Workplace at Harris Museum

Aspect Magazine, A Good Place to Stop

Including Real Snow White with commentary By Theodor Ringborg!

After ten years and hundreds of published works, ASPECT has decided to cease publication. Good gamblers and good artists both possess the same important skill: knowing when to walk away. The ending may be artificial, such as a time limit, or it could be external, as in the case of an authority figure, but the time comes when we must put our pencils down. We may never be done, but we can find “A good place to stop.”

Content:

Jonathan Gitelson
The Quitter
with commentary by Dina Deitsch

Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin
The Johnny Cash Project
with commentary by Ute Meta Bauer

Larson & Shindelman
Shift Change
with commentary by Rachel Somerstein

Carolyn Shadid Lewis
From Twilight 'til Dawn
with commentary by Mary Anderson

Bogdan Perzynski
Dead End
with commentary by Martin Patrick

Alicia Eggert and Alexander Reben
Pulse Machine
with commentary by Daniel Fuller

Pilvi Takala
Real Snow White
with commentary by Theodor Ringborg

Kayo Nakamura and JR Uretsky
No Junk
with commentary by John Bell

www.aspectmag.org/issue/good-place-stop

Collective Action at ICA London


Artists' Film Club: Collective Action
24 April 2013

Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH

Collective Action brings together a selection of works that investigate and highlight moments of collective and individual action that challenge social and political paradigms. This group screening captures a cross section of activity from recent political activism to moral and ethical opinion from an international perspective. With Bani Abidi, Hassan Khan, Ciprian Muresan, Ahmet Ögüt, Michael E. Smith and Pilvi Takala.

Screening at LAXART



Screening
Ahmet Öğüt & Pilvi Takala

Saturday April 13, 2013
7:00pm
LAXART
2640 South La Cienega Blvd.

This one-hour program presents the moving image of international artists Pilvi Takala and Ahmet Öğüt. The onsite event will be followed by a discussion with audience members, the artists and LAXART curator at large; Matthew Schum

 Our retrospective look will feature the following works by each artist:

 Pilvi Takala
Trainee
The Real Snow White
Players
http://www.pilvitakala.com/

 Ahmet Öğüt
Oscar William Sam
Somebody Else's Car
Things We Count
Let It Be Known to All Persons Here Gathered
EyeWriter/DIY/arbakir
Guppy 13 vs Ocean Wave: A Bas Jan Ader Experience
http://www.ahmetogut.com/

 http://www.laxart.org/events/

Manual Labours


Wednesday 10th April | 7pm
Screening and Discussion  with Marina Vishmidt
Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD

Marina Vishmidt will discuss Pilvi Takala's performance and film The Trainee (2008) in light of her research into how art models anomalous labour conditions in the period of financialized capitalism.  She will explore how strategies such as performativity, intimacy and refusal traverse contemporary forms of labour and art. 

Marina Vishmidt is a London-based writer who deals mainly with art, value and the politics of work and abstraction. A former Research Fellow at the Jan van Eyck Academie, she has an MA in Modern European Philosophy and is currently doing a PhD at Queen Mary, University of London on speculation as a mode of production in art and capital.

Pilvi Takala's The Trainee was produced in a collaboration with Deloitte and Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, and invovled the artist working for a month as trainee "Johanna Takala" in the marketing department of Deloitte.  Takala studied at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and was resident at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. 

This event is part of Manual Labours - a long term research project exploring people’s physical relationships to work, initiated by Jenny Richards and Sophie Hope. Manual Labours reconsiders current time-based structures of work (when does work start and end?) and reasserts the significance of the physical (manual) aspect of immaterial, affective and emotional labour.  Through this project we are interested in exploring the transformation of labour processes through an investigation into the ‘physical’ relationships to work in order to map complex and overlapping experiences of work/life entwinement. During this first public manifestation of Manual Labours we will be building an archive of films and publications, alongside public screenings and discussions with co-workers to inform ways in which we can recapture a sense of agency within our current positions.   Developing research in a public setting during a week at Birkbeck's Peltz Room set up as our open office, each day of the working week focuses on one worker stereotype in order to research how these different ‘posts’ are de-stabled through everyday practices.  
To follow the daily programme and for more information visit | www.manuallabours.wordpress.com


 8-12 April, 10-6pm | Open office
 Peltz Room, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD  
To find out more, get involved or contribute, please contact manual.labours@gmail.com


Manual Labours is supported by the Centre for Media, Culture and Creative Practice, Birkbeck (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/creative/), Sophie Hope and Jenny Richards.  

Art Review: Random Numbers at Carlos/Ishikawa by Sean Ashton

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

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