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14/3/2003

Fork-Lift Trucks

Atlantis Gallery, London

World’s First Congress on Fork-Lift Trucks (14 - 16 March 2003)

current art and its objectives

The congress coincides with the exhibition “100,000 Newspapers” by Gustav Metzger

The congress is aimed at artists and the art world.

Hosted by T1&2 artspace t: 07813 532 012. contact: Wolfe Lenkiewicz


The congress will begin on Friday 14 March at 2pm.

The Directors of leading London institutions showing modern art have been invited to talk about their projects and plans at this opening event. A discussion will form part of this session.

Invitations have been sent to the following:

British Museum (Neil McGregor, Director)
Whitechapel (Andrea Tarsia, Curator)
Serpentine Gallery (Julia Peyton - Jones, Director)
V&A (Mark Jones, Director)
ICA (Philip Dodd, Director)
Courtald Institute (Sarah Wilson)
Royal Academy (Norman Rosenthal, Director)
Tate (Nicolas Serota, Director)


On Saturday 15 March the Congress begins at 10.30am and ends at 5.30pm.

The entire day will be devoted to a range of topics of public concern for example, extinction, genetic engineering, information overload and attitudes to science and technology.
Speakers will include, amongst others:
Gustav Metzger: Information Overload in the age of the intellectual
Metzger will be expanding on the talk that he recently gave at Tate Britain.
Sultan Barrakat: (Director of Post-war Recovery and Development Unit.) BSc (Jordan) MA (York) Disaster Management Certificate (Oxford); Dphil (York) MA: Post War Recovery Studies.

Will be talking about Rehabilitation and Reconstruction or war- torn societies; Reintegration of Excombatants; Conflict Prevention; Impact Assessment of Relief and Development Programmes, Peace-building; Planning and Training for Relief and Development Programmes.

Dominick Jenkins: (history and philosophy of Science, Cambridge University, UK)

Drawing parallels between the current “War on Terror” and the massive arms expansion of the first half of the 20th Century, Jenkins argues that the fear among the American people of devastating weapons in the hands of “enemies” was created by the American military and allied weapons laboratories in order to justify the development of weapons used by the U.S. with devastating effect on civilian populations abroad. The development of this world-devastating power helped delay the expansion of democracy domestically and was aided by an alliance between a centralised Presidency and the weapons industry. Jenkins concludes the talk by suggesting that the path out of this dilemma is to further expand democracy so that citizens intervene in defining the path of future research and technology development.


On Sunday 16th March the Congress begins at 10.30am and ends at 5.30pm.
Artists and curators will be giving talks and generating discussion.
Speakers include:

Hans Ulrich Obrist has curated exhibitions at Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; the Kunsthalle, Wien; Deichtor-Hallen, Hamburg; and the Serpentine Gallery, London amongst other institutions. He currently divides his time between France Switzerland and Austria. After an initial training in economics and politics, he switched to contemporary art and has organised a variety of exhibitions in such unlikely venues as his own home, a monastery library, an aeroplane and a hotel.

He will be doing a public discussion/interview with Gustav Metzger. {Now speaking second week in April}

10.30am-11am
David Carr-Smith has spent five years watching squats in abandoned industrial buildings in Amsterdam: vast buildings outmoded by economic change. He will giving a slide show (first shown 28 Nov 2002, University of London) to demonstrate the aesthetic qualities of this improvised architecture.

11am-11.30am Then audience discussion-12noon
Marysia Lewandowski, Neil Cummings (Chance Projects)
“The museum is evolving as a ‘brand’, competing to control the flow of value through things, as its objects merge with a wider culture of exhibition; our most unique artefacts become seamlessly
integrated into the retail present”

1pm-1.30pm

Simon Morris, Daniel Jackson and the psychoanalyst Dr. Howard Britton will complete the following action: “a text that will destroy itself in the process of its own reading.”
Beginning with two texts, one black on white, one red on white, the authors Dr. Howard Britton and Simon Morris will begin to read their work. Using a computer programme designed by Daniel Jackson, words will be picked at random from one author’s text and mapped onto the other author’s text. As each text develops through its reading, it will progressively attack the other, like a virus or process of contagion until the words from each text are covering each other and meaning is completely destroyed/disappears.

1.30pm-2.00pm
Tim Brennan (curator/writer)
In the future, curationism will be a dominant cultural formation in which its practitioners, Nu-curators, exist at the nexus of performance and curating. Curationism will involve a combination of pre-capitalist approached to collecting with more recent developments in fine art. This, as yet, ‘undefined
curating’ is a radical rethinking of curatorial tendencies in the expanding global economy.

Lunch break 2pm-2.30pm performance by Di Clay

2.30pm-3pm
Gavin Wade (curator of ‘Strike’)
“A mixture of small strategies for shaping the world”.

3pm-3.30pm
David Goldenberg (practitioner, curator and writer) How viable is it to reinvent art?
With Clegg & Guttmann posing the question of the theoretical disappearance of the institution of art, is it possible to think our way into new models? Can we use the notion of ‘Post Autonomy’ to map out and pool ideas for new models? Goldenberg discusses what he means by ‘Post Autonomy’ and explores how the concept can serve to help define ‘new practice’.

3.30-4pm Carey Young


4pm-5pm MAIN ARTISTS DISCUSSION
5pm-5.30pm Lee Holden performance.
In the course of the weekend, events by the following artists will take place:
Eva Weinmayer/Michael Hampton/
All events are free and are open to the public.
The overall title of the Congress is The World’s First Congress on Fork-Lift Trucks. Speakers will be invited to speak from a fork-lift truck situated in the gallery - obviously normal chairs are available should these be preferred.. The fork-lift truck stands as a symbol for the real world. It is also a tough multi-purpose instrument. We feel that the British art world could benefit from facing up to its potential.

Atlantis Gallery (ground floor) Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London E1

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