CPH:DOX
Real Snow White + Magic for Beginners + Le vele di Sciampi + In Free FallTuesday 9/11 at 18:30
Friday 12/11 at 18:30
www.cphdox.dk
video_dumbo
video_dumbo 2010
Curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy
September 24-26, 2010
112 Water Street
DUMBO Brooklyn New York
www.videodumbo.org
Real Snow White in the Faunautica screening on Fri 24th at 8 pm
Milano Film Festival
15th Milano Film Festival
September 10th-19th
www.milanofilmfestival.it
Real Snow White at the festival
The Politics of the Invisible Hand
"Annex 6. The Politics of the Invisible Hand"
Participating artists: Milijana Babic (Rijeka), Phil Collins (Berlin/Glasgow), Johnson & Johnson (Tallinn), Flo Kasearu (Tallinn), OÜ Visible Solutions (Tallinn), R.E.P. group (Kiev), Pilvi Takala (Amsterdam/Helsinki), Sener Özmen & Erkan Özgen (Istanbul) and Katarina Zdjelar (Belgrade/Rotterdam).
Curator: Rael Artel
The exhibition "Annex 6. The Politics of the Invisible Hand" is a contributing part of this year's ART IST KUKU NU UT festival that in itself is a preparation and run-up to next year's festival. The subjective study of the contemporary art scene in Tartu, a publication accompanying the project, maps the positions and movements, visions and structures in Tartu as a certain point in time and space. However, the exhibition that forms an annex to this study has a somewhat broader relationship with the topic. The goal is to review and analyze the socio-economic situation that is the inevitable background system for a contemporary cultural production. The work that paves the way for new nuggets of knowledge and cognitive nuances has been performed with the means offered by contemporary art and the study group is composed of a selection of artists who are active in Europe and treat the surrounding environment with a sharp eye. Main working methods include (self-)ironic distancing, demonstrative gestures and ambivalent images of comparison from life itself.
This exhibition "Annex 6. The Politics of the Invisible Hand" has no strict center or a certain leading narrative, it should rather be seen as the subjective selection of the various activity logics of "the invisible hand" and our responses to those movements. One must remember that "the invisible hand" that Adam Smith phrased and that became a metaphor for self-regulation in economics is indeed invisible, i.e. we do not see the hand, but rather the result of its action. True, in one case the artists managed to capture the hand on thermal camera, but there is still much unexplained in the hand's micro-movements. It directs, regulates and forces us to act in the ways it want. We are surrounded by the puppet theater of an invisible hand…
All works are penetrated by the parallel, crossing and penetrating topics that we can only start to articulate in keywords. The first topical direction is formed by works that reflect back specifically on the position of art and the artist, reflecting on the creative environment around them – they ridicule the principles of creative economy that the national cultural policy has adapted for them; make (self-)ironical remarks on the social position, survival means, working methods and "client relations"of the artist; visualize the problems of intellectual work. Doesn't it sound ridiculous, this direct, automatic and careless transfer of economic principles to the field of art and cultural production? Do we not talk too often about a mission instead of real income? Is being an artist more a matter of faith than anything else?
Another topical keyword might be the wanna-be mentality as a completely respectable road to a professional position, income, peace of mind. Artists depict – and perhaps secretly also ridicule – the attempts by themselves and other to be better than others, to be someone else, to imitate success and that winning mentality, to hide one's weaknesses, and to talk loudly of great successes. This portion of the works seems to outline this mental space that is filled with dominating values and is shaped by the media, employers, politicians and the entertainment industry. The locally grown neoliberal karaoke-capitalism, the foolish optimism that for years fed the economic boom, the faith in the infinite economic growth and the free market - aren't these the compensation mechanisms for various inferiority complexes that might require us to stop and look around with a (self-)critical eye?
One of the popular understandings of art considers art to be a mirror that should reflect life and reality around us. We wish to satisfy the desires of the greater masses and show our audiences a mirror – in this exhibition there are no myths, only reality itself! While the distortions might be great and the exhibition might seem like a carnival mirror, I feel confident in assuring that life in Tartu, Estonia and the former Eastern Europe really is that distorted and misshapen like a delirious nightmare. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy!
During the opening of the exhibition on Sept 8h, at 7 pm, a performance-product presentation by Visible Solutions LLC, and at 8 pm a screening of the "dünya dinlemiyor" ("the world won't listen") by Phil Collins will take place.
Y-Gallery Küütri 2,
Tartu, Estonia
Opening hours: Tu–Fr 11am–6pm, Sa 12am–4pm
Free entrance
ygalerii.blogspot.com
www.artistkukunuut.org
Flux/s
Second Edition Cross-disciplinary Arts Festival
Flux/S – Drafts Establishing Future
9-12 September 2010
Flux/S
Strijp-S, Eindhoven
The Netherlands
The second edition of the cross-disciplinary arts festival Flux/S will once again draw an international group of artists, architects, performers, dancers, writers and musicians to Strijp-S, the former Philips industrial site in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. During the space of four days, they will react to the possibilities and challenges of this new cultural heart of the city, by means of 35 installations, artistic and musical performances and interventions spread over 20,000 square metres of exhibition area and two hectares of outside space.
Tony Orrico | Alicia Framis | Martha Hjorth Jessen & Saygin Soher | Frank Bruggeman, Ernst vd Hoeven, Eric Roelen | Pilvi Takala | Telcosystems | David Maljkovic | Lilith Ronner van Hooijdonk | Joost II Sickenga | Tom Hillewaere | Antoine Schmitt | Conditional Design | Emre Huner & Snode Vormgevers | Atomic + The Vandermark 5 | Samuel Beckett | Floris Schönfeld & Michaël Sewandono | Wolfgang Heiniger | Superflex | Klaske Oenema & Tom America | The Great Park & Preslav Literay School | Hiba Vink, Els Moors, Maartje Wortel | nb / Nicole Beutler Projects | Lunapark | Matt Bauer, Dana Falconberry & Matangi Kwartet | We Make Carpets | Chora Architecture and Urbanism
COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAMME-INFORMATION ON www.flux-s.nl
Uitgelicht/Highlighted
Uitgelicht/Highlighted
September 4 - October 31, 2010
Opening: Sunday September 12 at 4 pm
The Exhibition Highlighted shows a selection of contemporary Finnish photography from the collection of the Dutch collectors Pieter and Marieke Sanders. For the first time at Nieuw Dakota a private collection is ‘highlighted’ in an exhibition. Highlighted is curated by Maarten Bertheux
With works by: IIkka Halso, Nanna Hänninen, Ari Kakkinen, Sandra Kantanen, Aino Kannisto, Pertti Kekarainen, Ola Kolehmainen, Anni Leppälä, Pekka Luuukkola, Susanna Majuri, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Riitta Päiväläinen, Mikko Sinervo, Santeri Tuori, Miklos Gaál and Pilvi Takala.
NIEUW DAKOTA
INTERNATIONAL SPACE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
Ms. van Riemsdijkweg 41b
1033RC Amsterdam
Opening hours: Thursday and Friday 11:00-19:00h
Saturday and Sunday 11:00-17:00
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