[oberlist] FW: ART IST KUKU NU UT 2013: PRADA PRAVDA

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> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 00:43:47 +0300
> Subject: ART IST KUKU NU UT 2013: PRADA PRAVDA
> From: rael at publicpreparation.org
> To: pp at publicpreparation.org
> 
> PRADA PRAVDA
> Sept 5--Oct 27, 2013
> Tartu Art Museum, Noorus Gallery, Y-gallery in Tartu, Estonia
> Wed--Sun 11 am--6 pm
> Vernissage at Sept 5 at 5 pm at the Tartu Art Museum. Other exhibition
> venues are open from 3 pm.
> 
> Artists: Auto Italia South East, Wojtek Doroszuk, Kadi Estland, Dmitri
> Gerasimov, Dmitri Gutov and Radek Group, Sanja Ivekovic, Alevtina
> Kakhidze, Chelsea Knight and Mark Tribe, Laura Kuusk, Oliver Laric, Kris
> Lemsalu, Erkki Luuk, Deimantas Narkevicius, Franciszek Orlowski, Dan
> Perjovschi, Tanel Rander, Dominik Ritszel, Jaanus Samma, Chto Delat?,
> Anna-Stina Treumund, and Ulrich Vogl.
> Curators: Marika Agu, Rael Artel, Kaisa Eiche, Triin Tulgiste, and Marie
> Vellevoog
> Consultants: Neringa Cerniauskaite, Benjamin Fallon, Michal Jachula, Maija
> Rudovska, Claire Staebler, and Vladimir Us.
> 
> ART IST KUKU NU UT is a location- and context-specific contemporary art
> festival that builds on itself through its program. One could imagine our
> activities as a layer cake where every consecutive layer is directly tied
> to the last and lies on top of it. In 2010 we used the project book "ART
> IST KUKU NU UT. Subjective Research on Tartu Contemporary Art Scene and
> Appendixes" to map the Tartu art scene and tendencies in cultural life,
> employing that to design the festival's structure for the next two years –
> classics in the museum, visiting curator along with international artists
> in the largest exhibition space, young artists as KUKU NUNNUs in Y Gallery
> –; after two repetitions of the same format we felt the need for a
> different solution. We wanted to test the operation of collective
> curatorship, to discover the foundations it requires, and to determine how
> to bring forth the fruits of cooperation. We deliberately created an
> experimental situation and this year's festival is the result of this
> massive collective test.
> 
> About Prada and Pravda
> For us, ART IST KUKU NU UT has always been a (word)playful enterprise –
> PRADA PRAVDA is another game and hopefully a worthy partner to ART IST
> KUKU NU UT and the exhibition title of last year "HUH? PFUI! YUCK! AHA!
> WOW!". PRADA PRAVDA got its start from simple banter and since we liked
> the pair as it caused unexpected resonance, we decided to see whether we
> could tie the two funny and seemingly unrelated words together, and to
> fill them with meanings. The pair PRADA PRAVDA has for me an obvious link
> with last year's festival that we exited with three very different
> exhibition memories and one scandal. The last grew into one of last
> decade's most fiery debates on contemporary art in Estonian mainstream
> media that highlighted the need for self-reflection and the potential
> scale of discussions. The focus of the scandal, legendary "May 15 – June
> 1, 1992" by Jaan Toomik, received a worthy partner in "Creative Estonia"
> by Flo Kasearu – a beautiful but empty jar.
> Prada and Pravda are the equivalents of Toomik's and Kasearu's jars and
> now that there are two of the latter they highlight the evergreen dilemma:
> what is the role of the artist in the society – is it to speak the truth
> or to make pretty things? This inevitably leads to the question of what
> art should be like today under the conditions of neoliberal capitalism and
> free market economy. Should it be the uncompromising art that speaks
> honestly and brutally of the processes in the society or should it be the
> product that tries to please the public's expectations and go for
> mainstream appeal? What has changed in the life of art and in the social
> understandings of the function of art and culture in general in the 20
> years that gape between the two jars?
> Anyone can play with Prada-Pravda and browse through the five different
> association packages of the assembled exhibition to find just the right
> version for them. This year's festival is certainly not a set of works and
> ideas that have received the most accurate definitions; it is more like an
> open system where finding the meaning layers and clusters requires the
> audience to pay attention, to have persistence, obviously a bit of time
> and a sense of humor.
> 
> About the KUKU NUNNU curatorship school
> In the two previous years the festival had the habit of organizing a
> competition for young artists to offer them an opportunity to curate a
> large-scale exhibition. Our previous KUKU NUNNUs have been young Tartu
> artists, but this year we decided to bet on young art scholars instead,
> inviting them to work with us. The KUKU NUNNU curatorship school is an
> experimental space, a learning-by-doing situation with dense polylogue
> between the KUKU NUNNUs and the festival organizers. The goal of the
> free-style curatorship school is to offer young go-getters the experience
> of curating a major international exhibition, and to provide detailed help
> and feedback in every stage of exhibition curation. Curatorship is
> primarily a practice comparable to swimming – of course you can study the
> necessary techniques in the book and try them out on dry land, but real
> skills can only be gained in water and in the specific exhibition
> situation. We do everything together in the KUKU NUNNU curatorship school:
> from developing the exhibition's structure and principles into a choice of
> artists till installing the exhibitions.
> 
> About the publication
> This year the exhibition PRADA PRAVDA is accompanied by a multifunctional
> publication the execution of which could be labeled somewhere between a
> classical catalogue, an exhibition guide, and a take-it-or-leave-it
> magazine. Edited by Marie Vellevoog, designed by Mikk Heinsoo, in Estonian
> and in English.
> 
> The ART IST KUKU NU UT exhibition program is accompanied by a copious
> education program; we will inform the general public separately of its
> contents.
> 
> The festival is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, the
> Council of Gambling Tax, Tartu City Government.
> 
> www.artistkukunuut.org
> www.facebook.com/artistkukunuut
> 
> Picture credits: Pravda Collection Autumn/Winter 2013. Photo by Gabriela
> Liivamägi
> 
> Logo: KUKU2013_150x100px.gif
> 
> See you soon in Tartu, Estonia!
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------
> Forever Yours,
> Rael Artel
> gsm: + 372 56 229 213
> email: rael at publicpreparation.org
> skype: raelintheforest
> www.publicpreparation.org
> 
 		 	   		  
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