[oberlist] SE* evnt/conf: A Complicated Relation, part II – conference
Vladimir US
vladimir at oberliht.org.md
Mon Sep 19 01:07:17 CEST 2011
A COMPLICATED RELATION, PART II – conference
19 septembrie, 2011, Kalmar, Suedia
http://www.oberliht.com/complicated-relation/
Deltagande konstnärer: Notes for People’s Atlas of Public Space in
Chisinau (MD), The Bombily Group (RU), Conceptual Art Centre Bukovje
(SI), Lado Darakhvelidze (GE), Tatiana Fiodorova (MD), Andrus Joonas
(EE), Nikita Kadan (UA), Kiss my Ba (RU), Victoria Lomasko & Anton
Nikolaev (RU), Svätopluk Mikyta (SK), Tanja Muravskaja (EE), Ghenadie
Popescu (MD), Alexander Raevsky (MD), R.E.P. (UA), Mykola Ridnyi (UA),
Stefan Rusu (MD), Zurab Rtveliashvili (GE), San Donato group (RU),
Sergey Shabohin (BY), SOSka (UA), Bo Söderlund (AX), Giorgi Tabatadze
(GE), The Office for Anti-propaganda (BY/DE), Alexander Verevkin (RU),
Voina (RU) & Minna Öberg (AX)
Curator: Martin Schibli
Kalmar Konstmuseum is proud to present the second part of the
museum’s major fall exhibition, A Complicated Relation. The
exhibition follows on the heels of the widely noted and highly
acclaimed exhibition Friction and Conflict – Cultural exchange and
influences within North Eastern Europe presented by Kalmar Konstmuseum
in the fall of 2008.
The impetus for A Complicated Relation, part II is how many artists
today are basing their work on given social and political contexts.
The participating artists share a common desire to engage in – and
involve their art in – a real social context. They want to contribute
to change and to social development. These artists work with direct
interaction on the street, publish journals with voices critical of
the status quo, and undertake art projects that engage directly with
society. In several cases the artists’ political commitments go hand
in hand with their art. Some of the contributing artists are
confronted periodically with actual threats and harassment.
We have chosen to present artists from Belarus, Estonia, Georgia,
Moldavia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Russia, the Ukraine, and Åland. Most of
these countries are still seen as on the margins of an increasingly
globalized European art world. From Russia we have several artists who
work outside of Moscow in cities such as Kaliningrad, Samara, and
Vladivostok. Many of the countries named above are societies in a
state of transition where there does not yet exist an art world of any
significance. That means that the artists must address the situation
on their own without any real support from the art world; in fact,
their work to a great extent consists in building up that world.
In countries undergoing social change, just as there is no defined art
world, there is in some cases a lack of clearly defined social
institutions. The paradox here is that these artists can sometimes
have a greater impact with their interventions because it’s not
possible simply to dismiss their work as pure “art” – because
that would require a clear conception of the difference between what
art is and what society’s institutions are.
On the other hand, this exhibition deals just as much with universal
questions about the role of culture in a society’s progress. What can
culture contribute to improving society and the process of
democratization? This question is particularly important in all of the
countries in global proximity to Sweden. Not least of these are places
like Åland, where the younger segment of the population is leaving, or
a region like Kalmar County, which is one of only three Swedish
counties whose population is declining. How will Kalmar and Kalmar
County survive into the future? How can culture contribute to
countering this population decline? In many other countries, culture
is employed as a future-forward strategy for winning economic and
political advantage in tomorrow’s Europe – specifically in order to
survive. In this way, Kalmar finds itself in a similar situation.
OPENING: Saturday, September 17
2:00 PM: Performance by Lado Darakhvelidze & Zurab Rtveliashvili.
Director of Exhibitions Martin Schibli opens the exhibition. Several
of the artists will be on hand.
3:00 PM: Performance by Andrus Joonas.
PROGRAM
Sunday, September 18: Tea Time (Fika) 3:00 PM: CAC Bukovje hosts tea
and a conversation with artists.
Monday, September 19: All-day conference in connection with A
Complicated Relation, part II.
