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16/6/2009

Lulea Art Biennial LAB09

Different venues, Lulea

Under the thematic umbrella RISK, the Curator Jan-Erik Lundström has now considered the artistic proposals, more than 400 applications from all over the world have been sent to the Luleå Art Biennial, LAB09.

It is possible to suggest that what defines the human being as human, as distinct from other life forms, is the capacity to error, to make mistakes, to fail. Philosopher of science, Georges Canguilhem, has commented upon the analogy between human evolution and error, that in the evolutionary process change is linked to chance and failure; i.e. that it is when the reproduction of the genome fails, when there is an error in representation, that a new code is produced, that mutation occurs, and, thus, that new life forms emerge. He continues to suggest that, as a consequence, human life as such must be characterized not only by truth and precision, advance and consolidation, but also by the possibility and capacity to error, failure, incompleteness, indecision, doubt and imperfection.

Creativity and the radically new…
In this light, creativity, the never-ending search and call for the radically new, has perhaps no choice but to find its contemporary 21st century path by accepting to seek out alternatives to reproduction of the norm, justice and common sense. Creativity, if it is to address the current state of permanent exception and institutionalized crisis, will need to embrace the possibilities of inconsistency, incompleteness, incoherence, disorder, failure, as the most potent seeds of change, transformation, and creation/discovery of new life forms. Indeed error and inconsistency introduces the possibility of meaning beyond the ruling hegemony and the current regimes of truth.

Art at risk…
The field of contemporary art constitutes a very particular category of human activities. Lacking borders, constantly opposing limitations, in a state of constant redefinition and flux, continuously outdoing any definition or attempt to pin down its nature or characteristics, consistently expanding its repertoire, contemporary art is an extraordinary field of practice where we have come to expect the unexpected, assume the carpet to be pulled away from under our feet, anticipate new worlds to be produced rather than the existing ones dismantled or disapproved of.
But if such newness is to be taken seriously, if error or failure indeed is called upon to perform the potentialities suggested above, then it also means that the artist accepts that the stakes are raised, that she/he puts herself/himself at risk; that nothing less than a will to risk is the challenge offered.

Luleå Art Biennial 2009
The Luleå Art Biennial, LAB 09 has invited proposals that respond to the framework suggested above, proposals which may involve failure as much as success, error equally to correctness, doubt as well as certainty, proposals which think or imagine other orders, structures, modes, or systems other than those of the current hegemony, proposals which test the very notions of art or which overstep our expectations.
In other words, given the notions and thematic suggested above, Luleå Art Biennial 2009 has invited proposals for works with no less an agenda than the revision of what it might mean to be human – in all its aspects – socially, politically, existentially, philosophically, technologically – in the 21st century.
Luleå Art Biennial 2009 encourages works/projects which do not necessarily evade the need to document and reflect upon the present in its squalor and hegemonic pathologies, but which focus on enabling the redrawing of the map of contingencies through observing the need to step outside current and ruling agreements. This has been to encourage the invitation of artworks that do not only console or tell about or recall or sort out but those which also unsettle, disturb, disprove, or fail to make sense.

Curator for Luleå Art Biennial 2009
Jan-Erik Lundström.

Participating Artists
Edith Derdyk
Gabriele Edlbauer
Ulrika Ferm & Guillaume Aubry
Benjamin Gerdes & Jennifer Hayashida
Monika Goetz
Simon Gush
Izabela Terek-Jopkiewicz
Elena Kovylina
Tilman Küntzel
Runo Lagomarsino
Lena Lapschina
Mikael Lundberg
Susannah Mira
Yusuf Murat Sen
Lucas Ospina
Andres Ramirez Gaviria
Jaanus Samma
Christian Sievers
Pablo Sigg
Kama Sokolnicka
Dominick Talvacchio & Matt Irie
Caglar Uzun
Sylvia Winkler & Stephan Köperl
Cecilia Lundqvist
Martin Sjoberg

Luleå Art Biennial is held in Luleå, in the very north of Sweden. The exhibition takes place indoors and outdoors:
The Art Hall – At the new Culture House.
The Regional Museum of Norrbotten
The Museum Park

Info:
Kilen Art Group
Kronan H 5 S 974 42 LULEÅ Sweden
Tel: +46 920 156 24, Fax: +46 920 156 20, Website: http://www.kilenartgroup.org

Image: Lena Lapshina, Under The Water / Above the Water. Video installation

June 17 Wednesday The Art Hall is open day: 12 - 16 evening: 18.20 - 20-00 The Museum is open day: 10-16 evening: 20 - 21
Opening of the biennial 19.00 - 21.00
programme for the evening:
starting at the Art Hall 19.00
Karl Petersen, mayor of Luleå, officially opens LAB-09
Jan-Erik Lundström, curator of LAB-09, presents the artists exhibiting at the Art Hall
Performance by Simon Gush including swing music and Lindy Hop
We walk from the Art Hall to Norrbottens museum 20.00
Presentation of the artists exhibiting in the Museum and in the Museum park.
A jury will give LAB-Award, a grant of 8 000 Skr, to one of the participating artists
Free entrance

June 17 — August 23
The exhibition is open at The Culture House and at The Museum of Norrbotten aswell as in the museum park.
During the summer you can book a session with the hypnotist and be part of the making of an art piece. Booking at The Art Hall
Guided tours — please call The Art Hall or The Regional Museum:
Audioguide is availible at the sites.
Opening hours:
The Art Hall: Mon - Fri: 12-16, Sat: 11-15, Sun: closed (Observe! Open August 23)
Phone: 0920 - 454080
The Regional Museum: Mon - Fri: 10-16 Wed 10 - 21(until 5/8), Sat - Sun: 12-16
Phone: 0920-243502
(Midsummers eve and midsummers day closed)

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