Atelier Europa
dal 1/4/2004 al 13/6/2004
Segnalato da
Claudia Blum
Pauline Boudry
Brigitta Kuster
Renate Lorenz
Armin Chodzinski
Maria Ruido
Carles Guerra
Brian Holmes
Judith Hopf
Mona Kuschel
Isabell Lorey
Michaela Melian
Rene' Pollesch
Katja Reichard
Christiane Rosinger
Mladen Stilinovic
Ingo Vetter
Marina Vishmidt
Marion von Osten
Antek Walczak
Bernadette Corporation
Annette Weisser
1/4/2004
Atelier Europa
Kunstverein Munchen, Munich
A small Postfordist drama. Exhibition, Congress, and Film. The project Atelier Europa focuses on a social context in which cultural producers must position themselves today, because they are increasingly stylised into role models of commercial privatisation and an economicising of society.
A SMALL POSTFORDIST DRAMA
Exhibition, Congress, and Film
The project ATELIER EUROPA focuses on a social context in which
cultural producers must position themselves today, because they are
increasingly stylised into role models of commercial privatisation
and an economicising of society.
In the acceptance of political and economic discourses, not only are
inequalities in other careers suppressed to the level of unemployment
but also the resilience of cultural activities to the economic
evaluation process. Instead of describing the field of cultural and
creative work as an area where the source of economic innovation
lies, the exhibition and congress bring people and groups together
who in the past few years have worked on criticism of neo liberal
economics from the cultural perspective and reflect their
participation as actors in this discourse. The desire for diversified
production, activity and living concepts, new forms of collaboration
and knowledge production in interdisciplinary contexts becomes a
starting point and theme for desired social change, which clings to
the criticism of the organisation of paid work and consumer
relationships in a control society.
Cultural practices that negotiate the question of their own
involvement in neo-liberal argumentation are themselves highly
contradictory, however, and cannot be simply systematised. In the
format of a discussion weekend and an exhibition, various forms of
cultural articulation, theoretical approaches, political strategies
and practices used by left-wing producers to carry out their
ambivalent position in the process of modernisation are presented,
but without supplying a singular coherent interpretation of the
current situation. The meeting of cultural producers and the
exhibition aim to connect the most diverse European positions: Do new
alliances exist due to common goals and/or theory and training
models? Or is the cultural field developing increasingly into a
metaphorical refuge of dissidence?
ATELIER EUROPA examines urgent issues and desires, which form out of
critical cultural practices with regard to political organisation and
social change.
Individuals and groups were interviewed, newspaper projects, visual
and audio artists, film makers and fashion designers from Spain,
France, England, Switzerland, Austria and Germany. The project
addresses persons and groups, newspaper projects, visual and audio
artists, film makers and fashion designers from Spain, France,
England, Switzerland, Austria and Germany.
Participants in the exhibition: Be Creative! Der kreative Imperativ.
(Zurich), Claudia Blum (Zurich), Pauline Boudry / Brigitta Kuster /
Renate Lorenz (Berlin), bürodiscount feat. schönegg.biz (Zurich),
Armin Chodzinski (Hamburg), Maria Ruido (Barcelona), ___fabrics
interseason® (Vienna), Die Falsches Leben Show (Berlin), Julian Göthe
(Berlin), Carles Guerra (Barcelona), Multitudes 15 / Brian Holmes
(Paris), Judith Hopf (Berlin), Mona Kuschel (Berlin), Isabell Lorey
(Berlin), Michaela Melián (Munich), p.a.p. (Les précaires associés de
Paris), René Pollesch (Berlin), Precarias a la deriva (Madrid), Katja
Reichard (Berlin), Christiane Rösinger (Berlin), Mladen Stilinovic
(Zagreb), teampingpong (Berlin / Munich), Ingo Vetter (Berlin), de-,
dis-, ex- / Marina Vishmidt (London), Marion von Osten (Berlin /
Zürich), Antek Walczak / Bernadette Corporation (Paris), Annette
Weisser (Berlin).
PROGRAMME
2 April – 13 June 2004
An exhibition project and a weekend on the precariousness and
politicization of knowledge and cultural production (in English).
Friday, 2 April 2004
6 pm Opening
7 pm Tour through the exhibition
9 pm Performance by EL SUENO COLECTIVO
Saturday, 3 April 2004
12 noon - 5 pm Discussion impulses from Carles Guerra, Marina
Vishmidt, Ingo Vetter / Annette Weisser
5 pm Justin Hoffmann: "Lehrpfad zur künstlerischen Praxis in
revolutionären Zeiten (am Beispiel der Münchner Räterepublik 1918/
19)" / "Study walk on artistic practice in revolutionary times
(taking the example of the Munich Workers' Republic 1918/19)".
Meeting point: Kunstverein München, lobby.
Sunday, 4 April 2004
12 pm - 5 pm Discussion impulses from Katharina Pühl, Brian Holmes,
p.a.p. (Les précaires associés de Paris), Precarias a la deriva
FILM PROJECT
As part of the exhibition project a film project was initiated which
builds on interview material with fifteen Berlin-based cultural
producers. In addition to the question of individual ways of dealing
with specific living and working conditions, the film also focuses on
questioning the tactics and strategies for subverting neo-liberal
demands on self-management and reflecting on collective demands.
HOMEPAGE / INSERT
The homepage http://www.ateliereuropa.com was designed and implemented as
part of the project by the web design agency bureau-k in Hamburg.
The members' newsletter of the Kunstverein Munich, "Drucksache",
contains a 72-page insert in the "Spring 04" edition with essays,
interviews and articles showing the research results and strategies
of the project. The insert serves as a reader, but it also documents
the different approaches chosen for the project.
Opening: Friday, 2 April 2004, 6 pm
Congress: Saturday, 3 April and Sunday, 4 April 2004
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