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9/5/2002

Life policies

Ze Dos Bois Galeria, Lisboa

how did you solve the problem?

The Portugies exhibition "Expect the World - moi non plus", which was to see at Sparwasser HQ in Berlin in March/April 02,featured - apart from the artists - the curator: Ana Pintoand for the production: Solvej Ovesen and Estelle Blaschke

In "life policies", an exhibition taking place in Lisabon in the close future,the two women switch roles:the exhibition "life policies" is curated by Solvej Ovesen and produced by Ana Pinto.
Estelle Blaschke is still producing along with the ZDB.

- International Art Exhibition at the Zé Dos Bois Galeria, Rua da Barroca 59, 10.5. - 9.6.2002, Lisbon

"life policies" is an exhibition about strategies of life and identity. "life policies" is a presentation of dynamic artists from Denmark, Sweden, Estonia, Germany and Austria about identity."life policies" takes place in Galeria Zé Dos Bois, Biarro Alto, Lisbon.
The exhibition is a platform that will show different aspects of subjectivity production in relation to subculture, lifestyle, fear, education and work. This theme has relevance today as we are facing a transformation of the idea of the individual - we have to navigate in multiplicity of lifestyles and communities. It seems that one person - in order to survive - need to combine more possible models of subjectivity that he or she can act out according to experience and the specific set up of a situation.

The participating artists are:

Kenneth Balfelt (DK), Diego Schindler Castro (D), Andrea Creutz (S), Annika Lundgreen (S), Mads Lynnerup (DK), Muntean and Rosenblum (A), Thomas Poulsen (DK), Work about Work (Stefan Krüskemper and Jörg Amonat) (D), Kirstine Roepstorff (DK), Ene-Liis Semper (EST) and Marie Roemer West (DK).

Ene-Liis Semper participated in the Venice Biennial (2001). Muntean and Rosenblum displayed their work at the Berlin Biennial this year. Mads Lynnerup has performed in MOMA san Fransisco as well at The Havanna Biennal (2001). The artists are educated in various art academies in the western world and that diversity influences their concepts of art.

"Sociality as the shell, the individual as the liquid" (FOS)
"life policies" is a set up to entangle performance and Social Design! Performance is a broad term that has to be contextualised adding "as situative production", "as identity construction", "as quoting or imitating roles", "as political demonstration", "as communication guerrilla", "as bodywork" etc. to make sense. Social design is a kind of art that deals with forming spatial conditions and the function of space and design; to think e.g. a table as an object mediating situations between people, to think the character of space as defining value hierarchies in communication. Thus these artists in life policies" attempt to change the conditions under which social relations are made.

Art as activity and dialogue

There is a strong focus on aesthetics and symbolic forms as a common reference point of bringing people together. Dialogue and meeting with the city and people are an important task for a part of the involved artists. Participating artists are making workshops in the two art schools in Lisbon, Estgad and Maumaus during their stay.

Thomas Poulsen (DK) will redesign the entrance of ZDB with material from around Lisbon according to his original ideas of social design - the focal surface will be the floor. Where as Marie Roemer West (DK) will present her multifunctional table in a minimal, organic design, where she invites artists from Denmark and Lisbon to present their work. Kenneth Balfelt (DK) shows his interventive design of a corner shop in London and his research on functionality and aesthetics, art and economy in interior design.

Mads Lynnerup, performance artist from San Francisco, forms a band as a social sculpture with Portuguese musicians and takes it to stardom in one month! Image formation and the integration of art and life is the core of this art project. He is looking for band members and has open rehearsals in the ZDB (contact ZDB, address below).

The two artists Muntean and Rosenblums work with drawings, paintings and videos of young people looking like models, where perfection within style and clothing has reached a degree where all signs of personality are erased. They present the video "Lost in the Wilderness", 2001. The brand has taken over and defines the lifestyle.

Diego Schindler Castro addresses the topic of schizophrenic experience and remembrance in his installation of a Vespa mounted with a multiplicity of side mirrors.

The video "Stairs", 2000, by the performance artist Eneliis Semper is on the opposite physiological affects and struggles extroverted in physical language, as body work using her own body as sheer material.

The German artist group "office of interventive art" will present their video on life strategies of people avoiding any contact with money in their lives. The documentary - in Portuguese - will be presented in a commercial environment - as for sale.

A huge wall collage of 4 x 3 meters formally inspired by the dada collages of the 20s and Agit-prop from the 60s is Kirstine Roepstorffs' (DK) contribution to the show as well as 12 collage prints. Roepstorffs works are - apart from being utmost attractive visually - approaching power games in politics and gender relations through the banal "turning the world upside down" humour of the 20s collages. Annika Lundgreen is performing in ZDB (in the "Aquarium", on the 9th, 10th and 11th of May) and makes a language surface of fragmented with autobiographical material and slides. Andrea Creutz presents her new documentary video on how to survive stress in a metropolitan city.

Wall News paper: How did you solve the problem?
Wall news paper is an publication in relation to "life policies", an index of solved problems. After the show it will be a news paper with additional knowledge produced in the show on the interaction between social design and performance, articles and documentation of the show.
The wall news paper contains short texts written by the participating artists describing a social, existential or technical problem and how they solved it. The stories will be accompanied by visual material selected by the artists. The wall news paper will also have contributions by the art critic, Phillipp Eckhardt, the systems analytic Gerhard Dirmoser - a scheme of problem solving.
Motto: "In every Solution there is a Virus" (FOS).

Curator: Solvej Helweg Ovesen. Production: Estelle Blaschke, Ana Pinto, ZDB

Opening hours Wed-Sat 7 pm - 11pm

For more information:
-about the show
phone 00351 - 213430205
solvej_ovesen@hotmail.com

-about the Workshops in Estgard and Maumaus
(Kirstine Roepstorff, FOS; Kenneth Balfelt, Marie Roemer West, Mads Lynnerup, Diego Castro) and day seminar on curating by Dorthe Abildgaard (Curator, Danish Center of contemporary Art), Jacob Jacobsen (Artist), Judith Schwarzbart (Curator) and Solvej Ovesen
pintoana@yahoo.com

Zé Dos Bois Galeria, Rua da Barroca 59, 10.5. - 9.6.2002, Lisbon

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