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11/2/2002

A State of mind

Sparwasser HQ, Berlin

Büro für Sozial-Politische Raumfahrt

PARTICIPANTS: Transnational Republic
CUDI
Culture Palace

ONLINE: Copenhagen Free University
Namediffusion

In the period between February 11th and February 24th the rooms of Sparwasser will be a public office for dialog and investigation. Our interests are different social and political methods and praxis within the discourse of art production.
We are going to reveal different national power structures, which produce cultural as well as capital values. How communities, language, democracy and the otherness (alienation towards cultural diversity) is part of this structure. We want to unwrap the idea of territorial democracy and the missing ability to adjust with the globalization as well as the individual. Which layers of meaning has the artistic and aesthetic production of values, and to what extend can these values be used to display cultural diversity and gain democratic equality?
We want to bring 5 different art praxis together, all working in the social political field, but using different methods.

Artistic and political discourse and contexts are being discussed. During the period of February 11. - February 24. several discussions will take place, every day the dialog will change and renew the perspective. In the normal opening hours we invite all who may be interested to participate in our informal exchange. A meeting room, also containing a small library, will be opened for the public. In the evenings guests are invited to discuss specific topics this dialog will be documented (video, still, tape, text).
Culture Palace, a multi user room in the internet, is open for exchange every day between 4 and 5 pm.
Entrance over the website
Emails will be answered as they arrive.

The dokumentation material is to see in Sparwasser HQ, Torstrasse 161 in Berlin Mitte from February 25. to March 9.

March 8. and 9., in the last weekend, we will be in the exhibition until 11 pm, in order to talk with the audience / partiticipants about the final result.

OFFICE OPENING HOURS: February 11th - February 24th
Wed - Fri 4 pm - 7 pm
Sat 2 pm - 6 pm

Culture Palace every day 4 pm - 5 pm, at the website

DOCUMENTATION: February 25. - March 10.

VIDEOPRESENTATION: Wednesday February 20th at 9 pm in Z-bar
Ursula Biemann: Vom Begehren in der Globalisierung "remote sensing"

OPENING of the documentation period on Sunday, February the 24. at 2-8 pm,
videopresentation at 5 pm: Ursula Biemann: Vom Begehren in der Globalisierung "writing desire"

The projects
CUDI
(Lise Skou (DK) Lasse Lau (DK))

Who we are.
CUDI is a Centre of Urbanity, Dialogue and Information run by two artists. CUDI is established in an apartment in Vollsmose, Odense, in the summer of 2000. Vollsmose is bounded on the outskirt of the city and has a multi cultural climate - 60% of the 10.000 inhabitants have a foreign ethnic background, divided between 78 different nationalities.
The apartment is our private home and the residence of visiting artists but it also houses various exhibitions and art projects. Furthermore the apartment will form a framework for talks, films, evenings of story-telling and other social activities.
CUDI works as a platform for development of ideas, art projects and exhibitions within sociality, contemporary art and -culture. CUDI deliberately operates in the cross field between art, architecture and social activities, acknowledging the fact that contemporary art, society, shaping of space and critical reflection today make a coherent field of meaning.
A common denominator for CUDI's multifarious projects is to influence the shaping of public spaces while enthusiastically seeking a dialogue with the community in order to establish a platform for social gathering, for dialogue, analysis, critical thinking and the generation of ideas.

What we want.
We want to create a meeting-place for the many ethnic groups who live in this community. CUDI's many varied activities all take their starting point in the social and cultural conditions and premises of the area. It is important that we and the visiting artists carry the projects through in collaboration with the other residents and base the projects on their ideas, needs and wishes. The keyword is dialogue. We want to accentuate the resources of the area. We want to establish a forum where a dialogue can take place, where ideas are generated, projects are created and visions arise.

Why.
CUDI is a reaction to the medias representation of a reality that is in opposition to ethnic minorities. CUDI is a reaction to the authorities marginalization of social loaded families. CUDI wants to change or displace existing social norms and structures to obtain more cultural visibility and democratic equality. Through formation of network CUDI wants to encourage and strengthen the identity of the area.
http://www.cudi.dk

Culture Palace
is an additional room of the project space Sparwasser HQ , a multi user room on the internet, accessible for participants not located in Berlin. Culture Palace will mirror and continue the dialog started in Sparwasser in the period February 11. - 24.
Culture Palace will take contact to artist groups and initiatives who are working within a social and political engaged artistic praxis. It will be open every day February 11. - March 9., from 4 to 5 pm, (if necessary for longer time)

Copenhagen Free University
(Henriette Heise (DK), Jakob Jakobsen, (DK))
http://www.copenhagenfreeuniversity.dk/

Namediffusion
(Marion Baruch (F/It)
http://www.namediffusion.fr.st

Ursula Biemann
Videoscreening Vom Begehren in der Globalisierung
"remote sensing" 20.02 21 Uhr in Z-bar Kino
"writing desire" 24.02 17 Uhr
http://www.geobodies.org

S P A R W A S S E R.. H Q
OFFENSIVE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART AND COMMUNICATION
T O R S T R A S S E ..1 6 1 , 1 0 1 1 5 ..B E R L I N
OPENING HOURS: WED-FRI 4 -7 PM, SAT 2 - 6 PM
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