22/9/2005
Symposium
Iaspis, Stockholm
A symposium in two parts which, against the background of this development, seeks to map these activities and to discuss the working relations and conditions of artists and other producers of culture. It also aims at exploring the future prospects for the kind of collective action in the art world that is geared towards long-term research and production of knowledge.
Presentations, screenings, discussions and workshop
In recent years, a renewed interest in collective work and activity can be discerned
more and more clearly. Collaborations of various sorts have begun to appear as
alternatives to the predominant focus on the individual so often found in the art
world. In a variety of projects, the form and basis of collective activities have
been presented, examined, and called into question. Taking the Matter into Common
Hands is a symposium in two parts which, against the background of this development,
seeks to map these activities and to discuss the working relations and conditions of
artists and other producers of culture. It also aims at exploring the future
prospects for the kind of collective action in the art world that is geared towards
long-term research and production of knowledge.
Participants 23 - 25 September;
Johanna Billing (artist, Stockholm), Alex Foti (activist fighting against precarity,
Milan), IKK (organization working with issues concerning economic and social
conditions for artists, curators and other professionals in the art field), Maria
Lind (director IASPIS), Lars Nilsson (artist and writer, Gothenburg), Marion von
Osten (artist and theorist, Berlin), Simon Sheikh (critic, curator and writer,
Copenhagen, Berlin, Malmö), Katharina Schlieben (curator at Shedhalle, Zurich),
Apolonija Sustersic (architect and visual artist, Stockholm), Tirdad Zolghadr
(film-maker, critic and curator, Teheran/Zurich ) and Å.b.ä.k.e. (graphic
design collective, London).
Participants 30 September - 2 October;
B+B (curatorial partnership, London), 16 Beaver Group (network of artists, curators,
writers, thinkers and activists, New York), Copenhagen Free University
(self-organised institution dedicated to the production of critical consciousness
and poetic language), Brian Holmes (art and culture critic, Paris), Marysia
Lewandowska (artist, London), Schleuser.net (lobby organization and art project),
School of Missing Studies (international network for experimental study of cities),
Judith Schwarzbart (curator and researcher, Edinburgh), Sharzhad (accomplish things
others cannot), Anton Vidokle (artist and founding director of e-flux, New York),
What, How & for Whom / WHW (independent curatorial collective, Zagreb).
Location: In the IASPIS Project Studio, where there is an installation by Michael
Beutler (artist, Berlin), as well as the Archive on Collaborative Practices, an
archive that documents different forms of collaboration in and around the art world.
Iaspis
Box 1610, SE-111 86 - Stockholm