The AA at Manifesta 8, Spain

Arts Assembly – CPS

A Reflexive Organ of CPS, Curators of Manifesta 8

A Perpetuum Mobilεzation

The Arts Assembly – CPS is a programme of critical evaluations of the Chamber of Public Secrets (CPS), in its capacity as a curatorial team of Manifesta 8.

An Arts Assembly (AA) is a reflexive model for cooperation in the creative field. It unites a diversity of actors in a new genre of formats based on participatory action through peer-to-peer platforms. One can imagine it as a self-constituting parliament. Each AA is structured and tailored to develop a unique modus vivendi for each unique context. In its work for CPS-M8 the AA will operate as a reflexive and critical organ. The membership of  AAs includes artists, philosophers, writers, curators and other intellectuals and art-actors. The CPS AA at Manifesta 8 will include experienced members of the first Helsinki AA. It will “constitute” Charters to evaluate works and processes in public Assemblies.

The early-stage list of participants includes: CPS (Curators at Manifesta 8 ), Perpetuum Mobilε, Parfyme (www.parfyme.dk, Copenhagen), S.a.L.E. (Venice) and Damian Le Bas (London)..

A documentary film by Perpetuum Mobilε for CPS-M8 will be co-produced by the AA with the Finnish-Iranian director Hamy Ramezan.

WE ARE ACTIVELY SEEKING PARTICIPANTS
for certain Chambers of the AA-CPS at M8.

If you would like to be part of the process in Spain please contact

Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen at perpetualmobile@gmail.com

www.perpetualmobile.org

A preliminary map of the project (click to enlarge):

Arts Assembly - CPS at Manifesta 8

The Arts Assembly

A Reflexive Organ of the CPS

Perpetuum Mobilε

Manifesta 8, 2010-2011

The overall goal of the Arts Assembly – CPS is to reflect, analyse, reformulate and critically represent the CPS process at Manifesta 8 through procedures which are both analytical and performative as new works and evaluations.

The Arts Assembly – CPS is a programme of critical evaluations of the Chamber of Public Secrets (CPS) in the context of Manifesta 8. It is piloted by Perpetuum Mobilε.

An Arts Assembly (AA) is a reflexive model for cooperation in the creative field. It unites a diversity of actors in a new genre of formats based on participatory action through peer-to-peer platforms. Each AA is structured and tailored to develop a unique modus vivendi for each unique context. In its work for CPS – in its capacity as a curatorial team for Manifesta 8 – the AA will operate as a reflexive and critical organ.

FRAMEWORK 8 – PATHS NOT TAKEN AVAILABLE ONLINE

Framework 8 was commissioned under the title of “PATHS NOT TAKEN” but appeared as “IN NEED OF OPENNESS” (it really needed it).

We still managed to get a lot of ideas in.. And it has high quality images from the trash-art Archival Section of “The Raw, The Cooked and The Packaged ” our exhibition in Kiasma 2007-8 (http://perpetualmobile.wordpress.com/exhibitions/).  It is now available online again.

It now can be DOWNLOADED (9 MB) here or from our Publications Page. You can

FLIP THROUGH IT HERE.

Extra prize for finding the original title…

Talk on the Perpetual Gypsy Pavilion at the Estonian Academy of Arts

Talk on the Perpetual Gypsy Pavilion at the Estonian Academy of Arts

On Friday 29, 2010 we gave a talk on the Perpetual Gypsy Pavilion (www.perpetualpavilion.org) at the Estonian Academy of Arts on invitation by Airi Triisberg following her visit to Helsinki for the Arts Assembly. The discussion was lively, especially as a leader of the Estonian Roma community, Roman Lutt was present. The event went on for approximately 3 hours.

The arts editor of the Estonian weekly Sirp, Reet Verblad, who was present, asked us for an interview:

http://www.sirp.ee/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10257:pealelend&catid=6:kunst&Itemid=10&issue=3288

The English text can be found on our Publications webpage:

http://perpetualmobile.wordpress.com/publications/

THE FIRST PILOT FOR AN ARTS ASSEMBLY

The First (Pilot) Arts Assembly

The First (Pilot for a) ARTS ASSEMBLY  took place 20-22 November, 2009 on the Island of Suomenlinna, and at an Open Door Session (Bar Llamas).

