30/6/2005
MJ Manifesta Journal Discussion
Two venues, St. Petersburg
Archive / Memory of the show. The international magazine focusing on contemporary curatorial practices, is organizing a series of discussions in Sofia, Vilnius, Moscow, Tallinn and St Petersburg, related to subjects in MJ Manifesta Journal. The main scopes are the issues of curatorial work, its strategies, conditions, dilemmas, and contexts. The aim for curatorial reflection and examination will be embodied on July 1.
Archive / Memory of the show
July 1, from 11.30 p.m.
MJ Manifesta Journal, the international magazine focusing on contemporary curatorial practices, is organizing a series of discussions in Sofia, Vilnius, Moscow, Tallinn and St Petersburg, related to subjects in MJ Manifesta Journal. The main scopes of MJ Manifesta Journal are the issues of curatorial work, its strategies, conditions, dilemmas, and contexts.
The aim for curatorial reflection and examination will be embodied on July 1, 2005 in St.Petersburg, Russia. The theme of the discussion will be related to Manifesta Journal
# 6 on Archive / The Memory of the Show, and can be regarded as a pre-discussion.
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Participants:
Introductions by:
Hedwig Fijen, director International Foundation Manifesta, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Viktor Misiano (Moderator) curator, art critic, chief editor of Moscow Art Magazine, editor of MJ Manifesta Journal, Moscow, Russia
Marieke van Hal managing editor MJ Manifesta Journal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Marina Koldobskaya, director of National Center for Contemporary art (St.Petersburg branch)
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Workshops by:
Lioba Reddeker, director of
Viktor Mazin, founder of Sigmund Freud's Museum of Dreams, St.Petersburg
Marco Scotini, curator, art critic and professor at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan, Italy
with: Radek community, artists' group, Moscow, Russia
and Chto delat?/What is to be done?- group of artists, philosophers and writers, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Locations:
Anna Akhmatova museum in Fountain house , 53 Liteiny pr.
Sigmund Freud's Museum of Dreams, at the East European Institute of Psychoanalysis, 18A Bolshoi Prospect, Petrograd Side.
For more information: National Centre for Contemporary Art (St.Petersburg
branch), 111-3 Nevsky pr. 193036 St.Peterburg, Russia
Phone: +7812 2777967 Tel/Fax: +7 812 4319905
Email: office@ncca-spb.ru
Website: http://www.ncca-spb.ru
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Archive / Memory of the Show
The archive, as both a facility and a concept in the field of contemporary art has gained prominence in our cultural discourse since the turn of the millennium. What are the task and the meaning of an archive? What possible functions might it serve and what is its purpose? In the context of contemporary art we are mostly acquainted with artists' archives and archives related to museums (permanent collections). But how should an exhibition or a Biennial as an ephemeral event be documented or archived? And isn't a curator's or an artists' archive worth keeping for
memory? This discussion focuses on various archival practices and projects of artists, curators, as well as museums and exhibitions, the diversity of functions and changes in use.
Introduction by: Hedwig Fijen, Marina Koldobskaya, Viktor Misiano, Marieke van Hal
Place: Anna Akhmatova Museum in Fountain House, Liteiny pr., 53
Time: 11.30- 12.30
Workshops:
1. Memory of the Show. How can big art exhibitions, important for the global cultural history, be preserved and reconstructed? The history of the reconstruction of the legendary Documenta 5 archive (1972, curator - Harald Szeemann).
Moderator: Lioba Reddeker
Place: Anna Akhmatova Museum in Fountain House, (Liteiny pr., 53)
Time: 13.00-14.30
2. Keeping the Other Forgotten: Museum as a Memory construction. The workshop is based on the unique display of Sigmund Freud's Museum of Dreams.
Moderator: Viktor Mazin
Place: Sigmund Freud's Museum of Dreams
Time: 13.30- 15.00
15.00-16.30 - Lunch break
3. Plenary session. Reports on the workshops' results by moderators: Viktor Mazin/ Lioba Reddeker
Place: Anna Akhmatova Museum in Fountain House, (Liteiny pr., 53)
Time: 16.30-17.00
4. Active Archive. How do artists/activists approach the documentation of their work and how can a curator deal with it? A presentation of 'Disobedience' - an on-going video library project on civil disobedience.
Moderator: Marco Scotini
Participants: Radek community; Chto delat?///What is to be done?
Place: Anna Akhmatova Museum in Fountain House, (Liteiny pr., 53)
Time: 17.00 - 19.00
MJ Manifesta Journal on contemporary curatorship, is initiated and developed by the International Foundation Manifesta (Amsterdam) in collaboration with Viktor Misiano (Moscow) and Igor Zabel (Ljubljana). For orders/subscriptions MJ Manifesta Journal: Artimo. E: info@artimo.net
http://www.artimo.net
Lioba Reddeker is the director of 'basis wien- Kunst, Information und Archive', an archive, event and discussion room for contemporary art, based in Vienna, Austria. She worked previously as project director of the international research project "vektor - European Contemporary Art Archives" (2000 - 2003). Since 2002 Lioba Redekker is involved in the European funded project "European New Art Network", run by Manifesta Foundation Amsterdam, responsible for documenting and archiving material on contemporary art. She is a university lecturer at Fachhochschule Kufstein for cultural administration, cultural economy and cultural studies.
