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28/1/2008

Conspire...

House of World Cultures, Berlin

After two years as a guest of the Academy of Arts, transmediale.08 returns for its next edition in January/February 2008 to Berlin’s landmark House of World Cultures giving focus to digital technology as an intrinsic element of worldwide contemporary culture. Under the theme CONSPIRE... transmediale.08 aims to hear from a broad range of artists, media activists and academics working within the realms of digital art and culture in ways which may be read as elaborating upon and challenging our understanding of collaborative and network practice. As such transmediale.08 looks to the cross-disciplinary tinkerers, utopian spelunkers, conspiratorial hoaxsters and stealth tacticians who question, subvert, undermine and bypass the unspoken rules, hidden codes of conduct and assumed truths entrenched within our information driven communication cultures and ideological belief structures.

By exploring subversive artistic methodologies and developing (counter-) conspiratorial strategies to uncover new forms of expression and digital discourse CONSPIRE... will attempt to enter the increasingly prevalent yet ambiguous worlds of network induced narratives, cryptic environments and speculative inquiry.

Exhibition ’CONSPIRE…

1. Exhibition ‘CONSPIRE…
2. Twisted Realities
3. Visionary Lives, Fictionalised Selves and Fictionalising Oneself
4. Utopian Politics and Dissonant Poetics
5. Bio-organic Systems
6. Haunted Past - Projected Future
7. Alternative Science/Science vs Fiction
8. Conspiratory Truth
9. Opening Hours, Admission

1. Exhibition ‘CONSPIRE…
CONSPIRE… the transmediale exhibition, curated by guest curator Natasa Petresin Bachelez, focuses on the strategic notion of the conspiratorial act. In poetic reference to the term's Latin roots, conspirare, the exhibition deconstructs the nature of conspiracy into a silent and cosmic act of 'collective breathing' suggesting a sharply targeted, yet anonymous and intimate form of creative collaboration.

The works and projects chosen approach the perceptive borders of our daily lives with coded instructions, exploratory maps and speculative allusions which provoke alternative views about the way in which we understand information and that which we believe to be universal truths. As such thematic constructs around the notions of conspiratorial truths, bio-organic systems and twisted realities emerge to form contextualising the clusters explored within the exhibition, and are briefly described.

The exhibition, featuring many new works conceived for transmediale will be open through February 24, 2008.

2. Twisted Realities
Warping our knowledge of reality, these contributions act as reality-benders, rendering our reference points that draws the sense of our everyday realities odd or questionable. They operate with the categories of the logic of facts and logic of fiction as with two extremes on the same line of experience and thought that can be blurred (Einar Thorsteinn’s experimental object which involves public’s perception and imagination, SilentCell Network’s interventions into institutional frameworks, Janez Jansa’s name changing as a personal act, Olga Kisseleva’s insertions of the immateriality of information into the architecture’s concreteness), or follow the self-organised civil initiatives and their strategies of survival (Lisa Parks). featuring: Einar Thorsteinn (is) - Non-Visual Object SilentCell Network (si) – Looping Hooman Sharifi Janez Jansa (it/si), Janez Jansa (si), Janez Jansa (si) - Signature, Event, Context Olga Kisseleva (ru/fr) – CrossWorlds; http://kisseleva.org Lisa Parks (us) – Roaming; http://lisaparks.blogspot.com/

3. Visionary Lives, Fictionalised Selves and Fictionalising Oneself
Auto-fictions with the methods of projecting oneself onto a larger-than-life scenario (Mangelos' self-fictionalisation and his visionary poetic manifestos; Ilana Halperin’s geological travel documentations and Artur Zmijewski’s protagonist Lisa’s visions), decomposing the thin line between factual and fictive authorship (Hadjithomas and Joreige with the photographer Abdallah Farah) or instrumentalisation of one’s own artistic position to create fictional institutions (Julius Koller). featuring: Julius Koller (sk) - UFO- Galeria Ganek Dimitrije Basicevic Mangelos (hr) – Manifestos; http://www.mbasicevic.net/ Artur Zmijewski (pl) - Lisa Ilana Halperin (us) - Towards Heilprin Land; http://www.ilanahalperin.com/ Joanna Hadjithomas (lb), Khalil Joreige (lb) - Wonder Beirut; http://www.hadjithomasjoreige.com/

