Dream Factory screening at Import Projects Berlin 4th of Feb
DREAM FACTORY -SCREENING-
04.02.2013
Start 6:30 pm
Screenings 7pm & 9pm
ARTISTS:
Michael Bell-Smith
Neil Beloufa
Guy Ben-Ner
Harun Farocki
Mark Leckey
The Otolith Group
Hito Steyerl
Pilvi Takala
Ryan Trecartin
Harm van den Dorpel
Andrew Norman Wilson
Yang Zhenzhong
CURATORS:
Aily Nash & Andrew Norman Wilson
VENUE:
import projects
Keithstrasse 10 10787 Berlin
www.import-projects.org
info@import-projects.org
PRESS RELEASE
Marianne Flotron & Pilvi Takala at ar/ge kunst
Marianne Flotron (CH) - Pilvi Takala (FIN)
01.02. – 23.03.2013
ar/ge kunst
Bolzano
Bolzano
What kind of transformation is the world of work now undergoing on a global scale? And what is the relationship among the various models of flexibility and creative work? Has the end of the rigid Fordist model truly generated a freer, more dynamic and humane working environment, or has it only superficially altered its own methods to achieve production aims?
The exhibition approaches these complex topics by presenting the work of two artists who engage the subject with a particular degree of attention and profound analysis. Despite the diversity of their artistic approaches, Marianne Flotron (born in 1970, Switzerland) and Pilvi Takala (born in 1981, Finland) apply comparable modes of analysis, such as role-playing and the simulation of identity, to penetrate closed professional systems so as to analyse how they work.
Prospects & Concepts during Art Rotterdam
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Slight Chance at Bonniers Konsthall
Pilvi Takala
Slight Chance
January 17–March 31, 2013
Opening and artist talk: January 16, 6–8pm
Bonniers Konsthall
Torsgatan 19
SE-113 90 Stockholm
Sweden
www.bonnierskonsthall.se
Takala mainly works with video installations; her work can be described as interventions in everyday life. The exhibition Slight Change includes works where Takala explores social behaviors with humor and comic arbitrariness. By knowingly misinterpreting rules and social codes Takala’s work creates confusion, her careful agenda challenges the social conventions that are so easily taken for granted.
As the exhibition’s title reveals, Slight Chance will include works on the theme of chance. Takala often returns to the possibilities of winning, for instance in lotteries or in the game of poker, the exploration of our perceptions of chance is part of her artistic practice.
Program
February 13 at 6pm
"Sites and Situations - Talking and Thinking With the Works of Pilvi Takala" Lecture with Mika Hannula, writer, curator and critic.
March 20 at 6pm
"Who is Pilvi Takala?" Talk by Jennifer Allen, editor Frieze Magazine d/e.
Workplace at Mead Gallery / Warwick Arts Centre
Workplace
Wed 9 Jan - Sat 9 Mar 2013
Adel Abidin, Emily Jacir, João Onofre, Superflex, Pilvi Takala, John Wood and Paul Harrison
Mead Gallery
Warwick Arts Centre
From school to adulthood, we spend a huge amount of our lives in the workplace. In it, life-long friendships and romances are formed; it provides the arena in which power games and gender politics are played out at a macro and micro level; it is the setting for innovation and life-changing research as well as mind-numbing repetition and ennui.
This exhibition explores the workplace through contemporary art as a universal experience, one which cuts across political and geographical boundaries as well as distinctions between types of industry, including the production of art. Through film works selected from across the globe by leading artists of the international art world, this exhibition explores the frustration and alienation of a contemporary workforce removed from the true seats of power, but also the often humorous strategies for survival and expressions of individualism that prevail.
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