An Exhibition of a Study on Knowledge at Forum Stadtpark, Graz
An Exhibition of a Study on Knowledge
Artists: Rossella Biscotti (IT) . Marjolijn Dijkman (NL) . Nikolaus Gansterer (AT) .Toril Johannessen (NO) . Pilvi Takala (FI) . Haegue Yang (KR) . Gernot Wieland(AT)
Curated by: Margit Neuhold (AT) and Fatos Ustek (TR/GB)
Forum Stadtpark Graz:
Opening: Friday, April 13, 2012. 7:00 pm
Duration: 14. 4. – 12. 5. 2012
Part of the festival: aktuelle Kunst in Graz: 4. – 6. 5. 2012
The knowledge society, designed for livelong learning, serves as foundation of the present capitalist order, cognitive capitalism, which foregrounds multiplicity evoked through cognitive work in knowledge economies. Here knowledge is not longer a tool but becomes the actual ‘product’. Such to a large extent interdisciplinary functioning economies involve a broad range of specialists: economists, computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, geographers, chemists and physicists, as well as cognitivists, psychologists or sociologists. For the knowledge flows they generate, livelong learning, prescient education and communication are increasingly fundamental. Currently, we witness how education stratifies societies and plays an important role in the class struggles in schools and universities. Self-learning methods are becoming increasingly significant as precarious developments in the public education and fields knowledge-production have lead to privatization of knowledge as well as restricted access to education.
BOOK is OUT!
Published by Hatje Cantz
Edited by Silke Opitz, texts by Rael Artel, Mika Hannula
German/English
2012. 208 pp., 292 color ills.
24.50 x 30.00 cm
hardcover
pub. date: March 2012
ISBN 978-3-7757-3352-6
Pilvi Takala (*1981) deals with the constitutions and limits of social groups and communities. Her videos, books, and installations are based on interventions in (semi- public spaces and this first monograph documents most of her work since 2005. The design of the publication reflects Takala’s artistic strategies and the narrative nature of her work. Video works are illustrated with still sequences, and one of her early artist books is reproduced entirely. The book includes essays by Mika Hannula and Rael Artel, as well as an artist’s interview. It accompanies the first extensive solo exhibition of the artist, held at Kunsthalle Erfurt.
Exhibition schedule: Kunsthalle Erfurt, February 5–April 9, 2012
Fat Birds don't Fly at Netwerk
De Hallen Haarlem: Recent Acquisitions
RECENT ACQUISITIONS - New in De Hallen Haarlem
16.03.2012 - 03.06.2012
This spring a selection of recent acquisitions from the collection of De Hallen Haarlem will be shown for the first time. Works by, among others, Pablo Pijnappel (F), Maaike Schoorel (NL), Pilvi Takala (FIN) (winner Prix de Rome 2011), Hans Scholten (NL), Guido Geelen (NL) and Ritsue Mishima (J) can be seen from 16 March until 3 June 2012. The exhibition contains both audiovisual work and photography, the two main focal points in the collecting policy since 2000, as well as paintings and various (glass) objects. During this exhibition De Hallen Haarlem will also present solo exhibitions by Charles Atlas and Hamid el Kanbouhi.
Mystery Show in NYC
“Mystery Show” - featuring Four Finnish Artists:
Program lasts 45 minutes (played twice). With a tasty reception and meet the artists.
Supported by the Consulate General of Finland in New York, The Finnish Cultural Institute in New York and The Finnish Cultural Foundation.
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SVA Theatre: 333 West 23rd Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues), New York, NY 10011.
