30/8/2013
Bergen Assembly 2013
Different venues, Bergen
An Initiative for Art and Research
An Initiative for Art and Research. Monday Begins on Saturday is the title of the first edition of Bergen Assembly, and takes the form of an international art exhibition. It is a critical meditation on the potentials and pitfalls of the evermore ubiquitous yet at the same time elusive notion of "artistic research". The project takes its title from a novel by Soviet sci-fi writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky about a fictitious research institute staffed by a motley assemblage of fairytale beings and mad scientists who are trying to solve the problem of human happiness through magic. The first edition of Bergen's new triennial is an oblique contemporary rewriting of this text as a multivenue exhibition and book. The exhibition Monday Begins on Saturday, opening in late August 2013, presents the positions of more than 40 international artists working in a variety of media. Projects are distributed over eleven different locations in the city of Bergen, among them several buildings of the Bergen Art Museum and Bergen Kunsthall. Many projects are specially commissioned for the Bergen Assembly. Curators invited to convene the 2013 edition: Ekaterina Degot & David Riff.