4. Utopian Politics and Dissonant Poetics
Soft, dark ... yet poetic revolutions are the key elements lingering in the shadow of these works (Marko Peljhan’s and Velimir Khlebnikov's ongoing collaborative conceptual theatre of operations’, YKON and its belief in the legitimate status of artistic micro nations’, Bureau d’etudes’ engaged mapping of privacy), a state of being which may emerge as humorous dissonance expressing problematic social or political issues (Julieta Aranda’s sonic cacophony of national anthems; Hassan Khan’s psychoanalytical fragments of narratives). featuring: YKON (fi) - M8 - Summit of Micronations; http://www.ykon.org/ Julieta Aranda (mx) - Standing Room Matt O'dell (uk) - New Worship Hassan Khan (eg) - The Hidden Location Bureau d'etudes (fr) - End of Secrecy Marko Peljhan (si), Velimir Khlebnikov (ru) - LADOMIR AB 7TH SURFACE

5. Bio-organic Systems
Ursula Berlot’s abstract representations, mimicking bio-organic systems and Kimsooja’s physically and spiritually engaging experience on one hand and Norimichi Harikawa’s planetary constellations on the other are complex projects that collude to link the mystical and inexplicable nature of humanity and eternity, ultimately a search for something as elusive as a universal truth. featuring: Ursula Berlot (si) - Lumina / Pulsation; http://www.ljudmila.org/~berlotur/ Norimichi Hirakawa (jp) - a plaything for the great observer at rest; http://counteraktiv.com/wrk.html Knowbotic Research (at/de), Peter Sandbichler (at) - be prepared! tiger!; Kimsooja (kr) - To breathe / Respirare; http://www.kimsooja.com

6. Haunted Past - Projected Future
One of the motives behind these projects lays in the poetic or revisionist intrigues of unsolved historical events (Societe Realiste’s agency for planning revolutions; Lene Berg’s personalised account of the Cold War and its propaganda). Whatever good remains from the fallout of misconceived technological and infrastructural inventions is explored by Laurent Montaron with his poetic reminder of the Zeppelin catastrophe. featuring: Societe Realiste (hu/fr) - Transitioners: Le Producteur; http://www.societerealiste.net/ Lene Berg (no) - The man in the Background Laurent Montaron (fr) - Sans Titre (apres la sonosphere d'Elipson) / What Remains is Future

7. Alternative Science/Science vs Fiction
Explorations into the limits of artistic competence in dealing with scientific fictions (Tobias Putrih’s sculptural proposal, inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s theories), documenting personal and alternative scientific proposals (Alban Hajdinaj's focus on an Albanian amateur geophysicist) against collective ones (Christoph Keller’s assemblage of Internet-based theories on the mysterious forms of aircraft chemtrails). featuring: Alice Miceli (br) - Chernobyl Project - the invisible stain; Christoph Keller (de) – Chemtrails; http://www.christophkeller.com/ Alban Hajdinaj (al) - Diskovery Tobias Putrih (si) - Quasi-Rand

8. Conspiratory Truths
Researching, unveiling and transposing (Trevor Paglen’s revelation of non-existant military practice, Alice Miceli’s research into Chernobyl’s caesium induced afterglow), converting and strategically misusing (Alain Declercq’s and Egle Budvytyte’s technically brilliant docufictions) either historical, religious (Matt O’dell’s new world iconography) or corporate processes (Bureau d’etudes’ study on the loss of privacy; UBERMORGEN.COM, Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico’s software jamming) link these works. As one of the central preoccupations of any successful conspiracy theory, the rendering of truth as a distinct plausibility leads us into a gray world of suspicion and insecurity. featuring: UBERMORGEN.COM (at), Paolo Cirio (it), Alessandro Ludovico (it) - Amazon Noir - The Big Book Crime; http://www.ubermorgen.com Alain Declercq (fr) - Mike Trevor Paglen (us) – Symbology; http://www.paglen.com/ Egle Budvytyte (lt) - Secta Alice Miceli (br) Chernobyl Project - the invisible stain; Societe Realiste (hu/fr) - Transitioners: Le Producteur Bureau d'etudes (fr) - End of Secrecy Matt O'dell (uk) - New Worship

9. Opening Hours, Admission
The exhibition CONSPIRE….stays open daily during the festival (30.1. – 3.2.) from 10 through 21 hrs. After the festival opening hours are 10 through 20 hrs, daily except Mondays.

House of World Cultures
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, Berlin
The admission is five euros, reduced three euros.

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