For Detailed and Updated Information, go to this page:

http://perpetualmobile.wordpress.com/the-arts-assembly-aa/

What is an Arts Assembly?

An Arts Assembly is a reflexive model for co-operation in the creative field. It unites a diversity of actors in new “formats” based on participatory action through peer-to-peer platforms. There are several Chambers of the Assembly.

The Value Chamber (aka the Auction Chamber):

This chamber was first conceived (during the collapse of casino-style markets) after the fashion of auctions: through bids and counter-bids according to a procedure.  Given the absurd volatility of market valuations, the Value Chamber is designed to provide non-monetary procedures for the evaluation – critical, practical, aesthetic, political, philosophical or otherwise – of artworks presented to it.

The Chamber of Public Secrets:

Many ideas, histories or movements are public, but not known…

The Chamber of Diversity and Pre-Universalism:

This Chamber’s title springs from our conviction that it has long been time to get past the ‘posts’ — post-modernism, post-histoire, post-Soviet, post-colonial, post-national, etc. — and turn to the ideational creativity involved in formulating the oncoming epoch: the pre.

The Copyist Chamber:

The Kamera Kopista, as it is also known, researches models of theoretical, performative, artistic and empirical knowledge; creative content; and creates copies of it and it’s context (the Art Assembly event itself) in other spaces, events and contexts. It claims that the avant-garde producer today is one that shares, copies and clones its work.

The Arts Assembly’s Open Door Party

Host:	Perpetuum Mobilε on Facebook
Network:	Global

Date:	Saturday, 21 November 2009
Time:	19:00 – 23:55
Location:	Bar Llamas
Street:	Iso Roobertinkatu 14
Town/City:	Helsinki, Finland

Random Shots from the Pilot:

http://picasaweb.google.com/perpetualmobile/TheFirstPilotForAnArtsAssembly#

The AA in Gallery Augusta, Suomenlinna

VENICE LAUNCH of the Perptual GYPSY PAVILION

SEE VIDEO

http://www.domusweb.it/dvideo/video.cfm?id=2009&inizio=13&da=1&t=fv

The

PERPETUAL GYPSY PAVILION

was officially launched at the
VENICE BIENNALE 2009
Sunday 7 June, 12 am.
Hungarian Pavilion, Giardini, Venice.

www.PERPETUALPAVILION.org

Side 1 of the Postcard from Venice

The launch of the Perpetual Gypsy Pavilion is a response to a twofold crisis. While 2007 saw the acclaimed first Roma Pavilion in Venice (www.romapavilion.org), the planned Roma Pavilion in 2009 was canceled at very short notice. This highly unfortunate situation is made all the more acute by the fact that in 2009, the Venice Biennale is taking place amid extreme violations of the human rights of Romani People (Gypsies) in Italy and in other European countries.

The Perpetual Gypsy Pavilion is an immediate, yet long-term response to this situation. It is a mobile, that is, a traveling pavilion, inaugurated at the Venice Biennale 2009.  The first Residence of the post-launch Gypsy Pavilion – with its own spaces, buildings, artists, curators and concepts – is already planned for HELSINKI Suomenlinna-Sveaborg (The Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art – NIFCA’s former base). It will take place in the context of a new artistic format: an Arts Assembly. The second Residence will take place in BELGRADE. More Gypsy Pavilions are to follow in the lead-up to the Venice Biennale 2011.

The artists of the Perpetual Gypsy Pavilion will include the leading representatives of Roma, Romanichal, Sinti, Kale, Traveller, Manush, Romanisael (some of the related Gypsy-Romani cultures and subgroups) and other Gypsy artists.

Several renowned artists, thinkers, curators, public figures and national pavilions have already declared their solidarity and offered their support to the Pavilion. See the growing lists by going to our website, where there are lists of Supporters as well as Petitions and links to our newly launched Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9417386654. Please join to express your solidarity and receive news about the Gypsy Pavilions 2009-2011.

The name of the pavilion carries within it the hope and demand that no matter what the organisational, financial, artistic or political situation, a Gypsy-Romani pavilion or representation will have an official presence at Venice Biennale and within the established art context. Further – it leads to the demand that Romani artists to be represented in the National Pavilions of their countries of residence.