Viktor Mazin is the head of the department of Theoretical Psychoanalysis at the East-European Institute of Psychoanalysis (St. Petersburg). He is editor-in-chief of the arts and science journal Kabinet; Associate Editor of the Journal for Lacanian Studies (London) and correspondent of European Journal of Psychoanalysis (Rome). In 1999 he founded Freud's Dream Museum in St. Petersburg and he is honorary member of The Museum of Jurassic Technology (Los Angeles). Viktor Mazin is author of numerous articles and books on theory of psychoanalysis, deconstruction and visual arts. He has also curated numerous exhibitions of contemporary art.
Marco Scotini is an art critic and independent curator. He is an art history professor and the director of the Visual Arts Department at the New Academy of Fine Arts (NABA) in Milan. He is one of the founding members of Isola Art Center in Milan. Marco Scotini has curated a number of exhibitions as well as lecture series on public space and contemporary exhibition models, in Italy and beyond. He has dedicated several exhibitions to the relationship between artistic practices and political action in projects ( "Beautiful banners. Representation, Democracy, Participation", Prague Biennale1 2003, ""Disobedience"; Berlin/Prague/Barcelona 2005, "Acción directa/Latin American Social Sphere", Prague Biennale 2, 2005).
Radek community is a group of young artists, activists and musicians set up in Moscow in 1997 around the school of Anatoly Osmolovsky and Avdey Ter-Oganyan. They took part in many different actions of the Non-Governmental Control Committee in Moscow: THE BARRICADE, THE MAUSOLEUM (during the ‘99 Elections in Russia, AGAINST ALL company). Most important projects by the group include: MANIFESTATION (2000). WELL, IT’S... ACCORD!!!, presented at the Russian art exhibition ‘DAVAI!’ (Berlin, 2002). Radek’s strategies are based on rejection of visual power of the image and the artists’ critique on commercial use of art.
Hedwig Fijen (NL) is an art historian, curator and founding director of Manifesta, European Biennial of Contemporary Art. She was director of Manifesta 1 in Rotterdam (1996) and has since then directed the International Foundation Manifesta based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She initiated the Network Program, which is multi- faceted resource and research program, encompassing the Biennial, the Manifesta Archives and a program of publications, discussions and related activities, focusing on contemporary art and its role in society.
Viktor Misiano is an art critic, editor and curator based in Moscow (RF). He has been curator at the Pushkin State Museum from 1980 till 1990 and from 1992 till 1997 he has been director of the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) in Moscow. Misiano has curated many exhibitions nationally and internationally and was curator of the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1995 and 2003 and is appointed curator of the Central Asia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2005. Misiano was co curator of Manifesta 1 in Rotterdam in 1996. He is chief-editor of Khudozhestvenny Zhurnal (Moscow Art Magazine) and one of the editors of Manifesta Journal together with Igor Zabel (Ljubljana) and Marieke van Hal (Amsterdam).
Marieke van Hal (NL) is coordinator of the International Foundation Manifesta in Amsterdam and the managing editor of MJ Manifesta Journal in collaboration with Viktor Misiano (Moscow) and Igor Zabel (Ljubljana). An art historian, she previously worked as curator at Montevideo/TBA, the Netherlands Media Art Institute.
Marina Koldobskaya is an artist, art-critic, journalist (columnist of New Times magazine, Moscow, observer of New World of Art, St. Petersburg). Curator of numerous local and international projects. In 1999-2002 a director of Museum of Nonconformist Art, St. Petersburg. Since 2002 a director of St. Petersburg branch of National Center of Contemporary Art.
"Chto Delat?/What is to be done?" is a group of artists, philosophers, and writers based in Petersburg, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and Berlin. Founded in early 2003, this workgroup publishes an English-Russian newspaper on central issues of today’s poetics and politics, with a special focus on the Russian artistic-intellectual situation. The workgroup also engages in a variety of art projects, including video works, installations, public actions, radio programs, and artistic examinations of urban space. Its most recent exhibition and research project is "Drift – Narvskaya Zastava", a community-examination of a constructivist-proletarian neighborhood in Petersburg.
For more information on MJ Manifesta Journal and MJ discussions: Marieke van Hal, International Foundation Manifesta, Laurierstraat 185, NL –1016 PL Amsterdam, the Netherlands. T: +31 (0)20 6721435 F: +31 (0)20 4700073 E: secretariat@manifesta.org http://wwww.manifesta.org
MJ Manifesta Journal discussions are generously supported by:
the Culture 2000 Programme of the European Commission, Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds, Allianz Kulturstiftung and the European Cultural Foundation.
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Image: Radek Community
Anna Akhmatova museum in Fountain house , 53 Liteiny pr. St. Petersburg
Sigmund Freud's Museum of Dreams, at the East European Institute of Psychoanalysis, 18A Bolshoi Prospect, Petrograd Side, St. Petersburg
Free entrance