Disclosures
dal 26/3/2008 al 17/5/2008
Segnalato da
26/3/2008
Disclosures
Gasworks Gallery, London
A multi-faceted project that looks at the manifestations of Open Source methodologies in fields of cultural production outside of the Internet. Openness refers to situations in which the viewer, reader, listener or internet user becomes emancipated through egalitarian participation, collaborative authorship and/or the breaking down of hierarchical and social boundaries.
Disclosures is a multi-faceted project that looks at the manifestations of Open Source methodologies in fields of cultural production outside of the Internet. Openness – or its technological underpinning, Open Source – here refers to situations in which the viewer, reader, listener or internet user becomes emancipated through egalitarian participation, collaborative authorship and/or the breaking down of hierarchical and social boundaries.
If openness is found in varied cultural practices, it matches certain systems and economies (internet-based or media practices) better than others (the artworld or the film and music industries). Issues around Intellectual Property and copyright – and the question of whether or not diffuse authorship and unrestrictive distribution are financially viable – come immediately to mind. Meanwhile, assessing the socio-economic, political and cultural conditions for openness is a necessary step.
A second reading of openness revolves around the idea of transparency and of availability of information. Of relevance here are practices which are committed to releasing public information and resources that have been out of civic reach for political, economic, historic or bureaucratic reasons. Disclosures will address histories and genealogies that inscribe themselves outside of the rigid bonds of ‘monopolistic’ versus ‘alternative’ social and cultural activity.
A range of practitioners, from tactical media practitioners, to cultural theorists, music producers and artists, will help identify and discuss references and strategies that have been common to two interrelated areas of practice: critical media practice and socially-collaborative work in the expanded visual art field. The various facets of the project will attempt to find a common language and to set up the basis for improved understanding and greater collaboration between the two fields.
LAUNCH
Date: Thursday 27 March 2008, 8pm–1am Admission Free
Location: 333 Mother, 333 Old Street, London, EC1V 9LE
Participants: Oliver Ressler | Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive).
SEMINAR
Dates: Saturday 29 - Sunday 30 March 2008, 10.30am–7.30pm
Free but booking essential: moira@gasworks.org.uk
Location: Toynbee Hall (Saturday 29th) and Middlesex Street Estate (Sunday 30th)
Participants: Mai Abu ElDahab | agency | Saul Albert | Shaina Anand | Ilze Black | Critical Practice | Emily Druiff | Electronest | Matthew Fuller | Goldin+ Senneby | Adnan Hadzi | Usman Haque | Tsila Hassine | Tim Jones | Neil Kenlock | Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre | Marysia Lewandowska | The MicroPolitics Research Group | Francis McKee | Rodrigo Nunes | Tony Nwachukwu and Gavin Alexander | The People Speak | Toni Prug | Oliver Ressler | Nenad Romić | Simon Sheikh | Ashok Sukumaran | Marina Vishmidt.
FILM AND READING LIBRARY
Preview: Thursday 10 April
Continues: to Sunday 18 May. Open Wed-Sun, 12-6pm
Location: Gasworks, 155 Vauxhall Street, London SE11 5RH
Works by: Shaina Anand | Amy Balkin | Neil Cummings | Carles Guerra | Nicoline von Harskamp | Tsila Hassine | Abhishek Hazra | Kurator | The League of Noble Peers | Marysia Lewandowska | Oliver Ressler | Eileen Simpson and Ben White | Ashok Sukumaran.
FLOATING EVENTS
Dates: April-May Location: Gasworks + Goldsmiths University
Events: For a full programme please visit the website.