For the first time in 2009, the absence of Gypsy artists in national pavilions is being addressed in the mediated form of the Postcard from Venice (see attached image and website). The Postcard from Venice is being distributed in the context of several National Pavilions – including, so far:

The Pavilion of Greece
The Pavilion of Hungary
The Pavilion of Israel (needs re-confirmation from non-curatorial officials)
The Pavilion of Italy (Arsenale)
The Pavilion of Poland
The Pavilion of Estonia
The PavIlion of Serbia
The Pavilion of Turkey
The Pavilion of Uruguay

More national pavilions are, we hope, to follow.

Since our e-flux announcement, new pavilions have joined are:

The Danish & Nordic Pavilion
The Pavilion of the Comoros Islands

The launch of the Perpetual Gypsy Pavilion will take place at the Hungarian Pavilion in the Venice Giardini at 12 am on Sunday, 7th of June, 2009. This Perpetual Gypsy Pavilion launch is not part of – but is officially supported by the Hungarian Pavilion.

For more information see more of our freshly launched website:

www.PERPETUALPAVILION.org

Announcig the PERPETUAL GYPSY PAVILION

A new Pavilion is in the process of being created in response to the
dire state of the Roma-Gypsies in Europe and Italy in particular, and
in response to the late cancellation of the planned Roma Pavilion
2009 in particular.

Welcome to the Perpetual GYPSY PAVILION

http://www.PerpetualPavilion.org

Theory Lecture: OSArchivum through ACAX, Hungary

CHECK IN BUDAPEST 7.

THE RAW, THE COOKED AND THE PACKAGED

and

THE ARCHIVE OF PERESTROIKA ART

co-organized by ACAX | Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange and the Open Society Archives

Date: 14 April 2009, 6pm

Location: Open Society Archive (1051 Budapest Arany János u. 32.)

Theoretical conceptions of the eponymous archival exhibition at The Museum for Contemporary Art, KIASMA Helsinki, 2007-2008, presented by Ivor Stodolsky with the contribution of co-curator and Perpetuum Mobilε co-founder Marita Muukkonen

This lecture introduces an anthropological-semiotic paradigm and demonstrates its application in a museum context. Originally developed in response to the conditions of the western “hyperreal” and the obfuscations of “postmodernist” theory, the “production paradigm” – The Raw, The Cooked and The Packaged – was applied to the curatorial and anthropological problem of understanding the “archive” of art/artifacts of the Perestroika era, and its historicisation. In the course of the presentation – which will include short films and other visual documentation – the complex of theoretical, institutional and artistic issues involved in affecting an appropriate representation of the Perestroika era will be brought to light.

http://acax.dotwebsystem.com/index.php?pageid=188&language=en#

The “Archive of Tins” at the exhibition in Kiasma.

Includes: A tin of Soviet tooth-powder, a tin celebrating the 22nd Congress of the CPSU and a signed Campbell’s Soup Can by Andy Warhol. On the right, a photograph of Warhol holding a painting by Oleg Kotelnikov.

alt.econ.cult at Kiasma: Video Footage

The alt.econ.cult Seminar of Pixelache’s morning KEYNOTE session chaired by Perpetuum Mobilε:

PART 1:

Michael Albert (US) : Alternative Economy Cultures PART 1

PART 2:

Michel Bauwens (BE/TH): Alternative Economy Cultures PART 2

PART 3: General discussion with keynote speakers

Alternative Economy Cultures PART 3

After the keynote session of the morning, above, the afternoon session included:

Geraldine Juárez (MX), Tapani Köppä (FI),Kristoffer Lawson of Scred (FI), Wojtek Mejor (PL), Saija-Riitta Sadeoja of Porkkanamafia (FI), Oliver Ressler (AT), Sara Sajjad of Piratbyrån (SE), Felix Stalder (AT), Tere Vadén (FI), and Eero Yli-Vakkuri of Uuva Project (FI).

For more videos and further information on the speakers,go to

http://2009.pixelache.ac/alternative-economy-cultures-documentations/

The ‘Alternative Economy Cultures (alt.econ.cult) programme on April 3rd & 5th brought together leading international and Finnish thinkers, cultural practitioners and activists to present alternative economic visions.

The seminar aimed to tackle not just the financial, but the social, cultural, institutional, human, material, emotional and intellectual forms of capital. It focussed on approaches focussed not just on individual gain, boosting, balancing or bail-outs, but common good, peer-to-peer methods, based on shared wealth and appropriate reward for effort involved.

