The

PERPETUAL GYPSY PAVILION

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

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:

CHECK IN BUDAPEST 7.

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/

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 & 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 «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

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 – 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

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

GEZ-21 Gallery of Experimental Sound, Pushkinskaya 10, St. Petersburg, Russia

St. Petersburg Platform Poster

Map Structure of the KIASMA Exhibition

Short introductory video:

Exhibition walk-through:

Slideshow

ANOTHER CAGE

A performance by the Russian “Gardes-Marine” choir (dir. Y. Remizov) and its audience, mediated by the artist Sergei Bugaev and the exhibition curators Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen.
1.30 pm, 16 November, 2007

ANOTHER CAGE

Venäjän merivoimien kuoron ja yleisön performanssi Kiasmassa

Perjantaina 16. marraskuuta Kiasmassa Venäjän merivoimien “Gardes-Marine” kuoron ja yleisön “another cage” – performanssissa jaksottuvat neuvostokuorolaulu ja John Cagen 4′33″. Yleisön ja kuoron välittäjinä toimivat taitelija Sergei Bugaev ja kuraattorit Ivor Stodolsky ja Marita Muukkonen. Yleisö on tervetullut tuomaan performanssiin kännyköittensä ohella kaikenlaisia ääni-, valokuvaus- sekä videolaitteita. Performanssi alkaa kello 13.30.

“another cage” -performanssi liittyy 30. marraskuuta 2007 Kiasmassa avautuvaan RAAKA, KÄSITELTY JA PAKETOITU – Perestroika taiteen arkistot –näyttelyyn. Näyttely on osa Helsingissä järjestettävää tapahtumien sarjaa, joka on omistettu Perestroikalle: sen historialle, perinnölle ja impulsseille, joita se voisi antaa tulevaisuuden kehityskuluille. Tapahtumien keskiössä on Aleksanteri-instituutin kansainvälinen konferenssi REVISITING PERESTROIKA – Processes and Alternatives 29. marraskuuta – 1. joulukuuta. 2007. Konferenssissa pureudutaan sellaisiin laajoihin kysymyksiin kuin oliko Perestroika vallankumous? Vai oliko se vastavallankumous? Mikä on sen tämänhetkinen perintö entisellä Neuvostoalueella, niin kutsutussa lännessä ja alueilla, jotka tunnettiin joskus “sitoutumattomina”? Onko uuden perestroikan aika?