Several of the artists represented in the exhibition will take part in
the conference. Please refer to www.kalmarkonstmuseum.se for a
conference program and registration application.
The conference is supported by the Swedish Institute and the Rumanian
Institute of Culture.
Sunday, November 13: Tea Time (Fika) 3:00 PM: CAC Bukovje hosts tea
and a conversation with artists.
CONFERENCE
This conference is held entirely in English
Kalmar konstmuseum invites to a 1-day conference on the possibilities
for culture to act as a driving force for social progress, regional as
well as international. The conference focuses on countries that Sweden
is historically connected to – including Russia, Belarus, Georgia,
the Ukraine, Republic of Moldava, and Slovenia – areas where artists
remain active despite a minimal local art scene. These are areas where
public institutions are not yet defined, were art plays a role to
reach outside the art scene and into the population. The conference
targets anyone who is interested in learning about the possibilities
for culture to act as a progressive part of society, with a special
focus on Eastern Europe – An area where Kalmar konstmuseum has been
recognized as an important partner, and regularly participates in
exhibitions and biennales.
The majority of speakers are from areas in the outskirts of the
cultural scene in their countries. The invited speakers will give
presentations on their work with contemporary art in direct relation
to the present situation in society. The conference provides an
opportunity for participants to meet and exchange experiences.
This conference is connected to the major exhibition at Kalmar
konstmuseum this fall: A Complicated Relation, part I and part II.
Both parts can be seen as a continuation of the much acclaimed
exhibition Friction and Conflict – Cultural exchange and influences
within North Eastern Europe which Kalmar konstmuseum presented in 2008.
The conference is produced with the financial support from Svenska
Institutet and the Romanian Culture Institute.
For questions regarding content, please contact Director of
Exhibitions Martin Schibli:
martin.schibli at kalmarkonstmuseum.se
For general information and futher questions, contact Ola Carlsson, ola.carlsson at kalmarkonstmuseum.se
For tickets, contact Maiken Fohlin,maiken.fohlin at kalmarkonstmuseum.se
The Conference will take place at Kalmar konstmuseum floor 4
There is a limit of 50 seats, so an early registration is adviced
Tickets cost SEK 795 including breakfast and lunch
Programme for the conference September 19th, Kalmar konstmuseum
08:00 Registration | exhibitions open
08:45 Kalmar konstmuseum welcomes you to the conference | director of
exhibitions Martin Schibli gives a brief introduction to the conference
09:10 Roman Korzhov | commissar of the Shiryaevo Biennale, Samara,
Russia. Talks about the development in implementing contemporary art
into the region of Samara.
09:45 Conny Blom | artist Sweden/Slovenia, co-founder of Conceptual
Art Centre (CAC) Bukovje, Slovenia. Blom talks about CAC Bukovje that
is situated in a Slovene mountain village that otherwise is completely
seperated from the art world.
10:10 Break
10:30 Sanne Kofod Olsen | art historian and director at Museum of
Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark. Talks about the Museum of
Contemporary Art in Roskilde
11:00 Lado Darakhvelidze | artist, Georgia/Netherlands. Talks about
observation of modern Georgian public life and about his interventions
in public space in Tbilisi.
11:30 Sergey Shabohin | artist, curator and editor, Belarus. Talks
about the conservatism of the Belarusian State Academy of Art and his
cooperation with the Gallery Contemporary Art “Ў”.
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Stefan Rusu | artist, curator, projects and programs manager at
Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau, Republic of Moldava. Rusu’s
artistic and curatorial agenda is closely connected to undergoing
processes and changes that occured in the post-socialist societies
after 1989.
13:40 Oleg Blyablyas | curator of the National Centre for Contemporary
Arts, Kaliningrad
Branch, Russia. Talks about NCCA’s activities and covers a number of
projects implemented by international artists in Kaliningrad mostly in
the domain of public art.
14:20 Break
14:50 Marina Naprushkina | founder of The Office for Anti-propaganda
(Büro für Antipropaganda), Belarus/Germany. Naprushkina focuses on
Belarus because its political model can be transferred to some other
East European and Latin American countries from which Belarus gets
political support.
