the intention of drawing attention to the increasing importance of the generation and utilization of any kind of data on cities and urban life, will also be hosting "amberConference" which is going to beheld for the second time this year focusing on issues around "City andData".
TRANSIT
at Center of Contemporary Art – Tbilisi 30/10 - 14/12 2010.
opening: 30/10/2010 18:00
CCAT is pleased to announce “Transit”, exhibition of art works by master degree students from Valand School of Fine Art at University of Gothenburg. Openning of the exhibition was on the 30th of October, 2010.
The exhibition project was realized in the framework of Sweden-Georgian, specifically, Gothenburg and Tbilisi Fine Art Academies relationship. Cultural relationships between Sweden and Georgia involve cooperation in different fields like literature, film, theater and visual arts.
During October 19-30, 2010 first year master degree students from University of Gothenburg participated in the workshops in Tbilisi under supervision of Wato Tsereteli. Terence Gower the head master of students visited Tbilisi from New York on 30th of October, 2010 in the framework of workshop project.
The exhibition Transit in CCAT gallery was a final result of workshops. The participants of the exhibition are: Martinka Bobrikova, Oscar de Carmen, Guido Pierri, Emanuel Svedin and Siri Tolander.
Artists’ works were related to Georgia. Georgia is on the merge of western and eastern civilizations carrying the function of transit country. Besides, artists reflect in their works experience of their transitory conditions.
curator: Wato Tsereteli
AVIEW
Projection based Urban Interventions
Screening dates: September 28th - October 7th, 2010 Venue: Public Projection Series at AVIEW NOMAD GALLERY
Screening Location: Magasinsgatan 3-5, Gothenburg, Sweden Screening time: after sunset, 3-4 hours Due to technical issues the screening time might be altered.
Text and images surrounds us, commercial companies buy or rent space in the public sphere to deliver their messages. Public Projections - Gothenburg asks artists to claim (reclaim) the public sphere and open up a critical dialog on urban space.
The projections in the week of KULTURNATTA all relate to the theme of 2010kropp/body. Each project is presented below with a short statement, projection still, title and description. The works are all short some last for half a minute and others for a couple of minutes. The select artists are all doing their Master in Fine Arts at Valand in Gothenburg.
Artist: Fredrika Andersson, Andreas R. Andersson, Martinka Bobrikova, Oscar de Carmen, Andrés Diaz Garcia, Heidi-Anett Haugen, Emanuel Svedin.
Zero Budget
at SPACE gallery 4.-27.august 2010
The exibition Zero Budget of Martinka Bobríková and Oscar de Carmen is their first show in Slovakia.The artistic practice of this artistic couple balances on the edge between art and social activism encompassing various art media ranging from video, sound installations, performance to urban interventions. The presented installation is based on their long lasting research of the possibilities of generating the energy from redundant fruit and vegetables. By means of a simple hardware the energy acquired from fruit and vegetables is transformed into audio-visual installations. Apart from an interesting audio-visual form the installations of Martinka Bobríková and Oscar de Carmen become the social criticism of the current consumerist society and also offer a certain alternative for a further use of fruit and vegetables which were considered as redundant and unsalable by superstore chains.
Mart in Stattbad
An instructional in Stattbad Wedding, Berlin 21.july 2010
Trust+Mistake
at Göteborgs Stadsmuseum 21.04.-12.05 2010
A collaboration between the Valand School of Fine Arts and the Gothenburg City Museum. How do you archive the violence and disasters? Esther Shalev Gerz's students with the staff at the museum has created new works based on the confidence and mistakes that are enrolled at the City Museum's role as producer of the cityscape.