Bridging the gap between presentations, reflections and things-to-be-done, a later discussion-based workshop was held about peer-fundraising. The issue was: Can the crowd-sourcing phenomena be applied to support alternative cultural events in Finland?

alt.econ.cult was part of the PixelAche Festival. Here the programme of the whole festival:

http://2009.pixelache.ac/festival/programme/

.alternative economy cultures seminar – Kiasma

Pixelache – Kiasma Theatre, Hels, Friday 3rd April, 10.00 – 18.00

This seminar includes ZCom founder and Chomsky associate Michael Albert, Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation (Thailand) and many renowned artists and activists in the field.

Ivor and Marita will be chairing the keynote session, and have helped Andrew Gryf Paterson, the quiet force behind the seminar, to realise this substantial gathering of minds on a pressing issue:

http://2009.pixelache.ac/festival/programme/alternative-economy-cultures/

See Video Documentation in upcoming posts.

Institutional Roulette, Malmö Konstmuseum

Institutional Roulette & Paths Not Taken – Peer-to-Peer Review in the Arts, Malmö Konstmuseum

Time for Change – Reality and Visions for Independent Curators
January 26th, 2009 at Malmö Konstmuseum

Perpetuum Mobilε

- curator Marita Muukkonen and independent writer and curator Ivor Stodolsky  -

put forward several suggestions in the presentation entitled:

Institutional Roulette & Paths Not Taken – Peer-to-Peer Review in the Arts

Press Reviews of the Event:

http://sydsvenskan.se/kultur/article408899/Frilansare-som-forenar.html

http://hd.se/kultur/2009/01/28/konstlivets-nonchalerade/?tm=62594

This well-attended event was organised by SoFarAwaySoClose, Sweden.

EKATERINBURG FILM SCREENING

EKATERINBURG FILM SCREENING «Сырое, приготовленное, упакованное», видеоархив искусства перестроики

This screening from the “Moving Images” Section of “The Raw, The Cooked and The Packaged – The Archive of Perestroika Art” was part of the In Transition project and conference of the Ekaterinburg branch of the National Center for Contemporary Arts, Russia.

For more information on this Section, download the whole Exhibition CATALOGUE-NEWSPAPER.

Introduction to the Moving Images Section of the Catalogue

“Representing Perestroyka”, Copenhagen, September 28

A Public discussion and Film Screening

at U-turn Quadiennial For Contemporary Art, Copenhagen.

Perpetuum Mobile (Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen) discuss their work on the period (see ARTICLE)

on invitation of

Chto Delat/What is To Be Done?

Saturday, September 28, 2008, 15:00-17:30 pm

Carlsberg, Copenhagen

U-TURN / CHTO DELAT DISCUSSION SPACE

Lazareti Art Workshop, Dubrovnik, 9 August 2008

Lazareti Art Workshop – Platform Presentation

Address:

Frana Supila 8 / Lazareti, HR-20000 Dubrovnik

Saturday 09.08.2008 at 20.00.

A discussion of the international art journal

FRAMEWORK 8 “PATHS NOT TAKEN”

will start off the platform presentation.

To read the journal in electronic form, see

http://www.framework.fi/8_2008/focus/focus.html
(FOCUS section)

http://www.framework.fi/8_2008/index.html
(Table of Contents)

http://perpetualmobile.wordpress.com/publications
(Other publications and pdf files)

Welcome to the Dubrovnik Platform Presentation

ART & RESISTANCE Colloquium, 3 August 2008, Croatia

This summer Perpetuum Mobile is co-organising a colloquium in Split, Croatia, in co-ordination with Alternative Cultures: “Art & Resistance”
Art & Resistance The aim of this colloquium is to examine the possibilities and limits of art’s political potential at the present time. We will be particularly interested in thinking about the idea of ‘resistance’ in relation to art production, practice and the imagination. The program of the colloquium can be downloaded here.

The wider ALTERNATIVE CULTURE BEYOND BORDERS PROGRAMME can be found here:

www.alternativeculture.org

Belgrade-Ljubliana Platform, June 2008

Presentation at the

CENTRE FOR CULTURAL DECONTAMINATION, BELGRADE

http://www.czkd.org.yu/

Belgrade Flyer and Poster