15:20 Vladimir Us | artist, curator Moldava. Talks about the activity
of Oberliht Association and will partially explain his interest for
ideology and public space – the way these two relate to each other,
and how did this relation evolve during the last two decades of never-
ending transition that Moldova is going through.
16:00 Serhiy Popov | artist, Ukraine. Talks about how SOSka art group
works with economical and social problems, politics, commercialization
of art and the isolation of Ukraine from Europe.
16:30 Sum up and discussion
17:30 – 19:00 Mingle in the library | drinks, exhibitions open
Speakers
Roman Korzhov | Together with his wife Nelya Khorzhova key figure in
transforming the Samara-region into a important community for
contemporary arts. Co-founder of Shiryaevo-Biennale in 1999 and public
art projects like huge billboard project Artnews Outdoor.
Conny Blom | Conny Blom is an internationally active Swedish artist,
with a long list of exhibitions. Together with the Slovene artist Nina
Slejko he is running Conceptual Art Centre Bukovje, a social art
project that doubles as an exhibition space. CAC Bukovje is situated
in a Slovene mountain village that otherwise is completely seperated
from the art world. Within the frames of the project Blom and Slejko
arrange meetings and exhibitions with both established and emerging
artists in a homely and relaxed atmosphere.
Sanne Kofod Olsen | Art historian and director at Museum of
Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark. She has been dean of Funen Art
Academy (2005-2009) and curator at Danish Contemporary Art Foundation/
Danish Arts Agency (1999-2005). Since the mid-90s, she has been an art
writer, lecturer and occasional freelance curator. She is a member of
Danish Arts Council (2011-14) and other boards.
Lado Darakhvelidze | Founder of Museum TV Station and Ideal newspaper/
Citizen Journal
Museum TV Station (MTVS) refers to art activities in museums,
biennials and related art events, in which the artwork and curatorial
events evoke actual political and engaged positions and where both the
artist and curator transform the museum or venue into what might be
termed an open source information station.
The project Citizen Journal integrates commentary from online
newspapers articles into a self-published newspaper.
By assembling these comments back into a printed newspaper, Citizen
Journal manifests them permanently and transforms their anonymous
authors into “citizen journalists”.
Sergey Shabohin | Artist and editor in chief of the portal of
contemporary Belarusian art Art Aktivist, curator at Galley
Contemporary Art “Ў”.
Stefan Rusu | Artist and curator based in Chisinau, Moldava and
Bucharest, Romania. Among his preoccupations are the aspects of mass
manipulation techniques, political engineering strategies, forms of
colonization and culturalization that culminated in some cases with
the construction of artificial entities, as it is the case of Republic
of Moldova. Rusu was trained as visual artist and later extended his
practice to curating, managing and fundraising projects, editing TV
programs, producing experimental films, TV reports and documentaries.
Rusu’s works have been included in numerous group shows including
those at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, The Renaissance
Society in Chicago, Outpost for Contemporary Art/Los Angeles; TATE
Gallery London and many more.
Oleg Blyablyas | Curator of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts,
Kaliningrad
Branch, Russia
Marina Naprushkina | The Office for Anti-Propaganda was founded in
2007 in Frankfurt. The “Office” produces an archive of videos,
texts and picture material on the subject of political propaganda. The
focus is on Belarus because but its political model can be transferred
to some other East European and Latin American countries from which
Belarus gets political support. Belarus is also an outstanding example
of how to establish a modern dictatorship and how the western
democracies handle this “problem”.
Vladimir Us | Artist & curator based in Chisinau, Moldova. Founder,
member and president of Oberliht Young Artists Associationhttp://oberliht.com
Through his recent works and projects he is questioning the process
of formation of the public space in post-soviet cities and other
territories in transition. In 2006 he co-curated the “A step aside”
project organized by Session 15 of Ecole du MAGASIN – international
curatorial training program in Grenoble, France:http://www.ecoledumagasin.com/session15
Serhiy Popov | Artist from the Ukraine. Studied between 1997 and 2002
on Academy for Design and the Arts, Charkow
The conference is made possible by financial support from the Swedish
Institute and
the Rumanian Institute of Culture.
Vladimir US
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